Isn’t that what liberals like to say?

We have great respect for Michelle Malkin.

While our viewpoints are rarely at odds, we savor Michelle’s strong and passionate perspectives on nearly every issue and link to her almost daily. (Unfortunately, the recognition is not reciprocal, but yet our love is unconditional)

However, in her current crusade against Rosie “Ching Chong” O’Donnell (a person we detest on the same level — and equal “weighting” — as Michael Moore), we are concerned that Michelle is inadvertently fueling the powers of political correctness which have already been successful at suffocating the freedom of speech by stripping honesty from public and private conversations.

Michelle is absolutely correct in her mocking the hypocrisy of Rosie O’Donnell, who feels comfortable to mimick Chinese on national network television, while at the same time criticizing others of ‘cultural insensitivity’. But we’ve already known that the same rules don’t apply. Rosie is a Hollywood liberal and the simple conclusion is: She’s just full of sh*t. Borrowing from industry parlance, that’s the most succinct way to describe her. Not much more needs to be said about that.

The recent “controversy” about Danny DeVito’s appearance on The View is also a non-issue. Liquor simply freed his tongue to speak out (and articulate) how the Hollywood liberal elites, like his drinking buddy George Clooney, really think. Too bad he didn’t talk about “flyover country” so that middle America would’ve also gotten a taste of the contempt. It’s not just reserved for President Bush and all things conservative.

So, with all the issues one could reprimand Rosie about, what’s the problem with condemning her for doing a little “ching chong” routine? It’s making a big issue out of nothing, forcing even more bogus “cultural sensitivity” upon the public, and giving ammo to those who want to advance the agenda of political correctness. Can you say “Macaca”? Not if you’re Republican. As Michelle’s fellow political blogger, Mary Katharine Ham, points out: “[T]he gotcha game will never solve race problems by going around looking for racism in places where it doesn’t exist.”

Should every person be prohibited from mocking the German language with an over-acted accent, which is standard fare in many movies? Or French? Or African? Or Middle Eastern? Or Spanish? Maybe even Scottish. Jive? Ebonics? Richard Pryor. Eddie Murphy. Chris Rock. It’s aaaall good. Remember In Living Color? Or, more recently, how about Borat? It appears most people enjoy that sort of thing — and guess what? It’s called comedy. If we can’t all laugh about each other openly, we’re only hiding it.

By creating an artificial environment wherein people must think and act a certain way, cultural activists are promoting the true loss of liberty. That is Orwell’s 1984. It’s called “political correctness,” a nomenclature that deserves it own post and analysis at another time.

Bottom line: We’re talking about human nature and natural development. It starts early. Kids make fun of each other in grade school. We all probably went through it at some point in time. This experience makes us stronger, teaches us lessons, and we learn to adapt. One might say adaptability and confidence is something that many of today’s youths are lacking. If someone makes fun of how another person talks, big deal. Sticks and stones. Or as Michelle likes to say, “boo-frickin-hoo.”

Rosie’s half-baked act doesn’t deserve the mileage it’s received. And, more importantly, it shouldn’t serve as an example and resource for more special interests to advance their grievances while forcing others to bite their tongues.

UPDATE: (12/14) Has Rosie apologized?
What happened to “being liberal means you never have to say you’re sorry…”?

UPDATE:
“City Councilman John Liu (D-Queens) is calling for an apology from View’s new slightly twisted diva, Rosie O’Donnell. And he’s not happy with Barbara Walters, either. Now rumors are starting to surface that Rosie may actually leave the View.” (via Dan Riehl)

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1. I think Rosie is getting smacked across the face for acting like this because of being a habitual hypocrit in general and not necessarily because of specifically being culturally insensitive.

   In the interest in full disclosure, I should admit that I am madly in love with Michelle Malkin and so I could be slightly biased. ;-)

   Comment by Dairenn Lombard — December 11, 2006 @ 4:46 pm

2. While I do understand where you’re coming from regarding Rosie’s “ching chong” comments, I have to disagree with your assessment of why it’s bordering on political correctness extremes.

   Granted, the comment wasn’t made in malice but she’s not actually making fun of an accent, she was degrading the entire language as nothing more than spastic gibberish and it’s insulting.

   Case in point, if you ever have the chance, I would suggest you check out Russell Peters’ comedy ruitine. He constantly imitates a Chinese, Catonese specifically, accent but there is no outrage at all from Asian Americans, me included. Why? It’s because the accent does indeed sound like that. Rosie’s “ching chong” comment was trivializing a lauguage, not imitating it.

   Though I don’t like quoting from Wikipedia as my “works cited,” it does indeed point out that “ching chong” is a racial slur. It’s not something that we as school kids faced when they were growing up, we still face it as grown adults. My retired parents still come across people spewing that comment. It’s a phrase designed to dehumanize someone.

   Comment by Rob — December 17, 2006 @ 4:41 pm