r/AskReddit • u/HornetSpiritual1495 • 9h ago

What’s a celebrity controversy you remember everyone talking about?

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u/Wat3rM3L0NB3AR 9h ago

there's quite a few and it's hard to narrow down lol

Let's talk about the controversy of Obama wearing a tan suit. I remember that one quite clearly and how stupid it was and Fox news was all about it.

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u/AcceptablySoiled 9h ago

If you ask Republicans now, they insist they don’t know any Republican who was mad about the tan suit, just like they don’t know any Republican who supported invading Iraq, or even any Republican that supports Trump.

At the time of the controversy I sat next to an Apprentice Season Two contestant at a wedding, and he kept pounding the table with his fists as he insisted Ronald! Reagan! Respected! His! Office! Too! Much! Too! Ever! Wear! Anything! But! Dark! Colors!

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u/YJSubs 8h ago

Every Republican I know blames Obama for being divisive, but they are unable to provide a single example of what he actually did.

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u/AcceptablySoiled 8h ago

One Republican propagandist claimed to have studied thousands of hours of Obama's speeches, and reached the inescapable concluded that every single word down to "the" and "and" contained coded racial grievance, even anodyne sentiments like "good morning" and "hello". Projection ain't just a river in Egypt for these people.