Sure, Hall probably helped Bill Clinton win the White House, after letting the candidate “play” the sax on his show.
But I admired Hall’s insistence on carrying on with his Los Angeles-based show during the Rodney King riots, and trying to be a peacemaker; it’s a night people still talk about.
Then there was the time obnoxious “Queer Nation” activists tried to hijack his program and he literally got up in their faces, unscripted.
It’s an amazingly timely clip that more of today’s cowardly, politically correct comedians should study closely:
Arsenio Hall scores big ratings: My NEW PJM piece
