WB calls yesterday‘s contest in the comments:
Among French intellectuals, I’d rather hear from a corpse than an active public figure. My vote goes to Derrida.
And, today, the woman who defined Hollywood stardom, up against a religious leader who dabbles in slander. How fabulous is that??
P.S. As always, here’s the background, and here are the rules.
Is there anyone who hasn’t heard enough from Sharpton already? Is there anyone who perks up because they hear Al Sharpton will be at an event? Al Sharpton must be tired of hearing Al Sharpton by now.
Judy, though… Just trying to anticipate the pharmacological combination that Judy’s natural fear of speaking would induce is an incredibly difficult combinatorial statistical problem: Calculate the pdf in quaalude-benzedrine-phenobarbitol-ethanol space. Only downside: Liza might show up.
+1 to Jonathan
Sharpton has a TV show
http://www.msnbc.com/politicsnation
6pm weekdays. Al Sharpton. Every night. At dinner.
I’ve never seen the show. Probably most of us haven’t. There’s got to be a reason.
Judy might not show up, or might not show up for long. But even a Judy Garland no-show would outrank Sharpton.
Judy Garland wins by default, even if she were completely hoarse due to excessive singing. How can one hold a conversation with someone who can’t even read a teleprompter? See the “Sharpton vs the Teleprompter” series, e.g.,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ggHWRpsMEmk
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VD6MTlT2Ye8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbaR4SBAr4s
On the other hand, it would be interesting to hear The Rev Al explain (1) Tawana Brawley, (2) Crown Heights, (3) his role as an FBI Informant, (4) during any of his many meetings with the President, has Obama ever hit Big Al up for the millions in back taxes that he owes? (5) …. There’s really nothing I want to ask Judy, and I can always listen to her albums if I want to hear her sing. I changed my mind: I vote for Al.
Given these quotes today:
So.
Farewell then
Rainbow
Yes, rainbow is well known to be problematic.
the rainbow needs rescuing.
So let’s have the young Judy Garland sing for us.
On the contrary, she’ll encourage us to get over it.
We need Al Sharpton. Racism is a serious problem in many societies not just ours. Whenever some racial problem arises in America, we just bring up Rev. Al and his misdeeds from 25 years ago, and then we have invalidated the complaints. What would we do without Rev. Al?