Bill Cosby snubs Dr. Rice

Roll Call ^ | 3-25-2004 | Ed Henry

[brothers4thID]

There was quite a bit of chatter in the Capitol on Wednesday about some unexpected fireworks flying at a ceremony honoring civil rights pioneer Dorothy Height after comic Bill Cosby snubbed National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice.

Cosby decided to voice his opposition to the Bush administration’s foreign policy by refusing to sit next to Rice, as organizers

had planned, at the event in which Height received the Congressional Gold Medal from President Bush and Hill leaders.

“It’s too bad that Mr. Cosby couldn’t cross the partisan divide, especially at an event for a great civil rights leader,” griped one senior Congressional aide.

Rice, who’s pretty busy dealing with the fallout from ex-White House aide Richard Clarke’s book, was unaware of the slight and brushed it off.

“It’s a free country,” Deputy National Security Adviser Jim Wilkinson told HOH.

There was a bit more civility and bipartisanship on display after Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) noted that as usual, the 92-year-old Height was the best-dressed woman in the joint.

Insiders tell HOH that Bush, who was sitting between Height and House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), leaned in and whispered that he thought the Congresswoman had that honor.

[Skooz]

We have several of his old albums and they are WONDERFUL even today!

When I was a kid, Bill Cosby albums were some of my most treasured possessions. I actually had three or four of them memorized from start to finish.

I have rarely laughed as hard as I did upon hearing "It's True It's True," "When I Was a Kid," "Live at Madison Square Garden Center," etc.

Too bad he turned out to be another zombie fo the Left.

[tiamat]

Do you remember the whole thing about "Baby Coach Wheels", "Tonsils" and ""Lights Out"?

FUNNY!

[tiamat]

Aw heck.

If we boycotted everything/everyone/everyplace that wasn't according to FR regs, we'd all be living in caves, wearing burlap, and eating rocks.

Might as well be Saddam! LOL!

As you say, life's too short.

( and I STILL love Disney World! )

[Diddle E. Squat]

LOL, well done!

[Skooz]

"Chuck Jones," "My Hernia," "My Boy Scout Troop," and "200 MPH" were hilarious, too. He had so many funny routines, I can hardly remember them all.

[weegee]

It's not the only thing the the Coz has done to show his political stripes. The pettier the beef he has, the more he shows himself to be a hypocrite.

So much for him as an "activist" pushing for strong leaders who happen to be black. They don't meet his litmus test and are pariahs like Clarence Thomas.

I've outgrown watching Fat Albert reruns; I'll live.

[tiamat]

Oh, now WAIT a minute!

None of THOSE ring a bell!

What albums are they on, please?

[Skooz]

"Chuck Jones," "My Hernia," "My Boy Scout Troop," are all on "When I Was a Kid."

"200 MPH" is the title track from one of his albums. It describes his buying and driving a Shelby Cobra for the first time. The first time I heard these, my sides literaly hurt from laughing.

[cajungirl]

Cosby is known as a very very unpleasant man and a serial adulterer. Condi might have been happy as he surely would have put the moves on her and her football playing boyfriend would have then had to beat the snot out of him thus creating a truly memorable event!

As my momma said, some people just don't have manners.

[tiamat]

That must have been from when he was older.

See, I became "endowed" with a bunch of my husband's child-hood albuns.

LOTS of early stuff.

I know about the sides, hurting , though:

"Call the Toss, Cuss!"

[Skooz]

I think both of those albums were released in 1970. I could be wrong. They were certainly released no later than 1971, because I had heard both of them by then.

He had another hilarious routine called "Hofstra." It detailed his football playing days at Temple University and how they were repeatedly beaten by Hofstra U. I cannot recall what album that's on, but it is one of the funniest things I've ever heard.

[ecurbh]

He had another hilarious routine called "Hofstra."

"Please, do not touch certain areas of your body while you are on the football field."

[Quix]

doh

zoom

that one escapes me.

Translation, please?

[Skooz]

"Call the Toss, Cuss!"

LOL! "Toss of a Coin" isn't it? That was very funny. I think it went something like: "You lose! (chuckle) Now you have to gather all your forces in that valley while all the Indians in the world ride down on you........." I haven't heard that since 1973 or so.

[tiamat]

Most of our Cosby stuff is from the 60's.

[Skooz]

LOLOL! Yeah, that's the one. I forgot about that part. Man, I'm still laughing.

[HairOfTheDog]

If you remember to not like him, that is fine... But I don't want to begin to keep track. I once started compiling a list when FReepers were posting a lot of "boycott this" threads... The list was thousands of lines long, including actors, singers, corporations that donated money to environment causes or United Way, everything made in France or Germany, everything endorsed by people who vote wrong. I wish I could find it now to show how silly it would be to keep 'political kosher'...

Boycotts sometimes work, when they are very public and very specific. But I wonder if most companies or actors could keep track of even half of the fringe issue groups who are boycotting them at any given time. "Let's see... the animal rights people, the environmental people, the Buy American people, the liberals because we aren't left enough, the conservatives because we aren't right enough, the union people... there is a fringe group for everything.

I decided it was easier to buy based on quality of product than the political history of someone connected to the product.

Of course there are people I find to be obnoxious, and in an entertainer, that is the killer.... Whether their obnoxiousness is political or otherwise...

[Skooz]

"Bill Visits Ray Charles." Classic.

[tiamat]

Something like that! Yes!

There was also the one about the British vs. the New Americans:

"You Americains get to dress in drab clothes, and hide behind trees and rocks and shoot at the enemy!"

"You British, get to wear BRIGHT red coats, and march in line..."

And I KNOW I do not recall that correctly, but it's been ages!

[shrinkermd]

Crosby lacks class. What could be worse for a person whose chief accomplishment is being able to pretend to be someone else.