Radio Host Barbara Espinosa Calls President Obama a "Monkey"

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Barbara Espinosa, host of a KFNX radio show called 'Hair on Fire,' called President Obama a “monkey” on a recent radio segment (audio below).

The Phoenix, Arizona radio host said: “I don’t believe in calling him the first black president. I voted for the white guy myself. I call him a monkey.”

When outrage erupted over her racist comments, Espinosa wrote a post on her website entitled “YES! I Did Use the Word Monkey and Obama in same sentence."

On the website post, she wrote: "To set the record straight I did use the word monkey and Obama in the same sentence. Yes I did say I voted for the white guy. Unless there has been a takeover of America and free speech is no longer allowed and I can be put to death for making a remark, I refuse to take the fifth."
 

Comment by former ABC reporter Sam Donaldson, regarding Neil Munro's interruption of President Barack Obama's remarks on changes in immigration policy on June 16, 2012:

"What this man did yesterday is something new, to me wrong and unusual. <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">I think it is probably the result of the growing incivility of the times</span>, the competition among reporters and news organizations to be noticed not only for the work product but for the theatrics of the gathering . . . and there is one more factor, let’s face it: <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">Many on the political right believe this president ought not to be there – they oppose him not for his polices and political view but for who he is, an African American!</span> These people and perhaps even certain news organizations (certainly the right wing talkers like Limbaugh) encourage disrespect for this president. That is both regrettable and adds, in this case, to the general dislike of the press on the part of the general public.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/...daily-caller-obama-interrupted_n_1602526.html
 
Well what do you know? An racist who actually support her words. Sad:smh: Her sponsers need to pull there ads and well see how fast this chick backtrack :smh:
 
hanginbals said:
Well what do you know? An racist who actually support her words.
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In strange way, you would have to respect her for not hiding behind the veiled republican racist talking points. Like,...







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"We Want Our Country Back!"​
 
thoughtone said:
In strange way, you would have to respect her for not hiding behind the veiled republican racist talking points. Like,...







sarah_palin_0912.jpg



"We Want Our Country Back!"​
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And thats why she's not apologizing. She feel people are fed up as she is and call out the Pres. But she's gonna catch heat. And its going to be an rapid spreading type of fire.

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Ta-Nehisi Coates on - White Racism, the Greatest Force Against Obama

The Atlantic
June 20, 20212



The tactic of rebutting a legitimate charge of racism by taking loud and oafish offense is not simply the tactic of David Yerushalmi, but of ridiculous bigots in general. We've seen this tack taken over the years by everyone from Geraldine Ferraro to Rush Limbaugh. The practice is indeed as old as slaveholding white supremacists insisting that the abolitionists would make slaves of white.

One thing I've never seen is a bigot cite actual racism as a defense against their own racism. Enter the bizarre case of Barbara Espinosa, a right-wing radio host in Arizona who said the following of Barack Obama:


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"I don't believe in calling him the first black president," she said, "I voted for the white guy myself. I call him a monkey."
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When confronted with the fact that what she said might be racist Espinosa insisted that "with a last name of Espinosa I'm anything but racist." She then rather spectacularly claimed that she was referring to a cartoon, as though this were a defense. You can click through at your peril. Suffice to say it's merely a Google image search of cartoons depicting Obama as a monkey.

I don't even know how one begins to follow that logic. It's worth noting that the head of the Arizona GOP was a guest on the show when the monkey remark was made. The gentleman stayed silent through the entire exchange, intervening only to denounce Obama as a "national sickness."

As a footnote, I need to say that it has been pointed out that cataloging racism is a sight below the standards of this blog. I sort of agree. But <SPAN style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffff00">over the course of the Obama presidency I have become convinced that no single force exerts a greater pull on his presidency than white racism. Not white resentment. Not white populism. White racism.</span> I don't know how else to explain a health care denounced as reparations, the rather continuous disrespect, the sense that he is a Kenyan illegitimate or all of the attendant theories. I do not know how else to explain a state like West Virginia, arguably the most racist in the country, where delegates are now refusing to endorse the president.

There will be more on this in the coming months. I don't want to scoop myself. But my point is I can only stop talking about racism, when it ceases to be a significant force in our politics. When the mere act of being white gives Obama's opponent "a home-state advantage nationally," I can't stop. It would be deeply wrong to stop.
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SOURCE: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics...politically-correct-conservatism-cont/258755/
 
actinanass said:
Well she needs to be fired.
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What's the difference?

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We need to have his back for real. We need to start making a statement for those who choose this level of disrespect.
 
thoughtone said:
What's the difference?

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Typical. When I agree, you bring something else up. I would simply fire *or at least suspend* ole girl just because I have zero tolerance for racist comments. Same goes if I was running an urban radio station. If there was a black commentator saying something hateful to a person in an other race, I would take discipline action on that person.

You really can't control syndication however.

*edit* on the rush post, *which was not racist at all* he was basically making the point that President Obama's administration has a double standard when it comes to hate crimes. Rush did not call President Obama anything remotely racist, unlike the original post. Also, we do need to have a honest talk about racism on both sides. We, as a society, need to learn from this time period so we can actually become a better nation, when it comes to race.
 
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