SubscribeObama Was 1st To Demand Don Imus Firing
An article from last April via ABC News:
In this clip from April 16, 2007, Mr. Obama compares Mr. Imus’ remarks to the killings at VA Tech — starting around 8 minutes in.
Obama: Fire Imus
Obama First White House Contender to Call for Imus’ Firing Over Racial Slur
By JAKE TAPPER
April 11, 2007—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.”
Obama said he appeared once on Imus’ show two years ago, and “I have no intention of returning.”
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…
“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.
Isn’t irony ironic?
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March 18th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
“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.”
Didn’t seem to bother him in church.
March 18th, 2008 at 10:45 pm
pagar,
What his kids heard in church was the same poison they heard their mother spewing daily.
Notice she has been real quiet the last couple of weeks?
March 18th, 2008 at 10:57 pm
I wonder if Barack Hussein Obama should be shown the door for attending his black Christian identity church?
Oh, wait, I forgot…whites can’t say negative things about blacks, but blacks can be racist and get away with it. The libtards tell me so.
March 18th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I wonder what the late great dead President Nixon is saying on Imus these days.
March 19th, 2008 at 10:15 am
Obama said. “He fed into some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America. Compared to Obama’s Pastor’s comments, what part of Imus’ “Nappy headed Ho” comment was so over the line? Come to think of it, Mrs. Obama does use hair straightener. Maybe that’s it.
Come On Barry! Can’t we all just get along?
March 19th, 2008 at 12:04 pm
No one with an ounce of honesty could miss the double standard here. While flicking his forked tongue yesterday, Hussein found it in his heart to excuse the Rev. Wright’s entire sermons of hate and racism. But Imus’ three words (commonly uttered in the ghetto) were enough to call for his dismissal and the nation to do some soul-searching.
Again, the smallest slight from a white guy and the black community is enraged and crying about centuries of oppression. But there’s no limit to what a black man can say about whitey. We have to understand that even threats of violence should be understood and whitey’s got it coming anyway.
Try to think of the implications this has and the disservice the msm is so guilty of for allowing this madness to go unchallenged. One of the gradualist agendas the leftist are working hard at is taking anti-discrimination laws to another level. Now we have hate crimes legislation being passed at federal and state levels. The very same double standard is being allowed when comes to prosecuting these laws. If it’s black on white there will no hate crime involved but it’s an automatic if it’s white on black. This not only violates the (memory of our) constitution but it’s just suicidal madness.
Once again I’m going to repost the story about Sarah Kreager. It’s a local story for me and I’ve been fallowing it closely. This woman was beaten all over hell by 9 black youths on a city bus. Why? Wrong place, wrong time, wrong color. The trial has been a joke and four of the youths will not be punished. The rest are still on trial. But none, not one swinging Richard, will be charged for a hate crime. It just doesn’t work that way folks.
http://sweetness-light.com/arc.....ens-on-bus
March 19th, 2008 at 12:46 pm
As liberals like to call it, “having a conversation”, I’d like to offer three of my own personal experiences in regards to racial issues:
1. The early years: When I was about 5, my Mom took me to a department store. Always getting my way, I managed to steer her past the toy department. Another kid about 3 also taken by his mother’s hand was walking by. He was the first black person I ever saw. As I remember it, I thought maybe the two of us could pull our mother’s in the same direction towards the toy department. No such luck. The kid spit on me. My Mom had to explain why. I didn’t get it.
2. About 10 years ago, I stopped at Rock Center (that’s where the big NYC Christmas tree is for you folks in Rio Linda) just to sit between appointments, wolf down a pretzel, a coke & read the NY Post. A beautiful day; except I hear & see out of the corner of my eye what I guessed was two young black (BTW is it OK to say black? I’m confused still about that), students; one with a microphone & another with a professional video camera. “Pardon me, Ma’am.” the guy with the mic says to a woman sitting about 6 feet from me. “What do you think of the word “N*.*R” (BTW x 2, why do I feel like I need to use *.* between N & R?). The woman, white (forgot to mention that), wouldn’t answer.
So they came over to me. While looking down at my paper, the kid says, (BTW x 3, I was probably only 5 years older than he, but in a business suit out of respect for my clientele who I was meeting later), “What do you think of the word N*.*R?” With the mic less than a foot from my head, I could only look down for so long. So, I looked up & stared blankly at the interviewer for what he must have thought would be a dramatic 15-20 seconds. As I noticed behind him the camera lens rotate for that close up, I replied, “I don’t know. What do you think of the word…N*.*R? The pause was intentional a perfect split between reiteration & proper noun. He replied, “Well, it’s not important what I think about it, I’m the interview..” I cut him off, “Well obviously it important to you”, I replied. “You thought the question up, rented all this equipment, came down here to Rock Center. A lot of effort for someone who doesn’t think it’s important.”
“Well..” I think he got out.
“So I gotta ask you. What do YOU think of the word.. N*.*R?”
As I folded my NY Post, I stood up & while I walked in between he & his Hombre (a little Spanish lingo that means “Homey” for you folks in Rio Linda), I smiled & said. It’s a word; a bad word…depending on how you use it.
3. While at a Christmas party, my friend, his newly wed bride, a strikingly beautiful mulatto & another friend who happens to be Irish are having some laughs. Possibly for some self conscious reason, my friend’s wife sometimes falls into her “street” jive. For the record, she drives a Land Rover.
In the interests of finding common ground, while standing between her & my other Irish friend, I mention that there is an old English saying that “the Irish are the black of Europe.” My Irish friend concurred. My other friend’s beautiful wife nodded that she had heard that as well.
I will admit that perhaps I went a little too far, but was trying to make my point about “who cares what you are”, when I replied, “If that’s true. Does that make the Blacks the Irish of Africa?”
Reality Really Does Byte Sometimes Doesn’t It?
SG: Maybe we could have a special section where others can share their own experiences. Hopefully, it will be a positive way to “have that conversation”.
March 19th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
GuppyNblue - I hear what your saying loud and clear. Personally for me the example of two sets of justice for whites and blacks goes back to the brutal torture/slayings of Shannon Christian and Chris Newsome :
http://lashawnbarber.com/archi.....m-murders/
You tell me how these animals won’t be charged with commiting a hate crime :
http://www.wbir.com/news/local.....ryid=45338
I, and a lot others I know have had about all we can take of this blatent discrimination of whites!
March 19th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
clifcrds
I do remember reading about those scenes from hell and couldn’t believe the lack of outrage from the msm and so-called hate-crime authors. But the outrage was/is there and very real. I know I won’t forget.