For anyone just catching up to the s**tstorm that billowed up from a recent Stephen Colbert segment (and subsequent misattributed Tweet) incorporating a racist Asian stereotype in mocking Washington NFL owner Li'l Danny Snyder's offensive, diversionary
Native American foundation (you might
still see the segment embedded here, unless Viacom has it pulled for copyright infringement), we think
this piece by Erin Gloria Ryan at Jezebel sums things up pretty well. Here's the finale:
Good rule of thumb, just, for life in general: If Michelle Malkin is cheering you on, you are almost certainly doing something wrong. Malkin is a third rate conservative shock jock who isn't smart enough to be offensive in the ways she is trying to be. Michelle Malkin is to Ann Coulter what Drive Me Crazy is to Heathers.
Malkin and her ilk are likely excited about the #CancelColbert hashtag because the show makes people who agree with her (but who, unlike Michelle Malkin, are important enough to warrant the show's attention) look like fools. The shitstorm has also successfully diverted attention from the issue that Colbert was trying to skewer in the first place, an issue with which many social conservatives vehemently ignore, or brush off, or dismiss:
The fucking owner of a team called the goddamn WASHINGTON REDSKINS started a charity FOR NATIVE AMERICANS that uses the word 'REDSKIN' in the name of the charity and that is shitballing ridiculous.
But instead of talking about that, we're talking about an out of context Tweet that people misattributed to a sketch that most people didn't even watch in its entirety before they decided an entire show's worth of people — writers, producers, editors, directors, camera operators, sound people, interns — should lose their jobs.
Steve M. at No More Mister Nice Blog pretty well
expresses our feelings. Bottom line: before you go DEFCON 1, take a breath, understand the origin of the Tweet, understand the context of the segment, and then focus on the real villains - not a character played by someone who is one of the good guys in the media.
