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Chris Rock on Alcee Hastings on Sarah Palin

September 26, 2008 3:53 PM

Comedian Chris Rock was asked to weigh in on some odd comments by Rep. Alcee Hastings, D-Fla., about Gov. Sarah Palin.

As ABC News' Teddy Davis reported earlier this week, Hastings told voters on Wednesday that "if Sarah Palin isn’t enough of a reason for you to get over whatever your problem is with Barack Obama, then you damn well had better pay attention. Anybody toting guns and stripping moose don’t care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. So, you just think this through."

Hastings spokesman David Goldenberg told ABC News that he was trying to argue that Palin is an "extremely conservative woman who is out of touch with mainstream America."

On CNN's "Larry King Live," Rock was asked about the comments.

KING: Congressman Alcee Hastings of Florida, I knew a long time ago when I lived there, who is both black and a Democrat, is warning against Palin because he says, quote, anybody toting guns and stripping moose don't care too much about what they do with Jews and blacks. That a little rough?

ROCK: Who is this guy?

KING: Alcee Hastings.

ROCK: I never heard of him.

KING: He was a judge. He was indicted.

ROCK: Don't compare me to a moose.

KING: No. He was not --

ROCK: Are you calling me a moose?

KING: No, I'm not calling you a moose. That's what he said.

ROCK: Who is this guy?

KING: He's a congressman.

ROCK: Are you making news or reporting the news? Let's find the craziest black quote we can find --

KING: OK.

ROCK: And just --

KING: What he is trying to say is that a woman who --

ROCK: Who compares -- what the hell do I have to do with a moose, Larry?

KING: No, no, he says that any woman who totes guns and strips moose, that's her --

ROCK: Right.

KING: Can't care too much about Jews and blacks.

ROCK: Larry, what the hell does this have to do -- mooses or moose. I don't know.

KING: Mooses?

ROCK: I don't know. I didn't go to a fancy school, man. But -- yes. She does kill moose. She does kill them.

KING: Yes.

ROCK: Yes, I know.

KING: Do you know anybody in your community who kills moose? That's the point.

ROCK: Every time I see her with a dead moose, I'm like, why is Michael Vick in jail? Isn't killing animals bad?

KING: You have a point.

- jpt

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aerial hunting of wolves: Wolves and bears are very effective and efficient predators on caribou, moose, deer and other wildlife. In most of Alaska, humans also rely on the same species for food. In Alaska's Interior, predators kill more than 80 percent of the moose and caribou that die during an average year, while humans kill less than 10 percent.
The preditor wolf is taking the hunt away from mankind in alaska. Go to Alaska, it is a desolate, harsh environment during the winter which is usually 7-1/2 months of the year. The snow stacks to 5 feet just north of Anchorage. Like I said before, I live in Colorado, but have spent 4 winters in Alaska for recreation. I've driven a dog sled of six for 100 miles and seen no other wildlife. I've spent time in Nome. A desolate town (gee, you can see Russia on a clear day) Let's not give the Governor of Alaska such a bad time when she talks about her state. Alaska is harsh. My eyelashes have been covered with ice while walking across a glacier lake. My butt has frozen to a stainless steel toilet seat in a Alaska State Park facility. I've slid down a ice covered snow slow while snow sking at a resort. It's cold. It's harsh. One can die on a winter day, if not properly attired. The winter is long and DARK.

Oh well, Yut Dah Hey. As Hayduke in a arizona novel (Edward Abbey/The Monkey Wrench Gang) used to say.

peace

eco

Posted by: eco delsol | Sep 26, 2008 11:08:25 PM

Both Sarah Palin and Michael Vick are very cruel people who have caused extreme suffering for innocent animals.

Sarah Palin supports aerial hunting of wolves and bears despite the fact that the vast majority of Alaskans oppose it and biologist and wildlife experts believe that it's not only barbaric but also completely unnecessary. Ms. Palin's Administration also legalized hunting mother bears with their cubs and also hunting bears that are habituated to people like those at Katmai National Park (where tourists go to see the grizzly bears in the wild).

Michael Vick not only put his pitbulls into fight til death matches but also tortured them to death (by hanging and electrocution etc.) if they didn't win the fight. He additionally put bait dogs (which were usually small stray dogs found in the neighborhood) in the pin with the pit bulls who the pit bulls would maul for practice.

I believe that Michael Vick is probably worse than Sarah Palin though since I don't think that she tortured her prey animals to death in retribution.

Chris Rock is an idiot because it's not at all funny to make jokes about the dogs that were horribly tortured to death by Michael Vick

Posted by: lucca | Sep 26, 2008 9:45:18 PM

silly. i hunt for elk, deer, antelope in colorado. i never have to buy beef in supermarkets that is filled with growth hormones and antibiotics. i'm saving my life or extending it by eating the meat that i slay. nothing goes to waste. no eyeballs in my hamburger.

heh heh
eco

Posted by: eco delsol | Sep 26, 2008 8:52:13 PM

Aw C'mon.

Posted by: Mr. Unite Us | Sep 26, 2008 8:43:07 PM

Congratulations to Chris Rock for first ridiculing then dismissing Larry King's idiotic statements.

Chris neutralized Larry King's subtle proddings and refused to be drawn into making a negative soundbite that could be used against him or Obama.

At the same time, he got in a funny dig about elevating Palin's animal-murdering abilities.

That's why you Rock Chris!!!

Posted by: Donna | Sep 26, 2008 8:38:08 PM

Well that seems to have been an incredibly inane conversation, and what's worse, it was given credence here.

I think the rape of female dogs, and fighting them against each other, til death, in the exchange of money(Betting) is a far sight worse than hunting moose for food, or killing wolves that are possibly killing a farmers cattle or livestock.

Get a grip. Hunting's been going on for years, and since we're putting corn in our gas tanks, what other recourse will we have, if Obama is elected?

Posted by: Jeanie | Sep 26, 2008 8:27:00 PM

"Palin only becomes more popular among the voting public so ..."
Susan, where do you live? Bizarro world?

Palin is dropping in polls like lead weight, even the conservative bloggers hate her now. It was only a matter of time before the 'Palin effect' crashed and burn.

Posted by: JoeShmoe | Sep 26, 2008 8:26:43 PM

Chris Rock must be an idiot. A black politician equated blacks and jews with a moose. Rock then tries to accuse Larry King of calling him a moose...then equates killing an animal for food to dog fighting.

Again, he must be an idiot.

Posted by: ynot4tony2 | Sep 26, 2008 8:04:32 PM

We need to have standards for the people that are elected to Congress!

Posted by: Elemakule Tutu | Sep 26, 2008 8:00:07 PM

"Unless you're going to eat the animal... DON'T KILL IT."

So when you put down a rabid dog you have to eat it? Yeeech!

Oh... you say that is ~different~. There's a ~reason~ to put down a rabid dog that has nothing to do with eating it.

But perhaps there is also a ~reason~ to put down a wolf, eh. But you don't stop to think about that. You just want to condemn anything to do with Palin with no regard as to reason or critical thinking.

Pitiful...

Posted by: jack burton | Sep 26, 2008 7:59:02 PM

"Gov. Palin's efforts to encourage slob hunting of wolves (picking them off from the air using high-powered rifles, yeah there's plenty of sport in that), "

1) This was not "hunting" or "sport" but predator control. Big difference.

2) But you don't know the reason for predator control, particularly wolves, in Alaska, do you?

3) Yet you feel as if you have to make a comment anyway, eh.

Posted by: jack burton | Sep 26, 2008 7:55:24 PM

And why do we waste airwaves on these two idiots?

Posted by: Jake | Sep 26, 2008 7:42:52 PM

wow, this interview must have been really uncomfortable.

Posted by: venicesurfer | Sep 26, 2008 7:35:50 PM

Alcee Hastings exposed himself as a hate monger, a racist, and, as his record shows, he is a criminal, yet he is in Congress and he is reported shooting off his mouth with that brain-dead comment!

There was a time when people would recognize someone saying those things as a mentally deranged individual and they would have ignored him. He might even be ushered into the psyche ward, heavily sedated, wrapped in a straight jacket, and placed in a locked, padded cell.

Chris Rock makes himself a fool every time he opens his mouth and spews nonsense.

Today these freaks like racist, misogynist, criminal Alcee Hastings are Democrats/Leftists/Liberals elected to congress.

Sarah Palin is a wonderful person and they cannot hold a candle to her character, her conviction, her morals, and her openness and kindness. She would make a wonderful Vice President and a wonderful President.

I do not trust Obama, Biden, or Alcee Hastings.

I do trust Sarah Palin.

Posted by: William | Sep 26, 2008 7:31:39 PM

Chris, you're not a moose. Just a jackass. :-)

Posted by: Timothy | Sep 26, 2008 7:24:50 PM

Rock's point about Palin shooting wolves and Vick fighting dogs is very valid.

As far as INHUMANITY GOES both are equal.

Unfortunately for Vick he was betting on it.

But Palin is just as inhumane.

Posted by: wolf killer | Sep 26, 2008 7:19:20 PM

Is Chris Rock a vegetarian? If not where does he think it comes from.. Someone else has to kill it when you get it from the store. Only difference.

Posted by: moxie | Sep 26, 2008 7:16:41 PM

There is a valid comparison between the way those dogs were treated and the way she hunted wolves from a helicopter. That was one of the most disgusting videos I have ever seen. Really sick.

Posted by: Mike | Sep 26, 2008 6:27:10 PM

Wow! Two geniuses commenting on a person they can't measure up to on so many levels. But that's okay. Palin only becomes more popular among the voting public so ... keep it up!

Posted by: Susan | Sep 26, 2008 6:26:52 PM

To be a comedian like Chris Rock required intellect, and to be in touch with the common people .To be politician like McCain required to be capable to make political stunts and manipulate the common people.

Posted by: foreclosure | Sep 26, 2008 6:12:10 PM

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