So Barry Manilow cancels on The View the day before a scheduled performance after the show refused to allow him to be interviewed by everyone EXCEPT Elisabeth Hasselbeck.
So, I read the EXCLUSIVE statement Barry gave to TMZ.com.
Okay, dangerous and offensive. Not really a detailed explanation of an apparently new phobia with appearing with her on the same stage. Did you note he was on the show last year twice, and he was gracious enough to show up in spite of Elisabeth's presence CO-HOSTING THE SHOW, WHICH IS HER JOB, BY THE WAY.....
....but I digress....
So, I go to Manilow's own website. I get this insightful announcement....
Monday, September 17, 2007
A message from Barry...
Hey guys,
I wanted to let you know that I will no longer be on The View tomorrow as scheduled. I had made a request that I be interviewed by Joy, Barbara or Whoopi, but not Elisabeth Hasselback. Unfortunately, the show was not willing to accommodate this simple request so I bowed out.
It’s really too bad because I've always been a big supporter of the show, but I cannot compromise my beliefs. The good news is that I will be on a whole slew of other shows promoting the new album so I hope you can catch me on those.
Love,
Barry
Okay---compromise his beliefs. Which, to this point, he has yet to express.
Obviously, TMZ itself had it right (she happens to commit the sin of being politically conservative).
This is Manilow's decision, except for the fact that he waited 'til the 11th hour, as if Elisabeth might become Hillary or something (which was rude to The View in total), and I certainly have no problem with his right not to do the show. I just wonder why he'd not had a problem the other times (doesn't he get his staff to research the political backgrounds of all talk show hosts?)
So, again, a member of the "tolerant progressives" proves they indeed are intolerant, too. The least Barry could've done was, well, explain himself.
Unfortunately, intolerance is not the property of any particular group of humans. We are all easily capable of doing it.
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Monday, September 17, 2007
Monday, December 11, 2006
Rosie says, "Be tolerant of my ignorance....it was just comedy!!"
Wonder if Michael Richards could have gotten away with that??
If you haven't been clued in on Rosie's "humor" recently on "The View", mocking Asians while explaining how the drunk Danny DeVito appearance would be covered in, say, China.
Well, click here for the story.
I do want to emphasize the statement from her spokesperson....
"She's a comedian in addition to being a talk show co-host," Cindi Berger, O'Donnell's spokeswoman, said in a statement. "I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."
On Dec. 8, O'Donnell wrote in her blog "it was not my intent to mock." She clarified her position on Dec. 10, calling the bit "comedy."
Grasp her humor?? Heh?? What?? Comedy??
When she does something, it's comedy. When you do something, it's despicable. I think it's a very fair statement to say, when it comes to insulting a race of people, there's no real difference between the actions of O'Donnell and that of Richards a few weeks back.
Whether Richards was truly sorry, we don't know.....he did say he was. Either sincerity or damage control.
Rosie? She just chalks it up as "comedy" and her self-perception of her perfection continues.
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Remember, Rosie also showed keen insight into today's Evangelical Movement back in September by saying....
“Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state…"
I have no problem with her saying this. I don't want to call for any boycott. If anything, it makes me sad that she would make such a statement without obviously doing any serious analysis of Christians in 21st Century America.
Last time I went to a Baptist church, for example, I don't remember the women veiled and ordered to shut up, or a business meeting after church to discuss finding and apprehending a church members' cousin who recently converted to Islam so he could be tried, convicted, and beheaded.
You want a Christian jihad?? Bring the subject of "what color carpet do we want in the new fellowship hall?" up at a church members' meeting and see what hell breaks loose!!!
If you haven't been clued in on Rosie's "humor" recently on "The View", mocking Asians while explaining how the drunk Danny DeVito appearance would be covered in, say, China.
Well, click here for the story.
I do want to emphasize the statement from her spokesperson....
"She's a comedian in addition to being a talk show co-host," Cindi Berger, O'Donnell's spokeswoman, said in a statement. "I certainly hope that one day they will be able to grasp her humor."
On Dec. 8, O'Donnell wrote in her blog "it was not my intent to mock." She clarified her position on Dec. 10, calling the bit "comedy."
Grasp her humor?? Heh?? What?? Comedy??
When she does something, it's comedy. When you do something, it's despicable. I think it's a very fair statement to say, when it comes to insulting a race of people, there's no real difference between the actions of O'Donnell and that of Richards a few weeks back.
Whether Richards was truly sorry, we don't know.....he did say he was. Either sincerity or damage control.
Rosie? She just chalks it up as "comedy" and her self-perception of her perfection continues.
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Remember, Rosie also showed keen insight into today's Evangelical Movement back in September by saying....
“Radical Christianity is just as threatening as radical Islam in a country like America where we have separation of church and state…"
I have no problem with her saying this. I don't want to call for any boycott. If anything, it makes me sad that she would make such a statement without obviously doing any serious analysis of Christians in 21st Century America.
Last time I went to a Baptist church, for example, I don't remember the women veiled and ordered to shut up, or a business meeting after church to discuss finding and apprehending a church members' cousin who recently converted to Islam so he could be tried, convicted, and beheaded.
You want a Christian jihad?? Bring the subject of "what color carpet do we want in the new fellowship hall?" up at a church members' meeting and see what hell breaks loose!!!
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