Right Wing Furious Over Snub Of Radio Host Who Called African-Americans ‘Savages’
Right Wing Furious Over Snub Of Radio Host Who Called African-Americans ‘Savages’
On Wednesday, radio industry magazine Radio & Records Inc. withdrew its 2008 Lifetime Industry Achievement Award to controversial right-wing radio host Bob Grant. In a statement, R&R said that it did not want the award “to imply our endorsement of past comments by him that contradict our values and the respect we have for all members of our community.”
Grant is one of the godfathers of incendiary right-wing talk radio and has been an inspiration for figures such as Sean Hannity and Mark Levin. Glenn Beck often uses one of Grant’s catchphrases — “Get off my phone!” — as a tribute.
The right wing is furious at R&R’s revocation. Levin has written a protest letter to the publication, and Hannity is trying to organize a boycott against R&R’s upcoming convention.
In 1996, Grant was fired for his on-air comments wishing the death of Commerce Secretary Ron Brown. But that remark was only the tip of his offensive, racist speech during his 60 years in broadcasting. A sampling:
Stating that he had been praying for the death of basketball star Magic Johnson, Grant implored, “Why is it taking so long for the HIV to go into full-blown AIDS?” [10/1/92]
“Minorities are the Big Apple’s majority, you don’t need the papers to tell you that, walk around and you know it. To me, that’s a bad thing. I’m a white person.” [Newsday, 6/2/92]
Referring to black churchgoers, Grant said, “I can’t take these screaming savages, whether they’re in that A.M.E. Church, the African Methodist church, or in the street, burning, robbing, looting.” [4/30/93]
Grant onced claimed that the United States has “millions of sub-humanoids, savages, who really would feel more at home careening along the sands of the Kalahari or the dry deserts of eastern Kenya–people who, for whatever reason, have not become civilized.” [1/6/92]
“I’d like to get every environmentalist, put them up against a wall and shoot them.” [New York Times, 4/18/96]
Grant said that he hoped that President Clinton would “exchange bodily fluids” with an HIV-positive immigrant. [New York Times, 4/18/96]
Grant referred to former New York Mayor David N. Dinkins, an African-American man, as a “washroom attendant.” [New York Times, 4/18/96]
Ironically, Grant praised the firing of Don Imus, calling his comments “idiotic and hate filled things.” He still claimed, however, that Imus’s remarks weren’t as bad as what some “hip-hop guys” say, and worried about how “racial hucksters like Jackson and Sharpton” would be emboldened after the incident. Sharpton will be speaking at the R&R conference, which the right wing has blasted as hypocritical.
Radio Equalizer is indignant over the silence of many non-radio right-wing bloggers. “Conservative bloggers sit out controversy,” notes the site. “Why?” Perhaps even they find it difficult to justify Grant’s history of racist, homophobic rhetoric.
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We have a winner in the worst toupee of the year award!!!!
January 18th, 2008 at 2:07 pmSometimes I’m so ashamed of my Caucasianality.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pmBoo frickin’ hoo…
January 18th, 2008 at 2:09 pmIf R&R “withdrew” their Lifetime Industry Achievement Award to Grant, that suggests that they were all ginned up to give it to him at some point.
WHY?
January 18th, 2008 at 2:15 pmwow… reading that was like being at some family gatherings
January 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pmthat i try to avoid… … …
So the right wing is defending an obvious racist. They look as foolish as I would look if I defended somebody who advocated terrorism.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:17 pmUm, you reap what you sow. These right wing broadcasters go around disrespecting everybody who isn’t just like them but can’t deal with being dissed themselves. Too effing bad.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:18 pmnot all dinosaurs are extinct!
January 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pmWow I haven’t heard that much hate since the 50’s. I wonder what he thinks of the black soldiers fighting in the US Military. Now this dude is old and might need a penicillin shot for an infection. Good news is a black man invented that to save lives and he didn’t care what color the person was. I noticed this man singled out Magic and prayed to God for him to die. Looks like God wasn’t listening and blessed Magic instead. This is an example of how low this country has gone and why we’re so messed up.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:20 pmmissmolly, most of these awards are based on pushes by the stations, networks, producers, etc. This guy had probably been proposed for years but nobody really listened to him so until they were warned they didn’t know.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pmYup, those quotes sure are racist, with an extra dollop of xenophobic hatred on top.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:21 pmWell Grant definitely has the LOOKS for radio.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:22 pmcrawl back into your tomb, grant.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:24 pmtrolls…?
January 18th, 2008 at 2:26 pmtrolls…?
Comment by joe cantwell — January 18, 2008 @ 2:26 pm
Yep — I too am waiting for the trolls to come in here and explain that none of Grant’s comments were racist.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:27 pmCan we give him the Sean Hannity Perpetual Douchbag Award?
-GSD
January 18th, 2008 at 2:28 pmI think that hair hat is one of Trent Lott’s rejects.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:29 pmHow come this guy sounds like Frank M`oron’?
From what I have encountered, this is a very typical conservative, filled with hate and mistrust about everyone and everything that he encounters that is new to them.
Nice hair piece….(snicker, giggle)…Bob….(snicker, giggle).
Buck Fush
January 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pmI think that hair hat is one of Trent Lott’s rejects.
Comment by Zooey — January 18, 2008 @ 2:29 pm
I think they have been trading hair.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:31 pmSeparated at, er, birth? Death?
January 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pm“Sharpton will be speaking at the R&R conference, which the right wing has blasted as hypocritical.”
Why is this considered “hypocritical” by the right? Has Sharpton made statements against whites that are as racist as the ones Grant has made against blacks and other non-whites? If Sharpton has ever publicly prayed for the death of a white athlete, called whites uncivilized savages, accused white churchgoers of burning, robbing, and looting, or threatened to put ANYBODY up against the wall and shoot them, I’ve somehow missed it.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:32 pmThe Right loves Al Sharpton because he’s an easy guy to dislike. They love having him around so they can point to him as a “typical” Civil Rights kind of African-American. They trundle him out whenever they need to screech about hypocrisy because he’s outspoken and loud and corpulent. Sound familiar?
January 18th, 2008 at 2:38 pmWell…most ARE savages!!!
And the great Bob Grant does NOT wear a toupee!!
Comment by John Kerry — January 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Ah, the racist coward hiding under a hero’s name.
Bob Grant is 78 years old, twit. That’s not his hair.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pmWell…most ARE savages!!!
Comment by John Kerry — January 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Ah — ask for a troll, and thou shalt receive. Now, can we have a troll who can provide a more intelligent argument?
January 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pmIf Grant is civilized, count me as a savage. That bad hair has got to be fake.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:39 pm“…because he’s outspoken and loud and corpulent. Sound familiar?”
Comment by gummitch — January 18, 2008 @ 2:38 pm
It sure does. You would think that if hypocrisy = outspoken, loud, and corpulent, that they would clean out their own house first.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pmWell…most ARE savages!!!
And the great Bob Grant does NOT wear a toupee!!
Comment by John Kerry — January 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Well if anybody knows savages you’re the expert JK.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pm15…missmolly– Don’t you know by now that the trolls will suddenly become first amendment advocates if the statements themselves are indefensible by any decent standards. As in: Why do the libbies hate free speech? Then the trolls revert to saying it is really the liberals who are racist when they say anything that calls Condoleeza Rice’s competence into question.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:42 pmAnd the great Bob Grant does NOT wear a toupee!!
Comment by John Kerry — January 18, 2008 @ 2:37 pm
Just because he doesn’t take it off when you two are in bed doesn’t mean he doesn’t wear one.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
January 18th, 2008 at 2:43 pmI am so tired of the uptight and white outrage mill.
Imagine if these softies had to endure one 100th of what African-Americans had endured in this nation.
Quit yer whining Hannity, Blimpaugh, Glenn Ass Chapper Beck and the rest.
-GSD
January 18th, 2008 at 2:55 pmWow all you do is ask and they appear! We have been setting longlines baited with plastic fetuses and haven’t landed one.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:01 pmWow I didn’t know Bob Grant was still alive!
January 18th, 2008 at 3:04 pmSometimes I wonder if the far-right segment of this country is trying to incite another civil war. They seem to think that it’s some kind of badge of honor to be as provocative and mean-spirited as possible.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pmWow all you do is ask and they appear! We have been setting longlines baited with plastic fetuses and haven’t landed one.
Comment by dbadass — January 18, 2008 @ 3:01 pm
Yeah, but JK is just a seagull. Flap in, make some noise, drop a turd, and flap off. The really fun ones — good_golly, CaptainMantastic, Frank M, Southern Man, O. Bigfoot and even Darryl (the ones who will stick around and play) — haven’t been by.
However, to be fair, GG and the Captain don’t support such blatant bigotry — and they have gone on record condemning those who do.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:08 pmWell…most ARE savages!!!
Comment by John Kerry
That pound your *ss in your interracial homosexual fantasies…
Let it all out. It’s ok.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:09 pmGiven that republicans decry what they are, John Kerry must be a self-loathing black man, or woman, or cross-dresser.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:11 pmgrant looks like Imus’ scrotum…
January 18th, 2008 at 3:13 pmHowever, to be fair, GG and the Captain don’t support such blatant bigotry — and they have gone on record condemning those who do.
Comment by missmolly — January 18, 2008 @ 3:08 pm
sorry miss molly with gg and chuck it’s called “the bradley effect”.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pmWell…most ARE savages!!!
Comment by John Kerry
That pound your *ss in your interracial homosexual fantasies…
Let it all out. It’s ok.
Comment by Juan C. — January 18, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
January 18th, 2008 at 3:18 pm————————
I think you’re onto something, Juan.
What a sad way to make a living!
January 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pmI think you’re onto something, Juan.
Comment by Vet
Yes. It is called: I’m comfortable with being heterosexual, that’s why I can joke about homosexual relationships without having to shut them off in my mind so I can still be heterosexual.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:21 pmJohn Kerry:
I’m a white man, married to a black woman. We have two young sons.
Come to my house and call my wife and boys savages, and this white veteran will show you what a real savage is.
At least this Grant person wears his racism on his sleeve, for everyone to see. You hide behind your computer, and probably don’t declare your hatred of minorities in public.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:23 pmOn topic:
What a sad view of life.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:24 pmHe’s man enough to call a SAVAGE a SAVAGE!!
Go Bob go!!!
Comment by John Kerry — January 18, 2008 @ 3:07 pm
You obviously mean Michael Savage.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:25 pmGrant said that he hoped that President Clinton would “exchange bodily fluids†with an HIV-positive immigrant. [New York Times, 4/18/96]
I wonder why this fantasy involves an immigrant??? Projecting, perhaps?
January 18th, 2008 at 3:28 pmMaybe, just maybe, this means the pendulum is swinging back to the center and folks are really starting to see the radicals that fill our airwaves for what they are and we could be moving into an era of sunlight?
Aw heck, I’m just deluding myself… I’l shut up now.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:30 pmIgnore the troll.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:46 pm“…most AA’s are savages who live off welfare, hustle on the streets, rob others, rape, etc.”
Comment by Daryll — January 18, 2008 @ 3:41 pm
Ah, Daryll — somehow I’m not surprised to hear this coming from you. OK, let’s see you back up that statement. Are you really claiming that a majority of black Americans are on welfare? Blacks don’t even make up the majority of people on welfare — most people on welfare are white. And are you claiming that a majority of black Americans hustle on the streets? That might be a difficult statistic to locate, but give it a try. And most black people rob others? And over 50% of black people are rapists? Please give some evidence. And not just a single-instance anecdote — I’m looking for some real data.
For somebody who claims to be a Christian, this seems to be a most un-Jesuslike attitude.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:49 pmDaryll, to be a dark-skinned man you would first have to be a man. You are a pitifully weak sub human who has not yet evolved to the stature of man.
January 18th, 2008 at 3:50 pmDrywall, did you find any hot action on the gay beaches in Rio? Did you get up the guts to go and join in or did you just watchiand masturbate?
January 18th, 2008 at 4:12 pmYour self loathing hatred and shame are shining through Daryll. What horrible thing did you do as a kid to cause such hate for yourself and your race? Begging Jesus to forgive your sins is just another sign of the guilt.
What was it? Did you murder someone? Raped by your father? Abandoned by your mother? Get caught blowing the gym teacher in High School?
January 18th, 2008 at 4:14 pmWhy? Because I tell the truth about my race? Notice that I said that the majority are up to no good. You have a few like Condi Rice, Juan Williams, Justice Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes, who are genuinely good people.
Comment by Daryll — January 18, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
You really are a disgusting excuse for a “Christian”, Daryll.
Hell has a special hot spot for liars.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:16 pmIsn’t Christianity just lovely?
January 18th, 2008 at 4:19 pmI knew that the scum sucking subhuman vile idiot Dayrll would show up sooner or later.
Nice to see that you are consistently an subhuman idiot from day to day, I use your posts at work to shock the Christians, they highly disapprove of you by the way.
Buck Fush
January 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pmThe truth Daryll, is you are ignorant. embrace that and you will be set free. remember, admitting you have a problem is the first step to recovery.
I am praying for you Daryll. I am praying you can break free from the shackles of ignorance. I’m praying that the light of reason can shine upon your eyes and that you decide to walk out of the cave of fear and shadows and walk among the real and logical.
I have done all that I can. The rest is in yours (and God’s) hands Daryll.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:28 pmComment by Daryll — January 18, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
oh yeah, what about huck huckabee and bill o’reilly?
never talk about them do ya, daryll?
January 18th, 2008 at 4:30 pmdaryll is a phony. nobody is that unreasonably stupid. he’s a fake.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmI tell the truth about my race? Notice that I said that the majority are up to no good. You have a few like Condi Rice, Juan Williams, Justice Clarence Thomas and Alan Keyes, who are genuinely good people.
Comment by Daryll — January 18, 2008 @ 4:00 pm
Still waiting for some statistical data from you that says that over 50% of black Americans are on welfare, hustle in the streets, rob people, and rape them.
If you are truly a black American, you are the first one I have talked to who has put down his own race in this blatant manner. I suspect instead that you are lying about being black to somehow give yourself a little credibility on this issue (hint – it’s not helping). Either that, or your self-loathing truly runs deeps. How sad for you.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:32 pmDaryll:
January 18th, 2008 at 4:36 pmSo about that shellfish thing. Will you continue to avoid it because either you can not answer or that answering it would make you admit that as smart as those mofoos who came up with the dietary laws to protect their citizens in an archaic time may have been, modern refrigeration, and the like makes shellfish A-Okay! Thuse acknowledging that things change and the word of God remains to be nothing more than Man’s interpretation of it. I await you clarification of this matter
There is a theory that Daryll is a parody.
Now back to the topic. TP does a great job of digging up people who otherwise should be dead.
January 18th, 2008 at 4:42 pmWingnuts only defend hate speech, it seems…that’s what freedom of speech means to them…
January 18th, 2008 at 5:32 pmGee, I’m not racist, because I “am” African-American. Therefore it’s okay to stereotype “my own” race.
Yeah, I’m sure you’re not racist because you also have African-American friends too…
January 18th, 2008 at 5:34 pmwow!! – i don’t think even ann coulter can out-nasty this guy
January 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm“Ironically, Grant praised the firing of Don Imus, calling his comments “idiotic and hate filled things.—
It was hypocrisy, not irony. You can look up words in a dictionary if you don’t know what they mean. It’s a good thing for writers to do.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:41 pmI have done all that I can. The rest is in yours (and God’s) hands Daryll.
Comment by hellinabucket
If there is a God s/he will spit on Darryll and send him where he belongs. May you and your ilk rot in hell, Darryll, it’s what you have earned and what you deserve.
January 18th, 2008 at 5:56 pmThe right loves guy’s like Grant. He’s an old dinosaur that they can point to and say “Hey, I’m not the only one (read dinosaur). In case some people forgot, the south lost, yes you lost, you are the LOSERS, get over it. The south acts like if they keep arguing long enough, they’ll some how get a new hearing… you’re not going to, so get over it. Or better yet, go read your bible again, and again and again. As far as I know, what Jesus would do is send your asses to hell!!! Oh, wait, most of them can’t read, that explains it all, must be Bill Clintons fault, ‘cept he can read, so who are they gonna blame now? Idiot’s!!!
January 18th, 2008 at 7:39 pmDaryll, do you agree that black people praying to the Lord Jesus Christ in church are just as much savages as the people on the streets robbing and raping?
Grant says the sound of prayer to God offends him if it is in black throats and he hates black Christians.
This is the naked truth about the Right: they will put on robes and stand in a house of God as long as it allows them to hate. Your Christianity is pretense, your virtue is a sham, and you are simply a tribal bigot hating everyone but your own, praising Ba’al with all your heart since he is a golden idol, and licking the feet of your masters who are dark skinned like you,not from the sun of Africa but from the soot of the charnel-house.
January 18th, 2008 at 9:03 pmYou worship Satan, and are not fit to wash the feet of real Christians.
hahaha
this guy sounds like a hero to me
someone to emulate…
*GAG*
January 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pmBob Grant is whatever his employers want him to be. Years ago he was an on-air left-wing liberal because he was getting paid to be one. On the other hand, she may be a mental case but I would still do Britney Spears.
January 21st, 2008 at 11:36 am