I missed this nugget during my Oscar liveblogging. From the Weekly Standard’s “Scrapbook,” March 20:
When George Clooney accepted his Oscar for best actor in a supporting role earlier this month, he mentioned that “we are a little bit out of touch in Hollywood every once in a while. I think it’s probably a good thing. . . . This Academy, this group of people, gave Hattie McDaniel an Oscar in 1939 when blacks were still sitting in the backs of theaters.”
In the midst of all the self-congratulatory back-patting, he omitted one relevant detail: McDaniel and her guest were forced to sit by themselves during the ceremony—in the back of the hall.
Makes me shudder to think what the paragons of self-contratulatory racial egalitarianism served their future token anecdotes for dinner.
Macaroni with moldy cheese, on a dirty plate.
There you go, pointing out facts again.
That’s the deep thinking I have come to expect, and rely on, from Hollywood…
Hmmm.
Fried chicken and watermelon.
And considering the awful “rubber chicken” dishes I’ve eaten at official functions I’d have preferred that myself.
I can think of worse things than being as far away from that podium as possible with a plate of good fried chicken an a healthy slice of sweet watermelon.
Shit I’d hump somebody’s leg right now to get a plate of that. Don’t even ask me what I’d do for a North Carolina style pulled pork sandwich with coleslaw.
Future token anecdotes: you mean when they congratulate themselves for being brave enough to discuss real gay love in Brokeback Mountain while several gay men, sitting in the audience with their wives or pregnant girlfriends, applaud?
How come everytime a liberal starts flapping their gums, it sounds like something out of Spinal Tap.
TW: Can you say: brain dead?
Can you smell the irony?
Further, just how many years passed before they gave their next token symbol representing their progressive humanity an Oscar?
And, why does Clooney feel he must hide behind the Liberal act if his considers his cause so noble?
Cowards the lot of em!
What did they pay McDaniel relative to the other actors?
Hmmmmm?