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Attorney: Comedian Michael Richards should pay for racial rant
MSNBC ^
| 11/22/2006
| MSNBC.com and Today
Posted on 11/22/2006 11:14:56 AM PST by philsfan24
Los Angeles attorney Gloria Allred, who is representing Doss and McBride, said she wants a retired judge to sit down with Richards and the two men to determine if the three-time Emmy winner should pay them for "the pain that he has inflicted on them as a result of his racist words."
"If our children took a rock and threw it through the window of a next-door neighbor, we would say to that child, ‘Go to the neighbor, apologize directly to the neighbor and pay the cost of that window that you broke,'" Allred said. "We think it’s important that he follow his words with deeds."
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: allred; kramer; richards
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To: philsfan24
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:15:52 AM PST
by
Hydroshock
( (Proverbs 22:7). The rich ruleth over the poor, and the borrower is servant to the lender.)
To: philsfan24
Does that mean Richard Pryor's estate and Chris Rock have to pay too? They use the n word about 500 times a night when they are on stage...And rap music? I once heard an entire rap song of only the n word...
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:16:38 AM PST
by
2banana
(My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
To: philsfan24
There should be an event where we place a TV camera and microphone and then we have Alred and Schumer race to see who gets there first.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:16:40 AM PST
by
Lx
(Do you like it, do you like it. Scott? I call it Mr. and Mrs. Tennerman chili.)
To: philsfan24
How about the audience member pay the rest of the people attending for shouting out racist remarks and ruining everyones evening?
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:16:53 AM PST
by
John Lenin
(The most dangerous place for a child in America is indeed in its mother's womb)
To: philsfan24
What pain were they caused??!!! This is precisely why our legal system is a mess.
To: philsfan24
"If our children took a rock and threw it through the window of a next-door neighbor, we would say to that child, ‘Go to the neighbor, apologize directly to the neighbor and pay the cost of that window that you broke,'" Allred said. "We think it’s important that he follow his words with deeds."
Nonsense. There's a clear difference, and as a lawyer she knows better - that's why she wants to take it to a private arbitrator. Richards would be better off making a sincere apology when he's more coherent than he was on Letterman.
To: philsfan24
Okay, any person in the audience who wants his money back should get it from Richards. That's fair. Gloria, go away.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:17:21 AM PST
by
doug from upland
(Stopping Hillary should be a FreeRepublic Manhattan Project)
To: philsfan24
Oh good grief!
Richard's racist rant was indefensible from any position of good taste, respectability or common decency.
But it was just that, a rant. Words. Speech.
Can you imagine the floodgates that would open if everybody sued everybody who offended them?
To: philsfan24
This woman is just irking my last nerve.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:18:10 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(FALLEN HERO JEFFREY TOCZYLOWSKI, REST IN PEACE)
To: philsfan24
I have officially lost all respect for Gloria Allred. Richards apologized -- time to move on.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:18:12 AM PST
by
jdm
To: philsfan24
He should have to pay to replace the broken window.
What? He didn't break a window? Well, then, that's different.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:18:27 AM PST
by
i_dont_chat
(I have the right to offend. You can take offense or not.)
To: 2banana
How about Kanye West.
How about the NAACP
How about Sharpton's tawana problem
How about Jackson's heimeytown problem
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:19:02 AM PST
by
OldFriend
(FALLEN HERO JEFFREY TOCZYLOWSKI, REST IN PEACE)
To: nigger
.......Vote democrat!
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:19:23 AM PST
by
evets
(Beer)
To: zbigreddogz
Does that mean I can sue DEF Comedy Jam for the insative jokes about honky's?
To: jdm
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:20:01 AM PST
by
toldyou
To: jdm
You respected Gloria Allred? Good God, why?
To: philsfan24
Are you kidding me!
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:21:11 AM PST
by
martinidon
(Bush won sKerry lost and Soro's is out millions for nothing!)
To: philsfan24
I think Gloria should pay us all for the pain and suffering she's inflicted by being the original Slick Butch Lawyeress and an inveterate publicity whore as well, but that's just me.
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posted on
11/22/2006 11:21:21 AM PST
by
RichInOC
("I see stupid people. They're everywhere....They don't even know that they're dumb.")
To: philsfan24
Can anyone say "Legal Slut?".
(I knew you could) /mr.rodgers.
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