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If he was Chris Rock


Ok, so I am sure everyone heard the pfleger comments.  I would first like to point out that I think it's unacceptable and inappropriate for a church forum.  I also wish that Obama's church would just go away for about six months.

So with my objections to the comments made I will say this.

This man was trying to be funny.  It was a totally inappropriate place for this type of humor, however I have to admit....

If he had been Chris Rock,...  and that had been on comedy central I have to admit I would be laughing my ass off.  Just like I laugh my ass off when Stephanie Miller "onion belts" Mcain on Air America, and yes how I laughed when Saturday Night Live did the pillow for Barack sketch.

I know I will get some flaming for this post, however I think my main question is, when did it become so offensive to make fun of candidates.  (and I am not talking about when preachers do it because that is offensive but when comedians and television personalities do it everyone gets uptight.  I don't remember people getting uptight when Bill Clinton was portrayed stopping at a Mcdonalds in the middle of his jog for a bag of cheeseburgers.  What's changed here?  We as a culture have always lampooned and ridiculed our elected officials.  It's kind of the American way.)

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The empress is stark naked, yet giggling is deemed uncivil.

Let's say I'm running for President.

I join a group. One of the group leaders tells a stereotypical "joke" about blacks.

I insist that the "joke" was awful and that I never really liked that group leader anyway.

I go on to lose the black vote to my opponent. After, I state that the reason I lost the black vote was because of racism.

You don't see anything weird about the above?

(Also, we're voting on a President here, not America's funniest comic.)

The comments were a stereotypical joke about white people. It was a joke about Hillary's attitude.

should be "were NOT"

I agree, I am just noting that if this statement WERE coming from a comedian it really would have been pretty funny. To me he sounded like Rock a bit at the "A black mans stealing my show!" part.

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