Posted on 04/14/2016 6:05:49 PM PDT by drewh
Remember that awful, awkward comedy skit that Hillary Clinton and Mayor DeBlasio did at a New York dinner over the weekend, the one where they made a joke about CPT, i.e. colored people’s time? Clinton has actually faced some backlash over that, enough that she was asked about it by Cosmopolitan magazine in an interview published yesterday:
Some people have been upset by a racially charged joke that you and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio made over the weekend, especially in context of a recent altercation between Bill Clinton and Black Lives Matter supporters. Upon hearing the criticisms, do you think the joke was inappropriate or, as Mayor de Blasio said, are people “missing the point”?
Well, look, it was Mayor de Blasio’s skit. He has addressed it, and I will really defer to him because it is something that he’s already talked about. It’s encouraging to see Clinton was actually asked about this, but her answer completely passes the buck. Some possible follow up questions Cosmopolitan didn’t ask: In what sense was this DeBlasio’s skit? Did he write it? Even if DeBlasio wrote it, didn’t you, Hillary, read it, agreed to do it and then go on stage and read the lines? Doesn’t that make you responsible? If a GOP candidate decided to go on stage in black face, would it be reasonable to blame the make-up artist?
As for DeBlasio, it’s true that he has talked about this. He told CNN, “It was clearly a staged show. It was a scripted show. The whole idea was to do the counterintuitive by saying ‘cautious politician time.’ Every actor thought it was a joke on a different convention. That was the whole idea. I think people are missing the point here.”
DeBlasio’s answer makes it sound as if people are somehow missing the joke and, by explaining it, he is eliminating any reason to object to it. In fact, all he has done is confirm (as I wrote here) that this was scripted and that it was indeed a reference to “a different convention,” i.e. a racial stereotype known as colored people’s time. In other words, it was exactly what the critics thought it was. DeBlasio’s explanation doesn’t tell us anything we didn’t already know.
Perhaps that’s why DeBlasio’s office subsequently released an apologetic statement saying, “In an evening of satire, the only person this was meant to mock was the mayor himself, period. Certainly no one intended to offend anyone.” Translation: He wasn’t making fun of black people he was making fun of himself. DeBlasio’s wife is black so maybe he thought that gave him some leeway to make the joke. Maybe it does.
What’s Hillary Clinton’s excuse? The hypocrisy and double standard on display are galling to behold. Had a GOP candidate done this it would be dominating the headlines until a sufficiently obsequious apology had been offered. In Clinton’s case, someone finally dared to ask her about this and she brushed it off. There was no eagerness to really pin her down. Finally, you have to laugh at the sight of Hillary Clinton, the smart, qualified, feminist ready to lead the world telling a reporter: ask the guy I was with, he was responsible for all of my actions.
Corrupt politician time.
Very typical Clinton. Screw everybody around you, no matter who they are. Been that way for many decades. The list that describes the Clintons is too long to post.
There was a guy by the name of Earl Butz whose career was ended because of a similar situation, but he was a Republican so he deserved it.
My guess is most people under 40 have not heard that phrase.
I personally don’t care that she used it. Not really a big deal. I wish her side could be more blase about our ‘transgressions’ and Dog Whistles, be they real, imaginary or greatly exaggerated.
This would have ended Trump’s campaign. Since it was Hillary- it’s fine. Blacks don’t care.
Never heard of it.
De Blasio now saying he didn’t write it...
Would have been the much ballyhooed “End of Trump” for sure!
The truth is that Hillary covered for Bill by make a joke only black people can safely tell, thereby forcing Blacks into a cognitive crisis, requiring them to totally dump the Clintons or accept Bill’s attacking BLM. And to pull it off they built in all sorts of deniability - invoking de Blasio’s black wife, an alternate contrived meaning for CT, and no doubt numerous other feints and maneuvers.
Yes, Hilary’s people go that far. All the time. It’s their normal.
And, cynically speaking, it works. You see any more BLM protests over it?
If Trump ever said anything like that, people would riot.
They may riot anyway, since they are getting paid.
DiBlassio probably learned the joke from his colored wife. I wonder if he knows this one:
Q. What is black and runs while waving arms up and down yelling “hody do hody do hody do.”
A. A black guy trying to catch an elevator.
Yeah, I heard that one from a black guy. It is ok for black people to tell black jokes, but if a white person tells the same joke it is racist.
Colored People’s Time (also abbreviated to CP Time or CPT) is an American expression referring to a negative stereotype of African Americans as frequently being late.
I love it when commies fight amongst themselves. Hillary versus Bernie. Hillary versus DeBlasio. Bernie versus Bernie.
Obama versus Hillary. Obama versus Putin. Obama versus Obama.
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A black coworker enlightened me about cpt.
I’m surprised that the sleazebag didn’t blame it on Bush.
Hillary loathes Americans of African Descent.
Cameras are on these dolts 24/7 so they all think they are
movie stars and entertainers.
Like Rush used to say,”politics is show biz for ugly people”.
I am the only one who never heard of the term: “Colored People Time”?
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