Miley Cyrus: Worst Celebrity Influence

It’s official.  Miley Cyrus is THE worst celebrity influence, beating out both Britney and Kanye.

What more is there to say?

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Twana Chapman: Crazy Ass Parking Cop

Twana's Gonna Get You, Sucka!

Earlier this month, down in Chinatown NYC, some crazy parking cop mamed Twana Chapman tried to give Qiang Nian Zhu a parking ticket.  Sounds pretty normal.   After all, people get parking tickets all the time.  Oh wait… Except this time:

• Zhu still had a minute left on his parking pass
• Zhu’s wife was at the MuniMeter buying another pass
• Chapman decided to give Zhu a ticket anyway
• Zhu tried to cover his registration number so Chapman couldn’t see it… She responded by shouting at him and smacking him in the face with her scanner
• Chapman supposedly then started shouting “You f—— Chinese, go back where you came from. All of you f—— Chinese,” at the crowd that was gathering
• Zhu gets ARRESTED for some nonsense (obstructing administrative blah blah blah), spends 9 hours in jail, and is now facing criminal charges
• All of this is captured on security camera footage

Wtf.  So the moral of the story is, even if you’re parked legally, cops can give you a ticket.  If you argue, you get smacked in the head and arrested.  Awesome.

More story and video footage here…

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Miley: Classy As Always

Miley Cyrus: Proving once again, you can take the girl out of the trailer park, but you can’t take the stripper out of– wait a minute…

Last night at the Teen Choice Awards, Miley performed her song “Party In The USA.”  First, she emerges from what appears to be a big mobile home.  Go figure.  Then, she gave all her teen (and tween) fans a real treat when she hopped up on a ice cream cart and undulated around a tall, silver pole…

Um.  What?  Forget the fact that Miley sings like a wanna-be karaoke contest winner.  Forget the slightly questionable outfit she wore to the TEEN Choice Awards.  This is not okay.

Now, there are some idiots out there who think this was totally cool.  After all, the Dallas Cowboy cheerleaders dance around in little cheerleading outfits all the time, right?  Wrong.  Someone whose TARGET audience is made up of little girls should probably avoid slutting it up and pole-dancing on national TV.  Period.  I know there was that exotic dancing exercise craze a little while back…  But c’mon, how many 11-year old girls were enrolled in stripper dance class?

More on this ridiculousness here and here.  Video below (fast forward to 1:00, unless you really want to hear her sing).

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UPDATE: Ed Norwick, the general manager of New York stripclub SCORES, has issued the following statement:

“While Miley did show off some skills, we at SCORES cannot encourage this kind of behavior for women under the legal age. If she’d like to come try out in a couple of years, our door’s open!”

HA! Looks like Miley’s got a future in entertainment after all…

Robert McFarland: Officer Douchebag

What would you do if your father or loved one had just undergone brain surgery a few months ago, but was suddenly on the floor having a seizure?

Officer Douchebag

Well, if you’re like Adrainne Ledesma (or, I don’t know, pretty much anyone), you’d freak out and/or call 9-1-1.  That’s what she did.  What happened?  According to ABC News in Detroit, Sgt. Robert McFarland, the officer who picked up the call, admonishes her for cursing.  Yep.  Adrainne’s dad is writhing on the floor in the middle of a seizure and this douchebag decides it’d be a great time to lecture her… And then HANG UP ON HER.

THREE TIMES.

So finally, when her dad is squared away and being looked after by her brother, Adrainne heads over to the police station to file a complaint.  What happened?

SHE GOT ARRESTED FOR DISORDERLY CONDUCT AND ABUSING 9-1-1.

WHAT.

Check out the news report here:

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The Valley (“Whites Only”) Club Pool

I don’t know why I’m still surprised to hear about this sort of crazy racist nonsense… But here it is:

A country club called The Valley Club in the suburbs of Philly is in some deep shit after they turned away a group of black and hispanic inner-city kids.  These kids had come to the club to use their swimming pool through an agreement with Creative Steps, Inc., a summer day camp.  Despite the fact that the kids had paid all the necessary dues, they were turned away from the club once the folks who worked there figured out that, oh no!, they’re not WHITE!  *GASP*

What was the response from the country club?

“There was concern that a lot of kids would change the complexion … and the atmosphere of the club,” John Duesler, President of The Valley Swim Club said in a statement. – NBC Philly

That is some fucked up shit.

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Sotomayor As An… Asian??

Check out this nonsense from the cover of the National Review’s latest issue:

Wtf?!

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All The Asian Ladies…?

A few days ago, IvyGate posted a video by a Yale a cappella group called Mixed Company.  The gist of it is this: 4 Asian college students making a parody video based on Beyonce’s song, “Single Ladies.”  Except they replaced “Single” with “Asian.” … and replaced pop lyrics with, erm… sort of offensive lyrics.  See for yourself (brace yourself for the particularly ridiculous subtitled last verse):

I’m all for ironic, making-fun-of-stereotypes-and-those-who-use/believe-them humor… But this just isn’t that funny. I think the problem is with the execution. I think what they were trying to do was good… But they were just trying too damn hard without good enough results.

In short, it’s not quite over-the-top enough to place it in the “we’re clearly making fun of Asian stereotypes, not reinforcing them” category. People aren’t laughing at the stereotypes because they’re too busy either laughing at the performance or being uncomfortable with the subject matter.  Judging by the comments on IvyGate, I think people are probably pissed because hits close to home without being relatable enough to be funny.

Thoughts?

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Jonas Brother: Bonus Chinky Eye

As if the Jonas Brothers weren’t awful/sickening enough (“show me what you got, Stevie“?  Really?), a photo recently surfaced of Joe Jonas, one of the Jonas Brothers, doing what is turning out to be all the rage these days, the chinky eye:

Joe "Ass" Jonas

Will someone PLEASE give this 19-year old moron a swift kick in the nads??

More here and here.

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Miley Cyrus: Gimme My Money!

Hahahaha…

Okay, I couldn’t resist posting about this craziness.  According to TMZ, a lady named Lucie Kim out in LA has filed a class action lawsuit against Miley Cyrus for mocking Asian Americans with her “goofy” picture. 

Now that in and of itself is pretty hilarious.  But the best part is that Kim is claiming to represent the roughly 1 million Asians in LA County.  She’s also saying that Goofy Pose Cyrus owes each and every one of them $4,000.  So the grand total comes to… 4 BILLION DOLLARS!

Yes, this is a crazy.  Yes, it’ll needlessly gum up the legal system for a bit.  And yes, it’s crazy.  But man, for once, I really wish I lived in LA!  I want my money, Miley!!

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Miley Cyrus “Apologizes”

 

Miley, right, apologizes

For those of you who aren’t aware, Billy Ray’s little ray of sunshine decided it’d be funny to pull the chinky eye maneuver with some friends.  The picture spread across the interwebs like wildfire, even prompting the OCA to release an official statement. Then, like clockwork, we got the obligatory celebrity apology.  Y’know, sometimes (rarely) these things are pretty genuine and heartfelt.  They generally don’t serve to excuse the behavior, but at least you get the idea that the offender feels bad.

 

Then there are “apologies” like this one that Miley “Bigot” Cyrus made on her fansite:

“I’ve also been told there are some people upset about some pictures taken of me with friends making goofy faces! Well, I’m sorry if those people looked at those pics and took them wrong and out of context! In NO way was I making fun of any ethnicity! I was simply making a goofy face. When did that become newsworthy? It seems someone is trying to make something out of nothing to me. If that would of [sic] been anyone else, it would of been overlooked! I definitely feel like the press is trying to make me out as the new ‘BAD GIRL’!”

 

You have GOT to be kidding me.  This is clearly not an apology, but was worded to kind of / sort of / almost sound like one.  This is the kind of crap little children do when they get caught fucking around.  They get defensive and they make excuses.  She “apologizes” for the people who looked at the pictures and “took them wrong.”  (wait, so did they take the picture wrong?  How many people actually took the picture?  I’m confused, Miley!)  Normally you’d apologize for your actions, not other people’s actions.  This statement essentially amounts to a big FUCK YOU to everyone that got pissed about her actions.

 

The sad thing (well, one of the sad things) is that she doesn’t even realize (or admit) that she was being offensive: “I was simply making a goofy face.”  I see, Miley, you were simply making a goofy face.  Brilliant defense.  Look, even if this was some sort of inside joke THAT DOESN’T MAKE IT OKAY.  Perhaps she meant to say “I was simply making a gooky face”?  Hmm…

And yes, of course… Someone is trying to make something out of nothing.  Right.  It’s nothing to offend shit tons of Asian (and non-Asian) people everywhere.  Good work. 

Stop giving southern folks a bad name, Miley.

 

Oh, also, Adriel Luis of iLL-Literacy put his two-cents in via youtube.  Pretty hilarious and well worth the view.

 

 

UPDATE: Saw Miley perform on the Grammys last night… She looked/sounded like a 12-year old trying to win a karaoke contest at a local dive bar.  Seriously, Miley… Grimacing and waving your hand around does not make you sound any better.  Nor does your awful intonation and timbre.  Poor Taylor Swift did her best to carry the duet, but man, there is just no excuse for that level of shitty singing… Certainly not at the Grammys.