George Lopez's HBO Special
I decided to watch George Lopez's HBO special last night, America's Mexican and I was surprised at the intensity of the venom put forth from the first word until I decided this wasn't for me. That was probably fifteen minutes worth.
In his efforts to address illegal aliens he managed to alienate part of his audience by insisting new Americans were a antagonistic force, not, as I believe, when done legally are a force of progression.
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"The America we used to know is gone. It doesn't exist anymore. You know who's running America?" he asked, then paused while mariachi music blared. "That's who's running America." |
Lopez's has whole bit on Governor Schwarzenegger, scolding him for his proposed English-only law, when, as we all know, Arnold has a tough time with English himself. But it doesn't make sense, because we're not asking people to speak English perfectly, but just try, exactly what Arnold did when he came to this country.
As I mentioned, I didn't get much further so I don't know if he wrapped a pretty bow around this whole thing. It was obvious he was catering to one specific audience, whose cheers and laughs were more a support of his burning people in comedy effigy rather than it being truly funny.