By: packofnutters
10/10/2009
1:58 pm Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Ms Gillard is probably the whitest person in Australia!
How could any one expect her to have the remotest understanding of the black skit.
She has done white australians a favour though, eg ,emphasized even more for all the world to see ,how blind and biggoted and arrogant and dense most white Australians are,to the point where she now sees any form of racism as a 'joke'!
It just shows how even the most 'educated' people in positions of power sometimes just havent got a clue.
I think maybe she needs to do something 'real' to bring herself down to earth,like eg,dress as a muslim woman for a day and put on some olive makeup and brown eye contacts,then walk around town with a chid in a pram.
Lets have a talk to her after shes had that experience and ask her if she still sees a racism skit as a 'joke'
I doubt she would have the guts to do it because I think ,like a lot of politicians shes all talk and no do,and if she had harboured ideas of one day becoming Australias first woman prime minister which anyone with half a brain can see she has up her sleeve,well she's pretty much just destroyed her chances.
Its true that if you wait long enough a leopard will show its spots and she is defintely a product of a white Australian household.
< |
|
By: puyi
10/10/2009
1:29 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
AAP
October 9, 2009
Obama wins Nobel Peace Prize
Obama was honoured "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples," the head of the Norwegian Nobel Committee Thorbjoern Jagland said.
"In less than a year in office, he has transformed the way we look at ourselves and the world we live in and rekindled hope for a world at peace with itself," said the outgoing director-general of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). |
|
By: puyi
10/10/2009
1:17 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Racial skit sickens America
From: The Daily Telegraph October 09, 2009
As Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard also entered the fray today, defending the Hey Hey's intent, on one of America's top-rating morning TV talkshows, The View, it was labelled "demeaning".
"We are in what people like to call post-racial America right now with (Barack) Obama in office," The View co-host, Joy Behar, said on air.
"I'm not saying that it (racism) is gone, but we are trying to grow as a country and that's kind of a demeaning sketch that we would never do here anymore."
"The Aborigines, they don't treat them very well," Behar said.
Another host on the show, Oscar winner Whoopi Goldberg, added: "That's absolutely true.''
But Ms Gillard said the skit was meant to be good humoured.
"Thanks Harry Connick Jr, for showing the world that all whites are NOT racist buffoons," a Newsweek reader wrote.
"As a college-educated, African-American professional who confronts racism daily from cradle to grave, for no other reason than the colour of my skin; it is clear to me now more than ever, that racism against black people will never disappear but continue to be tolerated under various guises." |
|
By: packofnutters
10/10/2009
12:59 am Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
AND the good news keeps coming...
Jobless rate will have others green with envy
The latest employment data is not only a stunning result, but it suggests the Australian economy has executed another critical turning point. And it is a surprise double act that will have other...
ABC Business News - Thursday October 8, 2009, 4:20 pm
/ |
|
By: packofnutters
9/10/2009
4:25 pm Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
ALL GOOD BELOW;
Australia leaves Europe, UK, US in its wake
The remarkable about-face of Australia's economy is provoking envy from other developed nations still mired in recession. Yesterday, economists were caught off guard when the jobless rate...
ABC Business News - Friday October 9, 2009, 3:08 pm
. |
|
By: guy.longshank1
9/10/2009
4:04 pm Yahoo! Profile:
guy.longshank1 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
packofnutters
I know you post offensive comment merely to obtain recognition you lonely freek.
So here is some for you -
Do put a sock in it and crawl back to your slimey hole HECKLER! Nobody but you posts such outlandishly offensive and poor mannered comment on these BLOG's using multiple fake ID's... Be gone foul TROLL!! |
|
By: packofnutters
9/10/2009
2:08 pm Yahoo! Profile:
packofnutters Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
I see the nutters on the negative blog are back to their old tricks of complaining and moaning to YAHOO about any poster who disagrees with them .
Maybe they should all move to China.!I think they'd have a lot in common!
Their gruesome psyche frequently displaying paroxysm is the measure by which readers ascertain their lack of mental stability.
Their joint continual denial to accept that Australia has performed very well and is continuing to do so,is evidence and very similar to religious fervour indulged in by some extremists currently masqerading in our society,hell bent on causing trial and tribulations for decent,moral and hardworking citizens.
Back to the good news:
1/
AAP - Friday October 9, 2009, 10:04 am
Henry predicts strong economic forecasts
The Australian economy has performed better than expected and the next set of government forecasts will reflect that view, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry says."It is no secret that the next...
2/
Australasian Investment Review - Friday October 9, 2009, 8:27 am
Labour Market Improves, Economy Into Recovery Mode
There is no way Reserve Bank Governor Glenn Stevens and the rest of the central bank's board would have expected to have this week's rate rise vindicated so quickly and so emphatically. But...
3/
Reuters Finance News, Australia - Friday October 9, 2009, 8:23 am
Australia shares seen up on economy optimism
SYDNEY, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Australian stocks may get a boost on Friday after a strong start to the U.S. company earnings season boosted sentiment over a recovery, with resources stocks set to gain on...
AND THE LIST GOES ON!
! |
|
By: jaymarcel
9/10/2009
1:39 pm Yahoo! Profile:
jaymarcel Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| I wonder if an asian or afican guy dressed up as elvis & did a comedy sketch if the world would call it racism. |
|
By: almurrie1@y7mail.com
9/10/2009
1:14 pm Yahoo! Profile:
almurrie1@y7mail.com Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
What on earth has this issue from the past got to do with anything. A trumped up cook mouthing off at a trumped up newsreader. Both irrelevant. Hardly racist and nothing to do with Australian business.
Al |
|
By: puyi
9/10/2009
10:24 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
From The Times June 10, 2009
Gordon Ramsay cooks up a storm in Australia after 'lesbian' rant against TV host
Gordon Ramsayâs notoriety for swearing has long garnished his celebrity status. But now even he admits having gone too far by tearing into one of Australiaâs best loved stars and provoking an angry response from the Prime Minister.
Speaking at a food and wine fair in Melbourne on Saturday, Ramsay â who had enjoyed a rather flirty on-air tête-à -tête with Grimshaw the previous evening â suddenly attacked her while giving a cooking demonstration to an audience of 3,000. He was reported to have called Grimshaw a lesbian who needed to âsee Simon Cowellâs Botox doctorâ. While he was speaking, a picture of a naked woman with the features of a pig and multiple breasts was shown on a screen. âThatâs Tracy Grimshaw,â he said.
By this time the argument had made it to the top of Australian politics, with Kevin Rudd, the Prime Minister, saying in a radio interview: âI think I can describe his remarks as reflecting a new form of low life. I just drew breath when I saw the sort of stuff which was said about her. I just think thatâs off and offensive.â
He added: âGood on Tracy Grimshaw for coming out and giving him a left uppercut.â |
|
By: puyi
9/10/2009
10:09 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
The Times, UK
8 Oct 09
An Australian variety show has become embroiled in an international racism controversy after airing a skit featuring men dressed as the Jackson 5 â with their faces painted black.
The "Jackson Jive" parody, which aired on a reunion episode of the variety show Hey Hey Itâs Saturday last night, was deemed offensive by the guest judge, the US singer Harry Connick Jr, who complained on air, saying: âIf I knew that was going to be part of the show I definitely wouldn't have done it.
âOn behalf of my country I know it was done humorously, but weâve spent so much time trying to not make black people look like buffoons that when we see something like that we take it really to heart."
Briton S. Carl, who lives in Melbourne, wrote on the Herald Sun website: âIâm from the UK, just recently arrived in Melbourne, so Iâve got no background on Hey Hey, but from the moment the Jackson Jive guys came on I said to my Aussie flatmates, âthatâs really not cool â that might have been funny 20 years ago, but thatâs just racist nowâ.â |
|
By: puyi
9/10/2009
9:48 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
ABC
October 9, 2009
Deputy Prime Minister Julia Gillard has weighed into the debate over the Hey Hey It's Saturday comedy skit that has been slammed as racist.
The Red Faces skit, featuring men in blackface pretending to be the Jackson Five, has ignited a debate over racism.
Ms Gillard is currently visiting America, where the skit has gained media coverage, and says she believes it was meant to be humorous. |
|
By: puyi
9/10/2009
9:46 am Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Vincent Morello and Britt Smith, AAP
October 9, 2009,
Hey Hey It's Saturday made a splash within a week of its return to Australian television - creating a wave of outrage around the world with a skit featuring men in blackface.
American singer and guest judge Harry Connick Jr took offence, giving them zero.
He said if the act had appeared on US television, the broadcast would have been terminated.
International media and commentators, especially in the United States, were quick to condemn the skit, with many labelling Australia backward and racist.
"Shame on the host and the other judges for trying to act like this performance was acceptable in any part of the world. I'm too disgusted to write any more," a Chicago Now blogger wrote.
Blackface shows were common in the US from the 19th century, with white performers playing black characters with exaggerated, demeaning characteristics.
The Guardian newspaper in the UK described the skit as "mind-boggling".
In Australia, TV expert Vincent O'Donnell, from RMIT, said it was thoughtless, given audiences had changed.
"For me, it is just tasteless TV, perhaps sensation seeking, and not well thought through," Dr O'Donnell told AAP.
A Nine spokesman said it was likely the controversial skit would be edited out for the repeats. |
|
By: jaymarcel
9/10/2009
7:18 am Yahoo! Profile:
jaymarcel Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
This is bull****, I personally did not find it funny, have not found any of the return hey hey funny from what I have seen, but also do not see it as racist.
Does the human race want us to all just stop enjoying humour as most of it is usually at the expense of someone.
It's about time people stopped getting offended so easily, there are jokes out there about blondes, fat people, short people, bald people, religion, big noses, old people, young people, white people.
We should all be able to laugh at ourselves, why should anyone be offended by the skit, unfunny yes, offensive no!
This is a good example of how messed up america the UK & other countries are australia has it right, the USA still have people who want Obama out just because he is black, in the UK you can't even call a blackboard a blackboard, we need to separate humour from hatred or dislike of someone or something.
I'm a pom & laugh at any good joke aimed at poms it is just an ozzie sense of humour (which I like), there are obviously racists out there but do not confuse it with humour. |
|
By: puyi
8/10/2009
9:49 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Inga Ting
October 8, 2009 , SMH
International outrage at Hey Hey skit
The "blackface" skit performed on the Hey Hey Itâs Saturday reunion show last night has sparked international fury, with news commentators and bloggers unleashing their disgust in posts labelling Australia "racist".
In an article titled Australian Blackface Performers Need a Gut Punch, Chicago Now blogger Kyra Kyles vented her fury.
âAbsolutely damn ridiculous. I could not believe [it] ⦠Shame on the host and the other judges for trying to act like this performance was acceptable in any part of the world ⦠I'm too disgusted to write any more,â she wrote.
The Guardian newspaper called the skit âmind-bogglingâ and host Daryl Somers's apology at the end of the show âa somewhat unconvincing epiphany.â
Guardian readers were similarly unimpressed.
âOz really is the Land that Time Forgot ... no wonder so many white racists seem to choose to move to Oz, they probably feel at home there,â wrote one reader.
âSo, in 20 years, we've gone from this offensive form of comedy being wildly popular to being still popular ⦠Australia must be really messed up.â
Most of the replies to Schmader's post have criticised Australia as being racist.
âIt's true that racism exists in all countries (the usual Australian apologists' excuse), but Australia are the world champions,â wrote one reader.
âThe casual racism of a lot of Australians beggars belief. They're thirty years behind us in some ways,â wrote a reader on The Stranger.
Discussion on many sites turned to Australia's treatment of its own black population.
âThe majority of Australians turn a blind eye to the horrendous living conditions of Aboriginal people in the outback, never even consider Aboriginal deaths in custody, and when things like the Stolen Generation are mentioned,
The Nine Network said that last night's show was a ratings triumph, snagging 2.73 million people at its peak. |
|
By: houseofjoseph2000
8/10/2009
7:26 pm Yahoo! Profile:
houseofjoseph2000 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| BUSINESS IS MORE POWERFUL THAN RACISM..THINK ABOUT IT..... |
|
By: ecchi.gaijin
8/10/2009
3:03 pm Yahoo! Profile:
ecchi.gaijin Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| oops LOL |
|
By: almurrie1@y7mail.com
8/10/2009
3:01 pm Yahoo! Profile:
almurrie1@y7mail.com Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| Strange that all the medicos in the group were Indian or of other ethnic origin? |
|
By: eellttss
8/10/2009
2:43 pm Yahoo! Profile:
eellttss Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| this year is Australia's turn to brash china in all fronts among the developed nations circle. it is a secret deal. it remians the only developed nation has the minimum effects of the financil crises. the ironic fact is australia is the best benefitial from the chinese economic rise. the secret is out, Kevin Rudd knows that. |
|
By: puyi
8/10/2009
2:34 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Gareth Trickey, AAP
From: Herald Sun October 07, 2009
Performers of controversial Hey Hey It's Saturday Jackson 5 'blackface' skit apologise but insist producers approved it
"We did go to the trouble of checking with the production staff and they seemed to OK it."
This morning, senior federal Liberal MPs joined an international chorus of condemnation, describing the skit as âdisgustingâ.
At a press conference, Liberal Leader Malcolm Turnbull, Opposition Treasury spokesman Joe Hockey and Opposition Finance spokeswoman Helen C oonan shook their heads in dismay when quizzed about the show.
Mr Hockey said he had not seen the skit but Ms C oonan said it deserved the mark Harry Connick Jr gave, which was a zero.
"Harry Connick got it right," Ms c oonan said. "It was disgusting."
Connick Jr gave the troupe a score of zero and said the act wouldn't have gone down well in the United States.
After Somers' on-air apology, Connick Jr said he needed to "speak up as an American".
"If I knew that was going to be part of the show I definitely wouldn't have done it," Connick Jr. |
|
By: puyi
8/10/2009
2:26 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Colin Vickery
Herald Sun October 08, 2009
DARYL Somers and Hey Hey It's Saturday are copping a firestorm of criticism for what was obviously a deeply offensive Jackson Jive sketch on last nightÂs second reunion show - and rightly so.
Viewers knew the Red Faces segment was very wrong as soon as the group appeared. The shocked look on crooner Harry Connickâs face left no doubt.
At least a dozen Hey Hey production people must have known Jackson Jive was going to appear â and none of them raised concerns. That is very worrying.
The wider social ramifications of the Jackson Jive segment appeared to elude Somers, though. He didnât seem to grasp that the segment was offensive to all, not just personally offensive to Connick. |
|
By: puyi
8/10/2009
2:20 pm Yahoo! Profile:
puyi Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
Amanda Meade | October 08, 2009
Article from: The Australian
Last night host and producer of Hey Hey's reunion show, Daryl Somers, apologised for offending international guest Harry Connick Jr with a musical routine in which five men dressed up as the Jackson Five complete with black make-up.
The outrage over the ``Jackson Jive'' has made international headlines and has raised concern about Australia's attitude towards racism.
``Absolutely damn ridiculous,'' wrote one journalist on Chicago Now. ``I could not believe this video below. A group of Aussies dress up in blackface and perform a tribute to the Jackson 5.''
And New York's Vulture blog said simply ``this is pretty awful''. |
|
By: jaymarcel
6/10/2009
7:08 am Yahoo! Profile:
jaymarcel Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
The only asian country I have lived & worked in is Malaysia & even though it was to my advantage I was embarassed that as the company was an american company I found it employed a certain percentage of westerners at a much higher pay rate with many perks such as company car & accommodation even if the Malaysian working next to me was doing the same job.
There didn't appear to be any anger over the situation just awkwardness that you just have to get used too whether foreigner or a malaysian. |
|
By: jm_aponte01
6/10/2009
6:19 am Yahoo! Profile:
jm_aponte01 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| violence is a sign of incompetence |
|
By: bluey264
5/10/2009
11:57 pm Yahoo! Profile:
bluey264 Did this message offend you?
Sign in to report abuse |
Reply to this message |
| I have worked and lived in Asia for many years. Thailand, Indonesia and Viet nam mostly. And yes - racism will certainly affect Australia doing business here. The reason is simple - they (Asians) have absolutely NO respect for Australia at all. They see us as weak - and badly led. They see Australia as trying to crawl to and buy peace with Asia and Indonesia especially. Asians see us as a frightened nation. Sorry to all the thought-police out there but racism works both ways. |
|
