"kramer" on letterman: Political Apologies

Seinfeld star apologizes.

I would have been more OK with this if he had't name dropped Katrina and tried to some how tie his quasi-racist rantings in with racial tensions in the country. I'm not a mind reader but hearing what I could from the first "blow up" video, what appears to have happened is that he got heckled by black people and got so angry that his cultural caps just came off and he did what so many of us are capable of doing when we've lost our temper; he resorted to his most base feelings and emotions and reacted by sinking to the lowest comon denominator.

I realize that he had to make it seem bigger than it really was in order to take some of the sting out of it but the reality is that, though it doesn't excuse it, when you are triggered you will say the worst, most hurtful thing that comes to your mind. If you are white and you want to hurt a black person, dropping an N-bomb is a good start. If they had been fat white guys I would imagine the insults would have been just as bad and the measure of his tantrum would have equally as bad if not worse. Political Correctness in terms of race relations however demands that he create some cockamamie social explanation for his behavior.

On a side note, I seriously doubt that the David Letterman show was the best avenue for this sort of dialogue. He could have gone on Hardball or Larry King or dare I say O'Reilly and maybe his apology would have been heard without the laughter of an imbecilic audience.

I seriously doubt that Michael Richards is a racist. His buttons got pushed and he over reacted. It happens and he's human just like the rest of us. Though much like the rest of Hollywood, I would be more inclined to defend less than appropriate behavior under certain circumstances (again, $hit happens) if the stars themselves wouldn't keep trying deflect negative attention from themselves by pulling the president in front of them unnecessarily. Seriously Kramer, it's not Bush's fault you couldn't handle hecklers.