Quote, Negro dialect
(Hey radioactiveart, this is an example when LJ is a hundred times more effective as a medium - in this case for thoughts longer than a synapse - than FB, if not more effective as a platform. Just sayin'.)
I don't make it a habit of watching the morning pundits because they all just infuriate me. Every issue they touch upon is deeper than they give them credit for, and rather than try to work in productive conversations or meaningful dialogues with what time they do have, they just blast away - completely biased, mind you. No actual journalism appears on any of these shows, despite its steady stream of journalists as guests. All attempts to sway some base or another obviously, but sometimes the noise just makes me want to eat my dog.
This is not news of course. I say all of this so that I can make the point I WANT to make without having to get comments about the fact that these aren't really news shows. I don't want to talk about the news right now. I want to talk about an instance on an idiotic news show. Got it? Small picture here. Save the big picture stuff for fengi's journal. He's better at it than you and me anyway.
What I did want to point out was this morning Morning Joe show (which is a horribly run show anyway). We all know by now that Senator Reid made some comments that are largely construed as being racist in tone, if not nature. Republicans are asking him to step down because of the two-year-old comments and the Democrats are largely letting the matter go as history. Reid apologized to the president for his comments, and the president accepted, which is how he handles most insults. Moving on.
What's funny to me is that host Joe Scarborough, while feigning offense (on behalf of sensitive white Republicans, I guess, because it sure wasn't blacks) kept repeating the phrase "Quote, 'Negro dialect'" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
If your beef is that someone said something that shouldn't have been said, why would you repeat it a hundred times in twenty minutes? that's like saying, "Janet Jackson's boob on TV scars children!" and then running the clip a hundred times anyway. (Oh wait: they DID do that!)
Now, Joe would smugly suggest that he was doing it to get someone to account for it and to make sure they understood exactly what his beef was. But seriously: what imbecile believes that Joe Scarborough was offended by this on any level? All he wants to do is drive this two word phrase into the minds of idiotic viewers who are perfectly okay with having their political platforms and opinions hand-delivered to them by a biased-non-reporter-former-politician-talking-head and hate Obama anyway. Every time he says "Quote, 'Negro dialect'" is him subliminally saying, "Vote Republican in his state when the elections come." Tired.
I don't feel this way after the Sunday morning shows.
And if I may say, it's a shittily(!) executed show as well. Two, three hosts talking at a time, with three, four guests going at it...the show is like white noise with a beat. Even Al Sharpton is kind of neutered in a shitty format like that, but I guess that's the point. I did like his answer to the simplistic gimme-question of "What is a 'Quote, 'Negro dialect'?" Al's response? (Paraphrase) "I don't know WHAT a Negro dialect is." (Translation: I see your neutering and raise you a spayed!)
Aside: I have a friend from many years ago, during my black revolutionary days, that calls me about once or twice a year out of the blue and we talk about world issues and such. I got my first call of the year behind this issue. Dr. Eric? You got one more issue for the rest of the year. Use it wisely!
Aside to my aside: What's cute about our conversations is that I answer the phone by saying "hello?" and he just starts talking like we were cut off ten seconds ago. "So yeah, man, you saw Reid on TV last night right?" Hilarious. Of course, he was always the funniest out of the whole gang anyway, so it stands to reason he's still got it.
I don't make it a habit of watching the morning pundits because they all just infuriate me. Every issue they touch upon is deeper than they give them credit for, and rather than try to work in productive conversations or meaningful dialogues with what time they do have, they just blast away - completely biased, mind you. No actual journalism appears on any of these shows, despite its steady stream of journalists as guests. All attempts to sway some base or another obviously, but sometimes the noise just makes me want to eat my dog.
This is not news of course. I say all of this so that I can make the point I WANT to make without having to get comments about the fact that these aren't really news shows. I don't want to talk about the news right now. I want to talk about an instance on an idiotic news show. Got it? Small picture here. Save the big picture stuff for fengi's journal. He's better at it than you and me anyway.
What I did want to point out was this morning Morning Joe show (which is a horribly run show anyway). We all know by now that Senator Reid made some comments that are largely construed as being racist in tone, if not nature. Republicans are asking him to step down because of the two-year-old comments and the Democrats are largely letting the matter go as history. Reid apologized to the president for his comments, and the president accepted, which is how he handles most insults. Moving on.
What's funny to me is that host Joe Scarborough, while feigning offense (on behalf of sensitive white Republicans, I guess, because it sure wasn't blacks) kept repeating the phrase "Quote, 'Negro dialect'" over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again.
If your beef is that someone said something that shouldn't have been said, why would you repeat it a hundred times in twenty minutes? that's like saying, "Janet Jackson's boob on TV scars children!" and then running the clip a hundred times anyway. (Oh wait: they DID do that!)
Now, Joe would smugly suggest that he was doing it to get someone to account for it and to make sure they understood exactly what his beef was. But seriously: what imbecile believes that Joe Scarborough was offended by this on any level? All he wants to do is drive this two word phrase into the minds of idiotic viewers who are perfectly okay with having their political platforms and opinions hand-delivered to them by a biased-non-reporter-former-politician-talking-head and hate Obama anyway. Every time he says "Quote, 'Negro dialect'" is him subliminally saying, "Vote Republican in his state when the elections come." Tired.
I don't feel this way after the Sunday morning shows.
And if I may say, it's a shittily(!) executed show as well. Two, three hosts talking at a time, with three, four guests going at it...the show is like white noise with a beat. Even Al Sharpton is kind of neutered in a shitty format like that, but I guess that's the point. I did like his answer to the simplistic gimme-question of "What is a 'Quote, 'Negro dialect'?" Al's response? (Paraphrase) "I don't know WHAT a Negro dialect is." (Translation: I see your neutering and raise you a spayed!)
Aside: I have a friend from many years ago, during my black revolutionary days, that calls me about once or twice a year out of the blue and we talk about world issues and such. I got my first call of the year behind this issue. Dr. Eric? You got one more issue for the rest of the year. Use it wisely!
Aside to my aside: What's cute about our conversations is that I answer the phone by saying "hello?" and he just starts talking like we were cut off ten seconds ago. "So yeah, man, you saw Reid on TV last night right?" Hilarious. Of course, he was always the funniest out of the whole gang anyway, so it stands to reason he's still got it.