Comments on: Japanese Obama meets real Obama

By: Bright future for Japan’s Obama impersonator | Japan Probe

Bright future for Japan’s Obama impersonator | Japan Probe — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:56:01 +0000

[...] couple days ago, I posted about Japanese Obama impersonator Nozomu Sato (Nocchi) and linked to an article about him in the Chicago Tribune. His long-awaited meeting with the real [...]

By: Japanese geeks for Obama (but not Nocchi) » 世論 What Japan Thinks

Thu, 06 Nov 2008 08:41:57 +0000

[...] in the headline is, he is Nozomu Sato, a Japanese comedian who looks like Mr Obama, and in fact met him for a brief instant. I predict great things for Nocchi, as if I’ve learnt one thing about the entertainment [...]

By: hewholooms

hewholooms — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 05:31:42 +0000

Hell, Eddie Murphy did it a couple of times back in the 80s.

By: claytonian

claytonian — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 04:00:31 +0000

double standard

By: weirdo

weirdo — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:36:41 +0000

I think Dave Chapelle has done that before, nobody cared.

By: James

James — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 23:17:49 +0000

Google automatically generates ads based on keywords in posts and the geographical location of viewers. Since I am in Japan, I haven’t seen the Prop8 ads. If you could tell me the exact urls being shown, I can manually ask google to block them.

Otherwise, I suggest you direct your complaints to Google:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/11/03/google-may-hate-prop-8-but-that-doesnt-mean-they-wont-serve-ads-supporting-it/

By: dakk

dakk — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 21:27:39 +0000

Yeah, that’s an appropriate response to someone wearing makeup… violence.

Can you imagine if he wore a wig? Shiiiit, he might be lynched… oh wait…

By: m.ob2

m.ob2 — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 18:41:03 +0000

And Japan Probe is selling ads on “YES on Prop 8″ just up there in this same article. Discrimination and 1950s goes around in Japan Probe too.

By: Jeef

Jeef — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:59:50 +0000

I think you’re comment is more obtuse and racially insensitive than anything in the post.

And if you’re think America is so progressive then look at all the Prop 8 bullcrap going on. You’d think it wasn’t 1950, but there’s still plenty of discrimination to go around. cheers!

By: lexster

lexster — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:49:04 +0000

@gane

I am african american/arkansas chereoke and I wouldn’t be. A white guy plays Obama and Al Sharpton on Saturday Night Live. Doesn’t bother me. It depends if that guy is portraying that individual or his race.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:41:53 +0000

What part of “STUPID” doesn’t translate to the Japanese people.

It’s 2008 not 1950.

By: Scurte | Bakaism

Scurte | Bakaism — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 17:23:29 +0000

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By: Jessie Bluejay » Blog Archive » Japanese Obama Meets the Real Obama

Jessie Bluejay » Blog Archive » Japanese Obama Meets the Real Obama — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 16:41:24 +0000

[...] the Japanese Obama was born. Well, last week in a crazy confluence of events, the Japanese Obama actually met the real Obama. A Japanese TV station had sent him to the US with the hope that the two would meet: [...]

By: gane

gane — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 15:59:32 +0000

Would anyone feel offended if a black comedian paints his skin white in order to impersonate a white guy?

By: Rated R

Rated R — Mon, 03 Nov 2008 13:31:07 +0000

I WISH he would’ve actually done black face. Maybe then Japanese black-face crap would be exposed to American cultural backlash.

And there’d be a funny tv show of him getting beat up for doing black face.