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This is what we see time and again at the hands of the same Left that manufactured a month's long non-troversy over a word Rush Limbaugh spoke. While, on one hand, the left and their media allies feign outrage over Limbaugh, on the other hand, they either willfully ignore or launch vile, sexist attacks against conservative women that go well beyond anything that can in any way be called satire or humor. Wisconsin Lt. Governor Rebecca Kleefisch is a wife, mother, and a cancer survivor. She's currently being targeted for recall and by some of the ugliest personal attacks you'll...

Former president Bill Clinton -- during his last term in office -- urged Americans to have "a candid conversation on the state of race relations." OK. ABC's "Monday Night Football," in a silly attempt at cross-promotion, opened with a sexually suggestive skit involving "Desperate Housewives'" Nicollette Sheridan and Philadelphia Eagles' Terrell Owens. In the skit, Owens, in full football gear, heads out to play, only to be seduced in the empty locker room by a towel-clad Sheridan. When Sheridan drops the towel, Owens says, "Aw hell, the team's going to have to win without me," and she jumps into Owens'...

I think the "sly' Sylvester, Condi Rice insult presents another great case study in how we as citizens have been given the power, via outlets such as FREE REPUBLIC, to get involved in getting all the news out, not just the news which the media elite wants us to see. How did the Condi Rice, Aunt Jemima comment by WTDY radio talk show jerk John 'Sly' Sylvester make it on to the airwaves of the MSM, rather than getting buried like so many stories about liberals malfeasance? I would like to think that I played a small part in that....

“Sly” is not a racist. He just plays one on the radio. Black women are stereotyped as subservient mammies; black men are derided as “Uncle Toms.” And John Sylvester of Madison’s WTDY radio offers only the lamest of apologies. In fact, he continues to bask in the publicity he’s won by calling Condoleezza Rice an “Aunt Jemima” and Colin Powell an “Uncle Tom.” Of course, Sly is not the first white entertainer to try to build an audience by turning black people into a minstrel show, but the episode nevertheless speaks volumes about the acceptable bigotry of the left. For...

FYI, just heard that this radio host is going to be on Hannity & Colmes tonight. Last night Ted Rall, tonight John Sylvester. Go get'em Sean!!

MADISON, Wis.-a radio host apologized Monday for calling secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima," but refused to back down from his criticism that she is a "black trophy" of the Bush administration.

John "Sly" Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM, wrote a letter of apology to local newspapers. "I'm concerned that I have offended many African-Americans by using a crass term to describe an incompetent, dishonest political appointee of the Bush administration. I apologize," wrote Sylvester, who is white. Sylvester wrote he would not, however, apologize for criticizing Rice, saying "she has allowed herself to be used as a black trophy by an administration." Sylvester used the term on last Wednesday's show to describe Rice and other blacks as having only a subservient role in the Bush administration. He...

A radio host apologized Monday for calling secretary of state nominee Condoleezza Rice "Aunt Jemima," but refused to back down from his criticism that she is a "black trophy" of the Bush administration. John "Sly" Sylvester, the program director and morning personality on WTDY-AM, wrote a letter of apology to local newspapers. "I'm concerned that I have offended many African-Americans by using a crass term to describe an incompetent, dishonest political appointee of the Bush administration. I apologize," wrote Sylvester, who is white. Sylvester wrote he would not, however, apologize for criticizing Rice, saying "she has allowed herself to be...

In the face of furious pressure from across the county, talk radio host John Sylvester has begun to apologize for racial insults he used against members of the Bush administration last week. After he called Secretary of State nominee Condoleeza Rice "an Aunt Jemima" and outgoing Secretary of State Colin Powell "an Uncle Tom," Sylvester's initial response was to apologize only to Aunt Jemima. But now, after news outlets repeated his comments nationally and members of African American groups slammed his comments as ignorant and hurtful, Sylvester has broken from his initial stance, and issued a letter to newspapers today...

MADISON, Wis. - (KRT) - African-American leaders in Madison on Friday criticized a local radio personality, calling his use of the pejorative Aunt Jemima to describe Condoleezza Rice insulting and inappropriate. The talk show host, John Sylvester, did little to mollify those he offended. Instead, he apologized to the character Aunt Jemima and gave away boxes of pancake mix and syrup on his morning show. Sylvester, a white man who performs as Sly on WTDY-AM 1670, said he respected the woman who portrayed Aunt Jemima to advertise pancake mix in the early 1900s. "It is with a heavy heart that...

He's not called John ``Sly'' Sylvester for nothing. He is, as the saying goes, sly like a fox. He knows what he's doing. He's one more white guy with a big mouth who happens to have a radio talk show and who knows exactly how to play the game. The game is fame. And never mind how you get there. On his Madison, Wis., blab fest Wednesday, Sly called national security adviser and President Bush's choice for secretary of state Condoleezza Rice ``Aunt Jemima.'' The reference is pure racism. ``Whites gave us this image,'' says Marilyn Kern-Foxworth, author of ``Aunt...

MADISON, Wis. – A radio talk show host who called Condoleezza Rice an "Aunt Jemima" issued an apology Friday, but not to Rice. "It is with a heavy heart that I apologize this morning to Aunt Jemima," John "Sly" Sylvester said on WTDY-AM in Madison. "She wasn't a self-serving hack politician who got up in front of Congress and lied. Aunt Jemima didn't kowtow to Don Rumsfeld or Dick Cheney."

Saudi Officials Try To Shut Down Oregon Charity Group Owns Property In Ashland ASHLAND, Ore. -- The Saudi Arabian government is trying to shut down an Islamic charity with ties to Oregon and to terrorism. Al-Haramain runs a branch in Ashland and owns a house and acreage (pictured) in the Southern Oregon town. The FBI shut down the Ashland branch and seized evidence several months ago. The Oregon foundation is accused of laundering money from overseas and channeling it to terrorist groups. Al-Haramain still owns the Ashland property but cannot use it until the investigation is complete. The organization's president...