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The FEMA-ization of CPB
Posted by Clif on 06/22/06 at 1:27 am
Category: America's Shittiest Website, White House, Wingnuts
Following the White House’s tradition of appointing unqualified partisan hacks, Bush has announced the appointment of Warren Bell to the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Bell, a sitcom writer, producer and co-perpetrator of Coach and According to Jim, is also a frequent poster at America’s Shittiest Website™ (a/k/a The Corner) and a regular contributor to the right-wing segregationist rag National Review.
Some of Warren’s most notable contributions to National Review and America’s Shittiest Website™ are — surprise, surprise — racist and sexist which makes him, of course, the perfect Bush appointee.
First, consider Warren’s defense of why there aren’t any black people on his juvenile yawnfest According to Jim:
Yesterday the head of Disney’s Touchstone Television and the head of casting for ABC/Disney called me to, er, suggest that According to Jim might do a little better this year in terms of casting minorities in significant roles. Our admittedly dismal track record was recited to me — two Asian-Americans, one Latino (oh, dear, is that the right term?) in roles of “guest star” billing during the 26-episode course of last season.
With you guys I can whine a little. It’s really hard! Half of our guest stars end up in fistfights with one of the regulars. So am I supposed to cast the first African-American neighbor in the history of the show, only to have Jim punch him out for being a loudmouth?
Leaving aside the implication that all African-Americans are “loudmouths,” this is rather like saying that the reason for not hiring black baseball players is to relieve them the embarrassment of striking out.
Just as bad is Warren’s National Review Online column where he posts a giant “No Girls Allowed” sign on his comedy treehouse:
Are women as innately funny as men? The answer, I can tell you without fear of contradiction, is…(gets up, goes to door, checks both ways in hall) …er…(checks again, closes door)…ummm…(remembers that almost every TV comedy development executive in town is a woman)…well, it’s a damn good question, isn’t it?
Wait a second. This is National Review Online. What are the odds of a woman in the notoriously liberal television industry seeing this?
Okay, men are funnier. Way funnier. Not even close. Male writers, male actors, male stand-up comedians. All funnier.
No, that’s not parody. Bell is dead serious. Of course you can only believe this shit if you believe that Bell’s episodes of Coach kick I Love Lucy’s butt and will still be in syndication fifty years from now.
Bell has announced that his first act at CPB will be to promote a dramatic adaptation of Toni Morrison’s Beloved cast entirely with white guys.
Cross-posted at The American Street.
