The Butler didn't do it
Date: August 23rd 2013
The Butler didn't do it
[J.P.'s Moment of Common Sense on Broad View, KRNG 101.3 FM Reno. Listen live Saturdays at 11:00 AM Pacific Time.]
After taking Oprah Winfrey to task last week for spurious self-promoting charges of racism against some poor shop clerk in Switzerland, I decided to see the movie Oprah was trying to promote: The Butler. It's a movie about race, of course, which is why Oprah felt compelled to invent the Swiss purse incident. She figured being a victim of racism herself would make her role in the movie more believable.
(It didn't.)
Billionaire media darling as victim isn't playing quite as well as Oprah hoped, but the movie is doing fairly well in spite of being dumb, dishonest, and...
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