Worst post-election column ever

There's been a lot of dumb post-election commentary, but it's hard to believe that Patrick Goldstein attempted to determine the significance of Obama's victory using the box office performance of "Soul Men":

'Soul Men' delivers mixed verdict on Obama victory

Over the past few days, everyone has been offering words of wisdom about what Barack Obama's historic presidential victory means, especially in terms of it being a seismic political event. But after I got over the emotional experience of seeing America embrace an African American as its president, I found myself wondering: Did this election really represent a huge cultural triumph as well as a political mandate? That was a big reason why I spent Friday night with "Soul Men" producer David Friendly, watching him do what producers often do on their film's opening night, traveling around to local theaters to see whether their movie has any juice at the box office.

"Soul Men" isn't just any movie. It's a comedy starring two prominent African Americans, Sam Jackson and the late Bernie Mac, playing '70s-era backup singers who reluctantly reunite three decades later to play at a memorial concert for their old frontman. So it was an intriguing cultural test case: Would white audiences come out to watch an R-rated comedy with two black actors engaging in uproarious, but often barbed and profane insult humor? The box-office results provided a simple answer: No.

"Intriguing" wasn't exactly the word I was looking for. There's only one appropriate response to "journalism" like this:

Comments

[DougEMI]

That was a great scene in an otherwise, pretty awful movie.

White people didn't go out to Gigli either, not sure of the political significance.