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VIDEO: Joan Rivers calls Michelle Obama a 'transgender'

Started by Blue Senpai, July 03, 2014, 01:30:09 PM

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VIDEO: Controversial American comedian Joan Rivers calls Michelle Obama a 'transgender'
By KELBY MCNALLY
Posted: Jul 3rd, 2014

WASHINGTON — SHE'S known as one of the most controversial comedians on the circuit, and Joan Rivers has proved that she's still as outrageous as ever after calling Michelle Obama a 'transgender.'

More: http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/486595/Controversial-America-comedian-Joan-Rivers-calls-Michelle-Obama-a-transgender
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Olivia P

I wouldn't call any of that comedy, also the article got it wrong, she called Michelle Obama a "->-bleeped-<-" not trans.

Besides, hasnt she just pretty much put herself up on offer to be sued for slander?
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Adam (birkin)

That's the single most random thing I have ever read all day, lol, and I love it solely for that. :P
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awilliams1701

Isn't ->-bleeped-<- a derogatory term for transgender?
Ashley
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Jill F

Joan Rivers has once again proven that she's an irrelevant idiot.  In other news, water is wet and the sky is blue.  Film at 11.
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skin

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suzifrommd

Quote from: Olivia P on July 03, 2014, 01:41:21 PM
Besides, hasnt she just pretty much put herself up on offer to be sued for slander?

No. Public officials are not protected by slander laws.

Sounds like she was trying to joke about Obama being a gay president, so she tried to make Michelle out to be a man.

Viewed that way, it's even more offensive than it originally sounds.
Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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peky

Quote from: suzifrommd on July 03, 2014, 08:42:05 PM
No. Public officials are not protected by slander laws.


beg to differ, the wife of the president is no a "Public Official" or a "Public Person"
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peky

It hurts me deeply to see a fellow Jewish woman belittling another minority woman with such a derogatory word.

Ms. Rivers betrays the memory of so many innocent transgender and homosexual Jews murdered by the Nazis.

Shame on Ms. Rivers!
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Natasha

WATCH: Which Transphobic Slur Did Joan Rivers Call Michelle Obama?

http://www.advocate.com/politics/transgender/2014/07/03/watch-which-transphobic-slur-did-joan-rivers-call-michelle-obama#.U7YM7lefhrg.facebook
7/3/14
BY Parker Marie Molloy

In a brief video reportedly shot earlier this week in New York, 81-year-old Joan Rivers calls First Lady Michelle Obama "a transgender," joking that this makes Barack Obama the first gay president.

After being asked about the U.S.'s likelihood of having either a woman or a gay president in the near future , Rivers replied, "We already have that with Obama. You know Michelle is a ->-bleeped-<-."

The unidentified journalist tries to clarify, asking, "I'm sorry. She's a what?"

"A transgender," Rivers replies. "We all know."
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suzifrommd

Have you read my short story The Eve of Triumph?
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Felix

I intend to file this under "horrible things that older people say because they aren't paying attention to how much their culture has changed" and ignore it. She won't be around long and doesn't seem to have a lot of influence anymore anyhow.
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Lonicera

How awful. She nouns 'transgender,'  switches to using a slur (if you self-apply it then I entirely accept that though), and then invalidates gender by assuming it'd make Obama gay. What a perfect combination. Most worryingly, I'd argue this quite probably has racist connotations too since my limited knowledge of history suggests the womanhood of black women has long been denigrated by white or white-passing people, to use a bigoted understanding of what it means to be transgender to do that is vile. I'm afraid I don't tend to lower my expectations because somebody is old since that I think that insults the elderly people I know that are willing to adapt to the needs of others via empathy, there's no excuse for being a rigid conservative.
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devention

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