Y'all know I am not a fan of CNN. Not after they gave the Blackwoman/self-hating minstrel DL Hughley a platform to embarrass us on the eve of the election of the first African American president. Coincidence? I think not!
I've already given my opinion about Soledad O'brien's "Black in America" also known at "The Parade of Black Pathology or "Black Folks It Sucks 2 B U".
I do however read CNN.com daily and they've been doing some important reporting or should a say re-reporting about conditions in the Congo for Black women and children in the Congo. They've also been running online pieces about people who attempted to prevent genocide, but were ignored. Last night they aired the full documentary called Screaming Bloody Murder by Christiane Amanpour.
They share a deep sorrow: an idealistic American who tried to protect the Kurds of Iraq, a Canadian general who refused to follow orders in Rwanda, a French priest who fought for the soul of Cambodia. Each one tried to focus the world's attention on the world's most heinous crime: genocide. Each time, they were shunned, ignored or told it was someone else's problem. To understand why, CNN's Christiane Amanpour traveled to the killing fields of Europe, Africa and Asia for a two-hour documentary, "Scream Bloody Murder." CNN.com
AL Sharpton was on DL Hughley's CNN Show, D L Hughley Makes the News, which shall forever be known on THIS BLOG as DL Hughley Makes me Snooze.
I am probably the only person that understood why their conversation was talking around an elephant in theroom. Its because these two individuals can't stand each other, so why were they playing so nice on CNN? Lets have a recap shall we...
Al Sharpton on referring to people as "bitches" and "hoes" -Where is the standard against 'n-----,' 'ho' and 'b---h'?" Al SharptonAl Sharpton on DL Hughley Calling Black Women "Ugly"-We do not accept or find humor in the denigration of women or any other group. It does not matter whether the person making the statement is black, white or from any other race. Nor does it matterwhether the intent of the comment is a lame attempt at humor, a racistattack, or in the case of Mr. Hughley, an obvious attempt to createpublicity for himself. It is sad that after a very successful career incomedy, Mr. Hughley would stoop to behavior that is disrespectful towomen as a means of self promotion. We hope that the entertainmentindustry will see through this feeble attempt to gain publicity in orderto find his next job.D L Hughley on Al Sharpton Last Fall - "Idon't care what Al said. I honestly could care less what he thinks. ...I think these cats are just opportunists....ow many people really respect what Al Sharpton says, really? He doesn't show up unless there's a camera around. I'm one of the best in the country at what I do, and I don't need to pretend to be anything else. I'm not pretending to be a preacher while going all over the country getting involved in bullshit fights. I don't go to Duke University and accuse people of shit and then when I found out I'm wrong, not apologize. I don't pretend to be a leader and then do the most asinine shit. "DL Hughley
I don't know Rev. Sharpton, I thought you declared yourself the "Decency Czar" and was going to stamp out referring to women as "b*tches" and "hoes." So I am perplexed [NOT] as to why you were a guest on D L Hughley's show this week, didn't catch the last episode? Here is a refresher in case you forgot about the content of DL Hughley's show just one week before you were on:
Folks, have you wondered why the usual town chorus has been silent about DL Hughley on CNN. I mean they had a conniption when Don Imus called Black women nappy headed hoes, but where was their outrage when DL Hughley's first show featured such flowery phrases as "Shut Cha Mouth B*tches" Pimps up Hoes Down, "Bitch Betta have my money", "Financing hoes"etc?
Much like their reaction to Hughley taking his minstrelsy on to the Tonight Show with Jay Leno to say Black women are the ugliest women he has ever seen in his life, the Black Elite Establishment has silently looked the other way as DL Hughley transforms CNN into the Cooning Negro Network. A WAOD reader aptly pointed out the reason for the silence about Hughley propping his show up on perpetuating racial stereotypes and calling women B*tches and Hoes for Jollies is that all the usual suspects want to be on Hughley's show.
For those who didn't know, let me give you some background on Sharpton and Hughley's recent history. Back when the Black Elite Establishment was being silent about Hughley's comment on the Tonight Show, this blog, barely three week's old called Al Sharpton on his double standard in screaming about Imus while remaining silent about Hughley. After WAOD readers mobilized ( for the first time in history) AL Sharpton issued this statement condemning Hughley.
Sharpton was the only member of the Black Elite Establishment and the Civil Rights Industrial Complex to do so, but only after we overwhelmed the National Action Network switchboards:
It has recently come to our attention that D.L. Hughley has madedisturbing comments about the young women of the Rutgers basketballteam. Let me start by reaffirming the position of the National ActionNetwork. We do not accept or find humor in the denigration of women orany other group. It does not matter whether the person making thestatement is black, white or from any other race. Nor does it matterwhether the intent of the comment is a lame attempt at humor, a racistattack, or in the case of Mr. Hughley, an obvious attempt to createpublicity for himself. It is sad that after a very successful career incomedy, Mr. Hughley would stoop to behavior that is disrespectful towomen as a means of self promotion. We hope that the entertainmentindustry will see through this feeble attempt to gain publicity in orderto find his next job.In Progress,Reverend Al Sharpton, President of National Action Network & TamikaMallory, Director of National Action Network Decency Initiative
OUCH! Sharpton didn't exactly publicize his condemnation of Hughley in the same way that he threw himself in front of every TV camera he could find during the Imus brou ha ha. Hughley didn't even know that Sharpton had condemned Hughley until I told a reporter who interviewed Hughley and me for an article about the Hughley's attack on the Tonight Show. When the reporter read Hughley Sharpton's condemnation, this was Hughley's response:
DLH:It's funny that of all the people in this, they sent letters to Al Sharpton, to Bill Cosby, to the girls at Rutgers. Did any of them ever respond? No! Who the fuck takes this—I mean, we got people dying on bridges, and this is a four-month-old story, and people are still worried about it? AVC: Actually, they did get a response from Al Sharpton.DLH: And what did Al say? You know what, I don't care what Al said. I honestly could care less what he thinks. I think these cats are just opportunists. I don't see where they've made the world any better, or actually taken a stand about anything that matters. I think in the quest to be relevant, they've put themselves in the bin of obscurity. Al Sharpton's been on my TV show, and he's sat in front of me, and I've said the exact same things. AVC: It's funny that you call Sharpton an "opportunist," because his letter says your joke was an "obvious attempt to create publicity" for yourself, and that it's sad that you would "stoop to behavior that is disrespectful to women as a means of self-promotion."DLH: Al Sharpton's actually gonna say "self-promotion"? Al Sharpton?! C'mon, man, let's be real. How many people really respect what Al Sharpton says, really? He doesn't show up unless there's a camera around. I'm one of the best in the country at what I do, and I don't need to pretend to be anything else. I'm not pretending to be a preacher while going all over the country getting involved in bullshit fights. I don't go to Duke University and accuse people of shit and then when I found out I'm wrong, not apologize. I don't pretend to be a leader and then do the most asinine shit. I don't pretend to ban the "n" word while watching people starve. The only difference between me and Al Sharpton is that I'm paid to make people laugh. And when his tally is said and done, if the fact that he got Don Imus off the air is his greatest accomplishment in civil rights? If Al Sharpton's mad at me, I think I've done something right. [Laughs.] That's the fucking truth.
Pretend Preacher? Asinine? DL Hughley is Right about one thing, Al Sharpton doesn't show up unless there is a camera around. CNN has LOTS of cameras.
HELOOOO! Why isn't anybody pointing this mess out. They hate each other's guts, call each other names in the press, but will bury all of that, including their "principles" to stay in front of the camera. Hypocrites! Sharpton purports to be the decency czar, but sat across from Hughley and didn't say a word about last week.
Now that you know that, it probably changes how you viewed that AWKWARD exchange with Al Sharpton. Sharpton and Hughley were talking around their exchange. Sharpton basically agreed to give Hughley cover to continue being an embarrassment to All of Black America in exchange for being a guest on the show.
And so you now know why the chorus of condemnation for Hughley's dreadful show is coming from ordinary African Americans like you and me and those of us in NEW MEDIA. You won't hear all the usual suspects from the Black Elite Establishment and the Civil Rights Industrial Complex complaining, because the prospect of being given an extended segment on CNN is just to tantilizing for them to resist. Its an incestuous relationship.
I hope Al Sharpton made Hughley beg a little before he agreed to be on that dreadful show. The only whores around here are Sharpton and Hughley... Camera Whores!
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?
So there we were minding our own business in our this tiny little island in the cybersea giving our heartfelt beliefs about CNN giving a show to shuck and jivester, DL Hughley (aka "Black Imus") and some contributor to the National Ledger decided to quote a few passages from out mildly stated post, CNN Gives New Show to Black-Woman-Hating Comic DL Hughley.
This is how the National Ledger described our quaint little cyber paradise:
Is this a risk for CNN or a natural fit? What About Our Daughters has a detailed article noting what they believe are many of the shortcomings of D.L.'s comedy (including video) and wonder aloud on the decision by CNN. National Ledger
Um, we aren't "wondering" we are saying OUTRIGHT, D L Hughley is an inferior comedic talent and I want to see the list of Black comics they considered before they settled on him. Again, we aren't wondering. We're stating emphatically, CNN could have done BETTER than DL Hughley.
We are not alone. 73% of the readers of TV Newser which caters to media insiders say they will not be watching the show.
To Hughley's Family, Friends, and Fans ( all five of y'all) descending on our tranquil oasis in attempt to provoke some type of controversy, we will not be moved from our position that we are not going to assist D.L. Hughley's publicist as we inadvertently did in the past. You know, when y'all would call up reporters telling them about this blog and our contention that Hughley is a Black-woman-hating minstrel. You shouldn't need to stoke controversy to generate attention for this folly, Hughly should be able to rise and fall on his own merits...if he has any!
We'll just be watching to see which advertisers believe that Black women are "the ugliest women" Hughley has ever seen in his life. It's gonna be a blast!
Okay kids, you have finally seen Soledad O'Brien's Black in America Episode: Black Women and Family. So what is the verdict? More Anti-black woman propaganda? Truly refreshing and insightful?
Wednesday's poll results
4% thought the series would be thought provoking 33% thought it would be pablum 25% thought it would be a regurgitated version of Tavis Smiley's 37% would reserve judgement until seeing the show.
Friday, December 5, 2008 at 7:54AM 
AL Sharpton was on DL Hughley's CNN Show, D L Hughley Makes the News, which shall forever be known on THIS BLOG as DL Hughley Makes me Snooze.
I am probably the only person that understood why their conversation was talking around an elephant in theroom. Its because these two individuals can't stand each other, so why were they playing so nice on CNN? Lets have a recap shall we...