Posted on 09/10/2005 6:55:23 AM PDT by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget
Chris Rock on Telethon: 'George Bush Hates Midgets'...
Former US president Bill Clinton called in to the BET telethon to express support and was asked by co-host Steve Harvey what his administration would have done differently if it were in power during the hurricane. Clinton refrained from criticising George Bush, but talked about the importance he placed on the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
“We always thought faster was better than slower,” Clinton said.
NBC stations televised an appeal last week, marked by rapper Kanye West’s off-script comment that “George Bush doesn’t care about black people”.
But this time the performers largely stuck to scripts, including West, who sang Jesus Walks with a gospel choir. West’s microphone was not working during the first few lines of his song, though, in what appeared to be a technical glitch.
Only an impish Chris Rock could not resist scaring producers, looking into the camera and saying: “George Bush hates midgets.”
http://www.examiner.ie/breaking/story.asp?j=58105872&p=58yx6y36&n=58106164&x=
I think you're right. We are witness to the reality of how anger blinds the left.
Comedian-actor Chris Rock responds to a question during a panel discussion at UPN's portion of the Television Critics Association's annual press tour Thursday, July 21, 2005, in Beverly Hills, Calif. Rock is executive producer, co-creator and narrator of the fall sitcom 'Everybody Hates Chris,' which will air on UPN. (AP Photo/Ric Francis)
Ohhh! I get it!..
"Bush hates the little people..."
(/Sarcasm)
Oh, Really Now.
bttt
Right. So when your kids ask you to watch that Disney movie with the little people you tell them it's called "Snow Caucasian and the Seven Handi-capable Little Persons."
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
Short People got no reason
To live
They got little hands
And little eyes
And they walk around
Tellin' great big lies
They got little noses
And tiny little teeth
They wear platform shoes
On their nasty little feet
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Round here
Short People are just the same
As you and I
(A Fool Such As I)
All men are brothers
Until the day they die
(It's A Wonderful World)
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
Short People got nobody
To love
They got little baby legs
And they stand so low
You got to pick 'em up
Just to say hello
They got little cars
That got beep, beep, beep
They got little voices
Goin' peep, peep, peep
They got grubby little fingers
And dirty little minds
They're gonna get you every time
Well, I don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
Don't want no Short People
'Round here
No, they're vertically challenged!
Everybody hates Chris
http://www.upn.com/shows/everybody_hates_chris/
I think you're on to something.
http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1509000/20050906/index.jhtml?headlines=true
T.I., David Banner Get Behind Kanye's Bush Comments
09.06.2005 6:57 PM EDT
For years, rappers have been saying the same thing, Banner says.
With seven words on live primetime TV, Kanye West pushed the world's attention to a new dimension of the tragedy surrounding Hurricane Katrina, sparking a flurry of debate and an army of support.
"George Bush doesn't care about black people."
Those words — spoken by Kanye during an emotional, unscripted rant during Friday night's hurricane benefit telethon on NBC — provided the crest of a growing wave of criticism against a relief effort that left hundreds of thousands without food, water, electricity or hope for five full days (see "Jay-Z, Diddy, Others Reach Out To Disaster Victims; Kanye West Attacks Bush During Telethon"). They also tapped into some long-standing concerns about the current administration.
"We've been screaming this for five years," David Banner said Tuesday (September 6) of Kanye's remarks. "You listen to your David Banners, Dead Prez, listen to rap music period. This is what rappers have been screaming all the time. The problem is America concentrates more on our cuss words. They don't hear the pain in the music all the time. You just finally had somebody who has the power Kanye has, who said it at the right time."
(What do you think about Kanye West's statement? Do you think the federal government's response has been adequate? Take our poll.)
West certainly isn't the first member of the hip-hop community to speak out against the current administration. Many feel the "compassionate conservative" president has been uncaring and negligent in using federal resources to help Americans in need.
"We can't wait around for the government to help. We're not waiting, we're taking action," Diddy told MTV News on Thursday after donating $1 million to the Red Cross with Jay-Z. "We can find money to bomb people overseas, but not to help our brothers and sisters?"
"It's been seen that the government don't really give a f--- about our situation," T.I. said Tuesday, alleging that if rich white communities were hit as hard as the poor black communities have been, Bush would have ordered aid in a more timely manner. "All those people who are down there without homes and shelter, those are folks from the 'hood. That's the urban community."
"I'm like, 'What is it?' " Twista said Tuesday. " 'What are we looked at as? Do you look at us as less than human?' The response said something. Any other people, people [suffering a catastrophe,] you get people from all over the world to come and jump right on [the problem]. But you get mostly poor and black people, and we get the slow response."
Bush has responded to the growing criticism by conceding that the government's initial response to the disaster was unacceptable. And congressional officials said Bush intends to seek around $40 billion for the next phase of relief (Congress approved $10.5 billion in relief funding last week). Meanwhile, lawmakers are vowing to investigate what delayed aid in the first several days after the hurricane (see "New Orleans Begins Pump-Out Process; Mayor Says Death Toll May Reach 10,000").
T.I., Young Jeezy and hip-hop publication Juice are teaming up to help David Banner's own relief effort via his Heal the Hood Foundation. Banner has been in Mississippi personally giving out food, water and clothing he purchased himself. The hyperactive MC said he's witnessed the unimaginable, like dead babies floating in water.
Banner, Jeezy and T.I. have been putting together an all-star fundraiser at Atlanta's Phillips Arena, and T.I. helped raise more than $265,000 Monday when he went on an Atlanta radio station and solicited donations. Among the contributors were Warner Music Group President Kevin Liles and producers Jermaine Dupri and Dallas Austin, who donated $25,000 apiece.
"I called everybody's bluff who be talking all that ballin' sh--," T.I. said. "Popping all them bottles in the club ... talking about how much girls and jewelry and cars they got. Let's see how much money they've got for a good cause. Basically, I told everybody to put their money where their mouths are, and if you ain't got no money to give to the cause, I don't want to hear that sh-- no more."
Twista is working with Budweiser to hold a benefit concert at the House of Blues in Chicago. Bump J and Do or Die will also be performing. The fastest-rapping MC in hip-hop said he feels it's up to black people to help their own rather than relying on the government.
"They've been bogus, so what is everybody so shocked about?" he said. "I feel the response was real slow, but I look at my own harder than I look at them. I feel like us as black folks were supposed to stop what we was doing, put all that sh-- down and get these [disaster victims] straight."
While Banner continues to help aid the survivors of Katrina, he's still seething over what he feels is a betrayal by his government.
"I don't want to hear the national anthem, dude," he said. "Don't play the national anthem around me no more."
Don't question his patriotism ?
These rappers are just like the snake oil salesmen Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton (I won't call him 'reverend', he's not to be revered) and the rest.
They make their living by deluding poor, uneducated Black and White people.
They don't live what they preach or sing, they all suck up to and live in the 'power structure. Every last one of them who has any type of high profile schmoozes and parties with rich, White people.
And they didn't get where they are by sitting on their butts, not dealing with White people, or ending up in jail, like they encourage the ignorant to do.
THEY are the ones who encourage the slums and profit from them, and now they're going to raise money for them? Ironic.
So will he have a problem with it if a group somewhere decides that they want to "aid their own"-"their own" being other white people? Or are all white people everywhere,even those who lost their homes and all they possessed in the world,just rich and have a second home somewhere they can can flee to,so they wouldn't need help? And would it be racist if some whites chose to help "their own" white "brothers"? Funny how that works.
bttt
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