Posted on 02/09/2020 1:39:40 PM PST by yesthatjallen
Snoop Dogg said Saturday he wasn't threatening CBS News anchor Gayle King over a recent interview in which she broached the Kobe Bryant rape case following his death last week.
The clarification comes after CBS News president Susan Zirinsky said the network "fully supports" King while vigorously condemning “reprehensible” threats made against King.
"When I said what I said, I spoke for the people who felt like Gayle was very disrespectful towards Kobe Bryant and his family," Snoop Dogg, whose real name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., said in a video on Instagram on Saturday.
"Now with that being said, what do I look like, wanting some harm to come to a 70-year-old woman? I was raised way better than that," the 48-year-old entertainer continued. "I don’t want no harm to come to her and I didn’t threaten her. All I did was say, ‘Check it out, you outta pocket for what you doing and we watching you. Have a little bit more respect for Vanessa, her babies and Kobe Bryant’s legacy.’”
The rapper's latest comments come after he posted an earlier Instagram video in which he appeared to threaten King, telling her to "back off, b----, before we come get you." The comment was made amid criticism over her addressing the Bryant rape case.
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The controversy was amplified further after former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Susan Rice took exception to Snoop Dogg's threat by posting a warning on Twitter.
“This is despicable,” Rice wrote. “Gayle King is one of the most principled, fair and tough journalists alive. Snoop, back the **** off. You come for @GayleKing, you come against an army. You will lose, and it won’t be pretty.”
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Gayle King is a creep and bully.
Could she not wait until Kobe’s family have time to grieve?
What’s the point of going after a stone cold dead Kobe?
Snoop was truthful on both statements.
Back off Gayle. Snoop was not threatening physical violence, but perhaps (???) her name, voice and standing in the Black community
I’m surprised to see many poster here defending Snoopy.
He is a Thug who talks and inspires other Thugs to act.
Whether you ‘like’ Gayle/ Oprah or not does not matter. Gayle is a reporter who was doing her job. Kobe bounced a ball for a living. He was not beyond reproach. He did what he did, and much of his life has been public knowledge for over 10 years.
They can all FOAD. They are relevant and self important in their own delusional eyes. I hate them all but if I had to rank, that POS Susan Rice is number 1 POS.
Snoop, yes you did. You stepped on the wrong toes buddy.
This is East Coast vs West Coast. Gayle King was from Maryland, Snoop is LA.
And snoop had a point that Gayle King never got around to saying anything about Harvey Weinstein
Gayle King is not the smartest person on TV. If not for being a friend of Oprah, she would be doing news reporting in a Podunk town in the middle of nowhere. Met her and Oprah in restaurants in Hartford. Rude is the kindest word I can say.
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