Here's a follow-up to the recent Rush Limbaugh/Donovan McNabb story
which was too late to make it into the Top Ten last week.
It turns out that - guess what? -
Pat Robertson has come out with a staunch defense of Rush's comments
(Rush said that quarterback Donovan McNabb was overrated because he's
black).
So what's Pat's angle?
Unsurprisingly, he's taken Rush's ball and run with it into an even
uglier area.
The Racist Reverend tried to demonstrate that black people do benefit
from "social concern" by comparing McNabb to actor Morgan Freeman:
"He started off playing a chauffeur in 'Driving Miss Daisy,' and then
they elevated him to head of the CIA and then they elevated him to
President and in his last role they made him God. I just wonder, isn't
Rush Limbaugh right to question the fact, is he that good an actor or
not?"
Um, reality check, Pat.
Morgan Freeman is an actor.
He's hasn't actually been promoted from chauffeur to God.
You know?
It's all, like, an illusion.
Of course, the implication here is that as far as Pat Robertson is
concerned, black people should stick to playing chauffeurs and let
white people deal with the business of playing God.
Incidentally, in between playing a chauffeur and God, Morgan Freeman
also played, among other things, the roles of a slave ("Amistad"), a
slave ("Glory"), a murderer ("The Shawshank Redemption"), and, oh
look, a murderer ("Nurse Betty").
Presumably Pat considers these to be more appropriate roles for the
three-time-Oscar-nominated actor.
From The Democratic Underground
http://www.democraticunderground.com/
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