Who should host the Oscars?
Kevin Hart was the first choice, but he has skeletons in his Twitter feed, and we all know that won’t do.
Hart, the everywhere comedian who has been in something like 1,200 movies in the last 12 years – heck, even James Brown would agree that Hart is the hardest-working man in show business – offended the LGBTQ community, and some other groups represented by some of the other letters, with tweets and comments from the last decade.
That our social media controversy hunters continually comb through everything – scouring for the worst of everyone – says more about the offended than the offender, in my mind. The interweb morality mob searches for reasons to take down others. They crave the ability to point fingers rather than self-examine. To that I say, “God Bless.”
And so did Hart, who with the help of his friend and Hollywood A-lister Ellen DeGeneres, has started to recraft his public persona. In fact, Hart said Wednesday that “I’m over it” and that he’s done apologizing. Some said he’s grown from the incident, but since Hart’s 5-foot-4, well …
