Before Wright Firestorm, Obama Called for Imus Firing

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/03/18/before-wright-firestorm-obama-called-for-imus-firing/ ^ | 18 Mar 08 | FOX NEWS

[elhombrelibre]

Barack Obama had been a presidential candidate for more than a year before he outright repudiated his long-time pastor for racially charged, anti-U.S. sermons. But when talk show host Don Imus was in hot water 11 months ago for racially insensitive comments, Obama was the first candidate to call for his firing.

[frogjerk]

“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 told ABC News in an April 11 interview.

OOPS!

[RexBeach]

Well, naturally, that goes for everyone...except Obama-Jama.

[Red in Blue PA]

The word HOPE can be found in the word HYPOCRITE.

Ironic, isn’t it?

[MrB]

...about anybody of any ethnic group...

well, except Whitey and Da Jooooooos.

[hosepipe]

I wonder if IMUS will be voting for Borat Obama..

[RexBeach]

Yes, and the word MAMBO can be found in Obama! :)

Sorry, couldn’t resist.

[mtbopfuyn]

some of the worst stereotypes that my two young daughters are having to deal with today in America

Oh, puleez! That sounds like Michelle and her biased view of this country. If America is so bad, they're more than welcome to leave. And what business is it of Obama's to even get involved in the Imus stuff when he should have been focusing on the security and well being of the nation.

As for his very recent and supposed tsk-tsking of his 20 (20 long years, folks) year pastor, anyone wanna bet it's merely a political move rather than sincerity?

[libscum]

Hey CNN, NY Slime Times, MSLSD, Wash Compost, Clintoon Broadcasting System why don't you mention this gross hypocrisy ? Oh you were so busy burying IMUS but now the new Messiah has become a protected species. Can somebody please revoke their broadcasting license ? Facism is very alive with the new Messiah's campaign and their willing accomplices in the “media”. This reminds me of the Nazi media in Germany, honestly what is the difference it has ALL liberal facist propaganda.

[gathersnomoss]

Thank You, Fox News!!!!!!!!!!

[Canedawg]

““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.”

Can you say DOUBLE STANDARD, b. hussein?

[elhombrelibre]

He's a fraud, and it's pretty obvious now. Also, keeping the Black Panther's endorsement on his website shows him to be willing to run with the racists while pretending to be a great uniter on race. He's a big fraud.

[elhombrelibre]

Indeed.

[Miss Didi]

Rush was all over this today playing the Obama clips with David Gregory.

[stainlessbanner]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=TQkP5cCsWn4

[CarryingOn]

It seems to be far less than an outright repudiation of his hate-filled mentor Wright. Obscurantism comes to mind.

[Canedawg]

“Also, keeping the Black Panther’s endorsement on his website shows him to be willing to run with the racists”

What?!

Do you have a link for that?

[kevinm13]

Dim liberal black double standard.

[Jaded]

I would hardly call it “outright repudiated”.

[P-Marlowe]

Hussein throws his grandmother under the bus and Fox News throws Hussein under the bus. And Don Imus driving the bus.

Sweet irony.

[prophetic]

So a white guy CANNOT say anything inflammatory against blacks, but blacks can say & do ANYTHING and get away with it impunity.

[F15Eagle]

You know, Imus is just like a crazy old uncle I have, who says things sometimes that I disagree with. /sarcasm

[gathersnomoss]

You ain't seen nuthin’ yet, homeboy. The Revolution Will Not Be Televised. And it will be led by a new and improved brand of leaders, if they get their way.

[McGruff]

I listened to some of Imus this morning to see if he would go off on this hypocrisy. No he didn’t. I didn’t hear any of the old Imus outrage. I think he’s effectively been put into a lock box by Rev. Sharpton. Sad.

[no dems]

I was hoping this word would get out and sure enough; Sean Hannity ran with it on his radio broadcast today. I’m sure we’ll see it tonight, as well, on “Hannity and Colmes”.

[OKIEDOC]

As I have said since day one of Obamas announcement for office, OBAMA IS TWO FACED.

MUSLIMS CAN SAY OR LIE TO NON BELIEVERS ONE THING WHILE DOING ANOTHER.

I do not know if Obama is a closet Muslim but he certainly has lied to the general public about his associating with America and Whitey haters.

Many liberals are supporting him because they would accept the devil to get rid of another Republican administration no matter how RINO.

The bible says beware of false prophets.

[Bahbah]

I listened too, McGruff, for the same reason.

He made only the mildest of references to how what he said was really not that bad in comparison. But the fire wasn’t there.

[kevinm13]

Dim liberal black double standard.

[HAL9000]

Obama's response will probably be that Imus was being broadcast on the public airwaves, and Wright wasn't (unless he had a TV show too?)

But Obama directed his remarks specifically to NBC, which had Imus on a cable channel, not the public airwaves. The owner of the radio station that did broadcast Imus was CBS.

[elhombrelibre]

Sean’s doing the work the media is supposed to do.

[gathersnomoss]

It is sad to see anyone succumb to speech and thought control. Obama, running for POTUS, is not a Jesse Jackson figure. He has to get that straight, or he is fooling not only himself, but his supporters and the MSM....who are also his supporters. As this race/race unfolds, this may well turn out to be a long, hot summer. I do not recall anything like this since the 60's, but I do recall the outcome.

[elhombrelibre]

Good one.

[elhombrelibre]

Here's the link that will take you to the story of Obama and his Black Panther endorsement.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1988312/posts

[xkaydet65]

So a white guy CANNOT say anything inflammatory against blacks, but blacks can say & do ANYTHING and get away with it impunity.......

BINGO!!! You have filtered the real message that is contained in the haloed one's speech.It is a message that the followers of Pastor Wright and Pastor Meeks will easily recognize, but which the starstruck, entranced media will never be able to see.

[dinasour]

> I wonder if IMUS will be voting for Borat Obama..

I accidentally tuned his show last week and was stunned to discover that he is supporting McCain.

Then, I thought about it a bit more and decided that that’s not so amazing, after all. Is it?

[cornbreadmuffin]

I was hoping this word would get out and sure enough; Sean Hannity ran with it on his radio broadcast today. I’m sure we’ll see it tonight, as well, on “Hannity and Colmes”......

It was up on Drudge yesterday for a few minutes. Somebody must have made him take it down. First I ever knew of Drudge being scared...what could anyone do to Drudge? Did anyone here spot it?

[SlapHappyPappy]

The Obama denunciation of Wright was scripted and choreographed in August of 2007, and there are transcripts of meetings available that verify that.

[Miss Didi]

RUSH: Folks, did you happen to hear Barack Obama in the second sound bite on the Imus show? He was asked, "Would you ever appear on that show?" "Well, I didn't hear him say that kind of stuff when I was on." Oh, really? You didn't hear Imus say that kind of stuff when you were on? So according to your first interpretation of Reverend Wright, Imus never said anything bad; because you, Obama, said you never heard Reverend Wright say any of this stuff on the tapes, and it was all just out-of-context stuff. We found out you lied about that, and you tried lying about it on your Friday night TV tour. It didn't work so you had to do the big race speech yesterday, in which you finally came clean, Wright did say those things both when you were there and when you weren't there! If Obama is ever elected president, if this hadn't come up, if this hadn't played out, you know what his excuse for anything would have been? He coulda had, say, a secretary of state or any cabinet member do an Eliot Spitzer, and Obama would say, "Well, I had no idea. That didn't happen. I never saw that happen. It didn't happen in my administration, and you can't say it did. I didn't see it, and I didn't hear about that." It's sort of like Bill Clinton and the Waco invasion. You know, Janet Reno launches the Waco invasion. Lots of kids die. They go ask Clinton about it. (Clinton impression) "I... Ha-ha! I had nothing to do about that. You gotta talk to the attorney general about that." He passed the buck back her. "I didn't know about that." (laughter) It's all liberalism, folks! It's just standard, right out of the playbook. (cont.)



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[landerwy]

Maybe we change the word to “Obamacrite”.

[Zeppelin]

Yes, and the word MAMBO can be found in Obama! :)

no it can't

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

I never wanted to use the phrase “blacks can’t be racists”...but....

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Hypocrite indeed....he has a lot of nerve, and how in the heck did he think that his past, his congregation’s past, and his church’s past would not catch up with him? Does he and his ilk really think that they are immune from attack for their anit-white sermons, their anti-white beliefs and their anti-white words because they are black? NO, they are not immune. Do they really believe that race trumps being a child of God? (//venting off))

[Old Sarge]

“Blacks are more racist than Whites.”

- Larry Elder, “The Ten Things You Can’t Say In America”

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

I did not know the blank panthers endorsed him.... This just can’t get any worse. Please let there be salvation from racists, and hillarys.

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

They’ve been given a ticket to say what they want about whites for far too long. It’s about time “they” get held accountable for it, and in a very public way.

[Old Sarge]

I want one of those tickets....

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

Rush is great.. LOL~

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

218,000 racist immunity results, although I don't think one of them will be helpful. ;-]

[~Kim4VRWC's~]

This is always an interesting website if one is bored.

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=racist&page=2