I have been watching the President of MSNBC preen for the cameras telling how sensitive he is and how the management heard from everyone at NBC, and that’s why Imus lost his job.
Well NBC regularly gives Ann Coulter dozens of venues to call decorated combat veterans like John Kerry and John Murtha cowards and 9/11 widows whores. NBC and MSNBC has been a long time home for lying whackos like Charles Krauthammer, Kyra Phillips, Nora O’Donnel and others to name a few. MSNBC never checks facts. They cheerlead this war, they misinform us regularly.
So who are they kidding? Who is the President of MDSNBC kidding with his meek and late and disingenuous outrage?
There has been so much racism and so much sexism and anti-semitism and outright crazy talk on AM talk radio all across the nation every single day.
Rush Limbaugh says something bigoted every single day.
Neal Boortz says something misogynist every single day. He called Representative McKinney a Ghetto Ho.
There is a lie on Fox about every ten seconds. If they are not telling an outright lie, they are lying on the ticker at the bottom of the screen.
Bill O Liely called Mexicans wetbacks.
I under stand the shocked look in Imus’ eyes. It’s not just that he lost his gig. It’s that he has been dropping crumbs all over the place for twenty years, and suddenly, this one little crumb was enough to knock his show off.
I mean I definitely think it’s not a bad thing he is gone. But all the major news outlets allow opinion, often just outright bigotry, to be dressed up as news or analysis.
I mean who does Glenn Beck represent? Bush lovers? Those who think Muslims are all terrorists even when they are duly elected to public office. Glenn Beck attacks Gays, he attacks immigrants and he attacks anyone who is in the majority opinion on the war or about Bush. He represents a fringe group of Bush loving neo-cons who believe we are winning the Wah on Terra.
Glenn Beck called Hillary Clinton "the stereotypical bitch". He called Rosie O Donnel a "fat witch". He called Mexico a "dirtbag country". He called Cindy Sheehan a "pretty big prostitute."
Michael Smerconish once suggested that by allowing women to get an education, they will go out and choose to have careers instead of staying at home and tending to babies.
Look at the movie Path to 9/11. Produced by Disney and aired by ABC. This entire program was a big fucking lie. So why is this allowed but a shock jock gets pulled?
Like every government agency, the FCC is polluted with right wing operatives who are blind to standards of decency when it comes to bigotry and facts. The FCC thinks we want to hear Bo Dietl and Michael Medved but don’t want to see Janet Jackson’s tit. The FCC will allow any lie to stand no matter how wrong.
The fact is, 6 years of neo-con rule and huge right wing take over of the airwaves and you got what you expected. Ignorant bigots are running the show and ignorance and bigotry gets a free pass.
Perhaps the blessing here is that we might begin a new awareness of what these whacko pundits are saying and hold their feet to the fire over it. It isn’t about just calling successful young Black women ‘nappy headed hos’. It’s about keeping the airwaves free of ALL the bigotry and ignorance.
Sources: http://mediamatters.org/... and Huffington Post and my car radio.