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...none of these explanations quite capture the nature of Le Pen's success. He is not a new face (he first ran for the presidency in 1974), and the nature of his politics is well known. Le Pen is a racist, equal-opportunity bigot, as happy to offend Jews as Arabs. Why did the citizens of the country that likes to think of itself as the most civilized nation on earth give him more support than ever...
...accuse Camara of harboring a personal bias and Scholl not only of phrasing his argument in a wretchedly insensitive manner but of using a word he knows to be offensive more frequently. But, if they are taken at their word, you cannot say they acted solely and consciously to offend. That more serious accusation is true only of the flyer’s anonymous author...
Abercrombie & Fitch spokesperson Hampton Carney issued a statement designed to demonstrate the depth of the company’s regret, saying “We’re very, very, very sorry. It has never been our intention to offend anyone.” But in the same breath, he claimed ignorance of the bitterly offensive and disrespectful character of those shirts, demonstrating the lack of cultural awareness among decision makers at Abercrombie & Fitch. “These graphic t-shirts were designed with the sole purpose of adding humor and levity to our fashion line,” Carney...
...lyrics to EMINEM's Kill You reflect his mercifully unique sensibility. In the song from his Grammy-winning album The Marshall Mathers LP, released in 2000, the eager-to-offend rapper fantasizes about raping his mother and killing women not related to him. The melody to Kill You, however, is being claimed by someone else. French jazz pianist and composer Jacques Loussier, whose works seem to draw more from Bach and Vivaldi than from John Wayne Gacy, has filed a copyright-infringement suit alleging that Kill You lifts portions of Loussier's 20-year-old song Pulsion. The Frenchman...
...even before its New York City opening last week, The Graduate had racked up the biggest advance sale of any nonmusical in Broadway history. The British, even when they look like theatrical tourists, may yet have something to teach Americans: how to offend the critics and still have...