A long but worthwile read. You left out one non political but yet comic leader.
Bill Crosby who tells it like it is. Thanks for the great read and truth.

Gee now I will be called a racist. But here that is to be expected as we have so many who try to lable others, by their narrow views.

That read was worth missing some of Lou Dobbs. I was just about to leave after answering RedOct and the B.S. presented by RedOct. Thanks for restoring my belief that this is a good site. If one gets passed the B.S.

Mlurp,
They have been trying, desperately, to "tar and feather" me as "racist supreme" on this board...despite my numerous white friends and business associates...as if I would be shy about my politics with them. Hell, most of them can't stand Bush/Cheney, the War, or the beyond stupid Republican sex scandals. Now that the Oral Roberts University scandal has broken, I hope the religious zealots on the board will quiet down (at least for a spell)...because hypocrisy could be standing in front of their faces, and they'd swear it was a rainbow. And if one more person tells me that God told them anything, I swear I'm gonna lose it. More than likely, it was their own recalcitrant minds.
thanks for the vote of confidence.