I have a lot of irons in the fire right now, but I did want to pop in to share some interesting things I have gleaned over the past few days.
First, our government has no clue about what to do in the middle of this economic downturn and appears set to make it worse and how stupid do the big automakers have to be to try to fake driving hybrid cars from Detroit to DC for their hearings? Just buy a ticket on Southwest airlines and call it a wrap. I could even tolerate first class. We're not stupid, we know you don't actually drive around in a Malibu. Accepting a 1$ salary when you get millions in other benefits isn't impressing me either. That being said, why is it that the only people walking away with BILLIONS of my tax dollars with no kicking or screaming from congress are the bankers who created this mess int he first place??
Second, yes, I have been noticing all of the African American women who appear to be on track for high profile positions in the Obama administration. I am waiting until the New Year to do a series of features on them. I, like many people, have a bit of election overload so I am paying far more attention to the waning days of the current administration and the devaluation of the dollar than I am with the poor souls who will have to try to deal with it come January 20th.
Third, Carmen D from All About Race wrote a great peace called Mom Michelle Accused of "Letting the Team Down" there is a lively discussion brewing over at MOW.
Fourth, I absolutely love this time of the year. Its a time for reflection and transition. One of my friends and I always make predictions about what the next year is supposed to be about. We called 2007 as a year of completion- we were right. Feel free to share your predictions or make your declarations for 2009
Fifth, I read a great article over on cnn.com about how to deal with people who always ask you for advice, but never take it. For those of you, like me, who have a "fixer" personality, its a great read.
Sixth, mainstream media is SO APPARENT in their desire to see another Great Depression. Crisis is good for ratings and the MSM has perfected the craft of attempting to scare the heck out of everybody in order to boost ratings. mind you, these were the same people trumpeting the idea that if you didn't buy a house, any house. right this minute, you would be priced out FOREVER!!!!
Seventh, I've said about all I am going to say about the Jennifer Hudson situation for a while. I will wait for the process to get rolling, however, I am impressed by the restraint demonstrated by the Black blogosphere because there are probably 1000 blog posts worth of writing on the Julia Hudson - William Balfour "relationship,"
I finally finished the new posting guidelines for Michelle Obama Watch. If you sent me an email earlier and did not receive a copy, sent an email to the MOW gmail account. If you are interested in doing a weekly post, there's plenty of posting to go around.
I think it was the worst show that I have seen in a long while. TV Newser
What happens when CNN hires a man with a well documented history of animus towards Black women? Well, right out of the box, he takes his Black woman hatred, degradation and misogyny to a world wide audience. Using the financial crisis to introduce the world to the hilarity that is human sex trafficking by bringing on a Pimp ( Human Sex Trafficker) named Freddie Mack to discuss the mortgage meltdown.
Yes, you just heard someone say "Shut cho mouth b*tches!" on CNN.- You better watch this clip before CNN yanks it down. They aren't showing it on CNN.com... I wonder why? Y'all will especially enjoy the part where Freddie Mack blames the mortgage meltdown on his sister "Fannie Mae" and he says "Or as I like to call her Fannie Mae or Fannie May Not, depending on how much money you got." Oh yes, he said this on CNN. Oh y'all sohuld split your sides with laughter when Freddie Mack talks about his business being "Financing Hoes." Uh huh on CNN. Y'all. C.N.N. Why aren't the women of CNN raising hell? Where is NOW? Oh yeah... the audience assumes that Freddie Mack's "Hoes" are Black women... no problems.. keep laughing.
CNN is using DL Hughley as a straw man to carry out their their dirty work. He immunizes them from criticism and that is what they were counting on. The fact that the Black silent majority would give them a pass, because we are supposed to accept whatever garbage gets spewed at us as long as the one spewing the garbage has some melanin. CNN ain't slick. I tried to tell CNN what Hughley was all about in my post
CNN Gives New Show to Black-Woman-Hating Comic DL Hughley.
I weep for the employees of CNN. I weep for them in sorrow that DL Hughley has been foisted upon them. I weep for its foreign correspondents who have dodged IEDs, bullets, bombs, coups, and cholera, to only have their service to CNN disrespected by being forced to answer questions from a complete and total Buffoon- a modern day minstrel. A man too illiterate to read a teleprompter and properly pronounce your names and your locations. I weep for you CNN employees who were passed over so a man with few talents, a string of television failures, and did I mention an inability to read was given a one hour show on a international cable news outlet.
Folks, there is something called the "soft bigotry of low expectations." On Saturday night the world got a wonderful demonstration of this bigotry when CNN debuted DL Hughley Makes the News. If you will recall, this blog has chronicled Hughley for well over a year after he made the following comments in the aftermath of Don Imus calling a group of College educated Black women "Nappy headed hoes."
Now many may say "Isn't putting up video of his horrific show on your blog helping to promote his wretchedly inferior comedic talent?" Not so my friends. My putting up video of his show demonstrates my confidence that no matter how much CNN promotes this show, DL Hughley's inability to read and pronounce the names of places like Mumbai, India will doom this show as all of his other television shows have been promptly canceled.
SO here is the first segment called "DL Around the World" somewhere CNN's foreign correspondents must be wondering how far they have fallen to have to endure being interviewed by someone who can't even pronounce their names and locations correctly. You have to feel for the Russian Correspondent who has to endure Hughley's idiot question about the world series. Or when he asked the China correspondent "If McCain ran against Obama in China who would win?" Of how about "Who Would Make a Better Astronaut, McCain or Obama" :
I felt so bad for these correspondents. All their education and experience and risking their lives as foreign correspondents only to be subjected to the insulting experience of being interviewed by a man who cannot read. It's like they botoxed his corneas- look at his eyes. Dead eyes. The one bright spot was Dr. Neil deGrasse Tyson and Hughley managed to sully that experience by asking Dr. Tyson if he "got some" from girls while talking about an apocalyptic impact from an asteroid. NO I did not make that up.
CNN finally gives a show to an African American, and they don't go and find a journalist ( I know those are hard to find), the don't go find a political analyst or an academic, they go get a COMIC. A comic that thinks Black women are "the ugliest [women] he has ever seen in his life." His first show has been panned by those who watched it. It has been declared one of the WORST shows many have seen in a while.
We are not surprised. This man's maliciousness and anti-Black woman animus cannot be disguised as humor. He is a mean spirited profane little troll and all the studio lights and makeup in the world cannot not disguise that CNN. I am not surprised that CNN dug into the bottom of the barrel to give a platform to minstrelty. CNN is Bearish on Black people. Remember when they used that Soledad O'Brien documentary Black in America to put a bunch of pathology on display and try to pass that off as telling OUR story? Remember when CNN put up a headline on their website declaring Black women to be "An Endangered Species"? Remember when CNN declared AIDS to be a "Black" disease?
For the record, to the reporters who like to quote this blog without so much as an email or phone call, please don't say I am "protesting" DL Hughley and CNN. I don't "protest" or "boycott" -- that's Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. Now MY READERS have been known to do those things... :) . If my readers happen to take note of the advertisers that purchased the ads that run at the beginning of the CNN embedded videos of Hughley's shows, track down their contact information, and loudly protest their financial support of DL Hughley's platform, then I can take no responsibility for that. They are on their own. I can't be responsible for any rogue readers who track down the contact information for Proctor and Gamble and ask them why their PUR water brand is helping to subsidize the online video of a show that thinks pimps and calling women hoes and b*tches are funny.
No, I have no desire to cause any type of controversy that might prolong the length of this clearly doomed show. I don't care WHAT HIS PUBLICIST TELLS YOU. This blog is not mounting a protest! Tell his publicist that they will have to find some other way to make this Titanic of a television show viable. You shall get no help from me!
My only hope is that the CNN employees forced to appear on this debacle will revolt and demand their basic human dignity back from their bosses. I pity that DL Hughley has been thrust upon them by the bigotry of their superiors. To pull a page out of D.L's Playbook... I'm BLACK and I think he is horrible. So there!
Once last question, would CNN let John Stewart, Stephen Colbert, or Don Imus come on their station and do a skit calling women b*tches and hoes? Do y'all get how insidious it is that they use this Black man to carry out his anti-woman agenda? IF HE WAS WHITE ( Yeah I said it).. IF. HE. WAS. WHITE, it would not be tolerated on CNN. It is because he is Black that the b*tches and the hoes Freddie Mack is referring to are assumed to be BLACK women that DL and CNN are going to get a ride.
To those who claim I am being bourgeoisie. Oh excuse me BOO-Zhee, for criticizing Hughley. I am not alone.
From Average Bro:
Hughley is not now, nor has he ever been, a sharp political comic. He’s not deep like that. And he ain’t too funny otherwise.
I’m not trying to be a hater, but this is a union that I don’t see continuing for very long. D.L. isn’t breaking the news, it seems the news is broken.
And if Time Warner/CNN really wants to do a better job competing with Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, why not choose a comedian who is actually funny?
Thursday, December 4, 2008 at 7:01AM