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Hannity Panel Goes Off On Nicki Minaj For Her ‘Performance’: ‘Imitating Madonna’

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On last night’s Grammy’s (which, Adele aside, were not much to write home about), famous person of some sort Nicki Minaj made some noise on stage. The noise was accompanied by some unfortunate use of Catholic imagery, however, which means that conservative commentators all over cable news had to show their requisite outrage at the same thing Madonna has been doing for decades, but without any actual music. Sean Hannity accurately diagnosed the performance as a copycat of Madonna c. 1989, and the panel compared her offensive performance to the offensive policies of President Obama.

RELATED: Controversial Grammy Performer Nicki Minaj Has At Least One Conservative Fan: Sen. Marco Rubio

“To me it just seemed like, ‘let’s just pick another page out of the Madonna handbook… that always seems to work,” Hannity noted of Minaj’s show, which has been described by people who know what actually happened here as “a performance of the song ‘Roman Holiday.’” Guest Deneen Borelli did not seem to agree with Hannity that it seemed contrived and boring, instead seeing it as one more attack by the enemies of the church. “Look who is on the head of this list: President Obama,” Borelli argued, “and then you have this chick, Nicki Mange, whatever her name is,” telling Americans, “we have the choice” not to buy records or vote for candidates. Guest Michael Myers appeared to fall on the more bored than outraged side, too, stating, “they’re imitating Madonna, imitating everyone who is an outrageous performer… they are equal opportunity performers.”

Here Hannity disagreed, with the caveat that “I don’t support boycotts, but there seems to be a double-standard.” The Catholic Church was fair game, he argued, but “what if this was against the Islamic faith?” Myers suggested that Hollywood “plays on stereotypes,” that there were plenty of stereotypes in all shapes, sizes and colors everywhere, but Borelli disagreed. She added a point that anyone who has watched a certain quota of cable news in their lifetimes should have seen coming from a mile away– that “you’re not going to see music videos with people running around in burqas, I don’t think that’s going to happen” because of the double standard the media has with Islam. To which I refer Borelli to M.I.A.‘s latest music video, “Bad Girls,” and namely this frame:

But M.I.A. flashed her middle finger during the Super Bowl, so I guess she doesn’t count.

Anyway, the conversation continued in this route, with complaints about the “elephant dung on the Virgin Mary” and the other vulgar and, as Hannity accurately noted, boring aspects of this sort of noise. As Borelli started off the conversation comparing Minaj to President Obama, the second half of the discussion focused on the contraceptive mandate and the outrage against religious freedom it represented to the panel.

While the somewhat strained tie-in to President Obama felt a bit contrived, it is refreshing that much of the conversation revolved not around whether what Minaj did was inherently offensive to the church or not, but by how unoriginal it was, given how many examples of similarly “offensive” things the music world does came up in such little time. If Minaj can’t even get the most conservative commentators on cable to get offended at her “work” without pointing out that everyone in music has done it better and even more offensive than her, surely this has to be one of the floppiest flop in “shocking” music moments of the decade so far, no?

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  • Anonymous

    They pose a very valid ?

    Why doesn’t  Hollywood make fun of Islam?

    Because I think a parody of the “prophet Muhammad” and Jerry Sanduski would be appropriate, considering there similar vile and disgusting backgrounds. Now that would be funny!!!!!!!!!!

  • Anonymous

    Hannity and Co., playing right into Nikki Minaj’s strategy…

  • Love of Country

    That is one vile, misguided woman.  She could draw attention to domestic and drug abuse as well as fatherlessness in the bIack liberal communities, for example, but instead is using her talents to tear down people of faith.  Before bIack churches were taken over by the Jeremiah Wrights of the world … God was the best thing that had ever happened to the bIack communities in this country.   

    Liberal values are quite regrettable but it’s always the children who suffer the most..

  • Love of Country

    Liberalism is based upon lies.

    And both alcoholism and liberalism is a disease.

    Good luck with both of your problems … your work is cut out for you.

  • Anonymous

    It would be “alcoholism and liberalism are a disease,” and I have neither.  Good luck with your culture war.

  • Anonymous

    Your sanctimony leaves you quite vulnerable.  Tell me teacher, was God the best thing ever to happen to black people before or after slave masters used selective passages from the Bible to justify slavery?

  • Anonymous

    I agree. Just look at the kids from conservative households. They grow up pretending to abstain from sex, alcohol and drugs yet they actively participate in the lifestyle. The only thing they learn from their parents is that they have to lie to win their approval. They are the ones that suffer the most.

  • Anonymous

    Her handler’s strategy that is.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/3EV7LMBN3SWQMEVDJCAKUCTCKM Top

     Because it is not funny

    You clownservatives soil yourselves in fear at the sight of anyone wearing muslin garb.

  • Anonymous

    Gonorrhea and rabid extreme partisanship are also both diseases, but only one can be cured with penicillin.

    Good luck with your hate filled little life. Remember to wash the colander at least once a week.

  • Anonymous

    The only thing I care less about than Niki Minaj’s Grammy performance is Sean Hannity’s opinion of Niki Minaj’s grammy performance.

    This is like a perfect storm of “meh.”

  • Anonymous

    The loons are essentially crybabies. They can’t come to terms with the fact that the majority of the country voted for someone who disagrees with them, and thus they cry and moan that the guy is a dictator/inept fool. They are whiners, pure and simple. 

  • Anonymous

    I’d like to know what effect this will have on Obama’s budget proposal, the birth control debate, or the war in Afghanistan.

  • Anonymous

    The Republican implosion is stunning to watch.  Everyone knows Rick Santorum has zero chance to win the nomination and a less than zero chance to the Presidency.  I blame Conservative pundits like Sean Hannity for throwing gasoline onto the fire and making it nearly impossible to field a candidate that has any chance of winning in November.
    http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2012/02/13/because-of-sean-hannity-republicans-may-never-win-again/

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/EABFC4PB6ZEZZBWPOU7R453CH4 Rita

    SEAN HANNITY AND HIS TWO GUESTS ARE NUTS!! STOP TRYING TO SPREAD HATE AND FEAR!!!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Bart-Morgay/100001554351938 Bart Morgay

    The Catholic Church makes a mockery of itself without anyone’s help.

  • Charles Ulysses Feney

    Jerry Sandusky is a good Catholic… would have made a fine priest!

  • Love of Country

    Have you tried Paxil?

  • Love of Country

    If you don’t think faith was one of all the slaves’ most prized possessions then you are a naive fool.

    Your premise is naive and unfounded.  Acknowledging the positive force of God in the bIack community leaves me vulnerable to nothing cept leaving you to throw your sticks and stones in vain once again like some petulant and colicky child.

    If you had read any history books you would have read passages from slaves all over the country who relied on their faith just to get by …

    But why am I talking to you … I hate drunks for the obvious reasons and your posts personify your common-man stupidity … you prolly voted for that America hating, compulsively lying, smoke and mirrors, bait and switch, Trojan Horse, commie pos up in the whitehouse … and as such … we pity the fool!

  • Love of Country

    You’re OWS

    I’m Tea Party

    End of story, dirtbag … now beat it … and clean up after yourself for once … you’re filthy!

  • Love of Country

    It’s not that you embarrassing loons are crybabies … GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE, GIMMIE WAAAAAAHHHHHHH ….

    But in addition to crying profusely for MY tax dollars … you stupid tards fill every prison and welfare line to capacity …. dysfunction and incompetence and bitter, racist hatred as far as the eyes can see.

    You tards think the world runs on cocaine and pixie dust … no wonder you’re crying all the time and throwing tantrums in your chronic desperation for wealth redistribution.  What kind of a pathetic political party is DESPERATE to be GIVEN money they could never earn on their own????  Oh yeah … that’s right …. YOUR PARTY!!!!

    ROTFLMFAO

  • Love of Country

    I’m rich and successful and you’re a blithering idiot who presumably votes for democrats …. which is rather amusing since 99 out of 100 felons want the same politicians in office as YOU do …. and as such … I won’t have to tell you your political acumen, or lack thereof, is a F’n JOKE!

    Being different is not your disease …. to infer that’s what I was saying speaks to your own stupidity.  Liberalism is a disease because it turns cities into detroit … countries into Greece.  Liberalism is the choice of violent criminals and rapists.

    Liberalism is a disease … test early and test often!

  • Anonymous

    That football at the end should be a mandatory prop in every Hannity nightly signoff as a Fox disclaimer stating something to the effect don’t take anything mentioned on this show seriously, the host is just another one of our network clowns

  • http://twitter.com/RemiBernard Remi Bernard

    You’re not supposed to be able to lose to an incumbent in a recession, but they’re gonna anyway. It’s amazing.

  • Anonymous

    That last comment was pure stupidity!

  • Love of Country

    No kidding scooter … some of us are multi-tasking over here so don’t hurt yourself patting yourself on the back for catching some typo I made during editing due to multi-tasking.  It was only later when I added alcoholism just because of your special lil problem … at the same time, I was holding up a pool game and a dart game simultaneously. 

    I don’t know … you just seem kinda desperate over there … so enjoy the oh so rare low hanging fruit … cause like the Cadbury Easter Eggs …. you won’t be seeing it again for some time.

  • Love of Country

    Unlike you … I’ve got better things to do at 4:20, scooter.

  • Anonymous

    Niki Minja is under your bed. Sleep tight tonight.

  • http://twitter.com/Samuel_Bun Samuel_Bun

     You can edit or delete your post and avoid the embarrassment.

  • Anonymous

    Always enlightening to see a panelist discussing someone whose name they don’t even know. Durrrrr, this is like Urbama.

  • The Real Royal Emperor

    Case in point: Familia Palin.

  • Anonymous

    Every single word in your response is fueled by misconceptions derived from your time listening to hardcore right-wing pundits tell “how” “libs” think. It’s pathetic in that it’s so divorced from reality, so hateful and so childish. If there was ever a caricature in the political world, it’s this ridiculous idea that anyone who leans left wants “free” things from the government. 

    You likely know very little about statistics on prisons or welfare, or which parties fought for what (for example, which party wants long prison sentences for minor drug offenses and yet is mostly closely tied to the prison industry in states like Louisiana? Hint: it’s not the Democrats). Which party, for example, first ran up huge deficits in the 1980s? I’d be glad to debate facts rather than ask inane questions (like you just did), such as which party is the lamest? “ROTFLMFAO”

    And if you think the 1990s tax rates made people in this country poor before the GOP tanked our budget surplus in the 2000s, you may need to ask your dad about what really happened. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    Today’s conservatives are as much of Jesus followers as a pack of wolves. Give up all you have and follow me, spend your time feeding the hungry and curing the afflicted. That was the message of Jesus. The idea that Hannity et al care about religious values is laughable.

  • Anonymous

    They cry about The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, SNL, Super Bowl commercials, and now a stage performances. Republicans really hit on hard hitting issues.

  • Anonymous

     F U,redneck,you know nothing about black people

  • Anonymous

    Whatever makes you sleep at night, All Star. 

  • Anonymous

    I imagine there was spittle all over your screen by the time you pecked that one out.  Settle down, Dart master, it’s going to be OK. 

  • Anonymous

    Don’t forget their running feud with the Muppets! 

  • JustAsking2012

    Which doesn’t actually exist… but please please “remember” it.

  • Love of Country

    My 5 or 6 bIack friends would beg to differ w/ you, you goofy, racist nimrod … I currently have more bIack friends than white ones .. two of them were even stupid enough to vote for Owebamao (lol) … unbelievable!

    I hope your day gets better than your attitude, you poor, poor bigoted troll..

  • Love of Country

    How’d you know I play league, freakshow?

  • Love of Country

    You’re OWS pointing fingers at the Tea Party, for Pete’s sake ….

    ROTFLMFAO

  • Anonymous

    Lead by example then.

  • Love of Country

    ……. (yawn)

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

     Huh?

  • Anonymous

    If we were running a budget surplus in the 90′s, then why do the records from the treasury department show us running a deficit every year?.

    Also, you do understand that Reagan’s deficit spending was on the manifestation of 20 years consuming more than we produced.

  • Anonymous

    http://www.factcheck.org/2008/02/the-budget-and-deficit-under-clinton/ 

    http://zfacts.com/p/318.html 

    See these links. Clinton gave us a surplus. Reagan ran up the debt (i.e., he cut revenue and threw money to the military). As you can see, the debt was trending downward under Carter, so how can this have anything at all in any way to do with “the manifestation of 20 years consuming more than we produced”? Please let me know. 

    Your argument about Reagan (which ultimately doesn’t make much sense anyway) is more applicable to Obama, who inherited a global meltdown, two large wars and a Republican passed prescription program that was never paid for. Economists on the left and right called for the stimulus. What was Reagan’s excuse? He started with zero wars, a declining debt and a minor economic slump compared with the 2008 crash. 

    Limbaugh & co. are lying to you. 

  • Anonymous

     Hm.  Seems to me that a person concerned with the feelings of their friends would not be posting inane, meaningless comments on a website while they’re spending time with them.

  • Anonymous

     I don’t think ‘Love of Country’ is capable of anything but reactionary, semi-literate comments.

  • Anonymous

     Christ, you have FIVE?!?!  A whole of FIVE black friends?!?  Get this guy/gal a ‘NOT RACIST’ sticker!  You’ve clearly outdone yourself.

  • Anonymous

    Ah yes, those Marxist Muppets!

  • Anonymous

     I know, right?

  • Anonymous

    I thought Liberals were the bleeding hearts…

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I agree Rick Santorum has no chance of wining it will be landslide for Obama if Santorum wins GOP Nom. Mitt Romney is going to win at end of day even if it will be a long battle and drawen out.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_SIYF5565LXG7BBKTKGSSFWU7TA The Rock

    I wasn’t offended by Nicki Minaj performance Madonna has done it thusands of times. I knew someone was going to bring Obama in on topic when it doesn’t have anything to do with obama anyways. 

  • Anonymous

    correct!  But you know those conservatives!  ‘It is ALL Obama’s fault!’  Kenya muslim catholic hating foreigner…

  • Anonymous

    oh honey…that just a talking point to keep you conservatives on your toes!

  • Anonymous

    lol …

  • Love of Country

    You sound exactly like a terminally disingenuous, racist, race-baiting pos!  So good luck on the DNC plantation where all bIack people are FULLY EXPECTED to vote like everyone who is bIack like they are … unbelievable!

    Nevermind the DNC gave us Detroit, Philly and Compton with ZERO relief in sight or on the horizon.  In fact … if you do try to help teach self accountability and self reliance in these racist entitlement towns gone bad … the DNC will call you a racist pos and run you off to protect their steady supply of straight ticket voters living in crime, poverty and squalor for life … THAT IS ALL THE DNC CARES ABOUT AND IT IS PAINFULLY OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WITH A BRAIN … HELLO … McFLY???

    But don’t take my word for it … just ask Bill Cosby! (that mean racist who hates bIack people)

  • Anonymous

    No, I’m just a guy that doesn’t feel the need to use my friends as a quantity in order to prove I’m not racist.  

    And I’m not a Democrat.

  • Love of Country

    I entertain these folks every other week for hours at a time …. besides … they know politics is my thing.

    Shogan … you’re just a punk kid obsessed with conflict and I’m superior to you in every way imaginable.  It’s no wonder you follow me around … and as such … we pity the fool!

  • Anonymous

    How is it possible to mock a exorcism?

  • http://twitter.com/limes_on_ice limes_on_ice

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