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Racist Michelle Obama Email Costs Tenn. Exec Contract. A Tennessee tourism executive is feeling the wrath after forwarding an e-mail that likened Michelle Obama to a chimpanzee. Tennessee Hospitality Association CEO Walt Baker has apologized to “anyone who is offended by this action” and “the people of Tennessee, and to anybody that has either seen or been affected by this email.” The controversial e-mail, sent to Spyridon, Mayor Karl Dean’s legislative liaison, public relations executives and members of the Nashville media, compared Obama to Cheeta, the chimp sidekick in Tarzan movies. It opened with a quote attributed to comedian Larry the Cable Guy: “I don’t care who you are, this is funny…” and ended with a photo of Mrs. Obama, caught in an awkward moment with her lips pursed, and one of a chimpanzee. Baker also apologized in an e-mail to Nashville Metro Council members Saturday saying the message was not intended to be malicious but meant as “political humor.” The e-mail has already cost Baker’s a deal with the Nashville Convention and Visitors Bureau, reports the Tennessean. On Saturday, the venue said it would drop its contract with the marketing firm. “The attitudes expressed in the e-mail are both appalling and unacceptable,” the head of the NCVB told the Tennesseean, and the mayor called the message “extremely offensive.” Complicating the marketing expert’s PR fiasco is his initial reaction: “It was done in the spirit of having some fun with some close friends,” he told Nashville Scene.
No charges for Naomi Campbell in Driver Incident. It wasn’t a cab driver but rather a “chauffeur” who accused the supermodel of beating him from the back seat of a luxury SUV before she hopped out and ran off. The Associated Press reports that police consulted with the Manhattan district attorney’s office and issued a harassment report against the tempermental catwalk queen, which doesn’t carry any penalty. Arrests are unlikely in the case, authorities said. Earlier Tuesday, the driver – who had been hired to drive Campbell around New York City – told police she hit him from behind and his head struck the steering wheel of the black Cadillac Escalade, causing bruising under his right eye. He pulled over in midtown Manhattan and got out to speak to a traffic agent, who alerted police. The chauffeur, who also drives Campbell’s boyfriend, decided not to pursue the matter criminally. It’s unclear if he would pursue it in civil court. Campbell was not at the scene when officers arrived, police said. She did not speak to police, but her assistant went to the station house where the driver gave his account. A spokesman for Campbell, who has previously pleaded guilty to assaulting people hired to work for her, said she would cooperate with police. “There shouldn’t be a rush to judgment,” spokesman Jeff Raymond said. “Naomi will cooperate voluntarily, and there is more to the story than meets the eye.” The 27-year-old driver, apparently hired just for the day, told police he picked Campbell up at a Manhattan hotel and was taking her to Astoria Studios, a TV and film studio complex in Queens, New York Police Department spokesman Paul Browne said.
Three Teachers Mock Black History Month with Rodman, RuPaul and O.J. Black History Month has truly come to a close…and with what three white male teachers would call a “bang.” The school, which is 90% latino, was putting on a Black History Month parade where the children would carry pictures of famous African Americans. Well the bang those teachers were trying to make was in the form of Dennis Rodman (basketball player gone wild), RuPaul (drag queen of all drag queens), and O.J. Simpson (football player done lost his damn mind…acquitted of murdering his wife and her friend, yet still manages to land in jail for armed robbery). It appears that the teachers little jokey joke blew up in their faces. But, the only explosion was their jobs going up in flames. According to the Associated Press, the teachers have been removed from the classroom. But if the NAACP’s Los Angeles chapter president, Leon Jenkins, has anything to say about it, they will be fired. It all happened Friday at Wadsworth Avenue Elementary School in South Los Angeles. One of the parents, Sharon Tinson, told AP she was shocked to see O.J., but she “just laughed.” She has two daughters that attend the school. She also said, “Simpson, like Rodman, was a great athlete before falling from grace. RuPaul simply has an alternative lifestyle, she added.
Macy’s Nordstrom’s Others BUSTED for Selling Used Underwear. By a show of hands, how many of you buy clothes, towels, underwear, etc. that are not packaged and use them without washing them first? Don’t be ashamed, surely you’re not alone. Yesterday, NBC’s Today show exposed a ring of stores that prescribe to allowing customers return used underwear. Well, to be fair, they don’t know if they were used or not. They didn’t take out their black light on them or run them through a lab or anything, but isn’t it scary enough to know that they allow you to return them? NBC was able to get one clerk (who is probably a disgruntled former employee of Victoria’s Secret) to give up the goods on Victoria’s Secret. She went as far as to say they have taken a pair of panties with an “odor” and let them hang up until said smell was gone. YIKES! Now that is the worst of the worst. They were able to prove that stores like Macy’s, Nordstrom’s, The Gap, Express, Victoria’s Secret and others were allowing their customers to return their underwear. Forgive me if I’m wrong, but didn’t stores used to have a policy, a POSTED policy, that all underwear is non-returnable?
Report: Elin Moving Back In with Tiger. RadarOnline.com is reporting that Elin Nordegren will end her three-month break from philandering husband Tiger Woods and has agreed to move back into the house. After going away with Tiger and their two children last week, Elin decided earlier this week to move back into their home in Windermere Fl, the Web site reported. She is currently renting a house about a mile from the property. On Wednesday, Elin and Tiger spent approximately three hours together at the house. They were in the backyard, and a source close to the situation told RadarOnline.com exclusively that at one point Tiger kissed Elin on the cheek three times and they hugged.
Tiger’s Caddy: ‘Of Course I’m Mad At Him’. Add Tiger Woods’ caddy to the long list of people upset with the superstar golfer. In an interview with New Zealand commercial television network TV3, Steve Williams expressed anger and frustration at his boss over the string of adulterous affairs and said he would have exposed Tiger’s secret had he known. “I’m a straight-up sort of person. If I had known something was going on, the whistle would have been blown,” said Williams, adding that he was angry after the revelations emerged, but his role was to be a friend to Woods. “Of course I’m mad at him, why would you not be?” Williams said. “I’m close with his wife and he’s got two lovely children and he’s let them down. …When a guy’s having a tough time, it’s not up to me to beat him with a stick right now. He’s getting enough grilling from everybody else. “Tiger’s one of my closest friends and he needs my support right now and I’d never think of walking away.” The New Zealander said he had not spoken to Woods about his transgressions since it made world headlines in November. “When I talk to him, I don’t talk to him about what’s happened. I talk to him about the future and about what we’re going to try to accomplish and how we’re going to get over it,” Williams said.
If you ever testify in court, you might wish you could have been as sharp as this policeman. He was being cross-examined by a defense attorney during a felony trial. The lawyer was trying to undermine the police officer’s credibility…
Q: ‘Officer — did you see my client fleeing the scene?’
A: ‘No sir. But I subsequently observed a person matching the description of the offender, running several blocks away.’
Q: ‘Officer — who provided this description?’
A: ‘The officer who responded to the scene.’
Q: ‘A fellow officer provided the description of this so-called offender. Do you trust your fellow officers?’
A: ‘Yes, sir. With my life.’
Q: ‘With your life? Let me ask you this then officer. Do you have a room where you change your clothes in preparation for your daily duties?’
A: ‘Yes sir, we do!’
Q: ‘And do you have a locker in the room?’
A: ‘Yes sir, I do.’
Q: ‘And do you have a lock on your locker?’
A: ‘Yes sir.’
Q: ‘Now why is it, officer, if you trust your fellow officers with your life, you find it necessary to lock your locker in a room you share with these same officers?’
A: ‘You see, sir — we share the building with the court complex, and sometimes lawyers have been known to walk through that room.’
The courtroom EXPLODED with laughter, and a prompt recess was called. The officer on the stand has been nominated for this year’s ‘Best Comeback’ line — and we think he’ll win.
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In a recent interview,
General Norman Schwarzkopf
was asked if he thought
there was room for forgiveness
toward the people who have harbored
and abetted the terrorists who perpetrated
the 9/11 attacks on America .
His answer was classic Schwarzkopf.
The General said, ” I believe that forgiving them is God’s function.
OUR job is to arrange the meeting. ” AMEN
Can Reverend Al Sharpton keep his daughter away from her violent boyfriend? Last week, 23-year old Dominique Sharpton suffered a busted lip after her boyfriend punched her in the mouth, and threw her out of a car. The boyfriend in question is 23-year old Latrelle Peeks. He’s 6’7 and 250 pounds. His mother says it was just a scuffle, and people are only talking about it because Reverend Al Sharpton’s daughter is involved. The NYPD wants her to press charges, but Dominique Sharpton won’t cooperate. Maybe Reverend Al can talk some sense into her. Violence against women is not cool. Never has never will be.
Christian Boarding Scholl Head Accused of Violence. Dr. Jack Patterson, founder of the Christian boarding school, Reclamation Ranch, goes on trial for aggravated child abuse March 10 in Blount County Alabama. The trial comes two years after a 17-year-old male resident came forward with charges of severe abuse, torture and beating. “The search by law enforcement and the questioning of involved minors yielded corroboration of the original allegations and evidence of other instances of mistreatment,” said Blount County District Attorney Tommy Rountree, in a Birmingham News article. One report said investigators seized handcuffs and shackles from the facility, and as the clip mentions handguns and rifles were also present. Ultimately, eleven juvenile boys were sent home from Reclamation Ranch pending the outcome of the investigation. Jack Patterson was at the courthouse in November 2008 when Alabama Circuit Court Judge Steve King made the ruling. He wasn’t alone – about 200 of his supporters came out that day. A handful of those gathered, according to the Birmingham News, blew Dr. Jack kisses as he looked down from a second story window.
Anybody besides me so sick and tire of all these so-called reality shows. Has TV become so mute
to creativity, that they saturate the market with so call shows. Some of them are actually stage
to go a certain way. So much for reality, hang on to that thought. When are the producers of said
TV shows going come up with creative television shows. The alphabet stations why everyone is
turning to cable, just think what you are trying to make us digest on the air – bullshyt at it’s best.
When there are good shows for family and adults you cancel them as though they are not important
to us. Here we go with another reality show instead. Get a grip industry cable is winning out all over
the place because of their aggressive programing and interests.
Is Mariah Carey’s drinking getting out of control. At a recent show in Las Vegas, concert goers had to wait two hours for her to come on stage. Reps for Carey claim she needs help with her throat, but inside sources say it’s her drinking, and it’s out of control. She loves champagne, and she drinks it like water. Carey has been drinking for a while, but it wasn’t until the Palm Springs Film Festival when she appeared in public drunk that people started to notice. Her close friends want her to get help, and her husband Nick Cannon is having a hard time dealing with her. He has his own career, but he may have to put it on hold to help his wife. Will she seek the help she needs? Can Nick get her away from the champagne?
Mariah should be happy, don’t understand her behavior. Now what is her insecurities? Surely not
her body let her show and tell. As though that is the only thing she has going for herself. OK girlfriend
tried acting whoop de do, don’t leave your day job. You are a weak mind, strong person, with a wonderful
husband to lean on, let him help you, or are you that needy?