---------------------------------
I remember JC Watts. A rising star-future of the GOP-backbencher on talk radio in the GWB and Obama days, he would ramble on and never finish a complete thought.
Posted on 03/29/2022 12:36:32 PM PDT by conservative98
The more than 250 black journalists, including New York Times columnist Charles Blow and television personality Marc Lamont Hill, are now out of a job. Former Republican Congressman J.C. Watts, who compared Trump supporters to Klansmen, was the founder of the network.
“We are more than athletes and entertainers, and on the hard news side, we’re more than crime,” Watts said, according to a Washington Times report. “For every 17-year-old African American male that you show me that’s being carted off in handcuffs on the 10 o’clock news … I can show you 50 17-year-old African American males that get up every morning trying to figure out, ‘How am I going to make my mother proud of me.’ That’s the story doesn’t get told enough.”
However, his vision for the news turned out to be rejected by the public even as they were platformed on 50 million cable and satellite carriers. There was simply no market demand for their content.
Big League Politics has reported on the growing unpopularity of Black Lives Matter as the public turns on the marxist, anti-American supremacy movement:
(Excerpt) Read more at bigleaguepolitics.com ...
JC Watts always set off red flags with me.
Looks like I was correct.
---------------------------------
I remember JC Watts. A rising star-future of the GOP-backbencher on talk radio in the GWB and Obama days, he would ramble on and never finish a complete thought.
Blacks are always about Black this or Black that. The White man this or White man that. You hear it when you least expect it.
It’s ridiculous.
…“We are more than athletes and entertainers, and on the hard news side, we’re more than crime,” Watts said…
**********************************************************
It’s a good thing that not paying your employees is not a crime. /sarc
I have to say he didn't with me. If he said that, I was wrong.
Racists always talk about race. Doesn’t matter the skin color - except blacks tend to be the most racist of all, followed by some Asian nations. (China is terribly racist, as is Japan.)
I doubt the ratio is 1:50.
According to American Progress.
[B]lack Millennials and post-Millennials are at greater risk of contact with the system than any previous generation. In fact, a new CAP analysis finds that 1 in 4 black Millennials had an incarcerated loved one before they even turned 18. For those born in the early 1990s, the rate is almost 1 in 3. ...
Notice some want everything to be equal, but then they always starts some hyphenated venture.
It’s called setting the minimum wage at $0.00.
Since I've become more politically savvy, I LOVE Alan Keyes, and actually wrote him in for president in the 2012 election. What a completely different country we'd now be with the first black president (in the best way possible.)
I had high hopes for Watts at one time. A co-worker gave me a book by Watts titled What Color is a Conservative? (I never got around to reading it). When I heard he was supporting Obama for president, I decided that the answer to the title question of the book was "not black, apparently", and pitched it. Watts turned out to be another Michael Steele.
Has he paid back any of his debt from his Illinois Senate run yet? I hear he ran off without paying his rent for his Illinois “residence”.
I wrote in Alan Keyes too when I couldn’t stomach that traitor bastard John McCain.
Watts apparently deserves to be with Marc Lamont Hill, on the unemployment line.
It’s ridiculous.
And really worn out. Tired. Old.
If the Democrats weren’t so unhealthily obsessed with race, we could all just go back to being people again.
Well, that seems a little indiscreet. Good way to piss off potential viewers. And...
There was simply no market demand for their content.
Far be it from me to complain when 250 journalists lose their jobs, but you might think datum A had something to do with datum B.
I always thought he was a good guy.
I can almost guarantee the senior execs had guaranteed severance packages, which were likely paid before the network went belly up. And I’m guessing J.C. Watts invested very little (if any) of his own money in the venture. One skill you learn quickly in Washington: burning through other people’s money, with nothing to show for it in the end.
Wow. What ever happened to him?
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.