Mocking Blacks? "30 Rock" and "Amos and Andy"

Mocking Blacks?  "30 Rock" and "Amos and Andy"

In case you missed it, in the middle of its sixth season, NBC’s highly vaunted hit comedy, ”30 Rock”, which is neither a hit nor very comedic, hit rockbottom last Thursday by featuring a reversion to blackface.




If you did miss the show, you have plenty of company since almost everyone else did too.



Despite being a big fave among leftist elites, “30 Rock” has been an abysmal flop.



With Nielsen rankings starting at 102 in its initial season, climbing all the way to 94, 69, 86, then flopping back to 106 last year, its death throes could be heard last week as “Mad Men’s” guest star Jon Hamm donned black makeup in a sketch ostensibly aimed at satirizing racism in the television industry.



Confident in the liberal misconception that libs can’t be racists any more than blacks can, the live episode was more a desperate attempt to boost ”30 Rock’s” ratings by mocking African-Americans under the guise of satire.



Hamm, decked out in an afro and mimicking stereotypical black speech, would have been driven into the same entertainment oblivion as “Seinfeld’s” Michael Richards just a few years ago but, apparently, blackface is now back in vogue.



The use of blackface–white performers such as Al Jolsen coloring their faces in dark paint or charcoal makeup in order to appear as what were then called Negroes–dates back to the days of 19th century minstrel shows. Blackface, always cloaked in humor, later became symbolic of every slander committed against black people.



As it did in 2010, “30 Rock” once again revived the previously-condemned practice of whites ridiculing blacks by appearing in blackface as comedic fodder even though, along with the word “nigger,” which is also making a regrettable comeback, it has been banished as a gross example of racism.



It was a counterintuitive gambit to satirize discrimination against blacks on television since anyone who watches TV has to be aware that African-Americans have been represented in dramas, sitcoms, and commercials far in excess of their 13% of America’s population ever since Rev. Jesse Jackson complained blacks were being given short shrift in the entertainment industry. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=22889.)

New York City's Last Best Hope, Alec Baldwin

New York City's Last Best Hope, Alec Baldwin

The good news for Big Appleites is that Democrat Rep. Anthony Weiner seems to be breathing his last as a New York congressman, unless that’s just his heavy breathing we’re hearing.

The whining wiener man is on the ropes but sticking to “principles” and his resolve, and to anything else available, and refusing to quit and turn in all his congressional perks and vain ambitions to succeed NYC Mayor Michael Boomboom Bloomberg.

Surely much to his egotistical, arrogant dismay, Weiner’s Dem close buddies have shown they are very ready, willing, and able to take his much-publicicized underpants and wrap them around his scrawny neck.

Liberal Noo Yawkers, as if there were any other kind, should not despair, though. Panting in the wings for his chance to ride into town is a new Democrat savior, none other than extreme Hollywood leftist, the totally unqualified, former Long Islander, part-time resident of NYC, Alec Rae Baldwin III.

Obviously discontented with the acting life and searching for a new gig, frustrated in his desire to become governor of New York State, Baldwin is now considering settling for mayor of New York City. If nothing else, Baldwin once had far better abs than Bloomberg and, in NYC, he could win the mayoralty on that basis alone.

Remember Jesse Ventura and Ahnold?

However, with that bod long gone, Alec has another significant plus going for him: He’s a star of stage. screen, and television and New York just loves stars, especially stars with his resume’ which includes two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, and six Screen Actors Guild Awards. Most of his accolades came as a result of his starring role on the NBC sitcom, “30 Rock.”

Not known for being temperate, Baldwin has called former Vice President Dick Cheney a terrorist and has characterized conservative commentator Sean Hannity as ”a no-talent, ignorant fool,” . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4769)

Outrages and Something Else

Outrages and Something Else

There are outrages and then there are outrages.

If you want outrage, more specifically cause for outrage, then take former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin who has been the subject of incessant attacks ever since Sen. John McCain chose her for his VP running mate in 2008.

Demonstrating its gut fear of Palin and what she represents, decency and Christian values, America’s left has been on a media-supported vendetta against her from Day One with charges of ineptitude, stupidity, and worse. Those charges have been led by such proven inept and stupid MSM commentators as Keith Olbermann, Katie Couric, and Chris Matthews and have been supplemented by snide comments from White House operatives.

Eager to let the Left know they’re in the fold, Leno and Letterman also rarely let a night go by without Palin jabs which titillate their audiences into paroxysms of laughter.

Still, sometimes, indeed often, liberals go beyond the pale in their attempts to derogate and demean Sarah Palin.

“30 Rock” actor Tracy Morgan went there on national television. With Alec Baldwin as a co-star on that show, it’s almost understandable that Morgan would be repulsive but he even exceeded that low standard when he said Sarah Palin was “good masturbation material:” http://tiny.cc/8r39f

I wonder how the MSM and the White House would have reacted to that line had it referred to Michelle Obama instead of to Sarah Palin.

On a different note which relates to Tracy Morgan, the 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision of the United States Supreme Court upholding segregation under the separate but equal premise was overturned by the another landmark decision fifty eight years later, Brown v. Board of Education. “Brown” ruled that “separate educational facilities are inherently unequal,” the ruling which launched the civil rights movement in America.

Fifty seven years down the line, McCaskey East High School in Lancaster, PA effectively threw out “Brown” and reinstituted a limited form of racial segregation. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=3511)