(Oct. 23) – What would appear like an easy stop at ‘The Tonight Show’ promoting her new film has turned into a PR nightmare for Halle Berry . The Oscar-winning actress went onto Jay Leno’s show to talk about her latest movie, the drama ‘Things We Lost in the Fire.’ Page Six reports that during the interview, Leno showed the audience manipulated photos of the actress created with the Apple Photo Booth application. One image showed Berry with an elongated nose. An audience member says that Berry quipped “‘Here’s where I look like my Jewish cousin,” which was greeted with crickets from the studio audience. Leno tried to save the moment, saying “‘I’m glad you said that and not me.” On the final show that aired Friday night, Berry’s comment was edited out. Berry spoke with Page Six to explain herself and apologize. “I so didn’t mean to offend anybody, and after the show I realized it could be seen as offensive, so I asked Jay to take it out, and he did.”
And, from the world of overreaction, we have Jay Leno editing out a legitimately funny joke, not because of the backlash, but out of the FEAR of backlash.I’m glad that no Jewish orgs have complained (I think), but still… Did they have to panic over such a small joke? Do they think the Jews would have been THAT bothered? Would they have been?This kind of stuff is silly. We have to worry about Jewish nose jokes, N-words on stage, and drawings of Muhammed, but we ignore the real problems of ALL Americans losing Constitutional freedoms every time we pay higher taxes so churches pay none. We must be prepared to make people understand the difference between silly political correctness and real bigotry.By the way, Arabs have big noses too.
Anyone? Tell that to anarchists.
Me too. Vote to make it happen.
They don’t get anything they can’t do for themselves.
Which of the 27 amendments to the U.S. Constitution guaranteed any citizen Social Security, Welfare, or any other entitlement program?
I’ll help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_amendments_to_the_United_States_Constitution
I’ll help even more. They’re not there.
Even if this is true (and I confess a certain level of ignorance about this point) it is hardly the equivalent of a human rights violation. If these women felt they were being repressed they don’t have far (walking distance) to go to avoid it (the country is big and Amish land holdings are small).
Every other piece of our society counts as “almost not part of it at all?”
Enumerate the benefits that the Amish benefit from, if you can. I’ll give you a head start: they sometimes use roads.
Some questions:
If they do not make use of much else, should their tax burden be anywhere even near that of non-Amish society?
Are there even enough of them to actually make a dent in the tax budget?
Would most of society care if they were tax exempt entirely because their impact on our tax burden is negligible?
Not very quickly at all. Though the Amish are forbidden from violence, even in the protection of their own, their neighbors are not. Their neighbors are every other American citizen. Many of us are armed and proud to be. Many of us would fight to the death to defend them and their way of life even if it’s a world apart.
Would you take up arms to protect innocents from harm? Would you be willing to put your life on the line for that protection? Do you believe that you have to be a police officer or a solder of the military to stand up for what is right?
Read the Constitution you mentioned. See that part about a “well-regulated militia?” That’s you and me. That’s the promise our government made to us that we may always be able to take up arms in defense of our own.
We need to take back what has been lost and we need our children to understand what it is that our Constitution is about.
alatham… you asked for an example of how taxation destroys our freedoms…
Here’s another myth…
NO ONE owns their property…we merely rent it from the local government…better known as property taxes…
Personal ownership of property was a cornerstone to the foundation of this country…now, people are willing to give up that freedom in exchange for a monopoly…
Oh crap, screwed that one up!
If you guys are setting up the Amish as the libertarian utopia, that’s going to be a tough sell to the general public.
AT, the Constitution does not guarantee the right to “entitlement” programs, as you call them. They are authorized under Congress’ Article I power to provide for the general welfare.
atomic,
How’s that anarchy thing workin’ out for the Iraqis?
Huh? What? I said no such thing. I merely stated that they get by just fine without tax collection or the need for them.
Still, this minor use of public services is so meager that we could probably just let ‘em slide on it, no?
The government taxing Americans more than the British were taxing them when they had the Boston Tea Party is probably not what they had in mind when they put that clause in.
Ah, but now we have taxation with representation. Call your Congresspeople, AT, and give ‘em a piece of your mind!