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By Matthew Odam | Monday, February 11, 2008, 05:49 PM

Part-time golfer and full-time hack George Lopez for some reason got some airtime on the Grammy broadcast last night. And you could have guessed his joke before the comic even took the stage. Lopez consistently panders to our dumbest (and foulest) natures by playing the race card, often using stupid self-effacing ‘jokes’ revolving around being Mexican. Last night was no different. On stage to introduce country artist Brad Paisley, Lopez made note of the historic nature of the Democratic race for president, but couldn’t help but insert an idiotic joke in to the mix. “The only place where a white woman and a black man can run for President of the United States. To ensure that nothing ever happens to either one of them, they should appoint a Mexican vice president,” Lopez said before continuing in that vein with a joke about a guy named “Flaco” being vice president. Passive aggressively undercutting race relations in America one bad joke at a time while implying a presidential candidate or two should fear for their lives. Hilarious, George. Who do you think you are? Carlos Mencia?

Thanks to the Cobra for the tip and the River Front Times for the quote on its blog.

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By Emanuel Stone

February 11, 2008 10:48 PM | Link to this

George Lopez is embarassing. He sole a joke Chris Rock performed better and backwards 10 years ago on SNL. What an idiot! I pasted the SNL video on my blog at stonersmanual with blogspot. It’s also on aol somewhere. It’s actually really funny. Still humor based on race, but with the payoff… laughs!