Wanda At Large
Published May 15, 2003
Wanda At Large is a new Fox sitcom worth seeking out. It has only aired maybe five episodes at the time of it's "season finale" but they'll be enough to bring me back.
The show stars Wanda Sykes as a brassy stand-up comic who has taken a job as a tv news reporter and commentator. She's broadly a "liberal" but lacks the predictability, the sanctimony, and the willingness to lie that are necessary to make a real proper modern liberal. Plus, she's really funny. That'll get you a lot of slack.
As an idea of their willingness to let it out, consider her show within a show report on black reparations, which starts in a cemetary where rests the corpse of the white guy who used to own her great-great-grandparents. She goes out on the street demanding that random white people give her the $15.30 she figures each one owes her. Then she goes to the house of one of the slavemasters' descendents to get her money- only he turns out to be black. She eventually winds up in the graveyard with a shovel, digging up the slavemaster's body, literally going through his pockets looking for his wallet.
I don't quite know if this is an attack on the reparations idea, or a spirited defense. But damn, it's funny.
I want more of this- and a date with Wanda.
- Wanda At Large
- Published: May 15, 2003
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- Filed Under: Video: Comedy, Video: Television, Video: Urban
- Writer: Al Barger
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Well you could turn that statement back at conservatives, but it wouldn't have near the sting of truth. Particularly, actual conservative politicians are going to do a certain amount of slippin' and slidin'. There may be the occasional outright lie, but nothing like a Clinton or a Gore.
Partly this is just that some segments of liberals today are exceptionally dishonest and unethical to the toes of their feet- spokesmen and independent pundits nearly as much as the elected officials. I don't want to give conservatives -let alone Republicans specifically- too much credit for being fair and considerate.
Some of the superior behavior of conservatives also comes from having their heads bashed in by the media. Dubya could not begin to get away with the lying and finger waving that Clinton did even if he wanted to. And don't think my girl Wanda wouldn't step off in his ass. :)
So let me take this opportunity to thank the liberal media for keeping the Bush administration mostly more or less honest.
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notice how the following sentence works just as well as the original:
She's broadly a "conservative" but lacks the predictability, the sanctimony, and the willingness to lie that are necessary to make a real proper modern conservative.
;-)