This is so sad. To hate a person so much that one would stoop to the level of those people on Fox News is just sad…
The Huffington Post
A Fox News guest said that some people might want to describe President Obama as a “skinny, ghetto crackhead” Thursday night.
The Conservative Media Research Center’s Brent Bozell appeared on Fox News and was interviewed by guest host Mark Steyn. Steyn replayed a March 2011 clip from Chris Matthews’ MSNBC show, when Matthews described Newt Gingrich as looking “like a car bomber” who “loves torturing.”
Steyn and Bozell both responded to the clip. Steyn said that he wasn’t much of a “Newt fan,” but thought the GOP candidate looked more like a “cuddly…Winnie the Pooh.”
Bozell said, “How long do you think Sean Hannity’s show would last if four times in one sentence, he made a comment about, say, the President of the United States, and said that he looked like a skinny, ghetto crackhead? Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does.” Bozell then criticized Matthews’ ratings, and said only about “45 people were watching him.”
This probably isn’t the best example of the Fox News “course correction” that CEO Roger Ailes has described.
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You know, he could have gotten away with the “I wasn’t saying it, I was just making a comparison” if he hadn’t put in the unnecessary “by the way” jab.
Again, the racists just can’t control themselves lately. I remember being a fan of Bozell back in the 90′s. I guess I had blinders on.
I wonder just how vile I really was. I’m still friends with the woman who was president of my college’s College Democrats (opposite my College Republicans). Maybe I should ask her about that.
Sorry, I’m apparently just using your comments section as my own diary …
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Sorry, I’m apparently just using your comments section as my own diary …
Aww WK, it’s ok. In fact I burst out laughing when I read the part about using this section as a diary.
I needed that laugh. The news is so grim these days when it comes to the revival of racism and hatred for poor people, blacks & Hispanics (and others) and so much more.
I wonder who or what will win out in November 2012…sanity or idiocy?