Apparently, Jerry Seinfeld heard Shakes’ Sis say she won’t be buying any more Seinfeld DVDs after Michael Richards openly pined for the good ol’ days of lynching and public n-bombs.
Shakes’ Sis also has the footage from Richards’ apology on Letterman, which came during Seinfeld’s appearance on the show. At the end of the interview, Seinfeld says he wanted to help a friend apologize to the country.
*ahem*
Bullshit.
Yeah, sure, maybe Jerry felt a little bit of “hey, my unquestionably racist buddy needs a break on national TV.” Being a multimillionaire one-trick Three Stooges wannabe is a tough racket. If he doesn’t get a chance to pretend he’s not a bigot, he might not be able to swindle more money mailing in third-rate stand-up gigs (except in the kinds of towns that name their high school mascot “Johnny Reb”).
Seinfeld has to know many fans will feel the same way Shakes’ Sis did about buying Seinfeld products in the future, and I think he foresees the kind of dip in his earnings potential that might prevent him from purchasing Grenada as an anniversary present for another future child bride.
If he really wanted to help Michael Richards, Seinfeld would suggest the assclown find some way to use his pile of money to actually work with people in the African-American community in some meaningful way instead of just letting him come on air and say there’s racism in all of us and he’s sorry he’s been a bad boy. When Letterman asked what else Richards was going to do other than apologize, Richards clearly hadn’t even _considered_ doing anything other than “personal work,” which I take to mean enhancing the diversity in his life. Which probably means hiring more black folk around his mansion and/or raising the pay of any he might’ve inadvertantly “forked in the ass.”
No way around it: Seinfeld trumpeted the apology hoping to earn holiday cash from more than just the KKK’s Amazon wish list.
The good news is that I’m sure Wal-Mart will order an extra batch of the season where Kramer burns the Puerto Rican flag. Maybe they can even set up an in-store display showing Richards festively lynching with a wreath one of the many black actors never hired on Seinfeld’s lilly-white show.
The Mel Gibson thing sort of evaporated because of money as well.
Funny how money will twist people’s souls/morality/fortitude…
Buying any more Seinfeld DVDs? Why would anybody have bought any in the first place? That was never a show that rewarded the viewer upon repeat.
[...] I’m a little late to the news-wagon, but I just found out in class tonight about the whole Michael-Richards-asshole-racist thing (see more at TMZ). It was interesting, then, to come home and find a post over at punkassblog about how Jerry Seinfield went on David Letterman and had Richards come on and give a little apology. Interesting quote from the site: When Letterman asked what else Richards was going to do other than apologize, Richards clearly hadn’t even _considered_ doing anything other than “personal work,” which I take to mean enhancing the diversity in his life. Which probably means hiring more black folk around his mansion and/or raising the pay of any he might’ve inadvertantly “forked in the ass.” [...]
That was truly the most vile, disgusting thing I’ve seen in a long time, and I’ve lived through war. What’s even more disturbing is the fact that the media has been glossing over so much of the hatred in the speech. I guess they don’t want the whitefolks to see the naked truth of how prevalent white supremacy still is. I guess if he were a famous politician whose downfall would help the feminist movement, we’d see more outrage coming from the white feminist blogosphere, but as of yet, very few have stepped forward to say anything.
That was never a show that rewarded the viewer upon repeat.
Heh. No shit. I watched the Soup Nazi episode, the only one that I ever liked, once. Laughed my ass off. The next time I saw it (in syndication), I didn’t laugh at all through the entire episode. What a crock of shit that show was. Either way, even if it was good, Michael Richards is not someone I would want to ever receive money from me.
[...] Don’t let a little racism get in the way of your holiday DVD shopping at PunkAssBlog.com Yeah, sure, maybe Jerry felt a little bit of “hey, my unquestionably racist buddy needs a break on national TV.” Being a multimillionaire one-trick Three Stooges wannabe is a tough racket. If he doesn’t get a chance to pretend he’s not a bigot, he (tags: Richards racism) [...]
TUS, that’s right. Never miss a change to shit on the womenfolk.
Come on, McBoing, you know that nothing is more effective than going to a place where your target is already doing what you want and then lecturing them because everyone else isn’t. That’s why I, a paying movie theater patron, was moved to tears by previews about how awful a person I was for watching pirated movies.
or at all, really