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July 15, 2004
Whoopi
First, let's talk terminology. I'm buying into the Chris Rock lexicon and extending it a little bit.
Affluent: You can live large, occasionally.
Rich: You can buy anything you want.
Wealthy: You can buy anybody you want.
Powerful: You can destroy anybody you want.
Denzel Washington is rich, Bill Gates is wealthy. Dick Cheney is powerful. Wealthy people make other people rich. Powerful people set the rules for containing and controlling wealthy people and their wealth. Since this is America, it is possible to achieve power without being wealthy or even rich so there are interesting social equivalents of rock paper scissors. Whoopi getting fired is the example of a flimsy piece of paper covering a mighty rock.
OK maybe Whoopi is not a mighty rock, but I like her because she's friggen weird. And you cannot be that weird and that outspoken for as long as she has been without having learned a whole lot about herself and people in general. Something evil inside of me is telling me to say that Whoopi is the black Shirley McClaine. So much for discipline. But you can't boss weirdos around, they live in a parallel dimension, especially rich weirdos.
If Whoopi died tomorrow she'd be a saint. I think she knows that, and that's why she doesn't give a rat's ass. She's large. She doesn't have to care. She's completely off the chain. She made The Color Purple and that movie gets larger every time I watch it. So what if some diet food fools don't like her because she doesn't like bush, er.. Bush that is? She jokes.
Remember that Ted Danson thing? What was that all about? Who remembers, who cares? Whatever Whoopi Goldberg does is alright with me, so long as she remains true to form.
That's half my point. The other is this, for what it's worth. I am tired of hearing Americans freak out over what Large blackfolks say. We are all going to have to get used to it. Let's try to remember that an Illinois senatorial candidate married 6 of 9 and tried to get her to do the wild thing with him in titty bars. Do we need any more reminder of what kind of people we grow up here.
America is a superpower. That means there is so much wealth here that you can get rich doing just about anything. That means some pretty kooky people are going to end up rich. I'm glad its Whoopi and not more jagoffs like Robert Wilson, or this guy. Remember him?
Posted by mbowen at July 15, 2004 08:58 PM
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Hear hear. A rich celebrity shoots their mouth off and a rich corporation fires them for it. So. What.
I don't know though... they certainly cover it when Madonna shoots her mouth off and loses a contract. Maybe this is progress?
Posted by: Scott at July 16, 2004 10:48 AM
Maybe that should've been "here here!" ? Gah... anyway...
Posted by: Scott at July 16, 2004 10:49 AM
You were right the first time, Scott.
Whoopi can probably absorb the loss, though. But she did us a favor by clearly placing the mentality of that crowd of warped socialists.
Posted by: True_Liberal at July 16, 2004 11:46 AM
"I am tired of hearing Americans freak out over what Large blackfolks say."
OK, but what about Americans who calmly object to what obnoxious, unfunny, semi-talented folks of any size and/or race say?
Posted by: Xrlq at July 16, 2004 01:16 PM
If you've read her bio, 'Book', then your opinion is as good as mine.
Posted by: Cobb at July 16, 2004 02:41 PM
Does anyone *REALLY* know what she said?
I haven't seen one transcript, yet.
So what if she made a joke about Bush and her poonanny?
People have lost their minds. And I don't want to hear squat about "hatred of Bush." It's a bad as the "hatred of Clinton."
Ying, yang, goes around, comes around,....
yada yada yada....
Posted by: DarkStar at July 16, 2004 02:47 PM
Go Whoopi!
I'm white, and this "scandal" doesn't bother me one bit. Whoopi was in top form in "Book," and she clearly was at the Kerry event. Screw those racists who balk at the thought of minorities succeeding in society! It's about time, I say. They world needs diversity (and open mouths).
Posted by: Ian McGibboney at July 19, 2004 01:02 AM
Ian, I'll bet the number of whitefo' who see some racial implication in Whoopi's - ahem - comments is damn puny.
It's simply that she, and her Hollywood friends, have de-elevated the civil discourse level to new anti-heights.
Don't try to make it something it's not.
Posted by: True_Liberal at July 19, 2004 05:15 AM
WHAT did she say? Show me a quote.
Posted by: Cobb at July 19, 2004 09:59 AM
WHAT did she say? Show me a quote.
That's what I want to know!
Posted by: DarkStar at July 19, 2004 05:38 PM
Found a delicious quote:
"If I were advising the Bush campaign, I would have them buying advertising
time for Michael Moore," political strategist (Dan) Schnur says. "An overly
strident message tends to turn off swing voters, while it excites the true
believers. The candidate that wants to win will want to keep those emotions in
check. By the time this is all over, Michael Moore could end up as the Ken
Starr of the 2004 election."
That goes double for Whoopi.
Posted by: True_Liberal at July 21, 2004 07:25 AM