insomnomaniac

Hello pot, this is kettle calling

...the word of the day is, "HYPOCRITE."

Now don't get me wrong, I think the things Michael Richards (a.k.a. Kramer) said on stage were reprehensible, disgusting and--frankly--probably indicative of his true feelings or a pretty severe case of bi-polar disorder. He absolutely should apologize, many times over, and his career should suffer.

Whether the hecklers should sue? I don't know, I'm not sure what they hope to gain other than money in their pockets. Punishing this one dufus isn't going to magically improve race relations in this country. It's too easy to say that Richards' comments were off-the-reservation and not indicative of a broader problem, so "raising awareness" isn't really going to do anything.

But where I draw the line is on Al Sharpton taking the moral high ground and refusing the apology. Unless I missed it, I have yet to hear Sharpton apologize for his comments about Jewish "diamond merchants," and "interlopers." I also don't recall him demanding an apology from Jesse Jackson who referred to New York as "Hymietown" and Jews as "Hymies." In fact, he backed Jesse in these comments and said Jesse owed no apology!

Why is it that whenever something like this happens, you can count on the one person who really ought to keep their mouth shut opening it wide in a display of such rank hypocrisy that they become the *new* story, not the problem they *claim* to be highlighting.

Posted by insomnomaniac at November 23, 2006 12:28 AM | TrackBack