Fox News allows ‘magic negro’ New Year’s message to be broadcast.
By on Jan 1st, 2009 at 4:25 pm
Fox News allows ‘magic negro’ New Year’s message to be broadcast.
Throughout last night’s New Year’s eve broadcast, Fox News Channel allowed viewers to send in New Year’s greetings and wishes via text message. The messages were then scrolled across the bottom of the screen, replacing Fox’s normal crawling news headlines. While most messages were cordial, Fox allowed at least one racist message directed toward President-elect Obama to be broadcast. The message referenced Rush Limbaugh’s “Barack the Magic Negro” song:
HAPPY NEW YEAR AND LET’S HOPE THE MAGIC NEGRO DOES A GOOD JOB. LOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
Watch it (watch text at bottom):
(HT: Qazster)
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I am hoping for the day that Fox “News” will no longer be on my cable system so when I pay my cable bill I won’t be bitter each month knowing that some of my money is going to this racist Pravda station.
Their ratings are in free fall and like a cornered animal, expect them to get more desperate (and even more offensive), but revel in the fact that their time of any sort of success and relevance is ending,
And that will be a Magical Day
January 1st, 2009 at 4:33 pmwow.
fox really is run by racist pinheads.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:41 pmLOVE JEN AND JOHN C.
Clearly, these two are the RHF of New Years bloggers.
HAPPY NEW YEAR, TP! MANY HAPPY RETURNS!!!
January 1st, 2009 at 4:42 pmIt makes me smile to see reichwingers so out of touch. Soon they will be a thing of the past and the world will be better because they no longer exist.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:44 pmHoly shit, that is disgusting.
I’m thinking we should brace ourselves — this shit will get worse before it gets better.
January 1st, 2009 at 4:47 pmTime to Boycott!!
We win in numbers. Remember Election 06 & 08
January 1st, 2009 at 4:53 pmWho gives a phuck what fox news has to say???
January 1st, 2009 at 4:55 pmWhen you have nothing positive to offer your viewers, go with the negative reporting! Then pretend you knew nothing about it and you’re shocked by it!
January 1st, 2009 at 4:57 pmObama is gonna make Murdoch a much richer man, as the latter panders to the fears, anger, and bigotries of the Faux audience.
Dollars in the bank…
January 1st, 2009 at 4:58 pmmotorfingaz Says:
Time to Boycott!!
We win in numbers. Remember Election 06 & 08
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it worked for them.
it’ll work for us.
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happy new year.
:)
January 1st, 2009 at 5:01 pm.
Hey, even I can appreciate when Racists are attempting to wish Obama and America a good year…
… I still feel that Racism is inexcusable and indefensible and that FOXPRAVDA is driven by fantasies of a Fascist State.
Happy New Years back to the Racists that run the GOP and FOXPRAVDA.
.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:06 pmSomeone has to divert attention from Bush’s massive Corporafornication as his nefarious term winds our country backwards to the Gilded Age. A magic negro is just the ticket.
Pay no attention to the fat man behind the curtain, otherwise known as Roger Ailes.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pmI pulled the plug on my TV set a few months after George W. Bush was installed in the White House. I was fed up with the Corporate Media’s attempts to force feed Bush’s lies down my throat.
Thank God that Ruppert Murdoch didn’t get his Kosher hands on the BBC. That would have been a huge blow to journalism.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:12 pmIf they keep this up, I may have to start watching. Hear that FOX? I want insane, blatantly racist rants 24/7. When I’m channel flipping, give me one of those blonde chicks you got wearing blackface and tapdancing. While arguing for conservatism. And try to get the word “negro” on the screen as much as possible.
It’s a guaranteed ratings winner AND makes the right wing look classy to boot! Can’t miss!
January 1st, 2009 at 5:17 pmFAUX is the predominant reason I will never subscribe to cable without “ala carte” billing. They aren’t getting a cant from me.
Not. One. Cent.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:18 pmWorst. Network. Ever.
Oops! “cant”=”cent”
January 1st, 2009 at 5:19 pmI still say this is a good thing.
The more people associate conservatism with overt racism, the less likely they will be to lend support to conservative causes.
The GOP, their political allies, and their mouthpieces (like FauxNews) need to be relegated into irrelevancy; they are obviously all too happy to help bring about their own demise.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:20 pmIsn’t this the same outfit that ‘accidentally’ called him Osama during all of 2008? Color me suprised.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:24 pmWhat the Reichwhiners at FAUX fail to understand is: Oppressors don’t decide what is oppressive. Abusers don’t decide what’s abusive. Children don’t decide what is childish. Racists don’t decide what is racist. Criminals don’t decide what constitutes a crime and morons don’t decide what is stupid.
All of those distinctions are left to sane adults with normal sensibilities, intelligence, and morality. There isn’t a single Reichwing voice at FAUX who fits that description.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:25 pmInteresting conundrum. If Fox apologizes, they will be admitting that the term “Magic Negro” is offensive. I don’t know if they can bring themselves to do that, since O’Reilly is already on record as not finding the term mean-spirited.
FoxNews has painted itself into the corner. They’ve embraced and encouraged ignorant heckling at the expense of rational discourse. They can try to distance themselves from it now, but they would alienate a great deal of their loyal viewers.
Or they can continue their descent, as they become the cable news equivalent of a truckstop bathroom wall covered with the graffiti of a thousand drive-by idiots.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:28 pmAlso obviously, all the babble spewed by conservatives during the Bush year about respecting the president blah blah blah, and that no criticism was allowed during a time of war blah blah blah, was not true. It. Was. Not. True.
Conservatives only respect the office of the president -and the president himself- if the person in the White House is a Republican. Everyone else can expect, well, anything. Including racial slurs. Hypocrites.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:29 pmNow, boys and girls, be sure and to tune in to Fox News and Fox Radio 24/7/365 to see what outrageous crap they spew next.
Wake up, America. You’re being played like a cheap fiddle.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:34 pmCompared to some of the vicious, ignorant and bigoted comments I’ve seen on a number of blogs, this is pretty tame. Jen and John clearly think they’re witty. The commenters on a lot of other blogs I’ve seen (and not just wingnut blogs, but a lot of media blogs) are consumed with hatred. As Gregor Samsa points out, all that “respect the office” crap they’ve been spewing was a dirty lie — just as we always knew.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pmHappy New Year Jen and John C.
You racist cracker dipsh*ts
January 1st, 2009 at 5:37 pmI was a ready to quit a care-giving job because the woman had Fox news blaring on Saturday and televangelists on Sunday. She died in her sleep from a stroke before I gave notice. This was during the Countdown to War with Iraq, which was the one of the most obscene things I have ever seen. It made me physically ill. Fox news is simply viscerally hateful, and it appeals to a viscerally hateful audience that wants to see all its imagined enemies destroyed. It is pathological programming.
I’d like to see it go down like Rwanda radio stations did after the Tutsi/Hutu massacres. It is anti-social propaganda.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:45 pmrepublicans hate facts Says:
f**k off you hypocritical racist pig… You’re the conservative you fascist stupid little moron!
Perhaps we should all follow Obama’s example of not allowing emotional anger cloud and impair intellectual thought.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:53 pmDeath by a thousand cuts…
All these guys believed they could say and do anything because of their power. LOL.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:55 pmIf Faux wants to make some real news why don’t they just parade Rove, O’reilley, Hannity, Beck out in speedos. TV sets all over the world would be shattering.
January 1st, 2009 at 5:56 pmOT: A love letter to Larry Craig, from Minnesota Loo.
Sure it’s silly, but it links to a great song parody!
January 1st, 2009 at 6:00 pmProud,
I don’t think we are obsessed with Fox News…
I think we are obsessed with Blatant Racism on Fox News (or anywhere else)….
as well we should be.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pmOkay, so if wingnuts want us to ignore Faux News, there must be a good reason to focus on it.
You don’t know how to perform the “Briar Patch” trick do ya, Prod?
Then why all the alarmist rhetoric about how he was a “socialist” during the campaign? Do you mean you guys LIED to the American people?
By the way, that’s a pretty short and pathetic laundry list of priorities you guys got there. Let’s run it down:
Curtailing of civil liberties: CHECK
Embrace of hatred disguising itself as “Christian love”: CHECK
Torture: CHECK
Allowing crimes to go unpunished (as long as they’re committed by the “right people”): CHECK
You really do yourself and your side proud.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:28 pmProud babbles:
if you insist on watching, we all thank you for making FOX such a success. Keep up the good work.
And if you insist on posting your prattle at ThinkProgress, we will have to thank you for contributing to this forum’s success.
PS
Funny how Obama was going to herald the end of the world as we knew it, until conservatives found ways to twist their little minds into thinking he is an ok guy. Goes to show congruency and consistency of thought are not a conservative’s forte.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pmAs for those “thousand drive by idiots”, some have plans. Jerry Falwell Jr. has his eye on taking over the local government in Lynchburg, Virginia. How? By registering the thousands of Liberty University students to vote and busing them to the polls in May for local elections.
The Borg could well be singing the Magic Negro song as they march to the voting booth.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:29 pmEwww, there’s a Jerry Falwell Jr?
January 1st, 2009 at 6:32 pmMy gawd they’re disgusting people.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pmFaux News airs a racial slur targeting the president of the US.
Is our conservative visitor outraged and demanding respect to the office or the person of the President?
Of course not.
Thanks for illustrating my point oh so clearly, Proud.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pmI think its hillarious. This is all they have in their arsenal. Its like the kid calling you names while running away from you. I love it when some old white guy says he watches FoxNoise and then I can’t help myself but to lay into him. I just mention BillO and Hannity and they become quiet.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:34 pmI see 3 possibilities. One is that they had someone watching what was sent in, choosing to allow – or not – and that person let it through.
I see a possibility that someone inside Faux put the message in, again, an intentional event.
But somehow, I suspect that if Faux addresses this at all, that they will try to say that they had, in a total lack of responsibility, and incoming box and anything that was sent in was automatically televised. But, of course, what is the probability that any reputable network (I know they aren’t reputable) would, by any stretch of the imagination, allow an open access from the outside to what they are broadcasting ?
I can see it now, Faux would be scrolling Make Money Fast, Nigerian 419 scams, offshore male enhancement drugs, etc.
(or is that what they air anyway ????)
January 1st, 2009 at 6:41 pmFor more on Jerry Falwell Jr.’s drive to register students to vote:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/14/AR2008091402316.html
Contrast this with the warning to Virginia Tech students that they might lose scholarships and health insurance for voting in the same election. Republicans are behind both schemes.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:41 pmProud babbles:
I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush
Utter failure to live up to their own standards -another conservative quality.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:41 pmTangential Question: As Limbaugh, et al, refer to the current recession / depression as the Obama recession,
do they also refer to the decrease of American deaths in Iraq as the Obama Iraq influence ?
January 1st, 2009 at 6:43 pmOne more piece on how Jerry Falwell Jr. changed the voter map for Lynchburg:
http://www.wsls.com/sls/news/local/lynchburg/article/liberty_university_students_make_heritage_elementary_most_republican_leanin/20613/
January 1st, 2009 at 6:45 pmProud jaw-droppingly babbles:
I do understand that anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.
Right. Because the n-word is such a benign and un-racist word. Right.
Parallel reality -where conservative pinheads like Proud live and thrive.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:46 pmProud Says:
If any of you were not aware there are buttons on both the remote control and the TV itself that actually change the channel.
So, what you’re saying is that if we don’t like what’s on our TV, we’re free to change the channel? It’s that’s the case, then why is the right-wing so obsessed with sex on TV? If it offends them, let them change the channel. No one has any right to inoffensive TV programming. Their only “right” is the right to not watch.
On the other hand, in case you didn’t notice, the kind of programming and “information presentation” on Fox News Channel (which has way too many viewers to be doing our country any good) is precisely the kind of thing TP is against. They are merely telling us what our conservative friends and neighbors are being told by Fox.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:50 pmProud Says:
Hey Gregor, I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush.
In that case, I assume you’ll hold off on the criticism and snotty comments until he’s clearly demonstrated that he’s incompetent, vacant, and a shill for corporate interests. Then it would definitely be appropriate to be disrespectful.
Of course, “conservatives” have been proclaiming for the last eight years that the very office of the President needs to be treated with utmost respect.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:53 pmProud: “anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.”
Proud, like a great many Republicans, is feigning innocence, pretending that the word “negro” is benign & not racist. This shows yet again the irrelevance in 2009 of the Republican party, whose members simply cannot look to a positive future in the world, instead relying on their ignorant, bigoted past– something they simply do not want to give up.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:54 pmThe Chimperror was given carte blanch, in the wake of 9/11, and he failed to catch Bin Laden then invaded a country that didn’t do us any harm. I needn’t even mention the economy, politicizing of the DOJ, contempt for oversight, etc.
In short, it’s not the ideology I abhor, it’s the results. Sadly, the Reichwhiners have already announced their intention to thwart President Obama regardless of intent or results. Spanking them in two consecutive elections is not enough. They need to be eliminated and have their seed banished from the earth.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:56 pmThe noteworthy thing is that somebody must have approved the messages sent in. I mean, it’s not like they’d accidentally allow the F-word to appear on their screen. Whoever was approving messages for display had no problem whatsoever with that one.
Now you could say, “OK, somebody working there made a mistake,” and they’ll probably fire that person anyway. But this is the same channel on which Bill O’Reilly was saying he couldn’t understand why anyone thought the “magic negro” song was even “mean-spirited,” much less racist. So they’re actually broadcasting not only the term in a variety of unrelated contexts, but broadcasting opinions defending its use in any context. As such, it can’t be viewed as an unrelated “mistake.”
It is the de facto editorial policy of FOX News channel that the term “magic negro” may and even should be repeated at will, in any context whatsoever.
Maybe they should go all the way and make FOX News the official N-word channel, all day, every day. I’m sure if they use that one enough people will stop taking offense to it.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pmProud Says:
Hey Gregor, I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush.
On behalf of the regular posters here, I can promise you, Proud, that if and when President Obama shows the same level of disrespect for our Constitution and the Office of the President that Bush has already shown, we will show him the same level of respect we’ve shown Still-President Bush.
I do understand that anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:57 pmThen you do not understand it at all. Your problem is that when you see someone like President-Elect Obama, you see a black man who happens to be the next president. When we look at him, we see the next president who happens to be black. There’s a difference there that I just don’t think you and the Bill O’Reilly’s of the world understand yet. But I am hopeful that one day you will.
Wayne A. Schneider Says:
Then you do not understand it at all. Your problem is that when you see someone like President-Elect Obama, you see a black man who happens to be the next president. When we look at him, we see the next president who happens to be black. There’s a difference there that I just don’t think you and the Bill O’Reilly’s of the world understand yet. But I am hopeful that one day you will.
I think one of the things that has distressed Republicans and “conservatives” the most about Obama is that he is a genuinely intelligent, thoughtful and likeable person and presents about the most vivid contrast to W it’s possible to imagine. As such, he’s a sign that they have failed to crush the liberal spirit as they’ve claimed to have done for years.
And with comments like this person’s, they’re trying to lay the groundwork for a constant barrage of criticism by claiming that any response is “PC” and should be dismissed.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmProud Says:
Hey Gregor, I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush.
OK, you do what we did: give him a chance to do a decent job. If there’s a great crisis, stand behind him and hope for the best. And if he completely screws over the U.S.A, engages in massive illegal activity, lies to start wars, pisses on everything we ever thought America stood for, and destroys the American and world economy, then you can say whatever you want about him.
It’s a deal.
.
Proud Says:
I do understand that anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.
Actually, we just construe the racist attacks as racism.
Lots of people on the left, right and middle have perfectly valid issues and disagreements with Obama, and nobody’s calling those racist at all. The left has a problem with his FISA vote and letting Rick Warren participate in the inauguration – nobody says those criticisms are racist. The right would prefer a less progressive tax structure and is concerned that government overspending may not generate sustainable economic growth – that’s not racist either.
The fact that you can’t see the difference between such forms of valid criticism and gleefully tossing offensive terms around means that yeah, you’re probably racist.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmQuestion: What do Bernard Madoff and Ruppert Murdoch have in common?
Answer: Both of them are liars.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:03 pmGregor,
It seems Proud is full of pride…
… A deadly sin, NO?
The troll is a two faced bigot that deserves his place in hell. He supports unamerican principles that are aimed at making America less safe and secure. He supports unconstitutional measures that are aimed at undermining America. He supports and attempts to justify the two faced approach of IOKIYR.
.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:04 pm.
Proud,
Is it because Obama is a black man that you’re choosing to NOT respect the man as your next president…
… Or is it because he hasn’t been sworn in yet?
.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:06 pmHere’s my New Year’s wish that Faux Snooze go out of business as one by one the nursing home day rooms find a better source of entertainment for their geriatric audience.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:08 pmMax-1 Says:
It seems Proud is full of pride…
Yeah, he is also full of sh!t.
Although I am not sure if that is a sin or not ;-)
January 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pmThis song/phrase is the rope, and they just can’t help hanging themselves. Let the pasty-white-guy Party show their true colors and watch them sink into obscurity. Demographics show they need to build bridges to black and Latino voters; instead they’re burning crosses.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:13 pmGregor,
Well, I was proud when I took my first poopie too…
LOL
January 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pmProud is extremely proud of how white his hood is.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:14 pmProud Says:
Hey Gregor, I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush. I do understand that anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.
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proud.
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(a face to go with the name, eh?)
:)
January 1st, 2009 at 7:23 pmLaszlo Panaflex Says:
This song/phrase is the rope, and they just can’t help hanging themselves. Let the pasty-white-guy Party show their true colors and watch them sink into obscurity. Demographics show they need to build bridges to black and Latino voters; instead they’re burning crosses.
I completely agree. It’s odd; when I see this stuff, I get whiplash between being offended and being thrilled that they refuse to stop digging the hole they’re in. It’s a weird sensation: simultaneous happy and sad.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:24 pmFox Does News?!!!
RIP
January 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pmSGT Stephen R. Sherman
C CO 1-5 IN (STRYKER)
KIA 3 Feb 2005
Mosul, Iraq
proud’s favorite bush moment.
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Proud Says:
Hey Gregor, I will show Obama the same level of respect that you all have shown to Pres. Bush. I do understand that anything that anybody says negative about Obama will be construed as racist no matter how benign it may be.
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eh?
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January 1st, 2009 at 7:30 pmNot a surprised. Nothing gets past the idiots at Fox News.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:31 pmThere’s no need to make up false umbrage if the bigots at Fox News are going to be so overt about their hatred.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:57 pmHmm… so now the right wing is letting US dictate the standards they’ll follow?
Does this mean that they’ll now stop defending their corrupt politicians and instead call for their ouster?
January 1st, 2009 at 8:05 pmHold up a mirror in front of a troll and? They run screaming from the room.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:14 pmProud Says:
Hey ProudMoron stop being so inordinatly proud of how ignorant you are. You worthless moronic piece of garbage troll. It must suck to be as stupid as you and think it clever to come to a website to annoy people. It must be sad to be so juvenile and ignorant. Ok so you proved you are a stupid piece of human debris. Go away and let the adults talk you worthless cretin.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:23 pmLoofah boy is that satire too?
January 1st, 2009 at 8:35 pmrepugs are just useless. They incite riots based on skin color, they glorify racism and they cherish warmongering.
Die away repugs.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:39 pmProud the plastic turkey talking out his butt,
January 1st, 2009 at 8:40 pmproud to wipe the dribbles with the Constitution,
wiretapping citizens and torture and wars of aggression,
profiteering, bigotry and hypocrisy,
spewing out like GOP diarrhea.
tokin librul Says:
Obama is gonna make Murdoch a much richer man, as the latter panders to the fears, anger, and bigotries of the Faux audience.
Dollars in the bank…
I don’t think so. There isn’t money is bs. I hope they fold and blow away.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:43 pmHappy New Year Everybody!
NEW YEAR.
Brand spanking new ELECTED President!
This is my dream come true.
Obama\Biden 09
January 1st, 2009 at 8:49 pmProud the plastic turkey talking out his butt
January 1st, 2009 at 8:50 pmshould have to eat the stuff he spews.
59934786 votes went to McCain/Palin I’m sure Jen and John C. were in that group. Good news is they will be included in the recovery plan Obama/Biden have in mine. Racism is done by ignorant people as we have seen many uneducated comments from some of the saddest Americans. Fox News hires none professionals such as a bartender Sean Hannity and an acoholic/druggie Beck. What would you expect from peole who aren’t Journalist who were never educated. Hannity listened to drunks story while serving drinks and he was hired by Fox News. If Fox News questions why Obama/Biden Administration doesn’t include their fake Journalist just look at O’Reilly, Hannity and Beck.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:53 pmPride goes before a fall.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:55 pmDo the idiots at faux refer to Asians as Orientals?
assh.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:55 pmOn a related note…
I just heard a radio commercial for the local Fox affiliate. They were pimping their series on “greatest heroes of 2008″. Did they choose people who made the world a better place? People who rose above adversity to help others? Fire fighters? Cops? Soldiers? The first person of color to be elected as head of a Western democracy?
Nope! It’s about people who lost half their body weight in only a year.
January 1st, 2009 at 8:59 pmOn another related note:
Here’s a dissection (props to TeleMan) of Bill0’s feud with Jeremy Glick.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IwIRNM5noY
January 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pmProud -
I hope you do not own any guns or weaponry.. You obviously have much pent up anger oosing out so ever slowly. Wow.. you are a classic case and I do not want to hear about you on BREAKING news – CNN.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:11 pmI wouldn’t worry too much about Prod. I expect he’s built in the mode of one of our favorite trolls, Trajan, who types tough but is easily spotted as a scared little boy, terrified of Teh Gay, brown people and finding out that everyone else’s pee pee is bigger than his. Hence the fixation on guns and ammo.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:21 pmRoger Ailes looks like the kinky fat bald guy that Joe Buck beats up in “Midnight Cowboy”.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:26 pmyep.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:46 pmHow utterly tasteless. I’m concerned about these right-wing nutjobs; most often they’re the shooters.
January 1st, 2009 at 9:57 pmI’m stunned that Fukxsnoodes hasn’t resurrected some old footage of black being hanged in the south, and chuckled along with some good ole, ‘now this isn’t happening anymore, so what’s the problem’ crap.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:20 pmTime to put pressure on media distribution companies to stop carrying Fox News.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:35 pmFox the plastic turkey,
January 1st, 2009 at 11:01 pmAll painted up to look like news,
Selling snake oil for the GOP,
Catapulting hate and twisting logic.
When dinner time comes
the plastic turkey won’t taste too good.
Bigot News a/k/a Faux News, strikes again.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:08 pmFOX the Magic Nazis lived by the sea,
Spewing GOP propaganda, ugly as it be,
Some day the world will look upon their work
and call it as it be,
But FOX the Magic Nazis, spew as they please.
Just saying…..
January 1st, 2009 at 11:18 pmI have seen the argument by right wingers that this is just parody. Norman Lear was brought up, along with others in the realm of comedy. What the right wingers seem to miss is these people do not set policy for ALL. Elected officials and those involved in the running of our government were not put in place to tell us jokes or do stand up, they were put in place to govern ALL OF US! Not just those that voted for them. When someone who is supposed to represent ALL OF US dips below the line it is not parody, it is a betrayal. If they want to be comedians, let them change careers.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:27 pmNow I call faux viewers bigots and they can’t do or say a thing……they don’t like it but it’s thier bed.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:35 pmActually, it should be Magic Mulatto. But consider the source of the satire.
January 1st, 2009 at 11:49 pmJanuary 1st, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Once again, JK cannot seem to grasp a simple concept. Who ties your shoes for you JK? The many posts that explain what is going on is over your head – which appears to be just below your belly button, again.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:03 amJohn Kerry Says blablabla blask guy said it first.
So a Black person says something stupid with bigoted undertones. Why does that gives a GOP party hopeful and alleged news organization carte blanche to gleefully redistribute it? It doesnt.
Sycophantic trolls… forever lowering the bar.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:11 amI thought the JK troll had offed itself. Too much of a coward to even do that small service for society?
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:13 amHi John Kerry. Since dbadass isn’t here at the moment, allow me to offer you some New year’s Eggs Benedict. I made the Hollandaise myself from scratch, but I’m not so good at poaching eggs so they may be a bit runny. I hope that’s okay.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:40 amFaux News and their ilk have besmirched the fourth estate.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:44 amAnd since this once revered estate has succumbed to the OJ syndrome and isn’t much use to anybody, that is saying something.
I know John Kerry left but I sure would like to share some pork and sauerkraut on mashed potatoes with him…
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:35 amJohn Kerry Says:
Sorry but this is NOT Rush’s song! It was done by Paul Shanklin who took the name made up by a BLACK brotha columnist from Calif!
More lib lies!
Everyone here is perfectly aware of the genesis of the term, apparently more than you. It was originally a literary criticism term, referring to stories in which a black guy with magical wisdom or powers shows up just to help the white hero. The term intentionally is coined to point out the racist undertones of such stories. David Ehrenstein was pointing out that Obama seems to be fulfilling that archetype in the minds of many white voters – a vaguely interesting but unprovable point.
From the LA Times article in question:
Here’s where y’all got stupid: Paul Shanklin lifted the term only, and started using it an a completely different context. As long as you’re talking about the original context, the term is appropriate. Once you lift it to singing about purported jealousy by Al Sharpton, you’re not actually using the term any more, you’re just saying “negro” because you think it’s funny.
Let me make that point clear: if you’re talking about the use of the “magic negro” archetype in a novel or film in order to criticize it, that’s OK. If you’re using the fact that such a term exists to run around referring to real people as negroes, you’re being racist.
So next, Rush played the song on his show, which is to be expected from him.
Not content to have a few boorish asses flaunting their racism, the right wing didn’t stop there – Chip Saltsman started distributing it in his bid for RNC chair. That’s where it crossed the line from private citizens being boorish to the Republican Party putting its stamp of approval on boorishness.
But you guys didn’t even stop there. Now FOX News is doing their “let’s let that slip through the cracks like it was an accident” game. And even you are here defending the intentional misuse and overuse of the term.
Why are you doing this? Because it’s accurate? No, it’s not. Because it’s funny? It’s only funny if you think that thinking you have an excuse to say “negro” out loud is funny, which would be racist. There’s no other reason to do so.
Let’s try another scenario – the NAACP hasn’t changed its name. Does that mean that wingnuts should normally go around talking in public about colored politicians, colored interests and colored voters? No. Just as some terms aren’t appropriate at all, some are only appropriate within specific contexts.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:51 amOT:
a movie on Netflix that can be watched via internet:
one of the better documentaries.. written in 2006 and talked about our now crash… very scary stuff.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:06 amPay no attention. They’re just sore because they got humilitaed in the last two national elections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g_Ocbt6l5NE
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:29 amIn the interests of keeping abreast of current news, here’s a recntly released poll, that purports to show the military’s view of Obama – while finally noting that the polling is biased:
2008 Military Times poll: Wary about Obama
Troops cite inexperience, Iraq timetable
By Brendan McGarry – Staff writer
Posted : Thursday Jan 1, 2009 11:06:56 EST
When asked how they feel about President-elect Barack Obama as commander in chief, six out of 10 active-duty service members say they are uncertain or pessimistic, according to a Military Times survey.
In follow-up interviews, respondents expressed concerns about Obama’s lack of military service and experience leading men and women in uniform.
“Being that the Marine Corps can be sent anywhere in the world with the snap of his fingers, nobody has confidence in this guy as commander in chief,” said one lance corporal who asked not to be identified.
For eight years, members of the U.S. military have served under a Republican commander in chief who reflected their generally conservative views and led them to war in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Now, the troops face change not only at the very top of the chain of command, as Obama nears his Jan. 20 inauguration, but perhaps in mission, policy and values.
Underlying much of the uncertainty is Obama’s stated 16-month timetable for pulling combat troops out of Iraq, as well as his calls to end the “don’t ask, don’t tell” policy to allow gays to serve openly in the military, according to survey responses and interviews.
“How are you going to safely pull combat troops out of Iraq?” said Air Force 1st Lt. Rachel Kleinpeter, an intelligence officer with the 100th Operations Support Squadron at RAF Mildenhall, England. “And if you’re pulling out combat troops, who are you leaving to help support what’s left? What happens if Iraq falls back into chaos? Are we going to be there in five years doing the same thing over again?”
When asked who has their best interests at heart — Obama or President George W. Bush — a higher percentage of respondents picked Bush, though Bush has lost ground over time. About half of the respondents said Bush has their best interests at heart this year, the same percentage as last year but a decline from 69 percent in 2004.
Nearly one-third of respondents — including eight out of 10 black service members — said they are optimistic about their incoming boss.
Even some service members who voted against Obama — only 1 in 4 supported him over Sen. John McCain in a pre-election survey of Military Times subscribers —now express goodwill toward him as their new commander in chief.
“Overall, the prospect of having someone who isn’t necessarily tied to old strategies is a good thing,” said Air Force Master Sgt. David Ortegon, who said he voted for McCain. “Sometimes you need a fresh perspective to be able to handle our military readiness and the needs of the nation.”
The findings are part of the sixth annual Military Times survey of subscribers to Army Times, Air Force Times, Navy Times and Marine Corps Times newspapers. This year’s survey, conducted Dec. 1 through Dec. 8, included more than 1,900 active-duty respondents.
The responses are not representative of the opinions of the military as a whole. The survey group overall under-represents minorities, women and junior enlisted service members, and over-represents soldiers.
But as a snapshot of the professional corps, the responses highlight the challenges Obama faces as he prepares to take command of military careerists with different political and cultural attitudes.
In keeping with previous surveys, nearly half of the respondents described their political views as conservative or very conservative. Slightly more than half said they consider themselves Republicans, 22 percent independents and 13 percent Democrats.
So, another cherished canard falls. Wingnuts have been using this poll for years as proof that members of the military overwhelmingly supported Bush, and his interventionist foreign policies, but now MT decides to let the cat out, and admit they oversample selected portions to achieve their result.
It calls into question the veracity, and utility of such a slanted poll.
January 2nd, 2009 at 5:57 amFaux News viewers still believe that Iraq had something to do with 9/11…………….
please don’t confuse Faux News as a legitimate news source.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:18 amA military times survey?
I served for 7 years in the military, and trust me, that is the LAST place to go for reliable, logical political opinion.
January 2nd, 2009 at 8:57 amFox News Raising the bar world wide.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:19 amMaybe someday we’ll be allowed to see a poll of the military that just isn’t biased. But I suppose admitting it is the first step to recovery.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:21 amJK you are a stupid racist piece of garbage. A troll with no sense of decency and not a single functional braincell. Go sit in the corner and STFU
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:29 amThis is the gift that just keeps giving. Let them keep it up and they will keep losing. I am enjoying their bitterness on all of their blogs. These people are so unhappy that they lost, it’s just a joy to watch.
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:25 amCan w finally just rename the GOP to the WSP or White Supremacist Party
“O’reilly, retarded red-headed-monkey who can’t grow potatoes”
January 2nd, 2009 at 11:54 amOne clarification: It’s not Rush Limbaugh’s song. It’s Paul Shanklin’s. Limbaugh just played that song on his radio show in March of ‘07.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:34 pmThe song belongs to Rush every bit as much as the “Friends” theme song (”I’ll Be There For You”) belongs to “Friends”. Sure, it’s by the Rembrandts, but it belongs to Chandler, Joey, Monica, Phoebe, Rachel and Ross.
January 2nd, 2009 at 12:43 pmMurdock needs to rein in his ‘talking’ heads.
January 2nd, 2009 at 1:36 pmFaux News should lose its license for complicity to treason and war crimes.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:55 pmi think this is so funny. Everyone makes jokes about W and when it comes back to your side of the table you get pissed. Who is the hyphocrite now? Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha LOL ROFLMAO Before you call me rasict pig, I don’t care that he is black. I just don’t like arabs/muslims goat f**kers.
January 3rd, 2009 at 2:06 pmWow you are weird… I figure sort of high as well…
January 3rd, 2009 at 4:15 pmidontlikeobama Says:
I dont know who is a hypocrite but I DO know that YOU are a moron. Cough up one of those ‘making fun’ of Dumbya that is RACIST. What you CANT, imagine my suprise you idiot. If Fox wants to make fun of Obama when he screws up HALF as much as President GUMP I wont complain. I guess its too much to ask of you cretins to STOP being racist morons.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:55 amBy the way noonecareswhoyoudontlike. You are a liar and a fool and a scumsucking piece of garbage. You really ought to stop embarassing decent white people.
January 4th, 2009 at 12:56 amI cannot believe in this day and age that delayed text messaging has not been invented:)
January 4th, 2009 at 8:39 pmAs we all have probably guessed the text was “let go” intentionally… SHAME ON YOU FOX!!!!!
That text message wishing “Good luck to the Magic Negro” is effing hilarious.
It’s the funniest thing I’ve heard so far this year. A real laugh riot!!!!!!!!!
You can disagree, but whomever sent that text message has freedom of speech. Hysterically funny speech.
January 5th, 2009 at 7:13 amI’m thinking we should brace ourselves — this shit will get worse before it gets better.
January 6th, 2009 at 10:25 amHow in the HELL did anyone label the media as “liberal” with Fox’s continual enshrining of the far right?
January 15th, 2009 at 11:07 amwhy are most abortion mills placed in urban areas and black communities….do african americans produce more useless fetuses than white people?
January 16th, 2009 at 7:50 pmif liberals hate fox news so much why dont they watch any of the other networks which are all owned by democrats?
January 17th, 2009 at 9:43 pm