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Joan Rivers Shocking Comments About Barack and Michelle.....Do you think the United States will see the first gay president or the first woman president?
The answer to that question posed to Joan Rivers by a cameraman on the streets of New York has the 81-year-old comic in hot waterWhat did she say?
We already have it with Obama, so lets just calm down.
But she didnt stop there: Its what she said next thats caused particular outrage.
As Rivers continued walking past, she turned her head and added, You know Michelle is a tranny.
The cameraman responded, Im sorry, shes a what?
A transgender. We all know, Rivers said as she walked toward a building.
There's video here:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/07/04/joan-rivers-shocking-comments-about-barack-and-michelle/
FarPoint
(12,334 posts)Worthless entertainer. Her time has passed as being a respectable comedian.
betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)but she has also given much evidence of being a republican. If Michelle was transgender, she wouldn't have had babies. Technology hasn't progressed that much.
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Just in case...
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)betterdemsonly
(1,967 posts)scews her view.
Shrike47
(6,913 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)were not worthy of a thread on DU.
senseandsensibility
(16,989 posts)she's past her due date.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)joeybee12
(56,177 posts)I wouldn't put much stock in it.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)BainsBane
(53,029 posts)She jokes about everything. She's not aiming at Obama particularly. In fact, my guess is she's a Democrat.
Tuesday Afternoon
(56,912 posts)This sounds like her same old schtick to me. What? They expected something else?
Jefferson23
(30,099 posts)snip*In 2002, Rivers told the Montreal Mirror that she was a Republican.[54] However, on a 2013 episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, Rivers stated that she was a Democrat. Then on January 28, 2014 during a conversation with Reza Farahan she announced that she was in fact a Republican.[55]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_Rivers
snip*TOC: Lets get into politics for a minute.
Joan Rivers: They bore me.
TOC: You voted for Obama, but youve been a lifelong Republican, right?
Joan Rivers: I am for anyone that will give me lower taxes, stop all this stupid spending. Whoever promises me that gets this chickens vote.
TOC: No matter what else comes along with it?
Joan Rivers: Who cares?
TOC: What about Bush Juniordid you actually vote for him?
Joan Rivers: I voted for him, I think, the first time. Second time, I didnt. But again, he promised me lower taxes, that cutie pie.
TOC: But he was dumb as dirt, Joan.
Joan Rivers: Oh, so what! Why? You think Carter was smart?
TOC: Comparatively, my pet rock is smart.
Joan Rivers: Theyre all stupid, doesnt matter.
http://www.timeout.com/chicago/comedy/joan-rivers-interview
Rivers says she doesnt like to talk about politics, but she couldnt hide her contempt for the presidential race in 2012. She called Obama and Romney both idiots, and said she thought the money and time spent campaigning was horrific:
How dare you spend two years campaigning. They should do what England does. Six weeks to find out what everyone thinks before they vote for them for Parliament. That makes sense. . . . I find the whole thing disgusting, both sides disgusting.6
But nonetheless, she went out and did her civic duty on election day.7 And even though she has stated she is a Republican, she said she voted for Obama because she thought the president would lower her taxes.8 She also retweeted the Human Rights Campaigns celebratory post-election tweet in 2012.9
snip* Rivers campaign finance contributions, while leaning right, werent exclusively dedicated to Republicans. Of her $6,750 in donations, $500 was to a Democrat, $3,000 to Republicans, and $3,250 to a pro-Israeli political action committee.10 Like many Jews, shes an outspoken supporter of the Israeli state and doesnt approve of the presidents handling of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. She said,
I think the Obama administrations treatment of Israel is outrageous. Outrageous. When we are the only sane nation in that part of the world.11
But one issue Obama has pushed in his presidency, gay rights, is one Rivers is proud to support. She even used her TV show Fashion Police as a platform to support a campaign to change an Israeli law banning surrogate pregnancies for gay couples.12
http://hollowverse.com/joan-rivers/
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Gidney N Cloyd
(19,831 posts)conservaphobe
(1,284 posts)Whichever is most effective at shutting her up.
Drunken Irishman
(34,857 posts)Fuck her.
Cha
(297,123 posts)to me. But, this is just stupid.. poor joan.. going down in blaze of dogshit.
GeorgeGist
(25,319 posts)newcriminal
(2,190 posts)No one ever says black trash. Because blacks are already considered trash, right? It's a stupid racist slur that insults both blacks and whites. Just my $.02.
VanillaRhapsody
(21,115 posts)much less an 81 yr old woman. Who the hell is she to judge what anyone is or isn't...
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(107,884 posts)Too many face lifts. Amazing she can still move her mouth.
mnhtnbb
(31,382 posts)geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)KinMd
(966 posts)Jenoch
(7,720 posts)a rat's ass what Joan River's thinks, says, or does. As a matter of fact, just glancing at the first several replies to this post and the effort I used to write this pist is much more effort than this thread deserves.
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mfcorey1
(11,001 posts)her entire face might collapse.
Inkfreak
(1,695 posts)otohara
(24,135 posts)why are you posting links to that POS
BOOOOOOOO
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quinnox
(20,600 posts)And I find Don Rickles extremely funny too. I can't help myself.
quinnox
(20,600 posts)Political correctness can go fly a kite when it comes to comedy as far as I'm concerned.
Inspired
(3,957 posts)Being outraged over something Joan Rivers, or any comedian, said is such a waste of, well, a waste of outrage. Such silliness.
Inspired
(3,957 posts)Good grief. She was trying to shock and be funny. Who cares.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Seriously, the woman is a fucking bigot using that vile and nasty term.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)She was being serious. This was not a attempt at humor.
alphafemale
(18,497 posts)At DU we said horribly mean things about both Barbara and Laura Bush's looks.
In my opinion Michelle is stunning so these comments on her looks fall flat.
The comments on the looks of Barbara and Laura were crueler in a way....because they WERE rather awkward looking sometimes.
woodsprite
(11,910 posts)than Joan Rivers could ever hope to be.
It could be she's jealous of Michelle's natural beauty, whereas all that Joan's 50 bajillion face lifts have done is make her look like one of Edgar Bergen's ventriloquist dummies.
3catwoman3
(23,970 posts)...and crotch grabbing. It what you do when that's all you've got, and you ain't got much.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)With plastic surgery. I have no problem calling her ugly because of how judgemental and rude she is towards others. Her absolutely rude comments towards actress Lena Durham, an actress who refuses to starve herself or slice up her face, shows how out of touch Joan Rivers is .
Botany
(70,488 posts)..... she has been doing it for years.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)It's Joan Rivers. Does anyone expect differently?
goldent
(1,582 posts)is from people who know her routine!
I watched the video, and it was interesting how Joan went from a private person trying to get somewhere, to a comedienne going into her act.
iloveObama12
(421 posts)2 Bit Ho!
hughee99
(16,113 posts)She hasn't even approached being funny in 30 years.
LLD
(136 posts)Anything is alright if you add "I'm kidding". Which Rivers is good at saying.
onecent
(6,096 posts)end of story.
randys1
(16,286 posts)for anyone who will lower her taxes
Another rich person who once they got theirs, fuck everybody else...
Jesus, I had much higher opinions of her, I assumed she was a good liberal...
guess not
liberalmuse
(18,672 posts)or Don Rickles. What some call "humor" I call "plain 'ol meanness". They say stuff little kids blurt out before they are taught that other people have feelings. I guess some find it charming, but it makes me cringe. I love dark humor that exposes corruption and makes you think about silly things we humans do without realizing it, but I think there's a difference between dark humor and cruel "humor".
Smarmie Doofus
(14,498 posts)giftedgirl77
(4,713 posts)considered an acceptable source? Fuck Glenn Beck & any nonsense that spews from him or his entities.