Posted on 12/16/2007 2:28:51 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Air America radio host Randi Rhodes unleashed a torrent of what's being called "liberal racism" and accused Oprah Winfrey of "acting" when she stumped for Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
On her show last week, Rhodes discussed Oprah's appearances on Obama's behalf, and told listeners: "She was blacker than Obama yesterday . . . Let me tell you something. Everyone who watches Oprah are the whitest people in the world . . . Even the black men who watch Oprah are white women while they watch Oprah . . .
"She's like so unbelievably white . . . Why is she turning up the blackness a notch or two or three for these appearances?"
Later on the show, while still discussing campaign appearances, Rhodes told a caller: "What you don't understand is that Oprah was acting on that stump . . .
"She is phonying up her speech pattern to appeal immediately to the audience in front of her. But I can't even understand why Oprah did speak like a black preacher in Iowa, where if you had the entire black population of Iowa in a room, it still probably would not make a crowd."
Leaving aside the fact that Iowa has approximately 69,000 blacks, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, commentator Brian Maloney went after Rhodes on another front in an article for The Radio Equalizer blog.
"Can you imagine the kind of firestorm that would erupt if Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly, or anyone else on the right were to make some of these statements?" he wrote.
"How long would they last on the air before a full-scale Media Matters-[George] Soros-led advertiser boycott would be underway?
"Does anyone believe for a moment that Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other so-called civil rights activists will be picketing outside Air America's studios? Will the mainstream media seize upon Randi's racial remarks as examples of liberal racism? Hell, no."
Who???
Have another drink Randi.
I barely know who this Ocra Winfreed character is.
If Randi Rhodes is on Air America, maybe all of 200 people heard her, him or it.
Randi Rhodes is a liberal talk radio host on Air America (a.k.a. Err Amerika)
Wow, she did hit her head hard...
Yup, but because Rhodes is a liberal woman she can say pretty much whatever she wants. ...a double standard we're all used to by now.
“She is phonying up her speech pattern to appeal immediately to the audience in front of her.”
Just like the Wicked Witch of the East! They all do it. They have no shame! It’s a liberal thing.........
This is pretty bizarre. Unbelievable. Liberals can treat a conservative black like this, Clarence Thomas for instance, but Obama is well to the left of hillary.
If they don’t watch out, they’ll break the coalition that formed between blacks and Democrats during the 60s, reversing earlier history.
Has Randi noticed just how white she is?
I take it she’s a Hill-Shill. Has she not seen Hillary’s black preacher video?
This dame’s so unbelievably black to say something like this.
Another Racist Liberal upset that an Uppity Black left the Plantation. Notice who has the Rope and doing the Lynching...again.
Pray for W and Our Troops
This sounds like a great opportunity for a conservative protest.
Blacks need to look at the history of the Democrats.The KKK was nothing more than the paramilitary wing of the Democratic Party.
"When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."
...But whether you like Oprah or not, it certainly doesn't make Ms. Rhodes' remarks any less repugnant.
Mike Savage definitely has it right when he says Liberalism is a Mental Disorder.
Randi Rhoades can’t even hold an eyelash of class
up to Oprah!
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