Posted on 05/05/2007 12:19:44 PM PDT by Mobile Vulgus
But one "celebrity" that was invited by Oprah to attend the opening performance should raise eyebrows and should have spawned condemnation of Oprah Winfrey for his invitation; yet, the media was strangely silent about the impropriety of the invite.
Before I go on with who the off color Color Purple guest is, a recap of just what the theme of this musical is all about is called for to speak to exactly why this particular guest should never have been invited to this premier, much less given star treatment.
The Color Purple is, at its core, a story about the rape and abuse of children by adult males. Certainly the supposed uplift of the thing is in how the young girls in the story overcome the abuse that they are put through. But, in essence, this is a misanthropic tale of how evil, evil men rape their way through a family of young black girls.
Now back to our inappropriate guest for the opening of The Color Purple, the musical.
As the sycophantic Chicago media stood with microphones in hand and cameras rolling, who was to walk out onto the red carpet but the "musician" R. Kelly. Yes, the same R. Kelly that has often and repeatedly been accused of raping teenaged, girls.
And, not a single voice was raised in the Chicago media about how inappropriate this invitation was!
ABC TV even reported the disgraced pop singer as saying, "It really inspired me to be who I am today”.
Inspired him to "be" what he is today? What a child rapist?
Though not convicted as of yet, Kelly has been several times in hot water for his dalliances with under-aged girls and no one, not even Kelly, denies that he has been linked with a multitude of very young girls. So, it is astonishing that, given his troubles, Oprah Winfrey invited this ne’er-do-well to her opening. Especially given his history of sexual predation in juxtaposition with the play's subject matter.
Disgustingly, the Chicago Sun-Times even gave R. Kelly the opportunity to plug his new album in their report of this celeb fest.
It was wholly inappropriate for this man to have been invited to this show, conviction or not. Isn't it people like Oprah who are famous for tsk-tsking even the slightest appearance of violence against, or any mistreatment of, women -- especially black women?
What do they say: even the appearance of impropriety is a serious charge? Don’t the media and the left constantly employ guilt by association by protesting the appearance of controversial conservatives at any particular venue, attempting to shut the appearance down? Constantly they find no problem protesting an Ann Coulter appearance or an appearance by a conservative religious figure, by contrast. Yet, there was R. Kelly, effulgent, all smiles and backslapping, hobnobbing with the social elites at Oprah's show with the media lapping it up.
So, it makes one wonder just how much Oprah is against child rape if she has no problem rubbing elbows with the likes of an R. Kelly. And not just rubbing elbows by happenstance, but doing so by her own invitation.
What kind of "message" is Oprah sending to young teenaged girls with this regrettable invitation, anyway?
Could it be: Don't let anyone rape you... unless he is famous?
Commercialized liberalism. A good example of the sickness of it.
Oprah invites Clinton?
Hasn't Bubba (Juanita Broadwich (sp?)) Klintoon , Already been on her Stage, before....numerously? :|
Rap doesn’t do anything for me, but the guy was found not guilty of the charges in a court of law. That counts for something. I really don’t like to see this kind of damning-by-accusation stuff in an excellent site like Newsbusters.
Some folks didn’t get the lesson of the Duke lacrosse case, evidently.
I think it’s the way leftists look at the world. They don’t bat an eyelash when the Muslims do what they do—you can’t expect any better of a Muslim. It’s the same way they look at blacks.
Here’s a more recent one about Akon and what he did to a 14 year old girl on stage. He probably be at the Dem’s convention.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1828387/posts
Later read/pingout.
If some conservative Christian entertainer were accused of this, even if he was found not guilty, the NAG gang and the usual whiners would be screaming that he should not be invited. Just like those 88 profs at Duke made their judgment before the evidence was fully presented.
Sorry if this is over the top, but if you’ve ever seen this skit, it will have you cracking up...By Dave Chappelle (sung like R. Kelly):
I say, rollin’ around,
settin’ on doves(?)
Got(?) my eye was high on shrubs,
Coolin’ in my Escalade,
Man I’m paid, I got it made,
Take me to your special place,
Close your eyes show me your face,
I’m gonna piss on it.
=<(Chorus)>=
Haters gotta hate,
Lovers wanna love,
I don’t even want,
None of the above,
I want to piss on you.
Yes I do, I’ll piss on you,
I pee on you.
I said yo body, yo body,
Is a portapotty,
And I pee out kit(?),
And I pee on you,
Drip, drip, drip,
Pee on you,
Piss on you, piss on you,
You won’t feel quite the same,
Once you get a whiff of my Hershey stains,
I wanna piss on you, too,
I want to pee in yo food,
Only thing that make my life complete,
Is when I turn yo face into a toliet seat,
I want to pee on you,
Yes I do, pee on you,
I’ll piss on you
=<(Chorus)>=
Won’t you braid my hair,
Before you stop, I gonna (?),
I wanna fart on you.
There is a videotape out of him PEEING on a 12ish-yr-old girl (as a precurser to sex). So yes, you are correct, no court in the land has convicted him, but he is guilty in my book, and should be executed.
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