Drudge Retort (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
John Ridley: Jesse Jackson, Ralph Nader, Geraldine Ferraro, Al Sharpton, Bob Johnson and South Carolina State Senator Robert Ford have all maligned Obama as being everything from a "lucky" black man to not being black enough ... what a long strange trip this campaign season has been watching so-called liberals fumble the hot potato that is Barack Obama.
NewsBusters (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
You've heard of Bush Derangement Syndrome, now it seems as though McCain Derangement Syndrome is starting to appear. As you might expect, the first outbreak was on MSNBC where liberal commentator and screenwriter John Ridley wondered whether McCain's coincidental presence in Colombia during the recent daring hostage rescue was really a publicity ploy: "We know that John McCain...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. Arrogant, of course, is a euphemism. In the monochromatic bunkers from which old-schoolers cling to power the true word they use is "uppity" when hurled at blacks. It's the "B-word" for women. I'm not sure what the Rovian ilk use for the Latinos and Asian-Americans who dare claim their due, but I'm sure it's equally as derisive and wielded with sick pleasure....
PopCultureShock (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
Yes, that’s George Lucas, folks. So far it sounds like all he’s doing is producing, not directing, this film based on the script by the American Way writer John Ridley, and as long as it stays that way, things should go just fine.
ScribeMedia (Free subscription) | 08/02/2008
... we all know it, but is sliced bread really ready to lead? Finally, over at the Huffington Post John Ridley pleaded , “Give me, please, the salacious insidiousness of the Swiftboat Vets for Truth.” At Salon, Alex Koppelman said, no, really, once upon a time McCain spoke of shared purpose and common understanding if, perhaps, some disputes among friends. Thoughts here at the homefront:...
Rotten Tomatoes (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... film."Both Spike and I are totally excited about getting it going," Grazer told me this morning. "John Ridley wrote a great script, but it needed a little more focus, so we put Terry George on it to do a rewrite. The script is due in two weeks and having worked with Terry before, we're expecting that it should be something that's ready to shoot." George, best known for writing "In...
Firedoglake (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
... he thinks he's better than we are, now? That elitist, that swell, that n-- Yes, that's right. As John Ridley recently wrote at Huffington Post, "Arrogant" is the new "Uppity." The only arrogance Obama is guilty of is the same "Unforgivable Blackness" so many exceptional people of color have demonstrated throughout the history of this country: a refusal to bend to the will of the Retro...
LA Times (Free subscription) | 07/15/2008
... film."Both Spike and I are totally excited about getting it going," Grazer told me this morning. "John Ridley wrote a great script, but it needed a little more focus, so we put Terry George on it to do a rewrite. The script is due in two weeks and having worked with Terry before, we're expecting that it should be something that's ready to shoot." George, best known for writing "In...
The Corner (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
I'm working on a piece on Obama's arrogance. While googling around I came upon this amusingly hyperbolic screed at the Huffington Post, in which John Ridley insists that any suggestion that Obama thinks highly of himself is rank racism. Even more amusing, the author suggests that the 'neocons' are the same sorts of racists who killed Emmett Till in Mississippi. I know it's an old lament...
jeffreymark (Free subscription) | 07/05/2008
Watching liberal media pundits wax stupid is more fun than a day with Indiana Jones. Matthew Sheffield at News Busters offers the latest example by posting MSNBC's John Ridley's take on John McCain's presence in Columbia. Sadly, many of those...
The Real Clear Politics Blog (Free subscription) | 07/03/2008
An interesting exchange on Morning Joe today between John Ridley and Pat Buchanan, who were filling in as guest hosts: Ridley: So McCain just decided he wanted to be in Colombia -- very fortuitous on this day that this amazing,...
Progressives for Obama (Free subscription) | 06/29/2008
Photo: Foe of 'Arrogance,' Karl Rove Karl Rove Calls Obama Arrogant? By John Ridley Huffington Post Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. We've heard that; we've heard the pejorative "arrogant" before. When I say "we" I mean those of us who are "others" in America; people of color. Minorities. Women. We hear the word all the time from a select section of privileged white guys; the...
BlackPoliticsontheWeb.com (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
John Ridley, Huffington Post - Karl Rove says Barack Obama is arrogant. We’ve heard that; we’ve heard the pejorative “arrogant” before. When I say “we” I mean those of us who are “others” in America; people of color. Minorities. Women. We hear the word all the time from a select section of privileged white guys; the codifying [...]
The Guardian - The blog Theatre (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
... proscenium arch theatre (possibly the only one of its type the world has known) conceived by John Ridley, an engineer, in the heady days of post-war optimism and built at Hinckley in Leicestershire between 1948 and 1952. Towed by old RAF trucks and forming part of convoy of more that 30 vehicles, the 210-seat Blue Box as it became known roamed the country for more than 20 years to...
Boker tov, Boulder! (Free subscription) | 06/28/2008
... someone happens to be black, you aren't allowed to say that they are arrogant. Even if they are. John Ridley at the Huffington Post definitely got the memo; he may even have written it himself. When Rove Calls Obama Arrogant, He Means "Uppity" I take it Ridley speaks for Progress and The Black Community in Black America (and not just the Black Church), but what do I know? Typical...
