D.L. Hughley still D-Lusional....And an Attention Ho'
Thursday, August 16, 2007 at 6:02AM The Blogmother The day after I interviewed Ms. McCauley I got an e-mail from D.L.'s publicist that read, in part:
"You should be aware that there is an internet blogger based in Austin who has started a campaign against D.L. in response to some comments he made as a joke on The Tonight Show back in early May. She is trying to get some kind of protest together of D.L.'s show at Cap City. Please feel free to ask D.L. about this, as he has quite a bit in response to it."
I'd actually never heard of the whole "DL Hughley controversy" until someone from CapCity Comedy Club, where D.L. is performing this week, called me about it. They were worrying aloud--in other words, fishing for coverage--that the same thing might happen here. It was their suggestion that it might make a good story for the Austin edition.
You would have thought that it would have been Essence Magazine that would have confronted D.L., but alas it was a White guy that had to do it. (WHY? WHY? WHY?). I haven't read the interview that is in the print version which is supposed to include quotes from me, but the online version where the reporter talked to Hughley is out now and it has already received some national attention. Apparently D.L. JUST found out that the Rev. Al Sharpton called him a has been and our truculent tyke was not happy.
Anyway, I double dared the reporter to ask D.L. Hughley, who has been hiding behind the First Amendment to attack anyone who takes umbrage with what he says. Well shockingly, the reporter took me up on my offer. Make sure you read the resulting comments to the online interview, it ends up being somewhat contentious, readers attack the reporter and they include a portion of my interview.:
AVC: You've said before that this is a free-speech issue.
What that accomplishes is that it blows all of your hemmin and hawin' to smithereens little man. He can quote Voltaire, but he can't quote the First Amendment when he's been running around saying he is defending the First Amendment. Y'all I ain't gone give you the answer, but look up the first five words of the First Amendment and tell me he does not know what he is talking about when he says his attack on Black women has First Amendment implications..Tell me how you claim to be defending something you have not read? Since he is quoting Voltaire, why didn't he defend the right of the protesters in Ft. Worth to gather and assemble instead of calling them clowns and buffoons?DLH: Yes. I agree with the French playwright and poet Voltaire. "I may not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
AVC: Ms. McCauley has challenged you to recite the first five words of the First Amendment.
DLH: Look, I don't know all the words of the Bible, but that doesn't mean I don't believe in God! [Laughs.] I don't know all the words of the Constitution—that don't mean I'm not entitled to it. I've got a GED, so there's a lot of things I don't know, but what I do know is, I'm one of the best comics in this country, and I'll keep being one of the best comics in this country. I challenge her to cite one example of me not loving black women in their natural state! Here's the truth of the matter: I know women, and I know hoes. I know black men, and I know niggers. I know bitches and I know friends. I do! And I won't pretend that I don't. My gig is to call it like I see it. So she knows the first five words, so what is that? What does that accomplish?
I especially love the part where he says he has more people at his shows in the strip malls of America than people visit this blog. Maybe when we first started that was true, but it ain't anymore thanks to his current employer's foolishness.
I find it ironic too D.L. I find it ironic too. In another place, he calls the blog an email page. So smart he is.AVC: To the protestors, at least, one key difference is that people feel like it's not just these women you're talking about, but all black women. Obviously the joke came at a very sensitive time for black women—
DLH: It's ironic to me that I'm listening to a white reporter tell me how black women feel. It's one chick who's upset and who's pretending to speak for a lot of other people. On her blogs, she's got a couple thousand people. Okay. I'll do that in a weekend. Even if they're all protesting tomorrow, what are they hoping to accomplish with this?
Unlike Mr. Hughley, I've read the First Amendment. So even if it is just me and the man holding the John 3:16 sign, I'll be there exercising my First Amendment right to disagree with the truculent tyke. That doesn't make me a buffoon or a clown, it makes me AMERICAN. As such an ardent defender or the First Amendment, he OUGHT to know that. Read more details in the right sidebar.
OOPS! I hit the wrong button and ended up rejecting comments from Bronze, Eddie, and Heavenly when I meant to accept them. So here is a creen capture of what they wrote, I don't know how to retrieve deleted comments. I was however able to hit the back button, but couldn't undo what I had done. Click on the picture to read them
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Great post and interview!
Did you actually expect a Black magazine (especially Essence) to actually challenge Hughley?
Just one of many reasons why I don't read Black magazines.
BTW... could you make sure to take a video camera to cover the protest on Friday..and post it on youtube. I would love to see it.
I'll definitely that my digital camera which has video capability, but I may be the only one out there if the remnants of Hurricane Erin do what they are predicting.
So it might be just me. But that is okay, I'll still be exercising my right to disagree.
I hope you upload some of the protest footage to your website or youtube.
Where can I find the complete interview with Mr. DL???
Do y'all realize that a tropical storm is sitting over the bottom half of Texa right now?
I'll be out there, but i don't want people risking life and limb and becoming lightening rods, LITERALLY.
Even the homeless pan handlers have cleared the streets.
Maybe i can get somebody to snap a picture of me while I stand outside with my little placard, althuogh with this weather, how the hell am I supposed to make the dayum thing waterproof.
Why did I have to open my big mouth. maybe his dayum flight will be delayed!
The funniest part of the interview was when Hughley accused Sharpton of being an opportunist and just wanting to get on camera. The reporter turned it around and accused Hughley of being an opportunist for taking advantage of the Imus situation. He is so inconsistent its unbelievable!
I read the interview. Mr. DL is a "Hot Short Mess." Negro pleeeeaaaazzzze.
Sidebar: How is the weather in TX?
I'm not taking Hughley's side, but the fact he doesn't know the first five words of the First Amendment doesn't really mean anything. The ideal it embodies is pretty clear to anyone who has grown up in this country.
Not really since most people don't seem to undestand that it covers speech against govt. and churches rather than nonofficial interpersonal interactions. Besides if he has the freedom to say ignorant things then people have the same freedom to protest said ignorance.
I hope all his black supporters are that supportive of free speech when the kkk and white supremacists roll into town. Also why is there so much defense of freedom of speech in regards to black women but people want to crucify those protesting micheal vick? or are black men the only creatures entitled to protection from "free speech".
DL's a comedian. Your argument with him is ridiculous. His interview with Sean O'Neal made you look like the moron, not him. Don't you realize there are bigger problems, not only in this country and world, but in the black community that you could be doing something about? DLs one of the good-guys. By the way, if you can't laugh at yourself, you won't have very much laughter in your life. Get over it...sticks n stones and all of that. I think all of the "attention grabbing" that's going on is fully in your court. No pun intended.
Whatever Carla b. What makes DL a "good guy"? Because he has a job? Because he can speak? If you think the fight is ridiculous then get on with your own life and get lost! This blog is concerned with a lot more than DL and you would know that if you took a minute to read.