A Fox News guest on Thursday said that “you might want to say” President Obama looks like “a skinny, ghetto crackhead.”
Brent Bozell, of the conservative Media Research Center, appeared on Fox Thursday night, where guest host Mark Steyn showed a clip of MSNBC’s Chris Matthews saying that Newt Gingrich “looks like a car bomber.”
Steyn said that aside from anything else, Newt doesn’t even look like a car bomber, but a “big, cuddly, slightly older Winnie the Pooh.”
“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?” Bozell wondered. “Which, by the way, you might want to say that Barack Obama does.”
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Yeah, but Newt is NOT the President and on top of that, he (Newt), has had NO respect for ANY
President that is a Democrat! Brent Bozell should skulk back to the hole he emerged from!
Every time I read the fabrications that the right wing noise machine comes up with against President Obama, it reminds me of one thing...This is all they have!!!!
And that makes me smile with real joy in my heart and pride in my President. Because if they had anything REAL, we would never stop hearing about it. So they keep making it up because President Obama really doesn't have a fatal flaw they can exploit.
All I get from this is that it bugs the hell out of them that a black man got in the White House, and that he looks well-positioned to do it again.
By 2017, even moderate Republicans will be openly saying racist shit daily.
KKKode word for N____r.
Look at this guy, with his KKK hood in his back pocket, had anyone said shit like this about Bush, they would have been called treasonous and thrown in jail, the double standard is a joke. Faux can go F+ck themselves.
The left used to mock Bush incessantly. Saying that Obama resembles a ghetto crackhead is no worse than saying Bush resembles a chimp, something I recall bloggers calling him all the time
bills8259 I agree that calling Bush a chimp was wrong. Can we agree that it is also wrong to call the current President a ‘Skinny, Ghetto Crackhead’?
bills8259 You are demonstrating the standard right wing practice of trying to draw a false equivalency in order to justify their repugnant behavior.
First off, you are trying to equate random partisan "bloggers" with Brent Bozo. Few bloggers hold themselves out as serious journalists or, especially, as objective media critics or watch dogs. Brent Bozo, OTOH, does both. The fact is that no professional journalists in the so-called "liberal media" or even serious journalists who acknowledge their left leaning bias, ever called Bush a chimp.
Secondly, the resemblance of Bush to a chimp was more than superficial or racially derived.
bills8259
And there you have it: the typical conservative has no problem with throwing racial epithets at the president because bloggers used to call Bush a chimp.
Tears you guys up that Obama won.
bills8259 You can search the internet, the archives, and any other source that keeps records of "stuff said". You will not find one news organization, not one guest on a news organization, that sat in the public eye and called Bush names. But of course he was a republican. Only Democrats get called names on Fox. And that just goes to show the absolute lack of character any body on Fox has. They must have the biggest rock pile going, you know they one the host and guests crawled out from under.
I am a christian and the bible teaches to love everyone. Both commentators and cable news networks are guilty of hateful name calling and to me is not professional journalism
That's why I'm an atheist and I'm not votin for Obama
TimFromLA Good for you, watch out for thunderstorms, cause they say God has a swift and powerful sword. He certainly would want to use it on any body voting for the callous, common, racist, greedy, hate and violence urging republicans. That's not what a God OR any body would want. Whether they believed in God or not.
TimFromLA
Great don't it does not matter any way. You don't have a say, these people are hand picked by the real Men that have the power.
Christian...that's why I'm an atheist
Glad to see that FAUX "News" is living down to it's reputation! They are about to scrape the bottom right out of the barrel!
Why are we debating Ignorance? O Ship of Fools!
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Well... as some here at TPM point out...
What with 698 comments thus far in this thread alone, it proves that clicks = m-o-n-e-y...
Take as an example, as I post this, there's a Google ad for a newsmax.com poll asking. "Would you support Newt Gingrich for president?"
I wonder how many on this Ship of Fools clicked it and voted.
~Red~
Bobby Kendrick
I guess that tells us all we need to know about how objective and unbiased the Media Research Center is.
You would have been thrown in prison for unpatrioticly dissing the great GW Bush 4 years ago. Funny how quickly the baggers go 180 degrees when they are out.
Tom Lamb Thrown in prison? Huh. Shot without a trial, more like.
Senate majority leader Harry Reid once said, Obama was electable because he was 'light-skinned' and had 'no Negro dialect.', was that racist? If it was democrats didn't have any problem in voting for him in 2010. Me thinks a stinky democrat double standard is going on here!
dugfmjamul You genuinely think that "'light-skinned' and had 'no Negro dialect'" is equivalent to “a skinny, ghetto crackhead.” So it's all the same whether I call you and your kind "dodos" or "prattling gabblers, lickorous gluttons, freckled bittors, mangy rascals, shite-a-bed scoundrels, drunken roysters, sly knaves, drowsy loiterers, slapsauce fellows, slabberdegullion druggels, lubberly louts, cozening foxes, ruffian rogues, paltry customers, sycophant-varlets, drawlatch hoydens, flouting milksops, jeering companions, staring clowns, forlorn snakes, ninny loblocks, scurvy sneaksbies, fondling fops, base loons, saucy coxcombs, idle lusks, scoffing braggarts, noddy meacocks, blockish grutnols, dollipol-joltheads, jobbernol goosecaps, foolish loggerheads, flutch calf-lollies, grouthead gnat-snappers, lob-dotterels, gaping changelings, codshead loobies, woodcock slangams, ninnyhammer flycatchers, noddypeak simpletons, and turdy-guts."
@dugfmjamulMaybe -
I think dugfmjamul can't be insulted unless you refer to him or her as a person of color: red, yellow, brown or black - I'm not ignoring either green for its stupid ity nor yellow for its racial cowardice.
The comment by Reid in public, repeating a conversation that was a personal observation about Obama's acceptability to republican'ts isn't racist. The quip about dialect and skin was describing republican't and libertarian prejudice.
The racism is in the republican't attitude described by Biden.
The Bent Bozo is demonstrating why he is both bent and a bozo.
Maybedugfmjamul Don't run for public office with that foul mouth of yours, you will label to be a democrat.
Maybedugfmjamul Poison to the human race would cover it all. And republcans truly are.
dugfmjamul I think that was Joe Biden actually; look how Obama forgave him.
dugfmjamul You need to get your facts straight. Obama ran in 2008 - not 2010. It was indeed Harry Reid who said that, but he apologized publicly for it. I don't think Bozell has that much class.
ratatatat1dugfmjamul You are too stupid to post, I was speaking of Harry Reid moron.
dugfrmjamuldugfmjamul I never claimed you weren't talking about Harry Reid. Another poster thought it was Biden. Do try to keep up before calling people "too stupid to post" - especially since you are apparently "too stupid" to know the correct year when the last presidential election was held.
ratatatat1dugfmjamul Does any republican!!!!!
dugfmjamul Democrats had a HUGE problem with it; so much so that Reid had to publicly apologize and grovel. What's wrong with you wingnuts? One reason it's so hard to have a debate with you about anything is that first we have to waste so much time simply educating you.
Excuse me--this bigot researches media? Conservative guest or not, compared to the Newt remark attributed to Matthews, the blatant racial comment should be repudiated by Ailes or Rupert, and Steyn should never sub on Fox for letting the statement hang in the air unchallenged. And they bitch about the hacking like it was the worst. Elevating this bigotry to the level of "political discourse" is a far greater evil.
George Carlin said, "America is full of dipshits and assholes." when I hear Fox shmooze that's all I can think.
djladyd Hit the nail on the head there .....
I'm sorry, what was that, David Duke? "Baw maw gaw bawksez o moonshahn inmmah trukk hyuk hyuk dippity dappity dee dah do, yeehaw?"
Not a thing Jimmy Carter. Stand in line for gas next.
joelswenson1 happy bigot day, bigot!
donnaedmondjoelswenson1
Does that upset you? :)
Well, since Hannity's been on air for more than a year after whining about how the president likes his burger, probably a long time.
Did everyone forget the topic, Bozell just repeats the liberal talking points in comparative form. What if Gingrich becomes President and liberal hacks like mathews continues with the trash talking? The trouble liberals have is they watch biased wanna-be journalists like mathews and think they get the news, but only to get hype.
Obama had nothing to do with the topic, but the hatred just had to ooze. Merry Christmas.moonpa712
Man you are sooo right. I hate to pay more taxes....pay my share you race card pulling puke!
moonpa712 Gingrich is not the President of the US and nor will he be.
moonpa712 Lol! I guess what you're going to say next is that Fox News is really fair and balanced.
moonpa712 You know you love us, you like spending time with us liberals. I don't blame you, it must overwhelmingly frustrating to spend time with those retarded conservatives. Hang around, we're not sure we can cure you, but you'll definitely learn a lot.
Re the initial implication by Bozo hell that Handupme's show wouldn't last if he kept saying seditious and hateful lies- that's what his show is based on! He starts by calling the President 'the Annointed One". Tell me how that shows respect and intellect. Hannity uses his brain to hold all the hateful spew he gets from his John Bircher 'researchers'. If he had an original, constructive, and positive thought, his head would explode.
Ron DeMattio Obama has never in his life did anything to deserve respect,nor have you by your comment " Bozo hell, Handupme". Typical liberal supporting a loser that doesn't have a record to run on.
moonpa712Ron DeMattio Whereas most right-wingers do have a record to run on and it's a shitty-nasty one. Like you.
I might want to say that L. Brent Bozell III, esq. looks like Doctor Zaius. Which, by the way, he does.
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