I'm still waiting for Pat Oliphant to be fired....
Posted on 04/12/2007 12:53:01 PM PDT by rface
...Cynthia McKinney, "looks like a ghetto slut."......Barack Obama is a "halfrican American." ....."Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."...The comments by Boortz, Limbaugh and Beck were confirmed by the watchdog group Media Matters, which said the same public outcry that forced Imus off MSNBC and forced CBS Corp. to suspend his radio show for two weeks ought to be applied to others and that politicians did not deserve "racist, homophobic, sexist ridicule.".........
U.S. radio host Neal Boortz last year said, Cynthia McKinney, "looks like a ghetto slut."
Rush Limbaugh, in January called Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya and his white mother is from Kansas, a "halfrican American."
And CNN host Glenn Beck, during an interview with Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, said, "Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies."
The comments by Boortz, Limbaugh and Beck were confirmed by the watchdog group Media Matters, which said the same public outcry that forced Imus off MSNBC and forced CBS Corp. to suspend his radio show for two weeks ought to be applied to others.
"It's the media's responsibility to hold these people accountable," said Karl Frisch, a spokesman for Media Matters.
All three men remain in their jobs, and Boortz was among a group of conservative radio hosts who met U.S. President George W. Bush in the White House last September.
Paul Levinson, chairman of the Department of Communications and Media Studies at New York's Fordham University, said Limbaugh and Ann Coulter were "already identified as crackpots" while Imus was more influential with the mainstream.
"Once someone is identified as beyond the pale, which is how Coulter and Limbaugh are identified, nobody ever takes anything they say all that seriously," Levinson said.
(Excerpt) Read more at sport.guardian.co.uk ...
Sharpton and his ilk simply have no leverage over Limbaugh, so Sharpton cannot force Rush to pimp his ride the way he can the MSM.
Let Levinson and his ilk go on believing that and leave us alone.
I could never have said it better! I lasted about five minutes many years ago, and have never listened since!
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Rush let the Justice Brothers have it with both barrels today. He won’t go quietly.
I had actually forgot about that.
Air America failed and now Imus is gone too. It’s only logical that they would now demand that Conservatives be driven from the air as well and they’ll make up offenses if they have to. Heck, the quote they took from Glen Beck is only half of what he actually said. Beck fell all over himself trying to be polite about the asking Obama about the perception of Islam in the eyes of his listeners but Media Matters only printed the part that fit their definition of racist. Liberals are truly pathetic.
Paul Levinson was a professor of mine in grad school.
This is NOT about Free Speech.
If Imus wants to join the Klan, not one would stop him.
He wants to shave his head and become a skin head, it is his right.
However, MSNBC and WFAN are NOT required by constitution to employ Hate-Mongers and Racists.
Imus showed his true racist colors and he should lost his job. Its a shame WFAN/CBS have not fired him yet.
If Imus was infact a conservative talk show host, he would have been banned from the WFAN premises the day he opened his racist mouth.
Half of Imus’ listeners were employed by the NYT, the networks or the gov.
Rush Limbaugh, in January called Barack Obama, whose father was from Kenya and his white mother is from Kansas, a “halfrican American.”
And CNN host Glenn Beck, during an interview with Muslim congressman Keith Ellison, said, “Sir, prove to me that you are not working with our enemies.”
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In context there is absolutely nothing wrong with the above quotes. Looks like libs are trying to make it a conservative issue.
Anti-American, anti-religion, anti-Free Speech, anti-capitalism, and anti-Constitution rhetoric flows continuously from these asshats we call "Congress" than on ANY airwaves.
Imus isn’t a racist..he is a sour millionaire who lives off insulting others.He did nothing here he hasn’t done hundreds of times, but for him to attack juvenile girls like this was new.
These girls should be pitied for having marked their bodies with these tattoos.
Isn’t Media Matters a Soros group? And some famous Clintonite runs it if its who I think it is. David somebody.
Done
The death of the Stone Age Press and their puppeteers in the DNC continues with their continued suppression of minorities. The KKK were pikers compared to the DNC when it comes to keeping minorities mired in poverty. Where was the National Ass. Of the Advancement of Liberal Coloreds or NOW Broads when it came to the advancement of The Honorable Janice Rogers Brown or Sec of State Condi Rox?? With friends like these, who needs the KKK???
The DNC uses an oppressed minority mentality to forward their Communist agenda. They will continue to reject ideas that would improve their education such as vouchers for students or merit pay for teachers. Some say it is because they are beholding to the No Education Ass. but the real reason is that they need minorities to stay in the ghetto. They will withhold education and hope to maintain their grip on power.
What is the future for minority kids in the ghetto w/o an education? It has been proved over and over again that the surest method of advancement in America is through education. The ability to read, write and think is critical in the job market. Minus these skills, all that is left is gang life or some other dead end. The DNC and their bullhorns at the SAP are burying another generation for the hope of harvesting poverty votes. With friends like these, who needs the Klan???
Due to LBJ and the Great Society, the Black Family has been destroyed. Before LBJ the strength of the Black community was it’s strong extended family culture that maintained itself both economically and spiritually. The families would maintain the youth by having eyes and ears everywhere. Aunts and Uncles would watch for troublemakers who would bring the story home before the troublemaker arrived. The Father would be waiting with belt in hand to administer the appropriate punishment. Once LBJ forced the Father out of the house there was nobody to give the young boys and girls guidance in their lives. With friends like these, who needs the Klan???
Twenty million minority babies have been destroyed in the womb thanks to the Great Society and it’s allies in the press. How can a group advance when they are killing the best and brightest before they have a chance to make a difference? How can they feel any real worth when they are deemed weeds before they are born? How is death better than being poor??
President Bush has nominated Blacks and Women in the most powerful positions in the World. Not because they are women or black, but because they were the best and brightest. In the Bush administration you’re measured by the content of your character, not the color of your skin. He hires quality people like Colin Powell, Karen Hughes and Eye Condi Rox because they are the smartest people in America who happen to be minorities. That was the dream MLK had when he visited the Mountaintop.
To have the so-called friends who show their hostility to Conservative Blacks and Hispanics rather than uphold them as examples of what can happen if you get an education and follow the rules, is amoral. How threatened are these groups when people they are supposedly helping prove that you can go as far as you like in this great Country. Middle class Blacks no longer feel they need the Plantation boss’ whip in the DemocRacist Party to improve their lives. This is the real threat to the Dims.
Why does Jesse Jackmail and Al Step-n-fetchon go along with this Jim Crow mentality. It is simple really, they receive the power of holding Blacks down. Both have become millionaires on the backs of their owned people. They have set-up numerous cottage industries which extort money from corporations that are crippled when they bring their rent-a-mobs to the front doors. Anytime Conservatives bring up competition or choice to NEA schools, Jesse’s mafia is shouting racism. If you’re White, you fear the tactic of having to prove your not a racist. If you’re Black, you’re a traitor to your race.
These forces have trapped Blacks in this Country to live in their status quo, which is poverty. Until another Martin Luther King arrives in their world and speaks out against their own oppression there will be no change. If he does arrive he will have to overcome hostilities that have not been seen since the 40s and 50s, only by his own people. The attack dogs in the press will be biting and the water hoses of Jesse Inc will be aimed with full force. The strength and courage of this person will have to be beyond MLK or Ghandi since the armies against them will be stronger and far more dangerous. The entire liberal establishment will be massed to protect their number one sacred cow, poor Blacks. This cow is being Gored by Bush to Free a People.
Enough braying.
Pray for W and Our Troops
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