[Mb-hair] Re: New Orleans

[Sean Courtney]

On 09/03/2005, James Pappaconstantine wrote:

> I'm not sure who he was.. but did anybody else see what I just saw? NBC
> is running a releif telthon right now, various artists and actors are
> playing and taking turns asking for support, You can tell they are
> reading their telepropters.. But a moment ago, Mike Myers and another
> black actor (I'm sorry to describe him that way, BUt I am not sure who
> it was) were taking turns reading their lines. The black gentleman with
> tears iin his eye started talking about the devestation and how Black
> people are being portrayed as looting while whites doing the same thing
> are being portrayed as getting supplies for their families. Mike Myers
> picked up his line and then when it came the other guys turn, He looked
> into the camara and said, "George Bush doesn't like black people." NBC
> quickly turned to someone else.. Just more proof that in America, Free
> Speech is only free if you say the "right" things. 

That was Kanye West. He got to say what he wanted; they just kept the camera off him.
While I wish to God that G.W. Bush could run for president again just so I could see
how badly he'd get trounced on in the election, the purpose was to raise money to help those people that Dubya is pretending don't need help; it wasn't a political forum. It wasn't the
place for that, and it wasn't the time for it.

Plus, they were given an hour to do their thing...when someone strays from
the script, there's gotta be an "Oh, shit!" moment in there...

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