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Category Archives: Race
O'Reilly's Non-Existent Arizona Immigrant Crime Wave
Fox host Bill O'Reilly searched around for a reason to support Arizona's harsh new immigration law, and seemed to settle on the fact that there is a crime wave in Phoenix (5/3/10): Arizona had to do something. In the capital … Continue reading
George Will Thinks You Don't Know Any Latinos, Either
George Will, defending Arizona's draconian new immigration law, concludes his column (Washington Post, 4/28/10) with this today: Arizonans should not be judged disdainfully and from a distance by people whose closest contacts with Hispanics are with fine men and women … Continue reading
A Part of the National Psyche
Victor Davis Hanson notes that one reason for American exceptionalism may be that we did not inherit from England "a large underclass of only quasi-free people attached to barons as serfs." Sadly, a worse institution took root here, but never … Continue reading
O'Reilly's Lament: We Can't Make Fun of Arabs Anymore
On the January 15 edition of his show, while chatting with Ray Stevens, who recorded the song "Ahab the Arab" nearly 50 years ago, Fox News host Bill O'Reilly seemed to become nostalgic for a time when making fun of … Continue reading
Fox-Friendly Poll on Imaginary White House Policies
Ijust received an email (from this guy's PR outfit)with the subject line: President Obama's Attacks on Free Speech Opposed by Most Americans, Zogby/O'Leary Poll Finds Tell me more! Here's one of the "questions" asked in the poll,tailor-made for Fox News … Continue reading
'Rush the Racist' Bidding for St. Louis Rams?
"Rush the Racist?" is the headline over a commentary written by retired NFL receiver Keenan McCardell on the Washington Post's sports blog, the League–and the question many football fans might ask upon hearing the news that Rush Limbaugh is bidding … Continue reading
Posted in Race
Tagged Jeff Cohen, Keenan McCardell, League, Mike Freeman, NFL, Rush Limbaugh, St. Louis Rams
32 Comments
Bill Bennett, Please Leave Frederick Douglass Alone
William Bennett at the Values Voter Summit (AlterNet, 9/22/09): I don't know why more of the African American leadership doesn't talk about Frederick Douglass…. Probably because of his deep devotion to Lincoln, and his deep devotion to this country. Frederick … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Alternet, Frederick Douglass, Values Voter Summit, William Bennett
8 Comments
The 'Progressive' Multicultural Anti-Semitism of KPFK
The Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report (Fall/09) is calling attention to Pacifica Radio network member station KPFK for airing the Spanish-English show La Causa's "naked anti-Semitism." According to the SPLC, the weekly program's hosts, AugustÃÂÂn Cebada and Rafael Tlaloc, … Continue reading
TV Sports' 'Little, Teeny-Tiny, Super Cute White Hope'
Intern Katy Kelleher at the Jezebel.com blog (9/9/09) has made a worthy attempt at "unpacking all the different levels of sexism and racism that are operating subtly behind the scenes" in recent coverage of professional women's tennis. On the new … Continue reading
Posted in Gender, Race
Tagged Daily Beast, ESPN, George Vecsey, Great White Hope, Jezebel, Katy Kelleher, Melanie Oudin, Michelle Beadle, New York Times, sports, tennis, Williams sisters
3 Comments
The Fabulously Unsurprising Lies of Glenn Beck
Eva Paterson (Huffington Post, 8/28/09), president and founder of the Equal Justice Society, has a response to Glenn Beck's assertion that "I want to point out the silence; no one has challenged these facts" after having been "smearing White House … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Race
Tagged Equal Justice Society, Eva Paterson, Fox, Glenn Beck, Huffington Post, LA uprising, Van Jones
14 Comments
Anti-Hate Activists Win S.F. City Media Resolution
The Hispanic/Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition, along with the National Hispanic Media Coalition (8/11/09), "applauds" the San Francisco Board of Supervisors for being "the first elected body to take a stand against hate speech in media" by having approved unanimously a resolution … Continue reading
Can Shock Radio Save the Fox Business Network?
News Corpse blogger Mark Howard (8/10/09) calls the fact that "industry sources are reporting that Don Imus is in talks with the Fox Business Network to simulcast his Imus in the Morning radio program" a "de facto admission by FBN … Continue reading
Posted in Media Business, Race
Tagged Don Imus, Fox Business Network, Mark Howard, News Corpse
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