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ProfessorPlum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-27-09 11:51 AM
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Bill Maher's opening dialog, 7/24/09, deals with Gates & Obama
 
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Buzz Clik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-27-09 12:02 PM
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1. Even six minutes is something I cannot afford just now. Does he offer any original insights?
Edited on Mon Jul-27-09 12:02 PM by Buzz Clik
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Lorien Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-27-09 12:10 PM
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2. Six minutes, thirty six seconds. Funny stuff!
"Gates home security; when black intellectuals strike, we take affirmative action"! :rofl:
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-27-09 12:18 PM
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3. 'When Black intellectuals strike, we take affirmative action."
LOL! In a fake commercial for "Gates Security." "We also protect against Tavis Smiley, ... Maya Angelou, ... Sojourner Truth, ..."

Then in the monologue: "Obama said he's sorry he said 'stupid,' what he meant was retarded." "Just today Air Force One was pulled over for a broken taillight."
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GivePeaceAchance Donating Member (950 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Jul-27-09 01:10 PM
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4. Transcript.
Your home is safe, but is is it safe from black intellectuals. *sarcasm* Neighbor: Hello
GHS:This is 'Gates Home Security' are you alright?
N: Somebody tried to break in!
GHS: Is it Harvard Law Prof. Lewis Gates?
N: I'm not sure ! It could of been Cornell West.
Skit advert Narrator: Henry Lewis Gates can strike at anytime. Make sure your family is safe. GHS also protects against Tavis smiley, Quincey Jones, D.U.B. Dubois, Maya Angelou, Ruby Dee, Levar Burton, Harry Belafonte, Herbie Handcock, Michael Steele, Desmond TUtu, Lorraine Hansbury, Flavor Flav, Alice Walker, Colin Powell, Sydney Poitier, Lena Horne, Michael Eric Dyson, Ving Rhames, Julian Bond, , Foxy Brown, Alex Haley, Marcus Garvey, Fats Wallace, Toni Morrison, Seal, l'l Kim, Mohammed Ali, etc etc, *sardonic sarcasm* WHen black intellectuals strike, we take affirmative action.*end of skit*

*cheers*
THank you very much how ya doing? Oh shut up, please people. Thank you, I appreciate that, but if you're any more tumultuous I will have to place you under arrest... Forget the real news we have got a racially tinged, cops vs. black guy story. I guess you saw the President spending the last week talking about America's most vulnerable citizens....The Cambridge police dept. hehe. If you somehow missed this let me catch you up. Perhaps the most prominent scholar in America today, was arrested for being black while home....Yes, apparently in America you can be pulled over for driving a stolen couch. Except this was his house, that's the part that I object to. It was his house! You know what happened he was coming back from a trip, from China. So he arrives back and his door is somehow stuck so he's trying to get into his house and his neighbor Gladis Travis calls the police. What kind of burglar trys to break into a house with luggage, that's what I want to know. And the police officer, Officer Crowley. Sounds like something out of Gilbert and Sullivan 'Officer Crowley'. Apparently he said Prof. Lewis was threatening and by threatening he meant he was an educated black man...*sardonic retort*
The police in Cambridge said it had nothing to do with him being black, they said they'd of done the same with any minority... I dig the police of course it's easy to criticize the police.. That all changes of course when you need one. When it's late at night and you're walking through the bad park ... of Henry Lewis Gates' living room.

So this of course then became an even bigger story, because then of course Obama was asked about it in the press conference the other day and said Crowley or Cambridge police acted 'stupidly'. For arresting a cat burglar in his own home. Now President Obama says he regrets saying stupid, what he meant was r****ded!*sardonic*

And the Cambridge police commissioner said, that he was deeply pained by the remarks, really. The head of the police union in Cambridge but it offended police not just in his district but around the country and asked for tissue as his mascara was running.
I mean it's comforting to know that the men with the guns, the mace and the Tazers and license to kill, have this thin a skinned, isn't it. Although I guess they are because Air fore one , was pulled over... for a broken tail-light. No really first Gates p***es of the police up there, then Obama does. You know who I wouldn't want to be right now the next black guy who gets pulled over in Boston. Talk about black and blue.... I love when I pi** you off as that's when I know I'm right. It's all turning out Ok, because Obama talked to Crowley and said he was a good man. Although he did find it strange when Crowley demanded... to see his birth certificate.*applause*

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