Tag Archives: missing the point

Imus Isn’t the Problem

April 11, 2007 – 6:39 pm

Listen. Imus might suck for saying stupid things but talking only about what he said is just dumb. Imus isn’t the problem. The problem with Imus is that he said something stupid and now people want to talk about what he said, and once the media is through with him we will all pretend America [...]

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Michael Richards Redux

November 28, 2006 – 1:04 am

Today NPR had Michael Shermer on Talk of the Nation. On the show he echoed a lot of the things I wrote here about our reaction to Michael Richards. He also just wrote an Op-Ed piece for the LA Times. I’m not interested in Michael Richards, I’m interested in what people think of race in [...]

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Michael Richards is Easy

November 26, 2006 – 11:51 am

People keep bringing up Michael Richards and his racist rant. First it made me wonder about our future in general, where everything is caught on video and posted within the hour. I wondered what road we are heading down, where we don’t need “Big Brother,” because we are our own Big Brother… with all it’s [...]

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