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Lady GaGa ‘Telephone’ Video Causes Outrage!

Posted on 16 March 2010 by Loretta

Not everyone is a fan of Lady GaGa’s new video for Telephone.

Fox News aired this video of women complaining about GaGa.  Check it out.

I really don’t see the big deal here.  If you don’t like the video, then don’t watch it.

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What do you think?

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Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Controversy

Posted on 25 June 2009 by Tammy Cakes

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen hasn’t even been out for 24 hours and its critics are already attacking the mega-blockbuster summer movie.

Eonline reports that some of the the critics anger seems to be aimed at the movie’s twin autobots Skids and Mudflap,  whose over-the-top, hip-hop-inspired vernacular and stereotypically black-sounding voices are, at best, racially and culturally insensitive and, at worst, grossly ignorant and offensive.

The blog site UGO is claiming that the movie seems to some how offend everyone…Muslims, Asians, Jews, Italians, Scots, German, the French, women….but that’s a whole other story.

The twin autobots, when not incognito as Chevy concept vehicles, sport gold teeth, can’t read and cite their place of origin as “da hood.”

The New York Times‘ Manola Dargis describes their voices, provided by Tom Kenny and Reno Wilson, as “conspicuously cartoonish” in a way that indicates “minstrelsy remains as much in fashion in Hollywood” as when The Phantom Menace reared its head 10 years ago. And AP critic Christy Lemire referred to the autobots as “Jar Jar Binks in car form.”

Back in 99′, George Lucas was scrutinized for unleashing his Jar Jar Binks character with his subservient, suspicously accent.

And, as CinemaBlend’s Josh Tyler reminds us, Skids and Mudflap are more than “a collection of every bad stereotype imaginable, not targeted at any one ethnicity.” There is no doubt that audiences will argue the various levels of offensiveness Transformers provides, but if that doesn’t bother you the obscene amount of money that was spent building a bombastic visual spectacle atop a flimsy, cliché-ridden script will.

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Sarah Palin Finally Makes Nice With David Letterman

Posted on 16 June 2009 by Tammy Cakes

This fight all started last Monday when David Letterman made some risque remark about Sarah Palin’s 18 year old daughter, Bristol, and Alex Rodriguez saying,“During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” He than added,“The governor visited Yankee Stadium, sitting in “far, far right field” with Rudy Giuliani.

Palin and her husband were furious because they thought that the comment was about their 14 year old daughter, Willow, and thus outraged with discuss.

Then on Wednesdays show Dave tried to clear that up and said that the comment was about Bristol and that he was sorry, but she shouldn’t be so mad because like all late night talk show hosts, they make fun of people in the media. So, if Palin didn’t want her family to be picked at she shouldn’t have brought them in the spot light with her.

Palin didn’t accept his sort of apology and lashed out Friday on The Today Show, claiming that Dave needed to apologize to “young women across the country” for making the lewd joke.

On last nights show, David Letterman apologized again by saying to Palin, “It’s not your fault that it was misunderstood, it’s my fault. So I would like to apologize, especially to the two daughters involved, Bristol and Willow, and also to the governor and her family and everybody else who was outraged by the joke. I’m sorry about it and I’ll try to do better in the future. Thank you very much.”

Today apparently, Palin has cooled down and now accepts Dave’s apology saying, “Of course, it’s accepted on behalf of young women, like my daughters, who hope men who ‘joke’ about public displays of sexual exploitation of girls will soon evolve.”

She continued, “Letterman certainly has the right to ‘joke’ about whatever he wants to, and thankfully we have the right to express our reaction. And this is all thanks to our U.S. Military women and men putting their lives on the line for us to secure America’s Right to Free Speech – in this case, may that right be used to promote equality and respect.”

To read more about the whole Dave/Sarah fight click here.

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David Letterman/ Sarah Palin Controversy

Posted on 11 June 2009 by Tammy Cakes

Yesterday Sarah Palin announced that she is pissed at David Letterman for making “sexually perverted comments” about one of her daughters.

On Monday, Dave joked of the former GOP VP candidate’s recent visit to New York City, “During the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez.” He than added “The governor visited Yankee Stadium, sitting in “far, far right field” with Rudy Giuliani. “They had a wonderful time,” he continued. “The toughest part of her visit was keeping Eliot Spitzer away from her daughter.”

Todd Palin fumed on Facebook: “Any ‘jokes’ about raping my 14-year-old are despicable. Alaskans know it and I believe the rest of the world knows it, too.”

From Governor Sarah Palin: “Concerning Letterman’s comments about my young daughter (and I doubt he’d ever dare make such comments about anyone else’s daughter): ‘Laughter incited by sexually-perverted comments made by a 62-year-old male celebrity aimed at a 14-year-old girl is not only disgusting, but it reminds us some Hollywood/NY entertainers have a long way to go in understanding what the rest of America understands – that acceptance of inappropriate sexual comments about an underage girl, who could be anyone’s daughter, contributes to the atrociously high rate of sexual exploitation of minors by older men who use and abuse others.’”

Last night Dave wanted to clear the air so he apologized. Well sort of.

Last night Dave responded to Palin’s comment by saying, first, that he is not a celebrity. A 62 year old man, yes, but not a celebrity. And than he went on to clear up his statement by saying that in his comment he was referring to her 18-year-old Bristol Palin, who recently gave birth to a son out of wedlock despite her mother’s high-profile abstinence advocacy, not 14 year old Willow. He admitted his jokes were in “questionable taste” and that he regrets telling them.

“We were, as we often do, making jokes about people in the news,” Letterman explained.

“These are not jokes made about her 14-year-old daughter. I would never, never make joke about raping or having sex of any description with a 14-year-old girl. Am I guilty of poor taste? Yes. Did I suggest that it was okay for her 14-year-old daughter to be having promiscuous sex? No,” he said.

Here is something even funnier than this stupid controversy. Dave’s Top 10 Monday night.

“Top Ten Highlights of Sarah Palin’s Trip to New York,” included the following: “Keyed Tina Fey’s car” (No. 7), “Finally met one of those Jewish people Mel Gibson’s always talking about” (No. 3), “Bought makeup from Bloomingdale’s to update her ’slutty flight attendant’ look” (No. 2) and “Especially enjoyed not appearing on Letterman” (No. 1).

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