Barbara Espinosa calls Obama a monkey and says: I voted for the white guy

[natina]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=y6fBQTUvdXU

[robertlouis]

Just who the fuck is this excuse for a human being?

[maddygirl]

She could have just said she voted for the other candidate why does she go on to insult him and then say she voted for the "white" guy. Now I'm not a stickler when it comes to stuff like this but yeah she was flat out racist no ifs ands or buts about it..

[trish]

That's just the way conservative talk show hosts roll.

[robertlouis]

That's just the way conservative talk show hosts roll.

Over here she'd be sacked.

[natina]

Graphic Evidence Of The Racism Of Fox News: Racial Photoshopping

News reports are suggesting that later today the authorities in Florida will announce charges against Trayvon Martin’s shooter, George Zimmerman. Coverage of this story was handled by Fox News in a manner that is revealing and offensive – and wholly unique to Fox News:




This is a journalistic lynching. And note, this is not Fox Nation. It is the mothership, Fox News. The editors at this alleged “news” network are demonstrating their overt hostility to both African-Americans and journalistic ethics. If this picture doesn’t finally establish the overarching prejudice of Fox, it’s hard to know what will. Their bias is so clearly being exercised with a zealotry that the Klan would shrink from. How do they get away with this?
[Update] Fox News changed their graphic.

This is a more impartial photo that does not disparage the victim (although it still is not as overtly cheerful as Zimmerman’s pic). You think they got a few complaints about the previous photo? They must have had a reason for changing it.

[Addendum] A couple of commenters have asserted (without proof) that the lighter picture of Trayvon was the one that was Photoshopped. Let’s say, for argument’s sake, that they are right and that the picture Fox used was not altered (at least by Fox). That does not change the fact that Fox made an editorial decision to use that picture. They had numerous pictures from which to choose of both Trayvon and Zimmerman, and they chose the most negative picture of Trayvon which they paired with the most positive picture of Zimmerman. That was not an accident. It was the result of deliberate editorial judgment. And it tells us everything we need to know about Fox’s editors.
For more on the subject of media and race, check out the excellent book by Democracy Now’s Juan Gonzalez:

There has also been some discussion as to whether making Trayvon look darker was inherently racist. Two points: 1) Making anyone look darker has the effect of making them look more sinister. And making the subject of a photo look more sinister, regardless of race, is blatant editorial bias. 2) Darker skinned African-Americans are not viewed more negatively by fair-minded people who are free of prejudice, but they are viewed more negatively by people predisposed to discriminate on the basis of race – i.e. Fox News viewers. Fox is playing to their audience and they know who they are. Studies show (http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=2231) that the African-American segment of viewers of Fox News in primetime is only 1.38%. That compares to 19.3% for MSNBC, and 20.7% for CNN, numbers that are much closer to the 14% of African-Americans in the population at large. Or, as the Simpsons put it…

Finally, The question of whether or not George Zimmerman is racist, while important, is secondary here. The real problem is the racism exhibited by the local law enforcement authorities who simply accepted Zimmerman’s claims of self-defense without making an arrest and conducting a proper investigation. Exacerbating that is the overt racism of the right-wing press and their followers. The primary focus going forward should, of course, be the pursuit of justice and the suffering of the victims family. After that the focus should fall on the police and the media as this affair winds its way through the courts. But we should be grateful that concerned citizens spoke out and hit the streets to protest this injustice or there would be no court case at all.
http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=6851 (http://www.newscorpse.com/ncWP/?p=6851)

http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Caps/foxnews-trayvon-graphic.jpg



http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Caps/foxnews-trayvon-graphic-2.jpg


http://www.newscorpse.com/Pix/Caps/simpsons-fox-racist.jpg

[Token Williams-Black]

Freedom of speech...it goes both ways...

[robertlouis]

Freedom of speech...it goes both ways...

I'm in favour of freedom of speech, but this was hate speech, calculated to inflame hatred on both sides of the debate. It's disgraceful and it's wrong.

[Prospero]

http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/354488/20120620/barbara-espinosa-obama-monkey-video-racist-radio.htm

This witless racist insists she cannot be accused of racism because she has a surname that has latin roots. She is clearly a deep thinker.

[broncofan]

Is the GOP racist? Frequently. Are all Republicans racist? Clearly not. But it is becoming obvious that being a Republican is a huge risk factor for the disease of racism. Even those Republicans who appear normal from one thread to another end up saying crazy, batty racist stuff like for example fastingforlife. So, there are a lot of racist Republicans and the Republican establishment has been appearing increasingly racist in the types of attacks they make.

Sorry, you can't call an African-American man a "monkey" and then seriously argue you're not a racist. Again, freedom of speech means she can say it without legal consequences. But stigma attaches to that kind of hate speech.