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This morning I talked about Stupid Anna Kooiman and lo and behold I found some more stupid, this time in the guise of Stupid — possibly drug addicted — and Racist Rush Limbaugh.
Back Story: one interesting email from the Sony Hack details the idea that ounce Daniel Craig is done playing Bond, the role should go to Elba … Idris Elba. If you don’t know him, he’s British, talented and, yes, hot. Oh, and he’s Black, too, which is what has caused Limbaugh’s gut to heave and contract. He says Elba cannot be James Bond because he is black.
Limbaugh told his shrinking syndicated radio show audience that Bond was intended to be a white man by creator Ian Fleming:
"James Bond is a total concept put together by Ian Fleming. He was white and Scottish. Period. That is who James Bond is, was, but now [they are] suggesting that the next James Bond should be Idris Elba, a black Briton, rather than a white from Scotland. But that’s not who James Bond is and I know it’s racist to probably point this out."
It is racist, Rush, and also slightly wrong, because you see, in Fleming’s first books about the secret agent, Bond wasn’t Scottish; he only began adding hints of a Scottish ancestry to 007’s back-story after the success of Sean Connery’s first movie as Bond, Dr No, in 1962, so, Rush, you’re wrong about Bond being Scottish.
But then he Doubles Down on Dumb by saying that casting Elba as Bond is akin to casting George Clooney and Kate Hudson as Barack and Michelle Obama in a presidential biopic … Kelsey Grammer as Nelson Mandela the next time a film was made about the South African freedom fighter.
Rush? Honey? Step away from the prescription meds because I’ve got a secret to tell you: Bond is not a real person so he could be played by any number of actors, Black or White, Asian, Latino … heck, Bond might even be female one day.
As for the Obama’s, or Mandela, or even Abe Lincoln, well, since they are real people, then they should be played by actors of the same race in a film, but even if they weren’t, it would probably be okay because it might make interesting storytelling.
That kinda makes sense, but the only think that you said that makes any sense at all is, “I know it’s racist to probably point this out.”
It is; you’re a racist. Sit down.
As a palate cleanser from Rush's lunacy, i need a little Idris Elba, looking very Bond.
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Monday, December 29, 2014
Rush Limbaugh: At Least He Admits He's Racist
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Oh, crap. Is Rush Limbaugh STILL talking?!?
ReplyDeletelimbaugh is a fat assed, loud-mouthed, racist, homophobic, xenophobic, sexist pig who needs to STFU NOW!
ReplyDeleteand just WHY CAN'T a black/asian/hispanic man play the FICTIONAL bond character?
Idris Elba as Bond might actually make the movie worth watching.
ReplyDeleteVery handsome fellow. Have accent, I'm in!
ReplyDeleteI think he'd make a VERY SEXY BOND and Rush Limbaugh needs to be destroyed.
ReplyDeleteSince he's such a stickler for historical accuracy (leaving aside that it's all fiction anyway) he'd go into conniptions knowing that we now have black actors playing Shakespeare's kings, even women in those roles, as well as all-woman casts - and recently a white actor (i.e. not 'blacked-up'), playing 'Othello', though I suspect he may not mind that one too much.
ReplyDeleteBut he won't be having that fit because I'm guessing that he's never even heard of Shakespeare.
As Anne Marie says, what does it matter that James Bond is portrayed as other than white? Who, apart from fat old white men, worry about such things? I say yes to Idris Elba
ReplyDeleteIdris would make a fantastic Bond. Rush's 15 minutes of fame is long over and he just needs to go away.
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