This week, we’re doing a countdown to last week’s most widely read post. So … let’s start with No. 5, shall we? Fun!
5. Zell Miller: Obama should be restrained with ‘Gorilla Glue’ (Hey Zell, I think there’s a booth with your name on it at a certain bar referenced in post No. 1.)
In what is widely considered a colossal display of bad taste, Murfreesboro Post columnist Stephen Lewis has compared Barack Obama’s ascent to the presidency to the “movin’ on up” jingle from “The Jeffersons.”
Both Romenesko and Gawker have called out Lewis on his idiotic column. The Gawker post also alludes to a similar though unrelated display of alleged racism toward Obama, this one with Georgia roots.
CL has followed the goings-on of Mike Norman, bar owner and T-shirt designer extraordinaire, with great interest in recent weeks. We were lucky enough to get a video interview with the man who became a person of national interest by selling T-shirts depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a Curious George look-alike.
Mike Norman was also interviewed by CNN but they failed to elicit the stunning insight into the cartoon monkey-lover’s mind that CL managed.
A bar-owner in Marietta is selling t-shirts depicting Sen. Barack Obama as a banana-chomping chimp.
From AJC.com:
Marietta tavern owner Mike Norman says the T-shirts he’s peddling, featuring cartoon chimp Curious George peeling a banana, with “Obama in ‘08″ scrolled underneath, are “cute.” But to a coalition of critics, the shirts are an insulting exploitation of racial stereotypes from generations past.
But don’t call Mike Norman a racist!
Norman said those offended are “hunting for a reason to be mad” and insisted he is “not a racist.”
