(image via knoxnews)
We almost snorted our Kenyan blend coffee out of our nose this morning after reading this bat-shit insane charge on Drudgie-Poo linking the black experience in America with ... the Geico-Cave Man:
"The producers of ABC's new 'Cavemen' said Wednesday the comedy is much more than the insurance company commercials that inspired it, but isn't designed to be an ambitious allegory about race.
"Geico's TV spots show highly evolved but shaggy-looking cavemen chafing at misconceptions about their sophistication and intelligence. The series, debuting Oct. 2, follows another trio of Cro-Magnons facing prejudice as they try to fit in contemporary society."
Wait, it gets better. "Schiff and fellow producers responded to reporters' questions about the series, many of them focusing on parallels between the cavemen and black stereotypes and the pitfalls of turning an ad into a series.
"The producers said the characters' creative potential and their 'fish-out-of-water experience' was only touched on in the commercial spots."
First King Kong was racist, now this. Please tell me this is just a cynical way for the network to garner press attention for the show and not a truly serious charge.
That goddam Gekko, though; obvs a bigot. Fer realsies.
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