Blackface Bites: Sarah Silverman Fired from Flick for Old Pic

[Right_in_Virginia]

Blackface Bites: Sarah Silverman Fired from Flick for Old Pic
NewsBusters, Aug 12, 2019

Turns out, some lefties do lose their jobs over blackface incidents. Sure, they’re not politicians -- the media/Democrats don’t give up power that easily. But it’s still kind of fun to see cracks in the not-as-I-do hypocrisy that protects liberals from having to live by their own ever-changing rules.

Comic and progressive zealot Sarah Silverman “was recently fired from a film after producers unearthed a still of her in 2007 wearing blackface for a comedy sketch.,” reported the Guardian August 12. Silverman related the story on the The Bill Simmons Podcast, saying that, “at 11pm the night before” she was to start shooting, “they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface” from a 2007 episode of the Sarah Silverman Show.

Her confusion and hurt at this turn of events seems genuine. “I think it’s really scary and it’s a very odd thing that it’s invaded the left primarily and the right will mimic it.” Maybe, but the constant howl of outrage -- “righteousness porn,” Silverman called it -- is a defining characteristic of the modern left. Silverman seems to be just waking up to it:

It’s like, if you’re not on board, if you say the wrong thing, if you had a tweet once, everyone is, like, throwing the first stone,” she continued. “It’s so odd. It’s a perversion. It’s really, ‘Look how righteous I am and now I’m going to press refresh all day long to see how many likes I get in my righteousness.’”

Hm. Hey Sarah, sucks, doesn’t it? But this is the world you and your pals have made.

More:  https://www.newsbusters.org/print/245904

[XenaLee]

Blackface Bites: Sarah Silverman Fired from Flick for Old Pic
NewsBusters, Aug 12, 2019

Turns out, some lefties do lose their jobs over blackface incidents. Sure, they’re not politicians -- the media/Democrats don’t give up power that easily. But it’s still kind of fun to see cracks in the not-as-I-do hypocrisy that protects liberals from having to live by their own ever-changing rules.

Comic and progressive zealot Sarah Silverman “was recently fired from a film after producers unearthed a still of her in 2007 wearing blackface for a comedy sketch.,” reported the Guardian August 12. Silverman related the story on the The Bill Simmons Podcast, saying that, “at 11pm the night before” she was to start shooting, “they fired me because they saw a picture of me in blackface” from a 2007 episode of the Sarah Silverman Show.

Her confusion and hurt at this turn of events seems genuine. “I think it’s really scary and it’s a very odd thing that it’s invaded the left primarily and the right will mimic it.” Maybe, but the constant howl of outrage -- “righteousness porn,” Silverman called it -- is a defining characteristic of the modern left. Silverman seems to be just waking up to it:

Hm. Hey Sarah, sucks, doesn’t it? But this is the world you and your pals have made.

More:  https://www.newsbusters.org/print/245904

Gotta love it when the leftist idiocy smacks the hell out of one of their very own leftists.   

[mountaineer]

Funny, it doesn't seem to have hurt this guy one bit. Funny how that works.

[EasyAce]

The only blackface I've ever trucked with is . . .



(For the uninitiated: Fender calls an amp in this style with a black background behind the control dials "blackface." Such amps made with silver backgrounds behind the dials are known as "silverface." And guitar gearheads are known to believe there are differences in the electronics and tones between the two. I've played through both and their belief isn't entirely unfounded: the blackface versions have slightly thicker sound in my experience, which suits me just fine since I like that slightly more thick sound for what I do.)

[Cyber Liberty]

Tough luck.  Dumb luck, actually.

[truth_seeker]

Comedians no more.

Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robin Williams and many others, entertained with an edge.

That edge has been destroyed, by the new looney left.

[EasyAce]

Comedians no more.

Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robin Williams and many others, entertained with an edge.

That edge has been destroyed, by the new looney left.

It's sobering to think that today Lenny Bruce---who made a lot of those people possible (at least before his legal and drug troubles turned him from a genuine comedian into a carping grouch)---would get strung up by the grandchildren of the people who considered him a trailblazer. What a difference four decades makes.

[sneakypete]

Comedians no more.

Red Foxx, Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Robin Williams and many others, entertained with an edge.

That edge has been destroyed, by the new looney left.

@truth_seeker

Red Fox was a straight-up racist that hated white people with a passion.

I was working for a company in Denver in the 70's that provided bodyguards for visiting celebs,and the owner of the company told me he met Fox at the airport with the bodyguard detail,and when he stuck his hand out to shake,Foxx gave him a hard look and said "bring my bags,boy!" He continued with that crap to the point I understand he was told to call another agency if he ever came back to Denver.

Good thing I didn't get that detail,or I would have punched his freaking lights out.

[PeteS in CA]

A Prog getting bit by the monster she helped create? "Please sir, I want some more."

[andy58-in-nh]

The only blackface I've ever trucked with is . . .

One of the best amps, ever - I wish I had one. Ray Wylie Hubbard thought so fondly of it that he included this line in the lyrics of his (awesome) song "Cooler-n-Hell": 

A '68 Camaro, candy-apple red
 4-speed transmission, chrome heads
 Rev her up and she casts a spell
 Some things here under heaven are just cooler 'n hell
 
A pack of Chesterfields, sunglasses and a suit
 A half-pint of gin and a gold tooth
 Lightnin' Hopkins and a pentatonic scale
 Some things here under heaven are just cooler 'n hell
 
A blonde Telecaster, 1955
 Donner Comp pedal, a beer bottle for a slide
 A Blackface Twin with JVLs
 Some things here under heaven are just cooler 'n hell
 
 Black mascara, L'Oréal on her lips
 A tribal tattoo just above her hips
 A honky-tonkin' woman who wears her ink well
 Some things here under heaven are just cooler 'n hell
 

[sneakypete]

A Prog getting bit by the monster she helped create? "Please sir, I want some more."

@PeteS in CA

Couldn't have happened to a more deserving bitch.

[EasyAce]

One of the best amps, ever - I wish I had one.

@andy58-in-nh
For me, there's nothing like a Gibson Les Paul plugged into a Fender amplifier. Especially a Twin Reverb, though also into a Blues Junior I use for playing small venues.

But if you want to hear the single most glorious examples of a Les Paul through a Twin Reverb, hark back to . . .

Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, "Albert's Shuffle"

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Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, "His Holy Modal Majesty"

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Mike Bloomfield & Al Kooper, "Really"

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Michael Bloomfield & Friends, "Born in Chicago"

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Michael Bloomfield & Friends, "Carmelita Skiffle"

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I can only dream of sounding that great.