Tavis Smiley

Williams: Joe the Plumber Was Silly, a 'Rat Hole of Distraction'

NBC anchor Brian Williams appeared on the Tavis Smiley show on PBS on Monday night and trashed Joe the Plumber's anti-tax cause as a silly issue, not a serious question about the redistribution of wealth: "Look at how our...

I'll just pass this along to Black bloggers without commentary

Tavis Smiley's State of the Black Union thing is coming up, and they've decided to slide a Black blogger into the mix. For the 10th annual State of the Black Union 2009 symposium, hosted and moderated annually by broadcaster...

‘08 US I Did Not Vote for the Black One -No One Should Have

In a predominately Democratic state, California, in Democrat-dominate city, Los Angeles, I voted for president but not for the black candidate -and you shouldn’t have either. Reporters -newspaper, magazine, TV, radio and...

Night Stalker: Best of the Late Night

In this 1996 drama, Frankie (Vivica A. Fox) has been unjustly fired from her bank job. Stony (Jada Pinkett) has a brother who needs money for college. Tisean (Kimberly Elise) is a single mom whose child has been taken away.

Grier enjoys dishing out scoops of 'Chocolate News'

From a comedy standpoint, David Alan Grier was fine with whoever won the election. But as the nation's first black president, Barack Obama means a wealth of material for "Chocolate News," Grier's fearless spoof of a...

FOX NEWS, Please Stop Hurting America

STOP That was the plea that Jon Stewart had when he visited Crossfire on October 15, 2004. Partisan hackery - that is what Stewart called the "news" show on the channel that touted itself as "America's most trusted news...

Vanity: Racism Still a Problem in AMerica Even with Pres. Obama (Told you)

Many of us predicted that just because Obama won, it means nothing to the poverty pimps, the racism industry and assorted liberal whiners. Tavis Smiley stated just that. Never misunderestimate (tm) the mindset of a parasite....

America, we aced this one

Presidential elections are tests. Jerry Large Seattle Times staff columnist Presidential elections are tests. Just the fact of his election will restore America's luster in the world, but dealing with the economy, the...

Morning in Obamerica

What has Obama wrought? In the euphoria, can reality reclaim its rightful place? The parameters of rhetorical change are boundless, propelled into the nether-reaches of nonsensicality by hyper-speak and super-wishfullness that...

Who Won Last Night's TV Coverage?

Well, I have a million impressions from last night's coverage, and I guess I'll burden you with only couple thousand. Let's play the "who won" game. "Who won:" Not numbers, but the smartest coverage, or the coverage that seemed...