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Joan Rivers scraps Obama joke over racism fears
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| 10/26/10
| Staff
Posted on 10/26/2010 9:41:28 AM PDT by Nachum
Comedienne Joan Rivers ditched a gag about Michelle Obama from her routine - because she feared she'd be accused of racism. The comedy legend wrote a joke about US President Barack Obama's wife, poking fun at her dress sense and comparing her to former First Lady Jackie Onassis by dubbing her "Blackie O". But she backed out of using the line on her chat show for US network E! - to avoid criticism that the joke was racially-motivated. Rivers tells Britain's Independent Magazine, "I was going to compare her to Jackie O, but call her Blackie O."
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I was going to comment on this article, but was advised it might be considered racist...
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:41:35 AM PDT
by
Nachum
To: Nachum
If Joan Rivers FELT an inkling to tell it...then she’s guilty already...ask Juan Williams
To: Tribemike1
*inkling* I think that word has racist overtones.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:44:44 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: Nachum
If liberals can’t make a joke about him then liberals really aren’t ready for a black President, are they.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:44:57 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Nachum
Heck, I had second thoughts of pulling this article up for fear of the ‘’Reading Police’’ would break into my office
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:45:12 AM PDT
by
shadeaud
("If you can't beat them, arrange to have them beaten." -- George Carlin B)
To: brytlea
overTONES - racist implications.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:45:45 AM PDT
by
DManA
To: Nachum
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:46:15 AM PDT
by
evets
(beer)
To: brytlea
Yes...”Ink” = Dark...oh my
To: Nachum
I’m definitely a racist because I LMAO before I realized that I probably shouldn’t...oh well.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:46:45 AM PDT
by
nolongerademocrat
("Before you ask G-d for something, first thank G-d for what you already have." B'rachot 30b)
To: Nachum
Indeed, “blackie” IS not in good taste.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:47:21 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a (de)humanist and a Satanist is that the latter knows who he's working for.)
To: Nachum
Can we still call Zero and/or Shellie “clueless”, “imbeciles”, “clownish”, etc., or is that out of bounds too?
To: evets
I still don’t understand that outfit, even when Jackie Onassis wears it.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:48:15 AM PDT
by
goldi
(')
To: Nachum
Stupid, not funny...
Might be a little racist...
Bad joke Trifecta!
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:49:06 AM PDT
by
Haiku Guy
(Anything not about elephants is irrelephant.)
To: DManA
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:49:35 AM PDT
by
brytlea
(Jesus loves me, this I know.)
To: evets
That picture's just plain wrong. Jackie would never dress like Michelle.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:50:31 AM PDT
by
rllngrk33
(0bama, proof we can no longer underestimate the stupidity of the voters.)
To: Nachum
To: Nachum
Racism, never.
Wookyism, maybe.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:51:13 AM PDT
by
E. Pluribus Unum
("The only stable state is one in which all men are equal before the law." -- Aristotle)
To: Nachum
well? calling a black person blackie IS racist. no matter what it rhymes with. as much as I was prepaed to jump all over this self-censorship, when I read what the offending remark was, I tend to agree with her.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:52:52 AM PDT
by
camle
(keep an open mind and someone will fill it full of something for you)
To: Nachum
Still got it out there.
Good one.
I doubt if she cares that the pctwits will attempt to ruin her. She is clever and competent, something that those this manufacture is intend to hook are not.
In fact, it is likely considered by her a good career move, given the current environment and whatnot.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:54:03 AM PDT
by
mmercier
(Mom always said "don't toy with the retarded...")
To: DManA
I am thinking that Joan is no liberal.
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posted on
10/26/2010 9:56:17 AM PDT
by
mmercier
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