I can delude herself?! Yes, now you're making sense.

See this? It's the world's smallest violin, and it just exploded from all the melodramatic histrionic self fascination in this thread

Ha! Hahahahaha!!!! You cite one single solitary brief interview and you want to be taken seriously. Does she speak anything that could be construed as racially insensitive or oblivious? Or does she simply not state her position clearly and simply enough for you to comprehend? If you'd seen her on David Letterman this…

Well, Cheers was the product of a relatively more naive period in history, if not actually a totally absurd fictionalization of typical bar culture. But still I appreciated the show's wonderfully contrived scenarios and its almost vaudevillian comic timing. You could practically hear the rimshot after each perfectly…

1. Compulsive need for arbitrary strangers to embrace my every utterance?
2. Inadequate roughage in my diet?
3. Shits 'n' Giggles? (which, ironically, is unlikely by the fact of answer #2)

But Mindy is the first person on her show to make overt racial and bigoted comments. She's blatantly offensive, but she gets away with it because she's "of Color." She's also very self deprecating and genuinely funny, and so I like her show a lot.

Sshh, quiet.

Lena explains her position extremely well, with logical, rational honesty. You are choosing to interpret her words to suit your tedious argument. You are conning yourself by deliberately cherry picking her words. Just as she stated "And I think the liberal-arts student in me really wants to engage in a dialogue about…

You get to park cars and clean up after the party.

Sarcastic, self aware Niponphobia. She is baiting the reactionary, self satisfied Political Correctness Police, and you bit, hook, line and singer. Did you read the entire travel blog? The part about the sex club? The Japanese people are a deeply, profoundly twisted, demented race. Their intense politeness and…

She wasn't defensive about her show or it's depictions of "minorities" or lack thereof, she was defensive about people labeling her a racist or a bigot because those are unsubstantiated claims, without merit, made by dimwitted dullards who are just too thick and self satisfied to understand her show's style of satire.…

No, difficulty appreciating the relatively mature, somewhat sophisticated, intellectually informed level of Lena's satire is not just limited to people of color. There are plenty of drab, dull, colorless people who don't get it, too.

Holy Shit! You really are infatuated with that roaring cacophony inside your own head, aren't you? The show is intentionally, emphatically, preposterously White because that's the ironic, sarcastic, sardonic aspect of its humor. Only tragically self fascinated, obtuse, dull witted clods could fail to discern this…

That's what she said.

"Lives alongside a very ethnically diverse population," but not necessarily living in shared social intimacy. The city and neighborhood is culturally and racially diverse, but the individual social circles are relatively homogeneous and segregated and exclusive. It's not a simple matter of passing other kinds of…

Jeesh, I guess I'm repeating myself here just for the pleasure of seeing my own words forever enshrined upon the interwebs, apparently. Lena isn't celebrating that self satisfied, self righteous hideous White Entitlement, she's mocking it. But you simply refuse to see it. You are digesting the dialog and action at the…

I fondly remember the Aerosmith/N'Sync/Britney Spears/May J. Blige/Nelly Half Time Fiasco. It was so bizarre, so surreal, it was actually kinda fun. Sorta.

Bruno does a good variation of Michael Jackson/Jame Brown style soul and pop, when he wants to. He's got good stage theatrics and catchy musical hooks.

A Miley Cyrus, Rhianna, Kei$ha, Taylor Swift, Britney, Madonna, Beyonce half time show would be great, but only as Sniper Fodder.

You are imposing your own overblown sense of justice and racial tolerance upon the world. Or at least upon the TV viewing public who happen to find Lena's sly little show to be a relatively clever and insightful jab at people's conceptions of reality. Of course the show is impossibly White, that's part of the point of…