Mo'Kelly Commercial Pick(s) – Coca Cola/Steelers
March 20th, 2009
Mo’Kelly meant to post this (these) right after the Super Bowl, but they’re still great. To appreciate the 2009 version of the commercial you HAD to have seen the 1979 version. Here are both, side-by-side so to say, so you can best appreciate the humor in the updated version. Watch the 1979 version FIRST.
And this came by way of reader Alicia…
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Other Commercial Picks:
Durex – Condom Balloon-Toy Sex Party (Well that’s what it is)
Dick’s Sporting Goods – Jimmy Rollins’ Pleasure Pain
T-Mobile – Yao’s Comfort Food
Carmax – Get Out
Dominos – Pasta Dude
Hammertime Hallmark
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Mo, very disappointed that you have no comment regarding the President’s Special Olympics “joke”. You rightly spend a lot of time excoriating Jackie Mason, but the ease and casualness with which OUR PRESIDENT (!) denigrates a group of people is equally deserving of criticism.
You want my comment…here’s my comment.
The comment/joke was in poor form and poor judgment. But to compare it to Jackie Mason who has a documented history of questionable and outright mean-spirited “humor” towards African-Americans is a real reach.
Going further, President Obama didn’t say anything close to “it’s not demeaning and I’m not going to defend it.”
An inappropriate remark is not the same as denigrating a group of people. That’s a disingenuous comparison. The remark was inappropriate but was in no way mean-spirited in nature. And that’s having nothing to do with the fact that the Mason remark WASN’T the first time he made such a remark about powerful African-Americans.
If you want to make a “comparison” be thorough and not cursory in your comparison. So that is why I didn’t write an editorial on the remark. It was inappropriate and President Obama didn’t excuse himself for it. He apologized, we move on.
Mason on the other hand…
If you’ve looked at the fullness of my commentary on Senator/President Obama I’ve frequently taken him to task for his stances or lack thereof on many issues.
This will not be one of them for the aforementioned reasons.
In fact, I expound upon this distinction in a piece I did on the British Royal Family and their “questionable” remarks. People said I “should” have done an editorial saying how racist they were and I made the distinction between inappropriate/ignorant remarks and true racism. Some of the points made in that piece apply to this conversation we’re having. It was a foolish and inappropriate off-the-cuff remark and he was contrite afterward. Hard to make an editorial about that. It’s the subsequent justification of ignorant remarks that get people in trouble.
http://www.MrMoKelly.com/2009/01/14/the-british-royal-family-isnt-racist/
Agreed on all counts…except one. We all know that the worst kind of discrimination or prejudice is that which is so subconscious that not even the bigot recognizes it. The fact that doing something really poorly is associated with disabled people, to the extent that a Special Olympics reference now has that connotation, might suggest that Mr. Obama is one such subconscious bigot.
That, of course, is a stretch. I think we both know it was an off-the-cuff remark and blunder that reveals no such bigotry.
But I bet that the left-wing blogosphere would write endlessly about how Mr. Bush is just such a bigot had he made the comment.
The special olympics reference isn't associated with doing something so poorly that you associate it with disabled people. It is generally used to show that some peoples best effort at a physical endeavor is not / can not / will not be up to a level they would want. At the same time it speaks of their limits, which do exist or there would be no need for a special olympics, it glorifies the fact that they try their best. Anyway…
I heard the comment when Obama made it, and I groaned. I knew what he meant, but I also knew that it was a bad mistake. Still, the only similarity between Obama's treatment and Bush's, is the fact that reporters were so scared of anthrax being dropped at their door in Bush's first hundred days that he could have gone dwarf bowling and no one would have commented.
BTW, the Coke Zero add was funny.
I guess I’ll comment on the fact that these commercials are hilarious…Family guy did a take off on the Mean Joe commercial that was equally funny. =P
Alicia, I'll go look for the Family Guy one now…