Abstract
There's some buzz about Bill O'Reilly's racially ignorant remarks about Sylvia's Restaurant in Harlem. But the darling of left-liberal media jokesters, Jon Stewart, had a good time on his Friday, September 21 show, first, at the expense of President Bush, and then at the expense of Nelson Mandela. Blogs are cheerleading the way Stewart caught Bush in another dumb statement — that Nelson Mandela is dead. The only comments I find on the web are kudos for Stewart's bashing of Bush. No mention of Stewart animalizing Mandela with sounds that echo the mumbo-jumbo sneer at nonwhite speech, or of his gender-bending Mandela by calling him Nelly. No mention of his depicting Mandela as his sex toy.
Recommended Citation
Taylor, Clyde
(2007)
"Commentary,"
Trotter Review: Vol. 17:
Iss.
1, Article 10.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.umb.edu/trotter_review/vol17/iss1/10
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