Posted on 12/02/2004 6:23:46 PM PST by bummerdude
I heard on the Larry Elder show today that D.L. Hughley has been picked to be the new host of the Late Late Show. I knew he was in the running, but haven't seen any articles confirming this news. If he hasn't been picked yet, then CBS needs to be Freeped with some emails that he shouldn't be. You can see how far left this "comedian" is from a transcript of “REAL TIME WITH BILL MAHER”, Episode #43, 11-05-2004.
Here are a few D.L Hughley excerpts from the transcript http://www.safesearching.com/billmaher/print/t_hbo_realtime_110504.htm :
HUGHLEY: Well, I believe – I believe in Jesus, too. I just don’t believe he only lives in “red” states. [applause]
SULLIVAN: Well, of course.
HUGHLEY: I believe – I believe – I believe that Jesus doesn’t live in America. I don’t believe he lives in Iraq. I believe Jesus is the universe’s Jesus and not just in Mississippi or Alabama or Arkansas. [applause] This is the United States of America, and not the United States of Red States and Blue States. He tears this country apart and then he says, “Now we can unite, now that we – now that I’ve told those “blue” states…” [applause] How is it that the state of California, who has 10% of the country’s population and the fifth-largest economy in the world, counts less than Wyoming or Montana or Iowa or Idaho? [applause] [cheers]
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HUGHLEY: I think – I think it was that fear will always win in this country over hope. [applause] Fear always wins. It is amazing to me – what I find the height of hypocrisy is the godly nation that we are espoused to be, lets fear rule the day. Fear and faith cannot exist in the same spheres. They just can’t. They can’t exist together. [applause]
SCHROEDER: I now have fear.
HUGHLEY: They can’t. You let – and every time – this man stood up and said, “You know me. You know what I’ll do.” And the country went, “Yeah, we do know what he’ll do.” Like he won’t do all that thinking that they do in Massachusetts. I’ll just keep going.” [laughter] [applause] And that – and that, to me—[cheers]—when I watched—
MAHER: Please.
HUGHLEY: You know what? I was never a Democrat or a Republican. I was always an independent. I voted for Democrats and I voted for Republicans. Today, I’m a Democrat. I’m going to be a Democrat. [applause] And I’m not going to be the kind of Democrat that just lets – they’re bullies to me. They’re bullies to me. They allow that s**t to happen.
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HUGHLEY: When you have the Catholic hierarchy saying that it is a sin to vote for Kerry—
SCHROEDER: It’s terrible.
HUGHLEY: When you evangelists going around the country morphing George Bush into Jesus, that, to me, is—
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HUGHLEY: [overlapping] But you can lie to people. You can lie to people. This administration in particular feels like it can lie to people if they’re doing it for their own good. It is amazing to me that conservatives are against abortion but for the death penalty and for war.
SCHROEDER: That’s right.
HUGHLEY: Like “we want the baby to grow up and then we can kill it.” [applause] That’s amazing to me.
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HUGHLEY: Let me ask you something. When did – like I heard after this – after the election, I heard a bunch of Republican conservatives telling – “we’re returning to our moral center.” Was this moral center when they had slaves or killed Indians?” [laughter] [applause] Because I missed that part of it.
SCHROEDER: Yeah. [voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: S**t just got good for black people about 40 years ago, so I’m wondering when exactly—
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SULLIVAN: Well, Bill, for many years, I have gone as a gay man into a church, and I have—
MAHER: In Mississippi?
HUGHLEY: Not in Mississippi. [laughter]
SULLIVAN: Well…[applause]
HUGHLEY: Damn sure wasn’t in Mississippi. Look, I might not go to Mississippi. I’m just telling you that now. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: You mean the “red” states.
SCHROEDER: The “red” states. I’m sorry. I was red for so long I can’t get over being blue.
HUGHLEY: Yeah, I used to love red, growing up, too. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: Like I’m constantly being told, like you’ll see people going, “They don’t represent our values.” But, literally, you could take Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, put them all together and they still don’t have the economic prowess of Southern California alone. But we are a blue state who—
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SULLIVAN:... Let Massachusetts have marriage for everybody, not just for heterosexuals. And let Mississippi and Alabama go their own ways as well. [applause] Don’t try—[voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: [overlapping] Yeah, because I’d still be living in Mississippi picking cotton. I don’t like that point. That ain’t that good. [laughter]
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HUGHLEY: It is amazing to me that all of us throughout our lives—
HUGHLEY: [overlapping]—have to look at ourselves. Everybody is three people: who they really are, who they want to be and who everybody else thinks they are. This country has never taken a good look at itself and its policies and what those policies mean to people around the world. [applause] Now, I don’t agree – I certainly – I feel like I live in the greatest country in the world. I feel like I have the greatest family in the world. But to say that they haven’t done some f**ked-up things—
SULLIVAN: Of course.
HUGHLEY: --family and country, is idiotic. [applause]
SULLIVAN: Of course.
HUGHLEY: And this country, and conservatives only want to see that we certainly are the greatest country that ever existed. But we have our faults that have led to some of the things that have happened to us around the world. And we need to be like we always tell other people to do, like they tell black people: “Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and accept responsibility for the shit that you’ve done!” [applause] [cheers]
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HUGHLEY: I think the reason that the left has lost its way to persuade people is that we try to be too go**amn reasonable.
SCHROEDER: I do, too. [applause]
HUGHLEY: As opposed to sticking for what we believe in.
MAHER: Right.
HUGHLEY: If Kerry – if Kerry had appealed to his base – who was as radically liberal—
MAHER: Right.
SCHROEDER: They would have been fired up. Absolutely.
HUGHLEY: --as the other base, they would have done what they had to do. You can’t walk – you cannot walk in the middle.
MAHER: Right. People who are—
HUGHLEY: You’re either dogmatically liberal or dogmatically conservative. That’s the only way to ever act.
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MAHER: And Karl Rove’s genius is taking private issues like abortion, or that your sister-in-law is a lesbian, or how you feel about Jesus, and making them something you can vote on.
HUGHLEY: Exactly.
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HUGHLEY: Why – why – why—
SULLIVAN: You think America is flawed, and you’re right. Of course, America is flawed.
HUGHLEY: In what way? In what way is America flawed?
SULLIVAN: [overlapping] There are many things.
SCHROEDER: You’re saying we can’t talk about it.
SULLIVAN: The way we conducted this campaign in Iraq was a disaster.
SCHROEDER: Okay, all right.
SULLIVAN: And we should recognize that and try and solve it.
HUGHLEY: But we can’t recognize—
SULLIVAN: The way we have treated the question of race in this country is a shame, and we should address it and solve it. But America is not evil, and these people believe it is. And they have to be—[voices overlap]
HUGHLEY: When – everybody always says we should do something about it. When the f**k are we going to?!! [applause] [cheers] When are we going to? When do we say we are going to address these issues for real, as opposed to some bulls**t?!
DL Hughley's show is sometimes funny and offensive. However, it's sad that he has a chip on his shoulder. Considering that he's doing what no black person even thought would happen in this country, I'd say that's a step towards 'doing something about IT' whatever IT may be.
I've never heard of Hughley but he needs to take that up with Michael Moore. Isn't he the one who labeled the red states Jesusland?
I keep seeing this moronic argument all over the web. My response is usually " so tell me. What capital crime was committed by the fetus. How long was it's trial?"
"Doing what no black person even thought would happen in this country"
What does that mean? He isn't the first ever black comedian, or the first ever black comedian to get his own show. And I don't think a black man hosting the LATE LATE show is history in the making either. What about Arsenio Hall?
You really thought I was talking about recently. I am talking about the history of this country especially as it relates to television.
How is it that you can reach adulthood in American without knowing that America is not a democracy, but a democratic REPUBLIC?
How is it that you don't know what a republic is?
You apparently haven't watched the show if that's your only criteria of stereotyping and racism. I can think of a lot of other things he's said.
Is Larry Elder's show about politics? I thought he sold out and went the "Opra" route.
I usually make the case "How can LIBERALS be FOR abortion but AGAINST the death penalty?"
Isn't that a much more logical question.
Have you watched his new show at all? It's almost the exact same as Moral Court. How's that selling out and going the 'Oprah route'?
He is a Libertarian, and his radio show is conservative (you can listen to it on www.kabc.com) His books aren't bad either. But yes, his TV show appears to be terrible. It's like the network forced him to become Montel. That show is destined to fail if they don't start talkig about politics.
Ah, yes. Now I remember. He played Urkel.
I haven't seen the show in a while. Some episodes were good, but I just couldn't get into it.
Obviosuly, I erred.
Thanks! That was my impression as well (I never saw "Moral court". His show looked more like "Montel Court").
Anyone who really likes his politics isn't going to like the show. It's not politics based. Politics based talk shows don't do well during the day. Look at Rush Limbaugh.
Of course, he doesn't. In fact, perhaps he spends more time in "blue" states...
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