Friday, May 13, 2011

Randi Rhodes: Thursday May 12th

Well, the rapper named Common appeared at the White House last night. Surprisingly, there were no shootings. I guess they really must have searched people for weapons going in. Fox News tried their best to make Common sound like some kind of gangsta thug (see Jon Stewart video below). The guy is totally mainstream. Common has appeared on a recording by the Jonas Brothers! I’m no expert on gangsta rap, but I don’t think that singing with the Jonas Brothers is how a rapper gets street cred. And it’s rather ironic that rightwingers who idolize Ted Nugent are upset over this guy Common. That’s like fans of Lady Gaga criticizing Marie Osmond for showing too much skin.

Bin Laden told his followers to explore ways to recruit non-Muslims who are oppressed in the United States, like African Americans and Latinos. Osama, minorities in the US want a slice of the pie—they don’t want to blow the pie up. How could Bin Laden have thought that black people in America were ready or willing to attack their own country? He must have been watching too much Fox News. Osama probably saw the Fox News reports on those two Black Panther nuts outside the voting place. And nobody explained to him that it was all just footage of the same two guys.

Glenn Beck spent a good chunk of recent program pretending to vomit at the thought of Meghan McCain naked. http://www.mediaite.com/online/glenn-beck-repeatedly-vomits-at-mention-of-meghan-mccains-naked-psa Here’s some advice Glenn—if you want to criticize Meghan McCain, saying that she’s unattractive is probably not the most realistic tack to take. I have a lot of problems with Sarah Palin, but I don’t go after her for being ugly. Besides, on the scale of physical attractiveness, Meghan McCain is way above Glenn Beck. Of course, I could say the same thing about any human being who is under 90 years and/or 300 pounds.

Glenn’s also livid that Barack Obama put his feet on the desk in the Oval Office. How dare Barack Obama stick his feet on the desk! He might knock off one of the wads of gum that George Bush stuck there. There’s also a picture of George Bush with his feet up on the desk. And I suspect that right after they took that picture there’s another picture of George Bush tipping over backwards in the chair.

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