Well, well, well…looky here at what gossip blog Wonkette done uncovered:
There’s growing evidence that American Idol sensation Sanjaya Malakar and Decision 2008 sensation Barry Hussein Obama are the same person. If it’s not obvious that “Sanjaya†(right) is the same dude as Obama (left), here are some other striking similarities:
Both are accused of being all style and no substance.
Both are far better looking than normal Americans and the normal fugly contestants in their respective fields.
Both are “really cute kid[s] with a unique look and an incredibly dreamy smile that can get thirty 12-year old girls to vote a million times apiece on speed dial.â€
Both are competing in a “silly, fun, really well-produced talent competition and you never quite know what’s going to happen.â€
Both will end up outrageously rich, whether they win the talent show or not. [wonkette]
Wonkette forgot to add “Both of them have white Mothers” to that list; we’ll go ahead and do that for them, since we are Brown and we’re allowed to get down all incorrect and naughty like that.
Somewhere, “Everything-is-Indian”-Uncle is crowing about this surprising discovery to a long-suffering friend or relative like so: “I told you Bharat Obama was Indian! He went to the Harvard Law school, didn’t you know? Of course he is Indian!”
i don’t have a TV. is this sanjaya guy as bad as everyone says?
razib, check youtube and type in sanjaya. or go here.
Bharat Obama, mwahahaha….good one, good one.
By the way, since when are Italians “white”? WTF? Next thing you know, they’ll let the Greeks in as well. Then the Turks. Slippery slope.
All people of european decent are considered white.
Thank you MorningSunshine. I didn’t know that.
Next thing you know, they’ll let the Greeks in as well. Then the Turks. Slippery slope.
you know that THE CENSUS classifies everyone from morocco to iran as ‘white,’ right?
And btw, SANJAYA is a good singer and he is still a kid. I dont know why everyone thinks he is so untalented. He is probably nervous on stage in front of MILLIONS being a shy boy that he is. He has the talent if you YOUTUBE his audition. He was right on point with his singing. I dunno what really happened to him.
And to extend on my response “all people of european decedence are considered white”, I am saying that all people that are mainly of the caucasian race. ITALY is part of EUROPE , Mr Kobayasha and part of a predominately caucasian race history. SO tell me , what you define as WHITE???? Your comment makes little sense to me. What is considered “white” if italians and greeks and spaniards (not south americans) arent considered as part of the caucasian race????? White, in America, has become the common colliqual term for someone whose immigrant ancestry came from a european nation but over the generations, have become “AMERICAN” in culture.
You welcome Mr Kobayashi. I honestly thought that you did know wht “white” referred but was being sarcastic.
don’t pay kobayashi no mind, morning sunshine, he one of those who thinks he’s white.
“His eloquent rebuttal…”
Wait a sec, so Sexy_Gulti_Ho is a guy? This gets curioser and curioser.
What part of India is Sanjaya from ???
edison
In the words of SexyQT314159: ROTFLMAO…burrrn bitchez!
This is post is insulting to Obama.. Speaking of Obama, I think Mrs. Clinton will beat him..
edison ? wtf is edison ?
No, Obama has got Hollywood on his side. And he went to Chicago so he has good conservative credentials. And he raised more money from the grassroots. So he is definitely ahead of Mrs. Clinton, who incidentally, is considered divisive within the DNC — or so my American friends who are in the DNC tell me.
its a tiny village in gujarat
SADAI: I AGREE ON OBAMA comment you made. I think he will be beaten by CLINTON. I think the politicians , both dem and rep, will play on his “lack of experience” to persuade voters to be hesitant to vote for him. Also, because of the deep suited racism in America, I think as a black man (though he is mixed) he will have a hard time getting the vote of the white, upper class male. His name is islamic which is a turn-off for ignorant people who will subconsciously or consciously keep that in mind when voting. When it comes to the dem debates that are coming up , I believe both Clinton and Obama will be neck and neck. Hillary has a previous history that she needs to try hard to get out of the minds of Americans. The scandal is still on everyone’s minds.
If it turns out that its Hillary against Rudy in the final elections, Im voting for Hillary because I secretly hope that a CLINTON office equals a better economy just like in the 90s.
Yeah.. better economy.. although I was told that Clinton himself had nothing to do with the “economic boom” of the 90’s and that the economy was warming up regardless of what he was doing..
Also being a desi, I am really uneffected by good or bad economy, my life changes very little.. Only people that are affected are people that have the worst jobs..
Speaking of slippery, I see they’ve let you out of your cage again Manju. Now behave, don’t slobber on the furniture, and you might get some snacks.
See? The subtle animal reference. These colonialists. LA is teeming with ’em. Zell will smoke you out.
Yeah right!
don’t mock KarmaByte, all Sadaiyappan saying is he’s employed, like most desis, in a defensive industry… tobacco, drugs, porn, gambling, alcohol, prostitution…
Manju, you’re hilarious. Ya rly. That was genius.
Somebody make it stop, please.
I am not sure if he is going to win, but he will give Mrs.Clinton a run for her money and some more.
Your comment on Sanjaya was relevant, interesting and appropriate. Then came the postscript– why? If you have an issue with how something was handled (and I wish I had more information about the situation, so I could figure out what was said or done which crossed the line), say so, but there’s no need to be obnoxious about it.
I hope that unnecessary, last-second jab at this community really made you feel better. Yes, it’s all talk. For three years, millions of hits and hundreds of people all over the world who are a part of this amazing space– it’s ALL talk.
Eh?
From our FAQ:
DesiDawg, that’s really decent of you. I appreciate your response so much and I want you to know that we do enjoy sarcasm and snark here.
While you were leaving this, I was reading through the other comments you had left. I don’t know why your original comment got deleted and I trust and respect the judgment of the other bloggers whom I work with here, but I’d be sad if you stopped commenting.
Mr. Kobayashi, I love your humor, especially in comments #3 and #5. You should write for sepia mutiny. If you have your own blog, please plug it in future posts. In the mean time, I’ll be looking out for you in the comments section of SM.
Also a big fan of Manju’s posts in #9, #12, & #17. You know a good blog when the comments are perhaps more entertaining than the posts. SM cries out for a discussion board.
This analysis has Sanjaya finishing in the top 5
http://www.foxesonidol.com/cgi-bin/ae.pl?mode=1&article=article2078.art&page=3
Last but not least, we come to our dear friend Sanjaya. I used to cringe every time he walked onto the stage. I would wince at every bad note. Then Sanjaya made me see the light. If I had a shot at signing Sanjaya, I would make millions. I would make them in less than two years and then coast through the rest of my life. Why two years? Because that’s the lifespan of a male bubblegum pop star. Heard anything new from Aaron Carter lately? His career was two years and done. It’s the history of bubblegum. The rhythm of light pop is two and out. David Cassidy? He was on a smash hit television show. His pop career lasted about two years. Remember Hanson? They’re still around, struggling to get people to accept their more “adult� sound. Their chart career was two years and out. New Kids on the Block? You guessed it.
all barack needs is sanjaya to campaign for him.. and make all the crying girls vote..
billary can use chris sligh for her vote grabber…
I am not sure that Sanjaya’s birth mother is Italian…according to the following website, his parents emigrated from India in 1972 and formed MalakarTelco, a company that handles voter entries for game shows (Who wants to be a Millionaire?, etc.).
http://datelinehollywood.com/archives/2007/04/01/malakar-family-offended-by-criticism-of-son-sanjaya/
Entry # 35 was a joke by the way:)
That would be as perfect as Al Gore’s surprisingly funny turn hosting SNL. Love it.
Manju, for the first time since you’ve started posting I have been LOL at each post. Edison, Gujarat? Defensive industries? Hilarious – thanks 🙂
I, too, think Clinton is divisive and personally would not vote for her. Don’t know if that means Obama could beat her (he does seem “young” although he’s super experienced), but I just find myself consistently disappointed with her politics. Too bad, too, because I’m sure commentary throughout the election will continue to pick up steam around, “Will a black man be able to win before a white woman?” instead of focusing on broader issues.
Huh ? So his family could be running the voting for American Idol ????
reminds me of a documenary I saw about some dude on a game show in the 1960’s that cheated and let him win all the money week after week..
Brava, Manju and bravo, Mr. K — all the way down the page, y’all. Arrey MorningSunshine, everybody’s from India– some just got progressively bleached from moving too far north after the rivers dried up. Hillary might take the hint after Conan the Barbarian showed her in a fauxhawk on Froday and gain some points that way, but otherwise Bharat is sure to beat her just because she’s always having a bad hair day. Sadaiyappan, I sure hope you haven’t hit the nail on the head.
Interesting juxtaposition. I am wary of one, slightly embarrassed by the other, though Sanjaya, despite his considerably less than American Idol Top 12 vocals, has done more for the desi community than he’ll ever know. He is our little Dr. Sanjay Gupta, albeit a more lovable one.
Now, Bharat is a different story. America seems to be falling in love with him as if he is our Great Brown Hope. But he is nothing more than a politician, and judging from his recent 60 Minutes interview, perfectly capable of manipulating his audience. Taking the reporter for a walk in Chicago’s South Side, never his constituency, and then brazenly claiming that he had problems hailing a cab as a black man, not a situation he would ever find himself in, were not the type of spins I had expected from Obama.
That said, they both have my gratitude. They are both laying the tracks on which a lot of browns will ride into fame someday. I am not ready yet to vote for Obama for President unless I understand him better, and I will never vote for Sanjaya to go into the next round because he is simply not good enough. But I am gloating over their success because they are indavertently benefiting our children.
As a fifty-something Indian, I sometimes wonder if we really had thought everything through when we decided to come to America in the 60’s and 70’s (1973 in my case). We were so obsessed with improving our dismal Indian lives that we never thought that, a) we would eventually be producing a million or more desis and turning them loose in a very alien land, and b) these American born desis, with all their reference points in America, would not be content with the small gains that had satisfied us, and c) whether their extremely American drives and needs would ever be met in a “white” society.
We never thought that far. So it was pure luck, at least on our part, that America started to turn brown, firt slowly, then torrentially, eliminating the risk that our children would be second class citizens in their own land.
“They are both laying the tracks on which a lot of browns will ride into fame someday”
“But I am gloating over their success because they are indavertently benefiting our children.”
“As a fifty-something Indian, I sometimes wonder if we really had thought everything through when we decided to come to America in the 60’s and 70’s (1973 in my case). We were so obsessed with improving our dismal Indian lives that we never thought that, a) we would eventually be producing a million or more desis and turning them loose in a very alien land, and b) these American born desis, with all their reference points in America, would not be content with the small gains that had satisfied us, and c) whether their extremely American drives and needs would ever be met in a “white” society.”
Floridian, Thanks for expressing those sentiments so precisely. I fully share them. Regards.
Agreed. Floridian, that was amazing. I read it and all I could say was, “Wow.” And to think, such profundity in a thread which belongs to such a silly post. Love it. 🙂
Whaa? Before becoming the Senator, Obama was a state senator in Illinois representing a district in Chicago’s South Side. Prior to that, both before and after law school, he was a community organizer/civil rights lawyer working in inner city communities in Chicago’s South Side. He still lives in Chicago’s South Side. This isn’t spin. Heck, as a “South Asians for Obama spokesperson”, it worries to me to know that people form seemingly strong opinions about Obama without knowing that basic fact about his life — I guess we need to do a better job with outreach.
“it worries to me to know that people form seemingly strong opinions about Obama without knowing that basic fact about his life — I guess we need to do a better job with outreach.”
Maybe you do need to do a better job with outreach. I’ll be all ears. I really want to trust the guy. But I wanted to defend some of my points which, I assure you, do not necessarily eliminate Obama from my list.
Based on my 24 years in Chicago, I used the term South Side as a synonym for the poor, African American areas also known as the “projects” in Chicago. Obama’s constituency, 13th District, which is Hyde Park, is not the projects by any means. With a median income of $44,000 and a white majority, Hyde Park is also the home of one of the leading universities in the US, University of Chicago, and otherwise a pretty decent neighborhood. One of my rich clients had a 5,000 sq. ft. condo in Hyde Park where I spent many hours in business meetings. No wonder Mr. Obama makes his home there. My point stands – his constituency was never the poor and downtrodden, which is not to say that his heart does not bleed for them and he is not qualified to represent them.
As a young Harvard trained lawyer working for a reputable law firm, Obama supposedly “worked on” many civil rights cases. Most budding politicians get interested in civil rights and other social aspects of the legal profession rather than divorce or corporate law because they are the type that care about social issues. That’s why they enter politics in the first place. Heck, there are rich Republican politicians who have had legal backgrounds similar to Obama’s. But to take Obama’s “associate level” legal work in civil rights and make it sound as if he spent a decade working with the poor and disadvantaged is exactly what I would call a spin.
A major critique of Obama is from the African American hard liners who refuse to accept him as truly representative of the African American agenda. I wouldn’t go to that extreme, either. To represent a people, you don’t really had to have lived among them. The Kennedy’s did great work for civil rights in this country, and I don’t think any of them had slept even one night in a ghetto. But my concern about Obama is the general inclination to oversell his blackness by glossing over the facts.
I recently read Obama’s first book, “Dreams from my Father”, which was written before he ran for Senate. Although it doesn’t contain too many of his political views (comparatively) it’s still a good read, and gave me a decent insight into the influences in his life that he considered important (of course, one should always read an autobiography with a grain of salt).
Him and his wife; they both have sanitaryware-white teeth. That is spin too.