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	<title>Comments on: Obama doesn&#8217;t appreciate &#8220;Ho&#8221; joke at fundraiser</title>
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		<title>By: John</title>
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		<dc:creator>John</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 13:42:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>this sentence is more insulting then what bernie mac said:

"“ho” — a contraction of the word “whore” used as derogatory slang for woman"

Ho and whore are not slang words for women, they are slang words for prostitutes.  Hence in the joke the mother and sister sleeping with people for money.  He's not implying all women are hos.  What a ridiculous charade.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>this sentence is more insulting then what bernie mac said:</p>
<p>&#8220;“ho” — a contraction of the word “whore” used as derogatory slang for woman&#8221;</p>
<p>Ho and whore are not slang words for women, they are slang words for prostitutes.  Hence in the joke the mother and sister sleeping with people for money.  He&#8217;s not implying all women are hos.  What a ridiculous charade.</p>
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		<title>By: 50,000 dollars</title>
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		<dc:creator>50,000 dollars</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 03:14:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I wish I had $50,000.00 right now, taxes in Cook County- Chicago are the highest in the nation, 13 cents on the dollar, all time foreclosures across the US, jobs running credit reports - any deliquent bills - you are not hired, gas prices still looms close to 5.00/gallon, stimulus check - a joke, after filing taxes, all I got was a $69.00 dollar check -took $60.00 to fill my tank, the other nine on a six pack of beer - wow I really helped to contribute to the economy.  With wars looming in Iran, seem like no end to Iraq, who cares if someone "lives with two ho's"  Yes, I agree that the joke was inapprorpiate for a fund raiser. But everyone knows that Bernie Mac's humor and concerts are not for the weak at heart.  Maybe someone in O'Bama's camp should have reviewed the material before handing the mike over to Bernie.  We have more things to worry about as a nation than off-colored jokes!. If every  woman or man could sleep with someone for $50,000 as long as she or he is at the age of consent, the ecomony would get an ecomonic boost! But didn't Demi Moore sleep with Robert Redford in a movie for a million dollars - huuuuuuum</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I wish I had $50,000.00 right now, taxes in Cook County- Chicago are the highest in the nation, 13 cents on the dollar, all time foreclosures across the US, jobs running credit reports - any deliquent bills - you are not hired, gas prices still looms close to 5.00/gallon, stimulus check - a joke, after filing taxes, all I got was a $69.00 dollar check -took $60.00 to fill my tank, the other nine on a six pack of beer - wow I really helped to contribute to the economy.  With wars looming in Iran, seem like no end to Iraq, who cares if someone &#8220;lives with two ho&#8217;s&#8221;  Yes, I agree that the joke was inapprorpiate for a fund raiser. But everyone knows that Bernie Mac&#8217;s humor and concerts are not for the weak at heart.  Maybe someone in O&#8217;Bama&#8217;s camp should have reviewed the material before handing the mike over to Bernie.  We have more things to worry about as a nation than off-colored jokes!. If every  woman or man could sleep with someone for $50,000 as long as she or he is at the age of consent, the ecomony would get an ecomonic boost! But didn&#8217;t Demi Moore sleep with Robert Redford in a movie for a million dollars - huuuuuuum</p>
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		<title>By: Benjamin9</title>
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		<dc:creator>Benjamin9</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jul 2008 10:18:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Ah .. Chicago. Since BHO not long ago spoke on "who da baby daddy" implications, maybe he can next speak on racially generated slang.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Ah .. Chicago. Since BHO not long ago spoke on &#8220;who da baby daddy&#8221; implications, maybe he can next speak on racially generated slang.</p>
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		<title>By: BERNIE MAC, BARACK OBAMA, &#38; DON IMUS &#171; Hillary and Me</title>
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		<dc:creator>BERNIE MAC, BARACK OBAMA, &#38; DON IMUS &#171; Hillary and Me</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>[...] fundraiser in Chicago last night — we know he’s desperate for donations — is not just the crude “ho” joke that comedian Bernie Mac told (described below). It’s not just that, when he took the stage, [...]</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>[...] fundraiser in Chicago last night — we know he’s desperate for donations — is not just the crude “ho” joke that comedian Bernie Mac told (described below). It’s not just that, when he took the stage, [...]</p>
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		<title>By: Qualtrough</title>
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		<dc:creator>Qualtrough</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:10:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Let's review. The dollar is in a death spiral. The price of a barrel of oil is at unheard of levels. The stock markets are crashing, banks are failing, the housing market in disarray, Iraq is an ongoing disaster-surge or no surge, Afghanistan is getting worse (9 US dead yesterday as well as a wedding party-thanks George), and a war with Iran looms on the horizon...and with all that, some people think that Obama is unqualified because a comedian makes a funny but inappropriate (given the venue) joke?? Are you people on crack!!! Where are your priorities??</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Let&#8217;s review. The dollar is in a death spiral. The price of a barrel of oil is at unheard of levels. The stock markets are crashing, banks are failing, the housing market in disarray, Iraq is an ongoing disaster-surge or no surge, Afghanistan is getting worse (9 US dead yesterday as well as a wedding party-thanks George), and a war with Iran looms on the horizon&#8230;and with all that, some people think that Obama is unqualified because a comedian makes a funny but inappropriate (given the venue) joke?? Are you people on crack!!! Where are your priorities??</p>
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		<title>By: KJ</title>
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		<dc:creator>KJ</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:48:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>And then to make matters worse, after Obama slapped Bernie Mac ever-so-lightly on the wrist for his sexist misogyny, Obama more or less apologized to Mac by saying 'I'm just messin with you Bro." That is so typical of Obama's own misogyny and sexist attitude toward women. 
That's no way to win women voters. I hope he goes down in flames and loses all 50 states so he hides in a hole forevermore.
NOBAMA! NOT NOW! NOT EVER!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>And then to make matters worse, after Obama slapped Bernie Mac ever-so-lightly on the wrist for his sexist misogyny, Obama more or less apologized to Mac by saying &#8216;I&#8217;m just messin with you Bro.&#8221; That is so typical of Obama&#8217;s own misogyny and sexist attitude toward women.<br />
That&#8217;s no way to win women voters. I hope he goes down in flames and loses all 50 states so he hides in a hole forevermore.<br />
NOBAMA! NOT NOW! NOT EVER!</p>
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		<title>By: sakel</title>
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		<dc:creator>sakel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 04:24:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Obama's flip-offs are legendary. But to do an actual sexist flip-off on stage at a fundraiser at which he's invited an edgy racey comedian with narrow base is....well...dumbocratic at best!

First, Obama goes on stage in N.C. day after his pathetically inept perforamnce at the Pa. ABC Debate and "flip-offs" with his midfinger his fellow (female) senator Hillary Clinton, smirking, waiting for his audience to 'clue in' his insulting, obscene and juvenile gesture.  Then he scrapes her off his shoulders and his shoes (as in excrement)! His well-orchestrated misogynist JayZRapper wannabe act was apparently a hit with his Madison-Avenue-inspired cool Obamabotic strategy.

To be prompted by his audience to tell over-the-edge
comedian Bernie Mac to "cool it, you gotta clean up your act, Bernie, this is a family affair" and reverse his statement instantaneously by adding..."I'm just messing with you Bernie"!  

This is TYPICAL ObaMyopia.  Obama just can't seem to learn that you don't talk out of both sides of your mouth.  First you tell your invited known sexist humorist to "clean up" his act that includes an 8-year-old boy asking his mother and sister if they're whores and the father telling the boy that yup, his mom and sis are indeed whores, like all women. And then with your next sentence you tell the moron that you're "just messing" with him and you didn't mean it. 

So, Obama wasn't serious at all about getting serious with the thorny issue of woman-hatred that has plagued and continues to plague his crypto-misogynistic campaign which received an able assist from the media misogynist frat-boy enablers that pushed him to a fraudulent 'finish-line'.

What should be sending red signals to the Democrats is that Obama's  flip-offs have been accelerating dangerously to the point where even his second sentence contradicts his previous one--with alarming consequences for his integrity as a presidential candidate representing all his constituents.  He has made it abundantly clear that women's issues and sensitivities have, at best, a secondary role to play in his administration and, at worst, "family values" consist of promoting to pre-teenaged boys the idea that their mothers and sisters can aspire to the profitable status of an American hooker. 

Given Obama's own pathetic lack of pay equity within his own campaign where his female staffers get 70 cents on the dollar compared with their male counterparts, perhaps Bernie Mac's recommendations would not be so funny or unrealistic.  The family unit's female members may indeed be encouraged to resort to prostitution in order to adhere to the newly-minted "family values" under 'cool' President Obama.  And ladies and gals, I ain't messing with you on this one!



P.S. Pumas are roaring with Bernie's comedy routine, and not with appreciation! They just can't see the ObaMyopic humor in it.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Obama&#8217;s flip-offs are legendary. But to do an actual sexist flip-off on stage at a fundraiser at which he&#8217;s invited an edgy racey comedian with narrow base is&#8230;.well&#8230;dumbocratic at best!</p>
<p>First, Obama goes on stage in N.C. day after his pathetically inept perforamnce at the Pa. ABC Debate and &#8220;flip-offs&#8221; with his midfinger his fellow (female) senator Hillary Clinton, smirking, waiting for his audience to &#8216;clue in&#8217; his insulting, obscene and juvenile gesture.  Then he scrapes her off his shoulders and his shoes (as in excrement)! His well-orchestrated misogynist JayZRapper wannabe act was apparently a hit with his Madison-Avenue-inspired cool Obamabotic strategy.</p>
<p>To be prompted by his audience to tell over-the-edge<br />
comedian Bernie Mac to &#8220;cool it, you gotta clean up your act, Bernie, this is a family affair&#8221; and reverse his statement instantaneously by adding&#8230;&#8221;I&#8217;m just messing with you Bernie&#8221;!  </p>
<p>This is TYPICAL ObaMyopia.  Obama just can&#8217;t seem to learn that you don&#8217;t talk out of both sides of your mouth.  First you tell your invited known sexist humorist to &#8220;clean up&#8221; his act that includes an 8-year-old boy asking his mother and sister if they&#8217;re whores and the father telling the boy that yup, his mom and sis are indeed whores, like all women. And then with your next sentence you tell the moron that you&#8217;re &#8220;just messing&#8221; with him and you didn&#8217;t mean it. </p>
<p>So, Obama wasn&#8217;t serious at all about getting serious with the thorny issue of woman-hatred that has plagued and continues to plague his crypto-misogynistic campaign which received an able assist from the media misogynist frat-boy enablers that pushed him to a fraudulent &#8216;finish-line&#8217;.</p>
<p>What should be sending red signals to the Democrats is that Obama&#8217;s  flip-offs have been accelerating dangerously to the point where even his second sentence contradicts his previous one&#8211;with alarming consequences for his integrity as a presidential candidate representing all his constituents.  He has made it abundantly clear that women&#8217;s issues and sensitivities have, at best, a secondary role to play in his administration and, at worst, &#8220;family values&#8221; consist of promoting to pre-teenaged boys the idea that their mothers and sisters can aspire to the profitable status of an American hooker. </p>
<p>Given Obama&#8217;s own pathetic lack of pay equity within his own campaign where his female staffers get 70 cents on the dollar compared with their male counterparts, perhaps Bernie Mac&#8217;s recommendations would not be so funny or unrealistic.  The family unit&#8217;s female members may indeed be encouraged to resort to prostitution in order to adhere to the newly-minted &#8220;family values&#8221; under &#8216;cool&#8217; President Obama.  And ladies and gals, I ain&#8217;t messing with you on this one!</p>
<p>P.S. Pumas are roaring with Bernie&#8217;s comedy routine, and not with appreciation! They just can&#8217;t see the ObaMyopic humor in it.</p>
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		<title>By: Gabriel</title>
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		<dc:creator>Gabriel</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Hey, calvin p, quran or bible, what's the difference? They both tell you to go out and kill your enemies, which is actually inherited from the judaism anyway, so there is no big deal there! Besides, ever heard of the separation of religion and state? It should be illegal to use any religious book in the affairs of state anyway. Alright, now you can go back to your 6-pack and gulp some more kool-aid, yeeee hawwww!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Hey, calvin p, quran or bible, what&#8217;s the difference? They both tell you to go out and kill your enemies, which is actually inherited from the judaism anyway, so there is no big deal there! Besides, ever heard of the separation of religion and state? It should be illegal to use any religious book in the affairs of state anyway. Alright, now you can go back to your 6-pack and gulp some more kool-aid, yeeee hawwww!</p>
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		<title>By: Chris</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chris</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jul 2008 00:12:49 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Bernie Mac has said this joke hundreds of times before to larger audiences and on televion before. It has never caused any kind of controversy. You would think a room full of liberals could handle a joke. We don't need another group of morality police in the White House. 

Also I am very impressed by all of the kids in the audience who were able to put up the $2300 for the fundraiser.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Bernie Mac has said this joke hundreds of times before to larger audiences and on televion before. It has never caused any kind of controversy. You would think a room full of liberals could handle a joke. We don&#8217;t need another group of morality police in the White House. </p>
<p>Also I am very impressed by all of the kids in the audience who were able to put up the $2300 for the fundraiser.</p>
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		<title>By: Dr. Salzman</title>
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		<dc:creator>Dr. Salzman</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2008 21:14:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>"Imus said “Nappy headed hos” which I must point out is completely different than what Bernie said. First of all, calling them nappy headed was just straight racist which was the primary concern. Second, Bernie is COMEDIAN!!
This guilty by association is completely unfounded."

Okay, so a joke in which a young boy is told to ask his mother and sister if she would prostitute herself to a mailman is not offensive. Given the history of black women constantly portrayed as loose women who are unworthy of respect since the days of old. How is it okay for Bernie Mac, a black comedian to make such a joke without perpetuating long held racist stereotypes about black women. Don Imus's comment of Nappy Headed Ho's is the result of people constantly allowing black men to continue demonizing and exploiting black women. So don't sit their in self-righteous indignation and try to defend the tasteless, humor of a mediocre comedian. Also, there is no way you could possibly compare him to George Carlin whose comedic sense was way above the lowbrow sexist, race capitalizing humor of Bernie mac, and Edie Murphy.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>&#8220;Imus said “Nappy headed hos” which I must point out is completely different than what Bernie said. First of all, calling them nappy headed was just straight racist which was the primary concern. Second, Bernie is COMEDIAN!!<br />
This guilty by association is completely unfounded.&#8221;</p>
<p>Okay, so a joke in which a young boy is told to ask his mother and sister if she would prostitute herself to a mailman is not offensive. Given the history of black women constantly portrayed as loose women who are unworthy of respect since the days of old. How is it okay for Bernie Mac, a black comedian to make such a joke without perpetuating long held racist stereotypes about black women. Don Imus&#8217;s comment of Nappy Headed Ho&#8217;s is the result of people constantly allowing black men to continue demonizing and exploiting black women. So don&#8217;t sit their in self-righteous indignation and try to defend the tasteless, humor of a mediocre comedian. Also, there is no way you could possibly compare him to George Carlin whose comedic sense was way above the lowbrow sexist, race capitalizing humor of Bernie mac, and Edie Murphy.</p>
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