He's not the Bernie Mac Obama knew...

... and should now join the host of others found under the bus:

Comedian Bernie Mac endured some heckling and a campaign rebuke during a surprise appearance Friday night at a fundraiser for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.

Toward the end of a 10-minute standup routine at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Chicago, the 50-year-old star of "The Bernie Mac Show" joked about menopause, sexual infidelity and promiscuity, and used occasional crude language.

"My little nephew came to me and he said, 'Uncle, what's the difference between a hypothetical question and a realistic question?'" Mac said. "I said, I don't know, but I said, 'Go upstairs and ask your mother if she'd make love to the mailman for $50,000.'"

As the joke continued, the punchline evoked an angry response from at least one person in the audience, who said it was offensive to women.

"It's not funny. Let's get Barack on," a man shouted from the crowd, which paid $2,300 each to support the Illinois senator.

About 15 minutes later, Obama tried to smooth things over with a joke of his own.

"We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by region or by class and we can't afford to be divided by gender, which by the way, that means, Bernie, you've got to clean up your act next time," Obama said. "This is a family affair. By the way, I'm just messing with you, man."

The incident drew response from Obama's campaign, which criticized Mac for his choice of material.

"Sen. Obama told Bernie Mac that he doesn't condone these statements and believes what was said was inappropriate," spokeswoman Jen Psaki said in a statement after the event.

Jen Psaki, lead Obama prevaricator, doing her best to counter the inevitable Bernie Mac attacks. 

Helluva job these Obama handlers have.  He keeps them busy.

Comments

[Mommynator]

I have a suggestion.

Place a LARGE bus at the North Pole, this way the whole world will already have been thrown under said bus and we can just assume that anyone Obama is offended with is already there.

Anyone who doesn't understand Bernie Mac's brand of humor, and that this is what he does for a living and this is what he's going to say no matter what is delusional.

[BroKen]

I think it was staged to make Obama look like he's attacking purveyors of cultural decay as he fakes his "move to the middle." As Mommynator says, Bernie Mac is a known quantity and probably a professional who could have cleaned up his act if he had been asked to. Even the heckler sounds fishy.

Reminds me of Clinton's attack on the female rapper. It's all smoke and mirrors.

[Locutisprime]

Well I either must have missed the pancake of Bernie Mac's landing under the wheels of the bus, or I got an entirely different take from what Obama said.

"We can't afford to be divided by race. We can't afford to be divided by region or by class and we can't afford to be divided by gender, which by the way, that means, Bernie, you've got to clean up your act next time," Obama said. "This is a family affair. By the way, I'm just messing with you, man."

The last remark seems to me? As yet another example of a Obama supporter "taking one for the team." And being acknowledged for it by Obama.

Obama used the Mac appearance and his comments, as a vehicle for Obama to seemingly have an opening to address gender bias. Or was something else really afoot?

Was it merely a staged opportunity in a long line of staged opportunities, for Obama to seem to come out on top and in command. In command of something already predisposed and pre-rigged for the desired representation of Barack Obama.

Hence his last remark to Bernie Mac.

"By the way, I'm just messing with you, man."

I wonder what the reaction of media would have been.....if John McCain, having just admonished Phil Graham for his remarks on whiners, and having stated that Graham doesn't speak for me.....he simply cut a glance toward Graham and said...."By the way, I'm just messing with you, man."

This is to me, yet another example of the passes given to Obama by the media and those he surrounds himself with.