Don't forget to get your peeps.
Posted on 03/18/2008 12:47:37 PM PDT by SeafoodGumbo
In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television.
"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." Top Politics stories
Obama said he appeared once on Imus' show two years ago, and "I have no intention of returning."
Racial Slur Stirs Trouble for Shock Jock
Last week, Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, most of whom are African-American, as "nappy-headed hos." He has since apologized for his remarks, and CBS and MSNBC suspended his show for two weeks.
"He didn't just cross the line," Obama said. "He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. The notions that as young African-American women -- who I hope will be athletes -- that that somehow makes them less beautiful or less important. It was a degrading comment. It's one that I'm not interested in supporting."
Though every major presidential candidate has decried the racist remarks, Obama is the first one to say Imus should lose his job for them.
His proclamation was the latest in an ever-expanding list of bad news for Imus.
Sponsors, including American Express Co., General Motors Corp., Procter & Gamble Co., and Staples Inc. -- have announced they are pulling advertisements from the show for the indefinite future.
Tuesday, the basketball team held a press conference.
"I think that this has scarred me for life," said Matee Ajavon. "We grew up in a world where racism exists, and there's nothing we can do to change that."
"What we've been seeing around this country is this constant ratcheting up of a coarsening of the culture that all of have to think about," Obama said.
"Insults, humor that degrades women, humor that is based in racism and racial stereotypes isn't fun," the senator told ABC News.
"And the notion that somehow it's cute or amusing, or a useful diversion, I think, is something that all of us have to recognize is just not the case. We all have First Amendment rights. And I am a constitutional lawyer and strongly believe in free speech, but as a culture, we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids," he concluded.
I think its even worse. A racist preacher vs. a shock jock (who has said other distasteful things before).
Obama still got some ‘splaining to do. The speech was weak. I think he might be done.
The Beast is rising.
Does anyone even listen to Imus anymore?
What’s the use of being a sh*thead if you can’t act like one?
Conspiracy + white guilt = problems for Mrs. Sink Emperor
This is a great read. Hope someone can get it to Rush, Sean, Laura, Mark. You know MSM won’t do anything with it.
Excellent find. Double standard all the way. Barack is a buffoon!!
Imus’s Rutgers statement was 30 seconds at most on one show, followed by a lengthy mea culpa tour .. not Sunday after Sunday for years.
And Blessed Easter to you, mware
Will 3rd Ward politics affect Obama's presidential race [Obama supported corrupt Ald. Tillman]
"I just can't understand is how he could throw in with Tillman, the one example I know of the kind of person white right-wingers imagine when they think of black politicians linking militant race rhetoric to city machine corruption."
Barack Obama's choice for Alderman is a
corrupt,
gun-grabbing,
gun-brandishing,
reparations-demanding,
racist
“we really have to do some soul-searching to think about what kind of toxic information are we feeding our kids”
yet he takes his 6 and 9 year old kids to Wright’s church...
YET. Obama takes his kids to hear the rantings of Wright and that is just peachy. This man is the quintessential hypocrite.
It’s OK - it’s part of Imus’ belief system and he is just working for the liberation of the oppressed.
Its' called, "projection / projecting"......accusing people of doing; you...yourself, of doing / have done.
Don't forget to get your peeps.
The hypocrisy of this scumbag “Obama” apparently has no end.
Wow, that was fast. Did he mention FR?
I swear some of these talking heads get some of their talking points by reading FR.
Many times I’ve read stuff here, and then a day or two later, Hannity, or O’Reilly, or one of the other ones are running with it.
I don’t listen to Limbaugh anymore, but I think he thinks for himself.
He needs to clean up his own church and stop trying to change the subject with race-baiting issues which have nothing to do with the election.
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