He said they had threatened to break his fingers and burn his face with cigarettes, verbally abused him as "a traitor" and "trash" and insulted his friends and family, before forcing him to insult himself.
In 8 Mile's final battle, for example, B-Rabbit was put to spit first and decided to insult himself before Papa Doc got a chance ( Yes, I'm white, yeah I am a bum, I do live in a trailer wit my mom, my boy future is an "Uncle Tom"...So what? ), leaving Papa nothing to retaliate with.
In person (and in a pair of glasses), Mr. Samberg is an easygoing and unhurried guy, only a shade more serious than he was in his recent goofy appearance at a Comedy Central roast of James Franco, where Mr. Samberg easily insulted himself but could not quite bring himself to mock the night's guest of honor or any other performer on the dais.
This was intended to insult Washington, himself a keen fox hunter, who learned the sport from his neighbor and mentor near Alexandria, Virginia, the Sixth Lord Fairfax Thomas Fairfaxx) during the French and Indian War.
So he steels himself to be insulted, readies himself to be slapped down.
"He should keep hope alive," he said, "and any personal attacks and insults to himself".
He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself".
Invoking his father's most famous words, Jesse Jr. concluded, "He should keep hope alive and any personal attacks and insults to himself".
So, loath as I am to savage another beleagured telly critic, a man with whom I should be hunkering down on the sofa of solidarity, let me figuratively hurl my remote-control unit at his head for the insults he himself hurled, in a reputable newspaper, at the BBC's three-part adaptation of Winifred Holtby's book South Riding, which concluded last Sunday.
As the perceived symbol of Prussia's former grandeur and pride, the French occupation of Prussia had a particularly devastating effect upon Louise, as the queen endured personal insults – Napoleon himself callously called her "the only real man in Prussia".
The idea that Davis wasn't responsible for his violent acts because he was black comes close to being a racial insult, and Kunstler himself carried the premise to its reductio ad absurdum when he used the "black rage" defense on behalf of Colin Ferguson, who killed six passengers on a commuter train in 1993.
