Posted on 10/29/2008 12:47:09 PM PDT by pissant
Oh, my. Can you just imagine if Sarah Palin or John McCain made a crack like this and botched up their pop culture references to famous black comedy shows?
Can you just imagine the high dudgeon from every minority lawmaker? WaPo and NYTimes columnist? Civil rights organization? The cries of RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACISM would shatter the political Richter scale.
Can you just imagine:
This is what happens when a candidates goes off script.
Barack Obama, in Raleigh, N.C., was doing a riff attacking John McCain for supporting the idea of putting some mandatory retirement money into the stock market.
“If Senator McCain is elected, we’ll have another president who wants to privatize part of your Social Security. Could you imagine if you had your Social Security invested in the stock market these last two weeks, these last two months? You wouldn’t need Social Security. You’d be having a — like, what was it, Sanford and Son. `I’m coming Weezie!”
Weezie was on The Jeffersons.
The famous line Obama mixed up was from Redd Foxx’s Fred Sanford character, who faked having a heart attack to draw sympathy from his son, Lamont:
“Oh, this is the big one! You hear that, Elizabeth?! I’m coming to join you, honey!”
(From Mahalo: When caught in a lie or in an embarrassing situation, Fred’s favorite response was to fake a heart attack, which he would refer to as “the big one.” He would grab his chest, look to the sky and speak out to his wife Elizabeth, who passed away sometime before the show began.)
Here’s a clip reel a Redd Foxx fan put together of the famous running gag:
(Excerpt) Read more at michellemalkin.com ...
George Jefferson understood how a market economy works and he was successful in it. He managed to create, from the ground up, a successful line of dry cleaning businesses in the big city (think crime, zoning ordinances, coding, fees, taxes, unions, and tiny minded letter-of-the-law mid level government workers all nibbling at his endeavors). George Jefferson, a made-up character, has more in common with millions of Americans that Barak Hussein Obama.
Geez. I’m a racist who wants to screw middle class America by giving their money to rich people and big corporations that ship jobs overseas...And even I knew that Weezie was on The Jeffersons.
I guess this is out of Ray Nagin's "Chocolate" city, huh?
Or the one where Aunt Bea and Lucy get jobs on a candy assembly line.
Cream soda + Ripple = Cripple per wine connoisseur Fred.
I used to like that show where street-smart Will Smith from Bel-Air went to NY to live with his uncle, Dr. Huxtable...
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