Richard Pryor: Predicted U.S. Future In Comic Presidential News Conference
“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates…because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.” ~ Nancy M.Neuman, president League of Women Voters, non-partisan civic organization in a news release October 2, 1988
Our staff believes it is fitting to present for your entertainment the comedy stylings of the late Richard Pryor. We think the U.S. Presidential Debates are a joke! Laughable! We’ll explain further in the piece.
Richard Pryor was an American original entertainer whose comedic presentations were often controversial, sometimes social statements, most often reliably funny.
In this 1977 video of a comedy sketch from the shortlived teevee program The Richard Pryor Show, we see Richard as the first black to be elected President of the United States at a formal news conference at the White House, presumably his first meeting with the media.
*Note how skillfully Pryor responds to questions in a presidential manner saying absolutely nothing; we believe his impression of a politician is very true to life! It transcends race.*
Tonight at Hofstra University, Long Island, New York, former Massachusetts governor Willard Romney will meet the current US president, President Barack Obama to participate in the second of three presidential debates.
Last week we saw their respective second in command go against each other, Representative Paul Ryan of Wisconsin, and Vice President Joseph Biden, formerly a senator from Delaware.
Many were dissatisfied with President Obama’s debate presentation; some have called it lack luster others say the president was not forceful enough; even President Obama criticized himself saying he may have been too polite. We agree.
In the face of rapid fire prevarication, plain old major league big lies anyone would be flummoxed; it’s like having received an invitation to a very formal dinner, dressing appropriately and instead of a dignified proceeding one finds mud wrestlers on center stage with all attendees in casual car-wash attire.
And a word or two about Willard Romney’s performance; and performance it was indeed. Never have so many viewers been so surprised, astounded and incredulous as when we heard Willard revising his previously held positions on major issues. The speed at which Willard spins a tale is remarkable; however not so remarkable as to be successful. The lies do not work. As some say, “No sale here.” We, like so many US voters, are not buying the stories we are being told by the Romney camp…the so-called Loyal Opposition.
Back to Richard Pryor…the late comic genius wasn’t too far off the mark in predicting how the media, and the various lobby groups would respond to an African American male of black African descent as President of the United States, leader of the free world.
As you watch tonight’s second presidential debate between Willard Romney and President Barack Obama be mindful of the fact this debate, like all our presidential debates since 1988, is sponsored by Corporate America; American Businesses such as banking institutions, investment groups, weapons manufacturers, big insurance companies, major pharmaceutical companies as well as the producers of toxins found in our food supplies, as well as in our carpets, our clothing, our automobiles, the air we breathe and the water we drink.
The first televised presidential debate may have been covertly sponsored by those whose major interests would be better served by the platform of one party or the other; these interests have taken priority over the interests of We The People.
A Brief History…
In 1976 the League of Women Voters (LWV), a nonpartisan civic organization sponsored the presidential debate of that year between the incumbent President Gerald R. Ford and a peanut farmer from Georgia, the governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter. The same group sponsored the presidential debates of 1980 and 1984.
The LWV withdrew from debate sponsorship, during 1987, in protest of the major party candidates attempts to dictate nearly every aspect of the execution and management of how the debates were to be conducted. On October 2, 1988, the League of Women Voters’ 14 trustees voted unanimously to pull out of the debates, and on October 3 they issued a press release:
“The League of Women Voters is withdrawing sponsorship of the presidential debates…because the demands of the two campaign organizations would perpetrate a fraud on the American voter. It has become clear to us that the candidates’ organizations aim to add debates to their list of campaign-trail charades devoid of substance, spontaneity and answers to tough questions. The League has no intention of becoming an accessory to the hoodwinking of the American public.”
As you watch this historic meeting, be mindful of the history associated with this lowbrow high comedy political event.
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