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This has to be just about as stupid and pathetic as it gets. My word! Can we please just start taking liberals out and shoot them now? I would say lynch. But under the circumstances, no doubt that would make me akin to Hitler in these idiot's eyes.

Because the right fit as a cast member on SNL to play Obama happened to be a white / Asian mix and not black, he shouldn't have done the part?

These fools really need to get a life. So much for a color blind society. There will be racism as long as there are liberals around to see everything through white / black / yellow / brown, or red glasses - and I don't mean red as in rose colored. Good grief, I can't believe anyone would make an issue of this. Leave it to the Washington Post. What an absolute crock.

Did 'SNL' Go Beyond the Pale With Fauxbama?
Lorne Michaels Defends Casting Of Non-Black Man in Sketch

But in 2008, Obama isn't just any politician or celebrity. Which is why Armisen's DNA became something of an issue when he became "Fauxbama" in "SNL's" first show back since the writers' strike ended this month.

Maureen Ryan of the Chicago Tribune put the question bluntly: "Call me crazy, but shouldn't 'Saturday Night Live's' fictional Sen. Barack Obama be played by an African-American?" Ryan went on to conclude: "I find 'SNL's' choice inexplicable. Obama's candidacy gives us solid proof of the progress that African-Americans have made in this country. I guess 'SNL' still has further to go on that front."

Comments

[elixelx]

Obama is NOT, repeat definitely NOT, Afro-American. He is NOT a black man.

He is Arab-American! In order to be Afro-American you have to have at least one full-blooded ancestor at the grandparent level; Obama's greatgrandmother was black, since then there have been only Arabs, and recently an admixture of white.

Don't slam me for saying this; the heritage nations (Indians/native Americans) have had it written into law; in order to be part of a minority you have to be 1/8 part of that minority; Obama is only 1/16th black!

So, no! Whatever happens America will NOT have a "BLACK" or "AFRO-AMERICAN" POTUS in 2009, unless, that is, John McCain has been fooling us all!

Cocktails, anyone?

[BobInStamford]

Well said. However, if McCain wins, his black baby will be in the White House. So that's something.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

Did anyone do an Al Jolsen tune? Does anyone actually watch SNL anymore?

[seekeronos]

Now this could be a matter of semantics... but his father was an African (from Kenya) and his mother was an American woman from Kansas.

Since he has jus solis and jus sanguinis citizenship (born in Hawaii after its admission as a state), he is legal an Afrfican-American. (This, btw, is the definition that counts legally).

Now culturally, he may not fully be accepted by most other African-Americans, for whom the litmus test of being truly African-American lies in tracing their line of descent from the Negro field hands/slave stock of the early 17th to mid 19th centuries in the USA and CSA. (This was the source of the "Halfrican" jokes from last year).

And lastly, there is the very touchy and racially-charged issue of whether or not *any* trace of Negroid ancestry makes a person black or not (although this is rapidly falling into its proper place as a sad relic of racism).

[seekeronos]

And more on topic, yes, it is moronic that the MSM cares *that* much that SNL couldn't source a black extra to play "Fauxbama".

Some folks just need to grow up and get over themselves.

[syn]

There really are two Americas, TV people and non-TV people.

I turned my TV off about a year ago and am happier than ever.

[seekeronos]

"---
There really are two Americas, TV people and non-TV people.

I turned my TV off about a year ago and am happier than ever.
---"

Thank you for reminding me why turning off the hell-i-vision set is generally a good idea.

I can't say that anything with any real socially redeeming value has come out of unholy-wood in a good 40 years or so.

[chris]

'Thank you for reminding me why turning off the hell-i-vision set is generally a good idea.'

You sound like Ned Flanders.

[templar knight]

I don't watch any television, either, chris. Maybe that's why I haven't caught any Bonzo movies. Your favorite would just have to be "Bedtime for Bonzo."

[chris]

All that free time and no tv? I would figure a lazy guy like you would watch a LOT of tv. I guess heating up fatty cuts of meat is all-consuming.

[Lala]

Makes me think of the "Miss Saignon" controversy. Also, West Side Story and Evita were not racially/ethnically cast.

[templar knight]

Dan, you better be careful about using the word lynch. And God forbid you make a noose, or say the word noose, or even write the word noose.

And, if you'll notice, these two terms are being conveniently used by certain people who want to gain an advantage. The "noose" allegations at Columbia University come to mind, along with numerous other examples of race-baiting and race-hustling. All to gain an unfair advantage, and make old 'whitey' pay for the sins of his ancestors, as if there were never white slaves all over No. Africa and the Middle East, if we are to visit the sins of people's ancestors.

[templar knight]

"I guess heating up fatty cuts of meat is all-consuming."

See, that's what you get for guessing. You come off as a fool. I'm not really fond of "fatty" cuts, unless you consider the ribeye a fatty cut. I'm more partial to the T-bone or Porterhouse, although the New York cut, well, cuts it with me. I do occasionally BBQ a brisket, but I cut the fat off, and chip the beef for sandwiches. Damn, I'm getting hungry just thinking about it. I make a mean dish of BBQ beans as well, so if you ever get out to Abilene, do come over for a cup of hemloc...uh, coffee. It'll be on me.

j/k

[DANEgerus]

So... they only got it 1/2 right?

I'm outraged Barack Hussein Obama could be portrayed by any actor who isn't raised in an affluent Hawaiian household with a Kenyan polygamist father.

[Miklo]

2 words for Maureen Ryan of Chicago:

"Shut" and "up" - in that order.

[rjschwarz]

John Goodman played Linda Tripp, Daryl Hammond played Rev Jessie Jackson, nobody made a peep.

[seekeronos]

"--- I'm not really fond of "fatty" cuts ---"

For me, that all depends upon how much fat, and how it is deposited within the meat. One good mark of quality for Korean BBQ/Japanese yakiniku or syabu-syabu is a meat that is well *marbled*, especially Wagyū such as this:

http://images26.fotki.com/v885/photos/7/753380/5075178/_MG_0053Edit-vi.jpg

[templar knight]

seek, you have a Japanese wife, so you're lucky to have been exposed to the variety of meats in that land. I grew up on a ranch in West Texas, raised some cows along with my daddy, and was fortunate enough to get the prime cuts when we butchered our cows. And marbled meat is a sure sign of tender meat as well. That little rascal chris has talked me into cooking steaks this weekend. Yum!

[Wahoo Willie]

"That little rascal chris has talked me into cooking steaks this weekend. Yum!"

Me too tk! Only mine will be venison marinated in basalmic vinegar and mesquite sauce. Ya know chrissy might be a little nicer to other people if someone, anyone would invite her to do something for the weekend. Some veggie burgers on the barbie or something.

[templar knight]

You have that recipe, Willie, cause I got a whole deer in the deep freeze, just waiting. It sounds delicious. And talk about lean meat!

[seekeronos]

TK, little does chrissy know that he/she/it has had a knock on effect here as I made a roast beef tenderloin earlier this evening that seems to have went over well.

I have also had the blessing of living a fair portion of my life out West (Colorado plains specifically) and there are few things more satisfying than eating the work of your own hands - in my case, lambs and sheep I had opportunity to ranch (we had a few head of cattle we kept for milk - pretty much drinking it from the "tap", though we'd pasteurize anything we sold to the neighbours or made butter or ice cream with).

Lamb though must be an acquired taste - the missus won't eat lamb (raising sheep isn't really much of an industry in Japan) though for our Valentine dinner I was able to convince her to try the lamb crown roast I had ordered. :)

Now venison... now that there is a whole 'nother plate of meat. That's one of the few instances where I'll offer to do the cooking without complaining - using recipes handed down from my German "Oma" (grandmother). And Opa was handy with the venison sausages - oh so sweet, although he dosed it liberally with ground pork belly and seasoned with Bad Dürkheimer Rheinwein and a wee drappie of brown sugar.

Because as we used to say in "die Alte Vaterland":

"Schwein und Bier kann Mann nicht genug haben". ("Man can't have enough pork and beer").

[Wahoo Willie]

""Schwein und Bier kann Mann nicht genug haben". "

A wonderful sentiment but it surely has something to do with heart probs among us Austrians. Here's to hoping healthy eating and the Irish side win out!

[Wahoo Willie]

"You have that recipe,"
tk the mesquite flavor marinade is an off the shelf product. We add a bit of baslmic vingerette to give it a S Eastern twang. Mix in the vinegar to taste (I use 1/4 the amount of marinade). I only eat the tenderloin and put a cup o mix per pound, let sit at least 4 hours and grill as you like. This ain't for everybody, like grits and yankees, so try a piece before you waste much.