There's always these bumper stickers!
Posted on 05/13/2008 11:44:50 PM PDT by raccoonradio
KNZR-AM Bakersfield Talk-host Jaz McKay finds himself involved in a controversy over some phony Barack Obama bumperstickers posted on the station website. The graphics feature the Obama '08 graphic with phrases such as “Kill Whitey” and “Yes We Can…kill white folks” beneath the logo. McKay tells KGET-TV “It’s a joke, please get over it.” KTEG also reports that station management stands by the controversial host.
Also:
http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=52e9ca64-c1aa-4c64-bf94-6c85ab06b9e9
(Has video. Logos are off the website.)
Local radio talk show host Jaz McKay is taking some heat after some controversial Barack Obama bumper stickers found their way onto the station's website.
McKay is saying this has all been blown out of proportion.
It all started last week when some negative Barack Obama bumper stickers were put on Jaz McKay's webpage on the KNZR website.
Each bumper sticker has the Obama '08 logo, followed by an added remark at the bottom.
One said "kill whitey" while another said "Yes we can. Kill white folks."
We spoke earlier with Bernita Jenkins, who will be one of the pledged delegates represented at the democratic convention in August.
She said McKay should lose his job.
KNZR management, said McKay is known for sparking conversation, but did not intend to offend people.
The station and McKay said he did not create those bumper stickers, rather cut and pasted them from another website.
Now the station is standing behind their man.
KNZR hasn't issued an apology for the bumper stickers.
Where can I get a dozen.
I think Bernita Jenkins has confiscated all of them , .. maybe we can “AX” her
Now the station is standing behind their man.
KNZR hasn’t issued an apology for the bumper stickers.
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GOOD FOR KNZR!!!
Hadn’t heard of this guy or station before (I’m on the
_East_ Coast!) But this is from the KNZR site:
JAZ McKAY
LEGAL DISCLAIMER: Comments made by Jaz McKay may constitute negative remarks about gang members, illegal aliens, labor unions, gays and lesbians, minorities, welfare recipients, feminists, child molesters and rapists, Islamic fascists, liberals, hippies, environmentalists and animal rights wackos. As such, the presumption is that these remarks are bigoted, racist and hateful in nature. Jaz McKay acknowledges that such negative utterances may at times hurt peoples feelings and cause them great emotional stress. Jaz McKay also acknowledges that the conventional and politically correct wisdom that negative comments about the above mentioned groups are made with the purpose of demonizing, demoralizing and destroying the creditability of such members of said groups
McKay’s page
http://www.knzr.com/sectional.asp?id=17153
more:
http://www.bakersfield.com/hourly_news/story/442506.html
Fake Obama slogans anger local supporters
BY JASON KOTOWSKI, Californian staff writer
Local supporters of presidential hopeful Barack Obama are upset with radio personality Jaz McKay for posting what they say are inflammatory fake slogans about Obama’s campaign.
The slogans, which appeared on McKay’s page of the KNZR 1560 AM Web site, included “Obama ‘08” followed by “Hope. Change. Dead honkeys.,” “kill white folks” and “Kill Whitey!”
Obama pledge delegate Uduak Ntuk of Bakersfield said he was shocked and surprised by the slogans, which he called hate speech. “It’s actions like that that give Bakersfield a bad name,” Ntuk said.
Station Vice President/General Manager Steve Darnell said that McKay did not create the slogans, he found them on another Web site and posted them to his own. McKay goes to a wide variety of news and humor sites on the Internet and posts numerous things he finds to his own site, Darnell said.
The slogans were up for about a week, which is the normal amount of time McKay’s postings are online before replaced by something new. McKay will not be disciplined, Darnell said.
“The listeners know what he’s about,” Darnell said. “They get his sarcasm and his tongue-in-cheek humor.”
I LOVE IT!!! Wish he’d go national!
Sounds like a tag-team with Chris Rock is in order if you want to play it from both sides...only I don’t recall pitchforks and torches over him.
Baraq Hussein Obama is a black racist, no matter what else he may be, and black racists are not better than white racists.
How could there be someone in Bakersfield by the name Uduak Ntuk anyway?
There’s a cafepress bumper sticker that looks like an Obama one but says “WHITE GUILT 08”. How true!
I couldn’t find the bumperstickers on the station’s website. Anyone have a link?
They took down not only the stickers (acc. to the article)
but Taylor-on-radio-info.com (free email newsletter) says
the station took down an article about the incident from
its own website. If you see the video link (or maybe one
of the articles) it does show what they look like.
>>It all started last week when some negative Barack Obama bumper stickers were put on Jaz McKay’s webpage on the KNZR website.
From what I can gather, the stickers were not for giveaways or sale by the station or the talk host—he had cut and pasted them from somewhere on the Net. (Even then they may not have
existed as actual bumper stickers—someone may have just
done them as graphics looking like stickers, but who knows)
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