Bill James on Hannity --- LIVE THREAD -----

LIVE THREAD - ^ | 1/11/05 | LIVE THREAD - FOX NEWS

[Huber]

Coming on Now - Can white people comment on black issues?

[Huber]

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[TaxRelief]

Huber starts a live thread because NC's Bill James is on TV...

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[TaxRelief]

OH, my Gosh!

Does Bill James get to meet Dick Morris and Oliver North (who were just on Hannity), or is he doing a long distance interview?

That would be so awesome...

[Huber]

But when James, who is white, wrote in an e-mail last week that children within the urban black community live in a moral sewer with parents who lack the desire to act properly, he sparked a firestorm of controversy...

At a press conference last week, Little Rock A.M.E. Zion Church Pastor James R. Samuel said that James, “is not only a product of some moral sewer, he is a product of some disease..” He also called James “a redneck accountant.” Several others have called for James to resign.

Double standard?

[Huber]

All right. He's coming on NOW!!!!

[Huber]

"You fight the fire where it is the hottest!"

[Huber]

Chastised by Hannity - How humiliating.

[Benrand]

I'll comment...I would rather be in Iraq than most inner cities.

[sinkspur]

James has no tact. He may be right, but alienating potential allies with verbal bombs is counterproductive.

[Huber]

My first live thread. How do you think it went?!?

lol

[Huber]

James has no tact. He may be right, but alienating potential allies with verbal bombs is counterproductive.

Yes, but he's OUR tactless conservative. :->

[TaxRelief]

Apparently he needed to mention "black" to make his numbers work. "26% of the population is black in Charlotte, but 68% of inmates are black in Charlotte." This indicates a problem...

Still coulda been a bit more tactful...

[valleygal]

Even Hannity took him to task for his remarks.
Add I caught the tail end of it and didn't know a lot of what happened. I just heard the "moral sewer" quote. The article here shed a little more light on things.

[csmusaret]

Once again Hannity proves he is a shallow excuse for a Conservative commentator; attack, attack and never listen. All you Hannity lovers can have him. I think he really sucks.

[radicalamericannationalist]

Hannity's only "substantive" comment was that the remark was "insensitive."

Let's face what Hannity is, a member of the New York media elite. The truth is that he would far more likely be found at a Party with Dan Rather, Peter Jennings or Walter Cronkite than at a barbecue in that council member's district (or whatever political subdivision he lives in). While Hannity does great work for some great causes, he lives in a world where denouncing insensitive comments is more important than analyzing their truthfulness.

[Huber]

Charlotte is a New South metropolis, where Southern manners are absolutely observed in polite society, unless you want to attack a conservative, in which case absolutely any amount of distortion or rudeness is not only excused, but is considered brave and enlightened. James could use a media coach, but he stands by his principles when others would crumble. His reward is being pillaried by the local media, racial agitators and liberal elite. Its a damm shame...

[Huber]

I'm guessing shoddy research by Sean. Its hard not to get sucked in by Northern stereotypes when you live and work in New York.

[Huber]

I'll comment...I would rather be in Iraq than most inner cities.

I hear the desert is lovely this time of year.

[Helms]

Chastised by Hannity - How humiliating.

Ditto that- the black community is being deluged with rap and crack.