Another Slur From Hollywood

Ruben Navarrett Jr. on Feb 25, 2015

SAN DIEGO -- Today's deep philosophical question comes from Hollywood: If a racist comment is uttered at the Academy Awards, but it comes from a liberal, is the comment really racist?

The liberal website The Huffington Post doesn't think so. It cut the left-wing loudmouth some slack, with an initial headline that referred only to an "incredibly insensitive comment." Liberals apparently reserve the "R-word" for conservatives.

Look at the lashing given to former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who said that he didn't think President Obama "loves America" and wound up being accused of racism.

Ironically, it was one of Obama's most vocal defenders in Tinseltown -- someone who was a fierce critic of George W. Bush, and known to be cozy with Latin American dictators -- who made the offensive comment at the Oscars.

Moments before presenting the film "Birdman" with the award for Best Picture, Sean Penn said this about the film's director and co-writer Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu:

"Who gave this son-of-a-[expletive] his green card?"

Now we know why Penn, an Oscar-winning actor, doesn't do much comedy. He's not good at it.

Inarritu -- who previously directed Penn in the film "21 Grams" -- told reporters backstage that he wasn't offended by the comment, calling it a "hilarious" joke between friends.

With friends like these, who needs the nativist fringe?

We get the punchline. The filmmaker is foreign-born. I don't see what's hilarious about that. British actor Eddie Redmayne, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor, is also foreign-born. Yet Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett managed to present Redmayne's statue without insulting him -- and the entire population of Great Britain.

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