Don Rickles Likens Obama to a Janitor
source: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/don-rickles-president-obama-shirley-maclaine-335308
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“I shouldn’t make fun of the blacks,” Rickles said, and then proceeded to do just that: “President Obama is a personal friend of mine. He was over to the house yesterday, but the mop broke.”
The black-tie crowd, gathered to celebrate MacLaine, the 40th recipient of the AFI’s Life Achievement Award, alternately gasped at the 86-year-old comic’s put-downs and then found themselves laughing and applauding.
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nashkildare
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It's in the realm of humor. Nobody takes Don Rickles seriously, I think that's the way he likes it, and he also doesn't take himself seriously unlike Trump who takes himself way too seriously. You know it's like the Golden Rule. I rip on you, you rip on me and we're all laughing. It's not a good joke, though. He knows better ones. But in a way, Don is right. Obama had to clean up the Bush mess and like a janitor, does he get any credit?
- 11 months ago
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nashkildare
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CCCV2009
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I think about watching tv years ago with him on it. He was just as crude then as he is today. He kind of went away, now he's back. Somebody forgot to tell him its not politically correct to do that type of humor today. But, maybe somebody was trying to give the crowd a retro feeling. At 86 years old, some people never mature or go with the times.
- 11 months ago
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CCCV2009
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freecrack
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CCCV2009:
lisa lampanelli proves the exact opposite
- 11 months ago
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freecrack
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freecrack
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ah yes folks,remember you can insult an entire population of people, just dont dare insult one single person here on current or it is a violation of the terms of service.
gotta only attack entire races and religions of people, not individuals. - 11 months ago
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freecrack
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MSII
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freecrack:
I have to disagree, if you attack certain cults associated with certain right-wing-corporate-fascist political figures you'll get your post flagged/deleted. Dare not bring to any light the lunacy of the right-wingers cults, that's unacceptable!
- 11 months ago
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MSII
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freecrack
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MSII:
not when it comes to judaism or jews.shit just click on maasanovas profile and check out his body of work.you can demonize and attack jews all day long with out ever running into any problems with current.
but dont you dare attack them on an individual level, then you are flagged and censored.but as long as you do this on a collective level, no problem.attack away
- 11 months ago
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freecrack
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MSII
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freecrack:
In that case let's have a BIG discussion on mit rMoney's cult "religion" with it's multiple-wives, space jezuz, and by no means forget the magic undies! And this is the guy the right-wing-corporate-fascists believe is a appropriate candidate? Too much! Theirs is the "faith based party", the party of "real" christians and they are in-bed with this guy?!? Seriously? The cognitive dissonance should be taking the already party of insani-tea to epic new levels of madness....
- 11 months ago
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MSII
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freecrack
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MSII:
ya dont see that coming a mile away already?
it has already started on the right.
wait till fall comes round and this election actually begins to heat up.
the right will make it an issue as half their election strategy is about "values" votes.
which will open the lefts door to that issue, an viola.
current will seldom have a day when mormonism isnt a story.which of course you can insult all you like and claim mormons are to be held accountable for what ever you like.just what ever you do dont dare attack an individual on current.make sure to attack all of them.
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freecrack
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MSII
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freecrack:
I look forward to the right-wing-fascist-party eating itself alive!, certainly hope it happens though I'm not certain... Their absolute mad-on hate of The President is so absolute-racist-fascist that they might just manage to hold their tongues (and noses) over rMoney...
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MSII
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maasanova
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MSII:
They basically did that on the intro of the Tony Awards last night. I can imagine that the producers of the Tony Awards ceremony probably weren't Mormons.
- 11 months ago
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maasanova
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maasanova
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I'm not terribly concered that Rickles cracked an off-color joke about the president. In my opinion, it was crude and distateful, but more importantly it was an insult to janitors everywhere.
*ba dum tish*
- 11 months ago
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maasanova
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freecrack
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maasanova:
concerned enough to post a thread about it.
- 11 months ago
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freecrack
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WalmartRamen
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Well yes he is in a way! Let's see you work as a Janitor, having to clean up the mess you inherited in only 3 years! Like having to clean 80 floors all by your self!
Nothing new going on here!
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WalmartRamen
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warman1138
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Time to retire and go fishing.
- 11 months ago
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warman1138
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BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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I'm confused, since when has Don Rickles not been offensive and racist? It is who he is. Not news and no cause for outrage. That is Don Rickles and I would never want him to change.
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BrushwithDeathToothpaste
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ankab
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BrushwithDeathToothpaste:
I'm in line right behind you Brush. It's got to be kinder, gentler Don 1000 points of lights pointing the right way to behave. Yes Don don't change a hair on you
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ankab
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freecrack
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BrushwithDeathToothpaste:
it isnt worth a damn unless you are a craven bigot desperate to feed your jew bashing addiction
- 11 months ago
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freecrack
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freecrack
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so it is completely innaccurate to deduce you efforts are rooted in a disproportionate standard being applied to jews, cuz your issues are about "israel" and "zionists" as well as classic associative bigotry like "bankers" and "hollywood".
even tho we can all see through this very poorly vialed attempt at hiding your racism, you still want to play the game and pretend it isnt the case and expect us all to play along with your game.
as if you are unaware of the myriads of comics who do insult comedy based on the road paved by rickles, which you take no issue with, even as lisa lampanelli has gotten national acclaim based on it with multiple hbo specials, comedy central specials/roasts and guest spots on a variety of talk shows.despite her rehashing if the identical material being proliferated to a degree rickles never had or ever will, it is the jewish guy who is the problem.
we can list all the other guys who do the same shit too, or take the opposite tactic and bring up all the real world not shtick stuff rickles does which is far from racist.
but you dont want that, cuz it isnt about an objective reality, but parsing a piece of it to suite your prejudicial bullshit.
thanks for your biweekly effort always proving me right
- 11 months ago
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freecrack
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freecrack:
I agree completely. More people should have the courage and intelligence to point out racism on Current.
There are several longtime Current members that often promote racist sentiment, and seldom if ever do they get called out on it.
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unimatrix0
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maasanova
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freecrack:
I remember Rahm Emmanual's father saying his son wasn't going to be no stinkin white house janitor. Good schtick if you can get away with it. Guess some people can, while others lose their careers when doing so
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maasanova
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freecrack
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unimatrix0:
which would be fine, but the current crowd seems to think they are above it, while placating to it, while calling out others for it, cand claiming they are the maufacturers of all the evil in brings.
when the truth is all the racism, leftist version or classic fox news "the muslims attacked us" is all the same bullshit.just aimed at different groups of innocent people.
story after story of republican racism, from the niggerhead thing with perry to nappy headed hoes of don imus, posted with thousands of comments all towing the classic progressive line and holding all associated accountable for the error.
while current has plenty of its own racism masquerading as viable media material just as fox has, and is met with quiet tolerance.the very same people who proudly state their knowledge of how tolerance of bigotry is how it proliferates, make no effort when the bigotry fits their political side of the divide.
hypocrites of the highest order
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freecrack
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freecrack
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maasanova: This comment was removed as a violation of community guidelines.
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freecrack
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remanns
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freecrack:
Heh - I hate it when the stuff of racism is poorly vialed. ( I agree,.....but it seems like a ' glass houses' sort of term, and I try not to live there. IS there such a term,.....? There should be, if not )
p.s. -
"I don't care if you think I'm racist . . . . . I just want you to think I'm thin".
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_AXukKMUyxMs/TQRhb9HGPRI/AAAAAAAAAdg/fWHMdEwphSw/s1600/...
( picking on comedians is pointless )
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remanns
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freecrack
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remanns:
as pathetic and backwards as klansman are or skinheads i can at least respect them for living their beliefs.
this cowardly attempt at racism is just the lowest childish behavior. - 11 months ago
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freecrack
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maasanova
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freecrack:
Haha you were the first to mention anything about Jews not me that's what made me think of Rahm Emanuel's father's racist remark lol
I only brought up progressives and liberals (nothing about Jews, again you brought that up) because if let's say an entertainer or comedian such as Rush Limbaugh had said this oh my god hell would have opened up.
Just shows you the double standard. Some racism is ok, and others, well not so much...
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maasanova
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maasanova
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remanns:
You gotta love the upside-down world we live in where if you point out someone's racism, then all the sudden you are the racist.
I wonder if there is a proper term for this lunacy yet.
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maasanova
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freecrack
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maasanova:
yes i am always the first between us to mention jews as your game is a pathetic attempt to sell the hatred without exposing it for what it is.
it doesnt really matter what made you think of the emanuel remark (which btw if mentioning "jew" is the context that sparks that memory you kind of just outed yourself for being the bigot you are) but the fact that many have said the same if not worse, while you make the matter exclusive to those you have chosen to target for laterall reasons.
looking at your body of work, the only consistant trend is jews.regardless of how you try to mask it as something else.
if any one makes racist comments they get called out for it.which is why you are being called out for it and consistanly get called out for it.
it is funny (sad) how all of a sudden you have this interest in fighting the good fight against racism.no double standards.it is called context, an context matters, even if you are too simple to get it.
which is why south park isnt a racist show despite offering tons of racist material, as it used that material to show its flaws.in this case the only double standard present is you calling out don rickles for doing his act, which is the same act done by a shit tone of people.from those who are good at it like lisa lampanelli to the desperate hacks like srah silverman who have to rely on it due to lack of viable material.
all of which is in the context of an "act", playing the racist comments exploiting it, not promoting it.
or did we so soon forget what happened to micheal richards?
only double standard present, as always, is yours
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freecrack
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remanns
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maasanova:
Diverse - racism ?
Hell, they should just make " comedic Rickelism " into part of the official language.
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remanns
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WalmartRamen
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unimatrix0:
( ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1z5PejkIyY ) )
True!You got to do what you have to do to stop it!
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WalmartRamen
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thedirtman
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My guess is that Rickles could be insulting and self-deprecating, sometimes at the same time, and this kept us from taking him too seriously.
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thedirtman
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cztheday
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His career began back when jokes based on ethnic, religious, sexual and racial stereotypes were commonplace, accepted and even encouraged. That was his "schtick" as they say. He and his wife were best friends with fellow comedian Bob Newhart and his wife. They travelled the world as a foursome.
But while Newhart constantly reworked his comedy over the course of his career, resulting in starring roles in several extremely successful (if pedestrian) sit-coms, Rickles was (and is) a one-trick pony. Despite the fact that his act has become outrageously politically incorrect, I actually think he is a fairly good-hearted person, but he simply refused to change and long ago became the Mr. Irrelevant of the comedy circuit. Still, he could have become one of the many sell-outs who decided the only way to survive was to go full-on "blue," unable to make a joke without some reference to sex, genitalia or bodily waste or fluids...
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cztheday
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cztheday:
I saw a movie based on his life. I do not know how accurate it was, but it seems that as a kid he used to entertain his family and friends with his jokes which were not insulting. The relatives said he should do a routine on a stage with his brother, so they did.
They were up on stage, and it seems that the humor his family liked was not deemed funny by the crowd that was rather "rough." (Happened to me once on stage in NYC.)
"Wrinkles" got angry and started insulting people in the audience. But to his own surprise, they started laughing.
Don't know how true it is, but that is how it supposedly started.
Interesting that you simply wrote a description of Wrinkles, and you got voted down. (I voted you up.) I suspect is it because you did not attack Wrinkles' insult of Obama. The Wibberals don't like that sort of behavior.....
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cztheday:
. . . . but, . . . .but, . . . . .bodily waste fluid is FUNNY !
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remanns
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Mishima:
Reagan was definitely a racist,GOP,no surprise.At a White house dinner he was cracking so many racist jokes,some of his guest left in disgust. Rickles is a racist has been,from the same era as Ronnie.I heard him making some horrible jokes about Palestinians,what is happening to the Palestinians is so terribly wrong. Say something about the Jews,you're auiomatically antisemetic,no matter who you are.Give it a rest Rickles,you are not funny and being who and what you are,I'm sure you have enough money to last you and your offspring for quite some time.
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grammabet
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trut
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i liken obama more to a diseased hooker
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trut
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cpad
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I don't think he's funny at all - never have, never will.
I think his joke was disgusting. - 11 months ago
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cpad
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bailey78
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don rickles just a shell of a once great stand up funny man. With old age comes ones true self.
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bailey78
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remanns
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bailey78:
with old age, uhm,.....just comes a shit load of "old ageness" ( I don't think ANYONE improves,.....they just get even MORE cranky ! )
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remanns
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TanzaniteDiamonds
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~shuddering~
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TanzaniteDiamonds
