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TV just got a lot 'whiter,' says a canceled George Lopez
L.A. Times ^ | 05/14/2007 | kik5150

Posted on 05/14/2007 6:12:29 PM PDT by kik5150

George Lopez, the first Latino to lead a television series successfully, isn't laughing. "TV just became really, really white again," he said. Georgelopeztp ABC, he said, has "unceremoniously" canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant. "The George Lopez Show" will live on in syndication, but that's not making Lopez feel better about not getting the chance to tell one final season of stories. Lopez said Steve McPherson, ABC president of prime-time entertainment, called him over the weekend to explain that "financially" it wasn't working out, that the network would lose money if it picked up the show again. That explanation was painful to hear, Lopez said, considering the way the network has shuffled his show over the years -- four different time slots in five years -- and putting it up against "American Idol" time and time again. It all contributed to the show's low ratings, a point not lost on Lopez who noted that this season his show out-performed two freshman comedies that were renewed: "Notes from the Underbelly" and "Knights of Prosperity." "I’ll take the good and the bad," Lopez said. "I took the five years of good and I did a lot with the good. My popularity, I was involved in charities, I overcame my illness, all on TV. I shared all of that with America—every secret I had. Every personal feeling. Every emotion. Everything was open to the show. And what happens?" Lopez said he attributed the cancellation in part to the fact that the show is produced by Warner Bros. Television, and not ABC Television Studios. Using some colorful language that cannot be printed in a family newspaper,

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To: kik5150
canceled his self-titled comedy, which over the years chronicled his personal life from his sad childhood growing up with an abusive grandmother, to his alcoholism and kidney transplant.

Sounds hilarious.

141 posted on 05/15/2007 8:14:22 AM PDT by Sloth (The GOP is to DemonRats in politics as Michael Jackson is to Jeffrey Dahmer in babysitting.)
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To: VeniVidiVici
Spanish language channels I flip past (and there seem to be more of them everyday) are as “white” as can be.

Mexican TV covers the life of "Gallego-Looking" Hispanics only. Either that, or a band of Vandals and Visigoths has captured the Latino media outlets of Latin America.

144 posted on 05/15/2007 8:17:00 AM PDT by Kenny Bunk (Crazies to my left. Wimps to my right. BTW, Muslims ain't "Immigrants." They's Colonists.)
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To: USMCWife6869

That’s odd that he would push illegal immigration. Especially when he spoke against it not long ago. As in a month.


145 posted on 05/15/2007 8:40:46 AM PDT by HungarianGypsy
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To: Kenny Bunk
Either that, or a band of Vandals and Visigoths has captured the Latino media outlets of Latin America

LOL!

146 posted on 05/15/2007 8:55:53 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (ANWR would be supplying us today if the Democrats had voted for it in 1997)
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To: kik5150

How about Lopez’s show sucked and was cancelled for that reason?


147 posted on 05/15/2007 9:02:01 AM PDT by from occupied ga (Your most dangerous enemy is your own government)
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To: kik5150

I saw a little bit of his stand up schtick during a free hbo promo.

Just a LaRaza joke fest that was 100% irrelevant.

Perhaps somebody needs to tell him he is not that funny.


148 posted on 05/15/2007 9:06:35 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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To: All

Hey George, hate to break it to you but biologically your race is not a race. If anything George you are caucasian.

Obviously george lopez failed biology, multiple times.


149 posted on 05/15/2007 9:46:38 AM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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150 posted on 05/15/2007 11:31:35 AM PDT by redstates4ever
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To: kik5150
George will be spending the next few months on a bar stool drowning his sorrows with Bill Dana and Speedy Gonzalez.


151 posted on 05/15/2007 11:45:25 AM PDT by x
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To: Petronski
Mencia’s a thief.

Yea, but who's a better looter, Carlos (stole this name too) Mencia or Chris Rock?

152 posted on 05/15/2007 12:06:24 PM PDT by Diplomat
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

"The fact that Desi Arnez never won an Academy Award says something about the American psyche." -- Izzy Moreno

153 posted on 05/15/2007 3:17:50 PM PDT by VRWCmember (Go Rudy Go! (And take McCain with you!))
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To: VeniVidiVici

Sshhh. We don’t talk about that racism south of the border.


154 posted on 05/16/2007 8:31:13 AM PDT by art_rocks
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To: kik5150

George, it sounds like you have some seriously hateful bigotry against whites.

You need some sensitivity training.


155 posted on 05/16/2007 8:33:42 AM PDT by Ghost of Philip Marlowe (Liberals are blind. They are the dupes of Leftists who know exactly what they're doing.)
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To: kik5150

The road to recovery is strewn with boulders at one’s own hand.


156 posted on 05/16/2007 8:36:50 AM PDT by Old Professer (The critic writes with rapier pen, dips it twice, and writes again.)
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To: kik5150

George who? Never heard of him.


157 posted on 05/16/2007 9:19:38 AM PDT by Marysecretary (GOD IS STILL IN CONTROL.)
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To: kik5150

Relax, idiot. Your fellow leftists are doing everything they can to make this country less white.


158 posted on 05/16/2007 9:20:49 AM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged
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To: kik5150
Hey George!

If you don't want to be cancelled for having low ratings just change the name of the show to something more spiffy.

How about "The CBS Evening News with Katie Couric."

159 posted on 05/16/2007 9:25:37 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Unattended children will be given a large espresso and a free kitten)
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To: kik5150

“the first latino to lead a TV show successfully”???

How old are you? Never heard of Desi Arnaz, Freddy Prinze, Erik Estrada, or Ricardo Montalba? They were all latinos who headed TV shows much earlier and much more successfully than George Lopez. George Lopez’s little sitcom has done nothing but struggle for an audience, ever since it first aired. GL is lucky that he even made it into syndication.

If racism had anything to do w/ABC’s decision to cancel GL’s unsuccessful show, it was probably the overt racism of GL that was responsible. GL’s act is riddled w/racist rants against whites, whose behavior he relentlessly characterizes as “mas puto” (which losely translates as “flaming faggot”).

GL also glorifies the criminal behavior of illegal aliens, and often peppers his act with cries of “vivia la raza!” (a reference to a racist organization, whose goal is to “take back” the US for Mexico).

GL latest rants are just further evidence of his apetite for biting the hand that feeds him.


160 posted on 05/26/2008 10:15:00 AM PDT by FeetOfClay
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