Parody
Parody BERNARD SHAW: CNN and Time have extended the same invitation to the Republican presidential candidates to have an Apollo Theater debate. (Hooting and laughter ensue.) —Gore/Bradley Debate,...
...KEYES: This is an example of the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc casuistry of what Montesquieu...
...Mexicans...
...BUSH: Hey...
...It is this that has made a wasteland of Harlem...
...Wynton Marsalis indeed...
...Shaw, of your own base parentage, this is an example of the post-hoc-ergo-propter-hoc casuistry of what Montesquieu called "un peuple qui ne connait pas soi-meme...
...SHAW: Ambassador Keyes, a question from the audience...
...If some people don't like -- well, hey...
...Gardener was black...
...No, definitely Sam...
...And keep a close eye on Russia's transition to democracy...
...I'll bet his mother was a Ho, too...
...But Ho Chi-Minh was a ho...
...Shaw, of that line of interrogation as my fellow candidates should be at the debility of their ripostes, indeed as the entire audience tonight should be for watching it...
...The thing...
...Racial pro...
...That's the way I am, Bernie...
...Sam -- or Rufus, I think...
...Columba his wife...
...And you should be as ashamed, Mr...
...Uniter, not a divider...
...Sure it's a term of abuse...
...Excuse me...
...Nice guy, Sam...
...Like I've said all along...
...I'm not going to mince words about it...
...Ha ha...
...My brother, too...
...Another good point to make if you can slip it in...
...Black guy...
...At a time of racial tension, your use of an epithet...
...Governor Bush, when you appeared at Bob Jo...
...KEYES: Exactly...
...McCAIN: Gook...
...SHAW: Now we're going to a question from the Internet...
...Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...
...Well, it's like the word ho...
...That's why we called him Ho...
...Anyone who knows me...
...Kind of like "How Long is ^ a Chinaman...
...As I was saying before you cut me off with the rudeness that is a hallmark, Mr...
...His own friends called him Ho...
...Nothing anti-black...
...One cannot read Wittgenstein's notions of unknowability into Mill's of the greater good without desiccating in perpetuum the coruscating bounty of good faith that is the mighty current of the American good...
...Gore/Bradley Debate, Apollo Theater, Harlem, February 21, 2000 SHAW: Another question for the Senator...
...One cannot countenance it...
...My gardener at the house...
...If I can just say, Bernie, there wasn't a lot of racial tension in my bamboo cage in Vietnam...
Vol. 5 • March 2000 • No. 24