Two Hispanic references you might have missed in the 2007 Emmys

“The funnier moments were the prerecorded montages made for each of the nominated late-night comedy shows to accompany their long lists of writers. “The Daily Show With Jon Stewart” showed clip after clip of Alberto R. Gonzales, the former attorney general, saying variations on “I don’t recall” at a Congressional hearing, then cutting in each writer’s name.
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Conan O’Brien might have deserved an Emmy, but his skit for the writers’ award went too far in the wrong direction. His writers’ names were read off to a shot of weary, dirty day laborers, some of them Hispanic, clamoring into a pickup driven by Mr. O’Brien. The joke that Mr. O’Brien’s writers were as badly paid and exploited as migrant workers seemed to mainly exploit and belittle migrant workers.”

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