Joan Rivers call Obama Gay/Michael/Michelle a Tranny

CajunCrimson said:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertai...-family-members-stand-vigil-article-1.1922473

Not saying Obama had anything to do with it......

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I always thought she would die having some weird cosmetic surgery done.

Joan Rivers was on life-support Saturday as her daughter, family and friends kept an increasingly grim vigil at a Manhattan hospital.
The 81-year-old Rivers, initially placed in a medically induced coma after going into cardiac and respiratory arrest on Thursday, was dependent on the machines to keep her alive, TMZ.com reported.
Sources told the Daily News that Rivers’ daughter, Melissa, is “in denial” over her mother’s condition.


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertain...#ixzz3BzYCuW6n

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Now that's just silly. It takes every healthy human some time to come to terms with what they maybe ought to do. And it's not an easy reality to come to terms with. Besides, she was hospitalized Thursday, and by Saturday she's in denial? I'd be worried if someone wanted to pull the plug within two days.

I think it is funny that she can talk about someone's look, but forgets to look in the mirror most days.

Let me add onto my point from above:

I don't want the President of the USA (ANY President) telling racial jokes at a press conference. That would be insanely ridiculous. But I DO think there's too much of a rush to pound people into nothing over slips of the tongue or even privately held opinions that are at least minimally reasonable. I don't know how many of you are old enough to remember Al Campanis and what he did. Campanis was on "Nightline" in 1987 to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut. IIRC, Campanis was Robinson's roommate (I'm sure I read that somewhere years later). Ted Koppel interviewed Campanis and asked him about why there were so few blacks in executive positions in MLB. Campanis was caught between his employer (and the Old Boy network) and race - and he proceeded to make the worst comments about it, saying that he didn't think there was any prejudice among the owners because he felt blacks might not "really" possess the intelligence or qualities of leadership to be a field manager.

Now make no mistake - what Campanis said WAS offensive (although I doubt he could have helped his dilemma by saying, "I think a lot of our owners are closet Klan members" or even something much softer than that). It wasn't that there shouldn't have been some public reaction to it and maybe a closer look taken.

The problem was that Campanis in his career had been one of the loudest and boldest advocates for the ADVANCEMENT of blacks in baseball. He had a spectacular career of advancing blacks at all levels of the Dodgers and this one interview was the ONE anomaly, the one time that the words came out wrongly or whatever.


Shouldn't his comments have been viewed alongside the rest of his public life? Campanis was fired and died about a decade later as the butt of jokes having never gotten another chance to redeem himself. I, too, was one making fun of him until the Internet came along and I did some research and realized his ENTIRE story and not just one unfortunate interview.


I'm not defending anything Campanis said - and yes, I even understand there's a level of responsibility that Campanis had to think before he spoke. But shouldn't even his interviewer have viewed Campanis through the lens of his whole life and not just a couple of sentences?

That's all I'm saying.

Surfing through the tabloids, it appears that there is a high chance Joan Rivers opinions are past tense.

R I P

Yes RIP indeed......to an amazingly talented entertainer. She came from the classic school of stand-up comedy and was a hilariously funny lady who made so many of us laugh through the years. A very sad day.....she will be missed.

She grated on my nerves.Too mean-spirited for my taste.