Is nothing sacred, not even the samba?
Yesterday we were griping about the way NBC's "Green Week" crusade had infiltrated a perfectly good NFL football game. Today brings news that not even the presumably politics-free "Dancing With the Stars" is immune from BDS.
"Morning Joe" today twice rolled tape from last night's "Dancing with the Stars" in which Len Goodman, a Brit who is the head judge, managed to sneak in a shot at President Bush. He was speaking to a dancing pair, apparently after their performance.
View video here.
LEN GOODMAN: You know, Tom, just because you come from Brazil doesn't necessarily mean you're going to be good at the samba. In the same way, just because you come from Texas doesn't mean to say you're going to be a good president.
The dancing couple reacted with shock, and one of the other judges mimed Goodman's papers being torn up [shown here] and exclaimed: "there goes the visa!"
Back at "Morning Joe," host Joe Scarborough and panelist Willie Geist were underwhelmed by Goodman's foray into politics.
JOE SCARBOROUGH: Good lord!
WILLIE GEIST: I know, when you want politics, you turn to one place: "Dancing With the Stars."
SCARBOROUGH: That's right. I want social commentary from some guy I've never even heard of.
GEIST [facetiously]: Some guy? Now wait a minute. Some guy? That's the head judge, that's Len Goodman, the head judge in "Dancing With the Stars." That's not some guy.
MIKA BRZEZINSKI: Just in case you didn't know.
GEIST: Also, it came out of nowhere. Enough.
SCARBOROUGH: Exactly. Go home. We don't want your kind here.
At the end of the show, Willie discussed the incident with MSNBC celebrity correspondent Courtney Hazlett, who was similarly unimpressed.
COURTNEY HAZLETT: It sort of smacks of these award shows when people come up to get their Oscar or their Grammy or whatnot and they turn it into some sort of political stance. They turn their speech into: "please don't vote for this person or that person." Or save the whatever. So I don't think this is going to go very well . . . Let's keep this entertainment, that's why people are tuning in, I feel this is [unintelligible -- perhaps "a horse they're beating"?] all the time. It had nothing to do, it was not germane to anything that had happened in the show. It was not like people were waving signs in the audience or anything like that.GEIST: He'd been holding that one for weeks, and he finally got the chance to deliver it. Enough with the politics, stick to the rumba or whatever that --
HAZLETT: Right.
—Mark Finkelstein is a NewsBusters contributing editor and host of Right Angle. Contact him at mark@gunhill.net.
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Brits have never got over it
November 6, 2007 - 11:30 ET by Lame CherryThe Brits for being our brother nation have never got over that a bunch of Colonials kicked their asses back to the Canuck line and then got their noses rubbed in it by John Paul Jones.........and got a good dose of "up yours" by Andy Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans.........and for the cherry on top America by God's grace saved them in World War I, World War II and Reagan saved their putrid economy by the Sultan of Brunei when George Soros made a criminal run on the Pound.
Elvis Costello is the same putrid little worm........and Paul McCartney is a sissy socialist hiding here for years in his volumes of cash until retiring for a knighthood back to the land of Benny Hill "pretty boys".
The Brits have exceptional men and women, but the anal discharge which rises to the surface now as "leaders" of the British spewing idiocy are in no way the league of Drake, Wolfe or Churchill.
Pity these small limeys have to be so weak as water and shallow as it really is a bore.
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More than any of the events
November 6, 2007 - 11:40 ET by NL207More than any of the events you mention, the one thing that shook the Brits to their core was the inability of their vaunted Navy to prevent the upstart US Navy from driving their commerce from the seas. The Brits had no choice in 1815 but to negotiate a peace when Lloyd's and the other major London insurers would no longer underwrite the risk of a British flag merchantman at sea.
A contributing factor was the stunning defeats of a several of their cruisers in single ship actions against what the British population had previously regarded as matterially inferior opponents.
Annuit Coeptis
November 6, 2007 - 11:45 ET by mattmAnnuit Coeptis
The way I see it is, we
November 6, 2007 - 15:34 ET by bassndudeThe way I see it is, we kicked them out of this country once. I dont see any reason that we couldent kick them out again. Tar and feather this boy and tie him to a log and set him adrift on course for London.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal!!
Don't forget the Battle of
November 6, 2007 - 20:39 ET by stratmanDon't forget the Battle of Lake Erie in 1813!
Thank you Commodore Oliver Hazzard Perry:
VERY dissappointed Len would inject a crass political statement during a lovely dance show. The crowd was mixed in reaction with a loud contingent of boo's plainly heard. Even his fellow judges were embarrassed by the Limey's error.
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
Right about now I think the
November 6, 2007 - 11:34 ET by drillanwrRight about now I think the public in general is reaching for the TUCKS and the Imodium AD regarding all this ceaseless and pointless political diarrhea of the celebrity mouth(s) ...
it's getting old
November 6, 2007 - 11:42 ET by mam646yeah, i saw this last night and i automatically rolled my eyes all the way back; it's old and it's getting boring; it's bad enough to have americans go overseas and trash the US - then to have foreigners come HERE and trash it... joke or not it gets old.
joke or not it gets old.
November 6, 2007 - 12:01 ET by Chris NormanIt really does. Bush bashing jokes are so overdone, almost out of date and anti-climatic. But, these dorks know it's safe and, in fact, required. They'll probably be doing this twenty years from now - like those cutting edge Nixon jokes.
he was talking about
November 6, 2007 - 12:10 ET by TruthMongerhe was talking about Johnson IMHO:)...
and he's right, dammit...
the way the british libs have been bitching about Bush over the last few years they're starting to sound like our 51'st STATE...
they need to start paying some US tax if that's the case...
Partner with Islam and the NB respect police:)
That's what I said too,
November 6, 2007 - 14:19 ET by JacksonCalhounThat's what I said too, he's talking about LBJ.
Pretty pathetic that even a "cultured" man like Goodman has to throw in a cheap shot like that, BDS knows no bounds.
Len was talking to Helio
November 6, 2007 - 15:17 ET by motherbeltLen was talking to Helio Castroneves (who is from Brazil) and his partner, after their Samba.
But after saying that didn't necessarily mean he would be good at the Samba, Goodman said that Helio WAS actually good at the Samba and scored him a 9 out of 10.
So I guess while coming from Texas didn't necessarily mean you'd be a good President, it turned out that way for Bush, too.
That's the way I'm taking it.
Mr BBC can take his british
November 6, 2007 - 12:15 ET by charlietexasMr BBC can take his british butt back home, butt, before he leaves
he can stop by Texas and will give him an old fashion TEXAS ass
whippin.....and keep your left wing comments to yourself.
Mom
Obviously, Goodman has
November 6, 2007 - 20:42 ET by stratmanObviously, Goodman has never heard the (true) statement:
Killing them with kindness isn't working. Time to get scrappy with the Donkeys.
If it were up to the
November 6, 2007 - 14:25 ET by deus_ex_machinaIf it were up to the conservatives, we'd still be speaking English.
???
November 6, 2007 - 15:12 ET by KarmaI'm not smart enough. Please explain. Slowly. In English.
Lighten up!
November 6, 2007 - 15:06 ET by IamTinmanNow folks, don't go getting all nationalistic over a poor attempt at a joke! WE've all said things about other foreign leaders, we ought to be able to take a few punches. Fact is there are a lot of us who voted for "W" who don't think he's done such a great job aside from national security. Although, since I got an all expenses paid tour of southeast asia courtesy of LBJ, I prefer to think old Len was talking about him not George!!!
I have a question ato
November 6, 2007 - 16:03 ET by 4arrowI have a question ato askand I seriously would like opinions from folks on this forum.
I tuned into the Jack VanImpe show on Sunday and he said the show , DWTS was sinfull and sinfull to watch. I was raised in a large clad that loved to dance. Is his opinion common?
I think his problem is with
November 6, 2007 - 16:10 ET by motherbeltI think his problem is with the skimpy costumes the women wear...and some Protestant denominations don't believe in dancing at all...that may be it.
that should be large
November 6, 2007 - 16:12 ET by 4arrowthat should be large clan...I have a coad ; )
There are a few of
November 6, 2007 - 16:45 ET by Chris NormanThere are a few of the professionally offended on the right, also.
I stopped watching
November 6, 2007 - 17:38 ET by ChaitealoverI originally enjoyed this show. OK, I watched hoping some big name celebrity would make a fool of themselves, then was pleasantly surprised at the hard work they put in and how many became good dancers.
But as time went on, the women's costumes got skimpier & skimpier and the dance moves got more and more suggestive. I gave up after last year when some of the couples almost appeared to be having sex while dancing.
Then this year they gave a slot to Mark Cuban, the man who produced Brian De Palma's "Redacted." [American military as rapists and murderers]. I decided there was no reason to watch it anymore.
Chai
The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living, and the get-rich-quick theory of life. Theodore Roosevelt
I have news for Jack van
November 6, 2007 - 20:02 ET by 4arrowI have news for Jack van (son of) Impe no explaination needed.
My Daddy taught me to waltz in our kitchen, standing on his shoes. Only a pervert projecting would see anything dirty in that.
Man what an idiot. A
November 6, 2007 - 22:08 ET by GregEMan what an idiot. A metaphor of samba and Brazil makes sense. A metaphor of presidents to Texas is just words. Texas is not known as a president producing state. Nice try though Len. I guess he thinks making a metaphor of something that can't be one is savvy. Well, whatever floats the ol' boat. God bless em.