My piano teacher always told me to practice the piano everyday and I would be famous. Wrongo! Most of us don’t know the names of the world’s top piano players. That’s because the discerning public has determined through YouTube that Fatso, the “Keyboard Cat”, is the second coming of Mozart. Screw years of studying to be a musician or an actor. Social Media is all you need. TO BE FAMOUS I need to Tweet something racist. Lisa Lampanelli can say the N-word on stage and make millions. But tweeting something racist, stupid Moses, why didn’t you tell us about the 11th commandment; “Thou shall not tweet about the blacks”.
If an unknown woman, Justine Sacco, can send one racist tweet and go from obscurity to famous in a matter of hours, then I’m the Klan’s new Grand Wizard in charge of social media. Sure Justine lost her job, her Twitter account, was globally criticized and had to apologize. But now she is FAMOUS! There’s no such thing as bad publicity.
So here I go trying to get attention by stirring up a little rage. I just want a little publicity, good, bad, just publicity. I’m continuing my racist tweets week by week until I cover the Trifecta; Mexicans, Blacks and Jews. Tune in next week when I tweet about those savages…I mean Redskins!
Prior to Twitter, the Publicist did all the speaking.
Now how is that going to make me famous?
I need to be the grand wizard of social media. 🙂 Does it matter that I am hispanic?
I’m actually not sure whether Justine Sacco is a racist pig or the most brilliant cynic…
I’m leaning toward brilliant.
The funny thing is, most people don’t have a sense of humour 😉 I recently pissed off an entire country (albeit a small one) so I know 😉
Congratulations!! 😉 I am jealous.
Ha, don’t be! It wasn’t a nice experience!
…and yesterday I was thinking “what if China suddenly wants all their girls back?” Fits this nicely, don’t you think?
Yeah, I would love to be on the front lines of that controversy as well. Thanks for reading.