Will he have to wear those braces too?
― StanM, Wednesday, 8 September 2010 20:18 (thirteen years ago) link
Not black or white: It's 'brown' comedy
http://www.cnn.com/2011/OPINION/01/31/obeidallah.brown.comedy/index.html?hpt=C2
Hundreds of people recently jammed themselves into a basement in New York City to listen to people with names like Mohammed, Nader, Aasif and Maysoon. What were they up to? Should the authorities be contacted? Is it time to raise the terror alert?
Nope, it was just another episode of "The Big Brown Comedy Hour," a stand-up show featuring a diverse group of comedians: Arabs, Indians, Iranians, Pakistanis and others...
― Cunga, Monday, 31 January 2011 19:52 (thirteen years ago) link
zomg I saw this just now on CNN and my brain exploded.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 19:56 (thirteen years ago) link
"What if I told you Muslims were bringing the house down tonight -- not with blocks of C4 strapped to their chests, but through the power of comedy and laughter?"
― Cunga, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:14 (thirteen years ago) link
"Did you know that Arabs, Indians & Pakistanis are FUNNY?"
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:27 (thirteen years ago) link
They aren't black, Hispanic or white. They're brown.
Often, "hispanic" people refer to themselves as brown. Just saying!
― kkvgz, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:31 (thirteen years ago) link
Soooo...where does John Boehner fit into this category? Or is he more Orange.
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:40 (thirteen years ago) link
I hate their views but I could watch and marvel at Fox's bluster a thousand times before I can stomach Wolf Blitzer single out a blue tie the President's wearing and asking, "Is it a purple tie for bipartisanship?"
― Pleasant Plains, Monday, 31 January 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link
I can buy that. It's like the way NPR radio sometimes acts like it's a nature program for humans. And in doing this detached bemused reportage pushes its subjects down worse than if they just came out and said, "I cannot relate to you on any level so I am going to pretend that I can."
― VegemiteGrrrl, Monday, 31 January 2011 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Wolf Blitzer was hyping an Osama bin Laden story after the break, new information about his last days: "...the love letters he was writing, the attacks he was planning." The wording made me laugh. Feels like it needs a third part: "the parties he was planning," "the scrapbooks he was assembling," "the blogs he was launching," something like that. At least he was keeping busy, I guess.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:18 (eight years ago) link
D
― deej loaf (D-40), Wednesday, 20 May 2015 23:19 (eight years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/651093017181466625
― skateboards are the new combover (Dr Morbius), Monday, 5 October 2015 18:52 (eight years ago) link
CNN had Jamal Simmons on today as a commentator. He was on pretty much every day in 2008, hardly at all in 2012, and haven't seen him since. Liked him a lot in '08--hope he's back on a regular basis.
― clemenza, Monday, 18 January 2016 21:25 (eight years ago) link
CNN (TV news in general) gets pilloried around here--I do it all the time--but Jake Tapper's interview with Scott Cross, the victim who spoke out against Dennis Hastert, was as good as it gets. I missed the Hastert story completely, till today (he was just released from prison).
― clemenza, Tuesday, 18 July 2017 21:01 (six years ago) link
Making this title available to the world for a book on modern-day media's (especially CNN, and especially during the pandemic) 24-hour breaking-news/panic addiction: No News Is Terrible News.
― clemenza, Thursday, 21 May 2020 19:07 (three years ago) link
I generally like Jim Acosta, but this morning, in the space of 10 seconds--prefacing both with "As I like to call it"--he said "bonfire of the insanities" and "lord of the lies." Ouch.
― clemenza, Sunday, 24 January 2021 16:42 (three years ago) link
I guess Jeffrey Toobin has been reinstated.
https://www.cnn.com/2021/06/23/politics/supreme-court-first-amendment-cheerleader/index.html
― clemenza, Wednesday, 23 June 2021 16:05 (two years ago) link
CNN chief executive Chris Licht to leave network after weeks of criticismA tumultuous town hall with former president Donald Trump, a scathing article and ratings freefall preceded his downfall
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:22 (ten months ago) link
Just came to post that...Someone posted the Atlantic piece on a different thread; I downloaded it so it wouldn't disappear behind a paywall, planned to read it, now he's gone.
― clemenza, Wednesday, 7 June 2023 14:24 (ten months ago) link
that don lemon thing with musk is just TOOOO rich if you hate don lemon.
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 March 2024 11:57 (one month ago) link