NFL fans did not appreciate ABC showing a trailer for an upcoming Blackish episode:
Melinda Byerley, CEO of the Bay Area-based marketing firm TimeShareCMO, posted this rant , ostensibly and article about how middle-American communities can practice economic development, to Facebook:“Why does the NFL keep playing an anti-Trump commercial for the terrible show Blackish?” wrote one tweeter. “They must not know their audience”. Another viewer fumed: “I am offended at the preview for the show #blackish about voting for Trump makes you a racist!”Matt Falk tweeted: “No one watch #blackish. Not everyone who voted for Trump is a racist, That show caters to the lowest common denominator” while Steve James declared on the online social networking service: “Man, Blackish looks so original! A Trump voter isn’t racist because she has black friends! Can’t wait to never watch a second of that show.”
Lotta folks were repulsed:“One thing middle america could do is to realize that no educated person wants to live in a shithole with stupid people. Especially violent, racist, and/or misogynistic ones,” she wrote.The CEO then listed her demands: “So if you want jobs, clean up your act and make your town a place that people like us want to live in. Add fiber internet. Make it a point to elect a progressive city council and commit to not being bigots.”
Her remarks sparked a controversy on social media, with most people laying into the CEO. “Peak liberal othering. I almost can’t believe someone wrote this,” saidThe New York Times political reporter Nick Confessore. “Listen up poors. I’m not moving to your farm town until you get three apple stores and sign a pledge to not be racist,” one Twitter user wrote, paraphrasing Byerley.
Josh Jordan, who covers politics, wrote: “There’s no better way to persuade people to be more like you than to call them all bigots who apparently live in squalor. Unbelievable.”Nicholas Maduro wants to raise Venezuela's minimum wage by 50 percent. It would be the fifth minimum-wage hike in a year.
And Hollywood's most self-important puked all over themselves in a thank-you-Most-Equal-Comrade gush-fest at the Golden Globes. And the Clinton Crime Family received a standing ovation as they arrived for a Broadway-revivial performance of The Color Purple.
So, many of Hollywood's finest detest Trump. So do I? You? Streep was talking about his mocking of the handicapped reporter. That sure wasn't cool. Stay tuned as our prexy tweets and insults his way through his first days in office. I think you're not gonna like it any more than we do, but, I know, I know, you love his principled people he's hiring. And all your heroes are now kissing his ring.
ReplyDeleteTrump is already a disaster and an abomination. The apparent fact that your principled peeps are rallying behind his absurd power sure shows us how unprincipled your principles are when they mean perceived powa.
ReplyDeleteScratch that, just saw video evidence posted on Facebook purporting to prove that Trump was not mocking that reporter. Less then 11 days to go till the incoming Republican President unifies us all!
ReplyDeleteThe results of Streep's outburst are likely to be a further fall in box-office proceeds for the movie industry and further ballot-box losses for the Freedom-Haters.
ReplyDeleteSquirrel Hair is proving a mixed bag so far. Generally love his department and agency picks. Love today's news item about the plan to expand the Navy to a 350-ship fleet. Downside: his juvenile tweeting, also signs that he will be more of a protectionist than a free-market guy economics-wise.
Exxon chief as SOS, extreme hawk as SOD and many other indications of the military-industrial complex ascendancy evoke Ike's military-industrial complex, but, hey, the righties think he was wrong. Full speed ahead to God knows what, but they say He's on their side again?
DeleteGlad you're not trashing cinema as an art form here, bloggie, just Hollywood I presume. My understanding is that the medium has just changed to the living room. Netflix and other online services are thriving. But just like a since free marketer I would venture, it's all about the bottom line. Are people allowed to speak their minds? Not if they don't want the President tweeting out that they are overrated losas, huh? I'm sure his "victims" consider the source--a boorish Republican who makes sweet choices for some.
DeleteGotta love SH's tweet about nuclear proliferation around Christmastime. Aw shucks, he don't mean dat, right? After 50 years of non-proliferation, the Big Bully in that Exceptional Country is gonna go for the guns. Don't you love it, why nobody will fuck with us now and we're gonna what? http://www.salon.com/2016/12/27/donald-trumps-irresponsible-nuclear-weapons-tweets-pure-whimsy-or-prelude-to-apocalypse/
DeleteAhh, but I know the great people around him will steer him right. That's not what the Constitution says.
DeleteAlways love reading about the "Evil Empire", I have never really quite figured out who was who. The cabinet choices are pretty nice, I see Mad Dog and The Squirrel are having lovers chats over who is in the Defense Department, I wonder how that works out?
ReplyDeleteHey Mike, wondering if you're getting all excited over Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III as our AG? Perhaps you dug John Mitchell under Nixon. Now we have certain laws enacted by the people of nearly half the states in the union which will be in conflict with Sessions' philosophy. Of course that post is not meant to unify, but we shall see what he tries to nullify.
DeleteI see record scandals, record resignations, and continued disunity in the country. We really do need a unifier. The bloggie's ilk trashes the Pope too. The current Pope is into love and mercy, and bloggie's ilk do conflict, retribution and they seem to like that a lot of people are suffering. Their solution: free market principles, like we're quasi-commie now.
ReplyDeleteWhat are we gonna expand the fleet for? To go up against China's one aircraft carrier? Or to defend the Jews, half of whom don't even believe in an Almighty God any longer?
ReplyDeleteI like this country is not unified, it never has been, I think it is our strength. Franklin was sent west before the war of independence to cajole the Quakers in keeping those pesky Indians from joining the French or the English. Those Quakers wanted nothing to do with the idea of an American Independence, Franklin just offered the Quakers what they wanted, and there was consensus.
ReplyDeleteWhere is consensus now?
I just meant mutual respect, and that is already seriously lacking and, from the shape of things in the past with this boob, it will also be the shape of things to come. We'll see. I am thinking about leading a protest against him speaking at Notre Dame commencement like the bloggie's ilk did to Obama. If Trump loses, I will cheer, but, to hear him tell it, he never loses. We'll see. Go for it guys!
DeleteBut you're right, this country was never unified. But it did seem we were basically respectful of one another, at least during my lifetime, and I don't remember a President so quick with the insults and such a poor example for all of us, but bloggie's ilk love to crow how Jimmy Carter was the worst President ever, unless Obama beats him out. All I know is that I remain true to my principles. Never Trump. I am embarrassed and ashamed for my country on the world stage. I suppose some are now strutting like peacocks though, how great we art!
DeleteScratch that, maybe folk of the same race were basically respectful of one another. Now it's the same socio-economic class, maybe, sometimes. We still have our savages--the "other" we keep out. Onward to what?????
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ReplyDeleteBUT WE DO NOT NEED TO BE INSULTED BY OUR PRESIDENT OF OUR UNITED STATES!!!!!!
ReplyDelete(although it's happened before, esp. by a man named Dick)
ReplyDeleteThe current pope thinks the planetary climate is in some kind of trouble due to human activity.
ReplyDeleteSo do a lot of other humans. Ya think you're gonna impeach him or something?
ReplyDeleteNo, just point out how dangerously wrong he is.
ReplyDeleteIt is not climate change that concerns me as much as terrestrial change. Just mathematically if you pump out this much fluid over time from the planet, what is this going to do the rate of Teutonic shift. That's scary.
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