Known race-hustler B. Hussein NOobAma will introduce USA network’s 50th anniversary broadcast of the film version of the charming children’s story of a simpler, less complicated time in American life, To Kill A Mockingbird. Why is Obama injecting race into and making himself the focus of this classic tale of postracial America?
“I’m deeply honored that President Obama will be celebrating the 50th Anniversary of To Kill A Mockingbird by introducing it to a national audience,” Pulitzer prize winner and famously media-shy Lee says. “I believe it remains the best translation of a book to film ever made and I’m proud to know that Gregory Peck’s portrayal of Atticus Finch lives on — in a world that needs him now more than ever.”
Harper Lee is a known associate of negros and homosexuals. To Kill A Mockingbird airs on USA Saturday at 8 p.m. [THR, via Wonkette operative "chascates"]
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Obama should stick to bustin' up chiffarobes.
+ 1 million
Fastest commenter always gets the coveted chiffarobe reference. Hat's off to you, speedy.
He can bust my chiffarobe anytime.
I think come November, he's going to be bustin' up Romney's Wooton desk.
I was going to be so disappointed if busting up a chiffarobe didn't appear somewhere in the comments, and voila, the very first one. You make Wonkette proud.
You seem to confuse chiffon robes with race. You can't not spel too good ether.
And Rick Santorum has recorded a very special introduction to "The Birth Of A Nation" for the FOX Movie Channel.
And then Ron Paul hosts Ilsa, She Wolf of the SS.
And Newt Gingriech will do one for Triumph of the Will.
Is he wearing his special white hoodie with the matching bedsheet????????
I would hate to be in that delivery room.
Wait until Fox news finds out about that book that Michelle let's her girls read. It starts out with a girl who blows into a new town and murders someone and then meets up with her new posse and they go on to murder again. It's by some gansta' named L. Frank Baum.
reminds me of that other story about the chick who o.d.'s herself into a coma and is a vegetable until some necrophiliac comes along and french-kisser her awake.
Or the other one about the polygamist girl who has a thing for genetically-stunted people.
Or the girl who takes what must be LSD and hallucinates about talking animals, animated playing cards, and all sorts of other weird shit. The author was a bit of a perv, too.
Or the one where the young woman gets pregnant, tells her parents she's really, really, really still a virgin. Then her son grows up and he gets in trouble with the law and gets the death penalty. After the funeral his ghost solves crimes and kisses Demi Moore by transgendering into Whoopi Goldberg's body. Which is why to this day the Pope wears a dress. The end.
Oh my, you won me, especially given our weather here today.
That lil girl Dot was a terror!
Sigh, I still remember Election Night 2008…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zy8dUJEOqos
(Seriously, that's an awesome number.)
You beautiful man! I used to adore that movie as a youngling (you know that one movie your toddler asks to watch every hour on the hour? Mine were The Wiz and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang), and I've been looking for an HD version of that song for God only knows how long.
Truth be told, I only saw that movie for the first time about 4 or 5 years ago, and that song/number in particular really blew me away. The movie is a really odd mixed bag of allegorical ghetto magic-realism and box-office-driven casting (Diana Ross, really?) but it has a strange charm.
Also, which one is Diana Ross and which one is Michael Jackson, because their mannerisms and singing voices are nearly identical?
INJECTIST!
You made me strain a kidney I was laughing so hard. lol
And in the movie she says "we're not in Kansas anymore" like that's a bad thing.
I love romantic stories.
Obama is Atticus Finch, that's it.
He's going to shoot a rabid dog as it walks down the street in Tampa this year?
Newt did say he would be there, so maybe.
What's he going to do next, inject race into Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Huckleberry Finn, Uncle Tom's Cabin, or Othello?
Sillly…those are banned books in REAL 'Merica.
You forgot Roots.
Speaking of which I also forgot The Autobiography of Malcolm X.
You forget Plan B, by Chester Himes.
Probs start hawking that communist theory the civil war and something to do with racism.
Birth of a Nation also too.
And why didn't they let Mitt Romney introduce it? He doesn't know any black people personally, but he's friends with several owners of black people.
He was busy recording his intro to "Brewster's Millions"
I think "The Toy" is probably more appropriate.
It would be a good double feature with Rick Perry introducing Stir Crazy
they're going to let him introduce the film version of "a christmas carol," which mittens believes is a tragic tale of the descent into madness of a formerly successful industrialist.
Mitt's going to introduce a special Job Creator's edition of "It's a Wonderful Life" that has the last fifteen minutes or so edited out.
I think Jon Stewart beat you to it.
What up, Boo?!
Boo who??!!
Heck if I know…
Doing your John Boner imitation again?
Ewell know it when you see it.
Oh, do! I hear it s jem.
Charlie don't surf.
STORY: Does Brad Pitt's Beane in 'Moneyball' = Gregory Peck's Finch in 'Mockingbird'?
A: No. Fuck no.
In what fucking universe does that sentence get written? Is this an Onion article or something?
No, unfortunately it's in the universe of The Hollywood
OnionReporter.Seriously now. Really. Seriously. Stop joking.
Because everyone knows the CORRECT equivalence is Joe Piscopo's Moe Dickstein in Wise Guys.
Not Joe Pesci in My cousin Vinnie?
Instead of Gregory Peck and Brock Peters, the Fox remake will feature Chuck Norris and Kirk Cameron.
Will they protect the poor white xtian from being railroaded by an all-atheist jury?
Steven Seagal's a perfect fit for this role…. he will be a grizzled ex-marine or something, with a broken marriage thanks to protecting America from all those dark-skinned bad guys, who then — paradoxically — turns to protecting darkies instead of protecting Amerika 24/7.
There will be some explosions and gun-play as assorted bad guys [their colour still to be determined in the script], attempt to force federal law onto law-abiding and genteel southern gentlemen.
It'll be great. It's already being talked about as a possible oscar nomination for 2013. I have no connection to the scriptwriters or casting director. Really.
What? You mean Rue in that Hunger Game Mockingjay movie is a BLACK??? Damn you Noobama! http://entertainment.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/03/…
Those racist motherfuckers need to work on their reading comprehension skills.
Seriously. IIRC, (having just read the book this past weekend, in preparation for seeing the movie with The Lady) Rue's described not just as being brown-skinned, but as having, specifically, "satiny brown skin". There… aren't many ways she could be not black, honestly.
Just when you thought you couldn't possibly lose any more faith in humanity…
Wrote another, "Kk call me racist but when I found out Rue was black her death wasnt as sad "
OK, you are a racist, a giant flaming racist turd shitburger; please do humanity a favor and get off this planet.
Oh for fucks sake.
To be serious for a second, though, To Kill a Mockingbird was the first book I had to read for school that I actually enjoyed – before that it was boring crap like Our Town. It deserves it's place as a classic, and it's a shame that Lee never wrote any more novels.
She can't – Truman Capote's dead.
Oh, wait!
At last I shall be able to get to sleep nights. (Thank you, FP. Wonkette readers share such good material with each other.)
Uh-oh. They put this out on NPR? Won't that make the Teatards obligated to take the opposite side? Because… just because.
I've always had the theory that he made some boast to someone, while in a drunken stupor, that he wrote it because he hated the fact that Lee won a Pulitzer & he didn't. But that's my own pet theory about how the rumor got started.
I loved it when we read it in English class and it remains one of my two or three favorite books to this day. (The other is Wuthering Heights and Lonesome Dove comes and goes.) The Lees are and always were Methodists, just like Atticus. Best film adaptation of a book, ever. I cannot make jokes about TKAM.
Same here. I think it was the only assigned book that I actually liked.
Ah, Lonesome Dove was one of my top 10 as soon as I read it. Strangely, I haven't been able to get enthused about any other McMurtry.
Loved the mini-series, then enjoyed the book as well.
The lesson of "To Kill a Mockingbird": Bitches lie about rape.
Better be colorized and in 3D.
Colorized?
"Conception begins when Barack Obama injects race into your classic American tale."
"Harper Lee?" sounds like a woman's name.
Plus, she could read and she wrote a book, so she is a witch, essentially.
To be fair, most Rightards will tune out assuming it is a documentary by the Audubon Society.
No way, it's a huntin show! Yee ha!
Bird-Hunting Show…..FIXED!
Like the rest of Real America, I'll be watching Swamp People instead.
Hillbilly Handfishin' fer me!
Haven't you used your body as an amusement park enough today?!
Finally a happy post. Gregory Peck, Harper Lee, and Barak Obama for a massive quantity of win!
Ain't that the truth?
And if this works out well, USA Network will have George W. Bush and Herman Cain introduce their 18-year anniversary showing of "Dumb and Dumber" later this year.
Huh? I thought that was a documentary of Umerica.
MFer, I want more movie!
I was asked to do an intro to Fapper in the Rye.
Mitt Romney will be introducing audiences nation wide to the spectacle of the Wizard of Oz…. and he will reveal that he got cut from the original movie as the character in search of a personality.
Best Tee-shirt my hubby ever had (and is now faded from being worn and washed since 2000) was one with a picture of Dubya as Strawman and Cheny as Tin Man, with caption for Dubya "If I only had a brain", and for Cheney "If I only had a heart." At least one of them got his wish.
He was cut because he kept swiping the yellow bricks, whenever nobody was looking.
I read that whole book and I still don't know how to kill a mockingbird.
Single biggest disappointment since The Neverending Story
Talk about elitist! An uncolorized black and white movie without any explosions?
Is this the movie where the black guy fights off all the zombies? I love that movie!
Close. Surprisingly close.
Oh great, now I'm thirsty.
In NOObama's version, America apologizes to the mockingbird instead of killing it.
Can I introduce the Weater Channel's reading of Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"?
Nah. Wait for the reading of Tis Pity She's (he, it or all) is a Whore, in the original.
"I'm tired of all these mutherfucking mockingbirds in this mutherfucking coutroom."
Classic movie. Just classic.
Well, if a badass like Saml. L Jackson had played the Tom Robinson role, perhaps that escape scene might have gone down differently.
"If I had a trial in the South, it would look like Tom Robinson's"
Harper Lee, intelligent female, from Alabama.
I just like saying a nice thing about this God foresaken place whenever it is possibly possible.
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Really? A 20+ year member of Rev. Jeremiah Wright’s Church of Hate and
Bigotry is going to be introducing the film? Good thing I will be watching ‘The Ten Commandments’ on ABC this Saturday which I doubt Obama will be watching since there are Jews in it.
God, these people.
Oh, I'm sure nobody in the cast of "The Ten Commandments" ever engaged in any lascivious Hollywood debauchery! (I'm looking at you, wife-cloning John Derek.)
I doubt Obama will be watching it because he'll be busy having a Passover Seder with his Jewish staffers. God, these people, indeed.
I doubt Obama will be watching it because it's always on every damn year, everyone's seen it already, and it's four and half fuckin' hrs long.
And it is really a pretty sucky movie, too.
Actually, a pretty good movie treatment of the whole Exodus story is, believe it or not, "Prince of Egypt".
The only way to watch "The Ten Commandments" is while throwing a big ol' campy party where all the guests have to dress as their favorite characters, which I keep threatening to do one of these years. Although that kind of party is something I might have done 20 years ago when I wasn't old and married.
Ooooh. OOohh. Can I come as the burning bush?
That's the Spirit!
I have never seen this movie. I HAVE seen the one where Mel Brooks drops the 5 we didn't need anyway, so I feel like I could still contribute to a conversation at this party of yours.
Also, give it the mst3k treatment.
i'll be nefertiri. cause, you know, i look just as much like an ancient egyptian as anne baxter did. maybe more.
and moses took the rod of god in his hand.
"Look grandfather – Nubians!"
Yeah, because The Ten Commandments is chock full of Jews. Jews like Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Anne Baxter, Yvonne DeCarlo, Vincent Price, Cedric Hardwicke, Nina Foch, John Carradine oh wait, Edward G. Robinson was Jewish, so there was at least one Jew in the movie, even if he was a liberal.
With special guest star Sen. Tim Johnson (D-Minn.), as himself.
(woof!)
Wait till you find out how he introduces "Mandingo…."
In Rick Santorum's America, "A Raisin In The Sun" will only be performed with an all-white cast!!
His version will be "A Prune in the Sun".
The sequel: "Runs in the Sun".
Or with an actual raisin. These people don't "get" literature.
An ensemble cast starring the California Raisins!
Also Porgy and Bess, also.
In blackface.
In Rick Perry's America, it would be "A-Raisin' Hell in the Sun". YEE-HAA!!
Aticus!
In other news, Newt Gingrich will introduce "Song of the South" on the Disney channel.
In other news, Mitt Romney's introduction of "Homeward Bound" on Animal Planet did not go well.
His performance in "Dog on a Cold Car Roof" did not go over very well, either.
"miss jean louise, stand up. your father's passin'."
I can make myself cry just to think of Rev. Sykes telling Scout that.
Arguably, a more incendiary work than Huck Finn, but in my school district, we read Mockingbird a year earlier.
& I am pretty sure a certain epithet is in both (though in greater number in Huck).
You make me almost wish I could read.
In todays economy Mocking bird is the new Chicken. Thanks to the GOP.
It's a little unusual though that they have scheduled "Blackula" to run in the timeslot immediately thereafter.
Quite actual too. ♪Though hope is frail, it's hard to kill♪.
One thing I like is that they pronounce the Hebrew names correctly. That, and Tziporah (a Midianite, ie Arab woman) isn't a pale redhead. Sheesh. OTOH, it's a tossup between Yul Brynner and Ralph Fiennes as to who was the most badass Rameses.
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