Liberals have no sense of humor, at least not when they are the subject of the joke.
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'Barbershop' Attacked By Reverend Jesse Jackson
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The Reverend Jesse Jackson wants more than a haircut from "Barbershop." He's asking the filmmakers behind the hit ensemble comedy to trim some dialogue he finds offensive.
Citing a scene where Eddie, played by Cedric the Entertainer, pokes fun at late civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., bus-riding activist icon Rosa Parks and, well, him, Jackson told USA Today that, "the filmmakers crossed the line between what's sacred and serious and what's funny."
Jackson is pressuring the film's producers to remove the scene from the film's future DVD, home video and cable releases. The low-budget flick has enjoyed the #1 spot at the box office since it was released.
Set in a Chicago barbershop, the movie stars Ice Cube, Eve, Sean Patrick Thomas ("Halloween: Resurrection"), Cedric and a host of others as hairclipper-wielding coworkers who shoot the breeze about a variety of subjects on an average day spent struggling to keep the neighborhood establishment alive.
The comments in question made by Cedric's cantankerous-old-man character, which also include swipes at Rodney King and O.J. Simpson, invoke loud and passionate disagreement from everyone else present at the time he says them.
"People are making too much of it," Cube told USA Today. "It's just a funny movie about a barbershop, and no one is exempt (from comment) at the barbershop. Just because we talk about people doesn't mean we don't love these people too."
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