David Cross Systematically Rebukes Larry the Cable Guy in a Totally Awesome Fashion
Posted on October 16, 2007 at 09:33 AM
My sir tipped me off to this great open letter to Larry the Cable Guy from comic powerhouse David Cross. After Larry devoted a chapter in his new book to talking shit on David Cross and the "P.C. left," Cross bought the book, read it, and came back fighting. It's a great argument. Cross admits he was wrong on certain points, and effectively tears Larry a new one on others. For example, from David's entry:
Okay, here's what I said in the RS interview: "He's good at what he does. It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor - - which people like in America - all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel, selling-ring tones-act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride."
You took umbrage at my calling a lot of your act anti-gay and racist and said that "...according to Cross and the politically correct police, any white comedians who mention the word 'black' or say something humorous but faintly negative about any race are racists."
Well, first of all, your act is racist. Maybe not all the time, but it certainly can be. Here, let me quote you back, word for word, some of your "faintly negative" humor and I'll let people judge for themselves.
Re: Abu Ghraib Torture -
"Let me ask some of these commie rag head carpet flying wicker basket on the head balancing scumbags something!"