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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLarry Wilmore Whacks Fox For Attacks On Obama For Using The N-Word
http://crooksandliars.com/2015/06/larry-wilmore-whacks-fox-attacks-obamaWilmore started things off by telling his audience about President Obama's podcast with WTF's Marc Maron, and imploring them to please not Google the keywords President Obama and n**ger to find the interview on line, Wilmore just chose to play the portion of the interview that has most of the media worked into a frenzy this week....
After showing some of the media warning about President Obama's harsh language, and Harold Ford Jr. on Morning Joe, who is the last person anyone should be hearing from to give their opinion on how President Obama should or should not act, saying that's not the word he would have used to make the point President Obama was trying to make, Wilmore had this question for Ford....
Following some footage of Fox's Bill Hemer's ridiculous comments claiming President Obama's comments were "electric" Wilmore moved onto Fox's Deneen Borelli, and her calling President Obama the "first president of rap."
Gothmog
(145,965 posts)Wilmore is growing into this show and it is getting better
still_one
(92,526 posts)whether the President should have used the word or not. The obvious point he was trying to make was not being racist isn't just not using the N word. On the one hand by using the word the point he was making is very strong. The question is, would it have the same impact if he used the "N-word" instead?
unfortunately, what our shallow, incompentent media are more focused on the word rather than the message, which is why I am divided whether he should have used the word.
Our media is a disgrace
Everyday people like limbaugh, beck, hannity, and other pollute the air waves and the silence is deafening from the corporate media.
A perfect example is NBC's chuck todd segment featuring clips of only black prison inmates discussing regrets of their past gun violence, with a strong "tit for tat" implication as a slur to the racist killing of 9 African Americans by a white supremacist.