Obviously, Jamie Foxx is a really good actor. Let's just get that out of the way right now.
And let's also get out of the way that I don't make it a habit to poke fun at a man whose A) performances of Wanda skyrocketed my big bootied self-esteem in Jr High like nothing else and B) biceps are almost as impressive as Khaled B's legendary "mini mountains."
Not that I'm afraid that Jamie will ever hit me; I just don't wanna take the chance. I've been told on more than one occasion that I have really good bone structure.
Still, I'm about to call out Jamie Foxx on sounding stupid about geography. Please, don't interpret this as mean spirited on my part. Interpret this as the last time KABOBfest posted about someone sounding stupid about geography, we received over a bazillion hits in one day and became the #2 site Google directed the "miss teen usa geography" search string to until she went on the Today Show the following Monday and explained her meltdown which we didn't cover because it was super staged and super boring, and so now we've dropped down to #4.
But for the record: as popular as that video was for KABOBreaders, it still wasn't as popular as the footage Fadi posted of Israeli soldiers beating Palestinian children. And this... this is a statistic that comforts me.
Still, I wish we had YouTube footage on Jamie Foxx's recent visit to the Middle East when he decided he fell in love with the environmental disaster/hip-hop video that is Dubai, raved about all its money and expensive cars, and described the palace he stayed in as measuring "850,000 square kilometers."
See, at this moment, video would be helpful in gauging whether Jamie Foxx was just being funny (he used to be really funny) or was, in fact, embodying Miss South Carolina. Was he being sarcastic, like when I say that we received "a bazillion hits in one day" when in reality we only received a trillion hits in one day, or does he really not know how big 850,000 sq km is?
To be fair, let's not forget that A) they don't teach us about the metric system here in the U.S. because our hatred for the French runs that deep and B) Jamie Foxx is a U.S. American.
[NOTE: The now infamous "U.S. American" phrase was actually very accurate seeing that the U.S. is not the only country in the Americas and in that I will defend Miss Teen South Carolina's honor even though she really had no fucking clue but we gotta give even a broken clock credit for being right twice a day, no?]
[Tarboush tip: Fadi]Jamie Foxx Found The United Arab Emirates 'Incredible'
Star Pulse News, 08/31/2007
Jamie Foxx has fallen in love with the Middle East after getting the royal treatment on the set of his new movie The Kingdom. The actor/singer didn't know what to expect when he signed on to shoot the film in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates - and he had no idea he'd be treated like a king.
He coos, "It was beautiful. There is so much money over there. The palace I stayed in was 850,000 square kilometres. You could play an arena league football game in my room. It was great.
"My room was like a mile away from my sister's room. They picked us up in Phantoms (Rolls Royce) and BMWs and armored Mercedes and all kinds of stuff. It was incredible."
And Foxx loved the food on set too: "There were a lot of dates to eat. I love dates."
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I'll say that the "arena football" comment following the 850,000 km. statement in a pretty good indication that Foxx was joking around.
Wow, QuiQui, the fact you can't tell he was obvioulsy joking (not sarcasm, by the way - but hyperbole/exaggeration) is pretty amazingly f-ing scary.
I think you just lost your license to make fun of Miss Teen South Carolina.
Wow.
I was a PA on In Living Color and I will tell you that Jamie Foxx wasn't the brightest crayon, but he was really nice. But now that he's going around defending Michael Vick, he's a dick. A stupid one.
Ha ha... ANON 2:53pm, sorry but ANON 3:14pm just took my comment. But that's okay because I think I have a good idea who ANON 3:14pm might be. ;-)
Seriously, I would have liked to think that Jamie wasn't really lame as easily as you but A) I heard too many stories and B) his recent Michael Vick defense borders on... there's no way to put this delicately: mental incapacitation.
Here's another fun quote:
"It's a cultural thing, I think," Jamie said. "Most brothers didn’t know that, you know. I used to see dogs fighting in the neighborhood all the time. I didn't know that was Fed time. So, mike probably just didn't read his handbook on what not to do as a black star. I know that cruelty to animals is bad, but sometimes people shoot people and kill people and don’t get time," Jamie continued. "I think in this situation, he really didn't know the extent of it, so I always give him the benefit of the doubt."
Admitedly, I didn't see video of Jamie as he said this, so I can't say with 100% certainty that he wasn't being sarcastic (that term applies here, right?) so perhaps... well, maybe we should also give him the benefit of the doubt.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/08/24/jamie-foxx-defends-vick-_n_61662.html
I think I have a good idea who ANON 3:14pm might be. ;-)
I guarantee you that you don't.
But the logic that (comedian) "Jamie Foxx couldn't possibly be joking/exaggerating about a palace being 850,000 square kilos because he said something dumb defending Michael Vick" is, well, so mindbendingly ridiculous, that calling it "logic" is an affront to the concept.
so I can't say with 100% certainty that he wasn't being sarcastic.
Oh My God.
Miss Teen South Carolina has some serious competition, and not in the flawless makeup department.
Wow.
Embarrassing.
I have to disagree. His comment about Vick is a smart, sarcastic, and charged one. It's less of a defense of Vick and more of an attack on the institution of political correctness.
Yes, Vick committed a crime, but we all know the reaction amounted to a political lynching. Hardly anybody seems interested in addressing the long-standing problems of dog fighting in the inner city, trivializing violence through video games, or sanctioning war and killing humans for no legitimate reason. Foxx managed to take a swing at those, and correctly identified Vick as stupid rather than criminal. There is a manual of what not to do for anybody who makes it big, especially if they're a minority, because it is true they get you on a technicality, but the motive is always political.
As for the 850,000 sq Km, the guy just does not know metric... I bet you if you ask him to convert it, he'll say it's 1 sq mile.
Fayyad,
I like most of your post as social commentary, BUT, when you write something like this:
correctly identified Vick as stupid rather than criminal.
Do you really mean to say that Vick's actions were not criminal? That's a hugely different point than saying something like turning Vick into public enemy number one says more about America and the media than it does about Vick and dogfighting.
But, dogfighting is, you know, illegal. As is running a dogfighting ring.
One applicable section of the U.S. Code:
It shall be unlawful for any person to knowingly sell, buy, transport, deliver, or receive for purposes of transportation, in interstate or foreign commerce, any dog or other animal for purposes of having the dog or other animal participate in an animal fighting venture.
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/7/chapters/54/sections/section%5F2156.html
Is Jamie Foxx an egomaniacal macho jackass?
Yes
Is a he a great actor?
No
Is he better than the average Hollywood actor?
Yes
Does this tell us something about how low the standards are for Hollywood acting?
Yes
Was his best work his standup?
Yes
Did he get the Oscar for being a moderately charismatic, moderately talented performer playing an enormously talented enormously charismatic performer?
Yes
Should he get his ass kicked for being in a yay-let's-kill Arabs movie?
Yes
Is America racist country where, as Tupac said "life's hell for a Black celebrity"?
Yes
Does this mean that Michael Vick was "politically lynched"?
No
Does he deserve to get his ass kicked for killing dogs WITH HIS OWN HANDS just for him and his punk-ass friends' macho amusement?
Yes
Is Michael Vick the best place for folks to be expending their ire at the racist-ass criminal justice system?
No
Are there shitloads of kids locked up on nonviolent drug charges that deserve lockup far less than Vick and have less chance of recovering from it than he does?
Yes
Should we focus on those kids instead of one full-of-himself, never did shit for the Black community piece of shit?
Yes
Anon 5.50.
You make a good point. I started by saying that Vick comitted a crime, so yes, I agree with your point, and his actions are criminal. But whether he's a criminal or not is getting into a philosophical debate that I do not do an adequate job at.
But I also thing Foxx makes a good point in the sense that Vick's bigger crime is not running a dogfighting ring, but doing so as a high-profile black man. Foxx speaks to how trivial inner-city kids see dogfighting, but blames Vick for not knowing better.
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