Posted by larry legallo on 07/16/06 23:06

On Sat, 15 Jul 2006 22:27:53 -0400, Derek Janssen
<ejanss@nospam.comcast.net> wrote:

>David Johnston wrote:
>> On 15 Jul 2006 19:10:36 -0700, "cc" <gman8onweb@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>>>From 'Blazing Saddles' to 'Team America,' these films take no
>>>>prisoners
>>>>
>>>>COMMENTARY
>>>>By Michael Ventre
>>>>MSNBC contributor
>>>>Updated: 3:54 p.m. CT July 11, 2006
>>>
>>>Then why isn't "Birth of a Nation" among the ten listed films?
>>
>> Well because he specifically says he's making a list of comedies.
>> I get the impression that the author of the list didn't write the
>> title under which it was displayed.
>
>Again: The original MSNBC poster was just doing a minor factoid sidebar
>column to go with the South Park interview, and pretty much dug his list
>out of Entertainment Weekly.

And didn't even do a very good job. These articles that long
nostalgically for the days when racial jokes could be truly racist
*always* cite Tanner's line in The Bad News Bears ("All we got on this
team are a bunch of Jews, spics, niggers...") as a supreme bastion of
unPC-ness. This guy didn't even throw it a mention. That's like
doing a list of the Top Ten rumoured Hollywood coke whores, and
omitting Lindsay Lohan.

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