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Whoopi Goldberg Pushes Back On Claims ‘Blazing Saddles’ Is Racist: “Don’t Make Me Come For You”
Yahoo! ^ | December 7, 2022 | Armando Tinoco

Posted on 12/08/2022 6:46:00 AM PST by al_c

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To: Red Badger

And it makes fun of Germans (as all movies do).


41 posted on 12/08/2022 7:14:54 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: al_c

Whoopi is so stupid in many many ways. Glad she is taking a stand on this important issue.


42 posted on 12/08/2022 7:17:14 AM PST by cornfedcowboy ( )
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To: the OlLine Rebel
The movie was making fun of racism.

Yeah, but the younger generations don't get that. Pity.

43 posted on 12/08/2022 7:18:03 AM PST by al_c (Democrats: Party over Common Sense)
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To: al_c
Whoopi Caryn (considered a successful performing artist by some) is the poster creature for Gibbon's description of art in a declining nation...Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original...
44 posted on 12/08/2022 7:18:31 AM PST by PerConPat (A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. - Mencken)
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To: SecondAmendment

“Funny, she doesn’t LOOK Druish.” — Mel Brooks.


45 posted on 12/08/2022 7:19:01 AM PST by dangus
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To: Delta 21

So many funny scenes in that movie.


46 posted on 12/08/2022 7:19:32 AM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: CTyank

>> Blazing Saddles is a 1974 American satirical western black comedy film <<

Black comedy? Racists.


47 posted on 12/08/2022 7:21:20 AM PST by dangus
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To: Dan in Wichita; All

Recently the film was remade as Paws of Fury
The Legend of Hank, animated. Dog in a city of cats. Brooks as a lovable goofball. Samuel L Jackson as a suomo cat: “What the
motherfather cockerspaniel is going on here?” They made sure that was in the ad.

Film a bit toned down in humor but Brooks
credited as producer, co writer. To be PC the definitely gay George Takei does a voice. Oh myyyy...


48 posted on 12/08/2022 7:22:14 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: al_c

It was super woke at the time.

Wokeness and what’s progressive changes all the time.


49 posted on 12/08/2022 7:22:54 AM PST by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: al_c

In a visit on the Tonight Show in the early 80s Brooks said he couldn’t make the movie in that time period. That was about 10 years or so after the movie was released.


50 posted on 12/08/2022 7:24:06 AM PST by ealgeone
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To: al_c

The test would be to remake the film exactly like the first film. Just because Whoppi believes that it’s not racist doesn’t mean a million other race agitators don’t either.


51 posted on 12/08/2022 7:25:36 AM PST by Dutch Boy (The only thing worse than having something taken from you is to have it returned broken. )
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To: al_c

I have a friend. Huge black guy. He loves the movie and even wears the William J. Le Petomane Thruway T-shirt.


52 posted on 12/08/2022 8:31:57 AM PST by BozoTexino (RIP GOP)
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To: circlecity

“I made a point of getting the dvd for this a decade ago because I figured it would eventually be banned or heavily edited. Probably the funniest movie of all time.”

An edited version of “Blazing Saddles” will be aired on NBC tomorrow evening. It will be broadcast from 8 p.m. to 8:02 p.m.


53 posted on 12/08/2022 8:40:05 AM PST by CFIIIMEIATP737
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To: Red Badger
It’s anti-Irish!........................

"Oh, Prairie Sh!t...everybody."

54 posted on 12/08/2022 10:55:19 AM PST by OldMissileer (Atlas, Titan, Minuteman, PK. Winners of the Cold War)
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To: al_c

Some people just need to grow a sense of humor. They need to stop taking themselves so seriously, stop trying to be offended, and in general, just lighten up.


55 posted on 12/08/2022 11:13:18 AM PST by CommerceComet ("You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case, the government forgets the first." Rush Limbaugh )
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To: CFIIIMEIATP737

An edited version of “Blazing Saddles” will be aired on NBC tomorrow evening. It will be broadcast from 8 p.m. to 8:02 p.m.
= = =

With 1:58 of advertising.


56 posted on 12/08/2022 12:08:14 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: al_c

Blazing Saddles isn’t panned because it’s racist - even a fool like whoopsie can see that it mocks racism. Blazing Saddles is panned because it’s quite possible the funniest movie ever made, and today’s woketards can’t abide anything funny.


57 posted on 12/08/2022 7:10:22 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite its unfashionability)
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