Daniel Handler Learns a Valuable Lesson About Making Racist Watermelon Jokes

Posted by | December 1, 2014 19:30 | Filed under: Contributors News Behaving Badly Opinion Politics Tommy Christopher Top Stories

Republish
Reprint


On Nov. 19, Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature, for her memoir Brown Girl Dreaming. In what has become a universally-overlooked acceptance speech, Woodson thanked her colleagues and family, and thanked the audience for the only thing that mattered to her at that moment:

 

“Thank you for your love of books.”

But seconds later, National Book Awards emcee and Lemony Snicket author Daniel Handler, who can be seen gleefully hugging Woodson as she approaches the stage to accept her award, turned that triumphant spotlight into a death ray with a particularly awful attempt at humor…READ MORE

Click here for reuse options!
Copyright 2014 Liberaland
By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.

14 responses to Daniel Handler Learns a Valuable Lesson About Making Racist Watermelon Jokes

  1. tracey marie December 1st, 2014 at 20:21

    It is a start. Obviously he is not racist, just unaware of what he said and how it would be perceived.

    • burqa December 1st, 2014 at 23:47

      I don’t know if he’s racist or not. It was certainly stupid to say and he should’ve known not to go there. Maybe he had been drinking.
      Racists, like all bigots, have a history of this kind of remark. They just can’t keep it in, it becomes a sort of obsession and they’ll trot out different variations on a theme, trying to see what will fly.
      I would need more evidence before concluding he was a racist. Same with anyone else making a bigoted remark.

    • rg9rts December 2nd, 2014 at 06:40

      pitti pad pitti pad …….TAG

      • tracey marie December 2nd, 2014 at 06:47

        damn kat!

        • rg9rts December 2nd, 2014 at 07:05

          That is just the beginning….lol

  2. tracey marie December 1st, 2014 at 21:21

    It is a start. Obviously he is not racist, just unaware of what he said and how it would be perceived.

    • burqa December 2nd, 2014 at 00:47

      I don’t know if he’s racist or not. It was certainly stupid to say and he should’ve known not to go there. Maybe he had been drinking.
      Racists, like all bigots, have a history of this kind of remark. They just can’t keep it in, it becomes a sort of obsession and they’ll trot out different variations on a theme, trying to see what will fly.
      I would need more evidence before concluding he was a racist. Same with anyone else making a bigoted remark.

    • rg9rts December 2nd, 2014 at 07:40

      pitti pad pitti pad …….TAG

      • tracey marie December 2nd, 2014 at 07:47

        damn kat!

        • rg9rts December 2nd, 2014 at 08:05

          That is just the beginning….lol

  3. M D Reese December 2nd, 2014 at 12:22

    Personally, I never thought that racial, sexual/sexist, class or ethnic jokes were funny at all. It’s different when you’re the butt of a lot of them.

  4. M D Reese December 2nd, 2014 at 13:22

    Personally, I never thought that racial, sexual/sexist, class or ethnic jokes were funny at all. It’s different when you’re the butt of a lot of them.

  5. Mike g December 4th, 2014 at 18:30

    Hmmm……It will be slow news day until WWIII breaks out.

  6. Mike g December 4th, 2014 at 19:30

    Hmmm……It will be slow news day until WWIII breaks out.

Leave a Reply