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"Kramer's" Racist Tirade -- Caught on Tape
TMZ ^ | 11/20/06 | TMZ Staff

Posted on 11/20/2006 7:03:27 AM PST by torchthemummy

Michael Richards exploded in anger as he performed at a famous L.A. comedy club last Friday, hurling racial epithets that left the crowd gasping, and TMZ has obtained exclusive video of the ugly incident.

(Excerpt) Read more at tmz.com ...


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To: Checkers
Isn't this the kind of routine we are SUPPOSED to lionize Lenny Bruce for?

I was just goung to post the exact same thing before I scanned the thread. I haven't listened to much of Bruce's stuff (saw the Hoffman movie) but it seems to me he was hailed as a "comic genius" for routines just like this one.

361 posted on 11/20/2006 3:45:02 PM PST by Roscoe Karns
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To: ilovew

I agree. Harold Ford Sr. is an idiot.


362 posted on 11/20/2006 3:47:16 PM PST by kabar
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To: Defiant

I've condemned it. Said the word shouldn't be accepted ANYWHERE in the popular media.

You said that he targeted them because they were black and that they had a RIGHT to disrupt the show.


363 posted on 11/20/2006 3:47:29 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Defiant
He wouldn't tell a white heckler--"Hey stupid white guy, shut up. White, white, white, white!! Stupid M'fin'g White guy." Why does he treat a black heckler that way? It's because he sees the person's race as the most important thing, and his response implies that a black heckler is more nettlesome, less acceptable than a white one would be.

He would n't say that to a white guy because the white guy would just look at him and wonder when he's going to say something funny. Calling a white guy a Cracker produces a "Yeah? So? What's your point?" reaction

He used the n-word precisely because he knew it would create a reaction

364 posted on 11/20/2006 3:48:36 PM PST by SauronOfMordor (A planned society is most appealing to those with the arrogance to think they will be the planners)
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To: Steve_Seattle

The NAACP and United Negro College Fund still use now verboten terms for "African-Americans".


365 posted on 11/20/2006 3:48:45 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: torchthemummy

His defense will be either Bi-Polar Disorder or Tourettes Syndrome, where people spew profanities. You watch and see.


366 posted on 11/20/2006 3:50:15 PM PST by MadelineZapeezda (Madeline Albright ZaPeezda, no doubt about it!)
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To: Screamname

If the hecklers used an epithet first, it does not justify Michael Richards getting into the gutter with them. In the clip that is on that site, they DO use the terms cracker and f****in white boy. THAT is bigotry on parade and I want to know if it is the first time THEY ever used those terms.

Let's out all the racists.

At the press conference on CNN, some black participants from the community said that Jews at major corporations traffic in goods with the N word.

There is a LOT of racism still at large in LA.

Michael Savage has spent the whole hour covering this.

But some want to call Michael Richards a bigot and wash their hands of the whole matter.

Michael Richards can be heard in the video saying "Ohhh" and "you're shocked!" you're shocked!"

That is why I said he went for the jugular. He wanted to emotionally crush his tormentors. It's like kicking someone in the crotch to win a fight. "fair fight"?


367 posted on 11/20/2006 3:53:51 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Defiant
There once was a man called Defiant,
Who thought himself a daring giant,
He followed the crowd, 
Correctly he bowed,
Defiant was always compliant.

368 posted on 11/20/2006 3:54:21 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: Defiant

How the f*** do you know what he'd say to a white heckler?

Have you witnessed him being heckled in the past? Have a video link to another event?


369 posted on 11/20/2006 3:55:24 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Revolting cat!; Cagey; Larry Lucido
Anyway, before they became Africanized like the flies, so to speak, they were "black".

Gimme pastrami on black, Robert.

ROTFLMAO!

370 posted on 11/20/2006 3:55:39 PM PST by MotleyGirl70
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To: weegee

Somewhere in DUmmieland, there's a guy like PJ Comix making the FreeperFollies, and you are their star.


371 posted on 11/20/2006 3:56:29 PM PST by Defiant (Dems don't want to lose Iraq, they just want Hillary to win it and then fly onto a carrier.)
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To: Roscoe Karns

Yeah but Lenny Bruce was a dope addict and "in the throws" sometimes when he was on stage.


372 posted on 11/20/2006 3:56:53 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: Defiant

Meanwhile you are making an ass out of yourself with your assumptions.


373 posted on 11/20/2006 3:57:30 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: torchthemummy

bump for when I get home.


374 posted on 11/20/2006 3:57:42 PM PST by Tall_Texan (NO McCain, Rudy, Romney, Hillary, Kerry, Obama or Gore in 2008!)
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To: Defiant; PJ-Comix

You do realize that PJ Comix does standup, right?

let's have him voice in on the nature of hecklers and comedians...


375 posted on 11/20/2006 3:58:29 PM PST by weegee (Remember "Remember the Maine"? Well in the current war "Remember the Baby Milk Factory")
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To: weegee

I once witnessed Sam Kinison deal with a heckler. One of the single most brutal show biz routines I've ever seen.


376 posted on 11/20/2006 3:59:18 PM PST by durasell (!)
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To: Defiant
Let's be fair.

There once was a Revolting cat!
On fools everywhere he shat,

You finish.
377 posted on 11/20/2006 4:00:37 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Who invented rock and roll hiccups?)
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To: Revolting cat!
A dude with not too much wit,
thought limerics made him less of a twit
Sure, the Cat wasn't bright
and never was right
but Revoltin's a handle that fit!
378 posted on 11/20/2006 4:05:23 PM PST by Defiant (Dems don't want to lose Iraq, they just want Hillary to win it and then fly onto a carrier.)
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To: Revolting cat!

This is the level of your humor and logic. Are you using the Junior High computer again? Does the teacher know you are not doing your homework?

379 posted on 11/20/2006 4:12:09 PM PST by Defiant (Dems don't want to lose Iraq, they just want Hillary to win it and then fly onto a carrier.)
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To: dhs12345
"Guess it is okay if they do it."

Which is why it will never go away. No different than allowing, say, men to use the "F" word but not the women.

Pretty soon the women are going, "Hey, if it's not that bad then why can't we say it too?"

380 posted on 11/20/2006 4:14:11 PM PST by robertpaulsen
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