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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:27 PM
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Dog-whistling for a hundred, Alex: FBC host Eric Bolling says Obama "chugging 40's"
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/25/979104/-Fox-Host-says-President-Obama-chugging-40s?via=siderec

I feel a little uncomfortable posting this, because he seems like the type of guy who feeds of progressive criticism. That said, there are certain comments that straddle the fence between possibly offensive and waaaaaaaaaay offensive. This comment, by Fox Business Channel host Eric Bolling drives through the fence with a front-end loader:

The other day, he tweeted/Facebooked this:

Obama chugging 40's in IRE while tornadoes ravage MO.


That's right. A Fox host actually said this. Granted, the same business host who questioned Obma's long-form birth certificate after he released it, and is not Glenn Beck, but still, a host.

...

So, anyway, he wasn't chugging, but sipping. And he wasn't drinking 40 oz. malt liquor, but beer. But for those who are unfamiliar, what's wrong with saying he was drinking 40 oz. malt liquor, aside from it being not true? This (from Wikipedia, but please feel free to also search on Urban Dictionary):

Today, malt liquors are marketed to an entirely different demographic, resulting in a stereotyping of the typical consumer. According to a study by Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science in California, malt liquor is the alcohol of choice of the homeless and unemployed.Beginning in the 1980s, many brands of malt liquor began to aggressively target this market and used popular actors (such as Billy Dee Williams and Jonathan Rhys Meyers) or rappers in their advertisements; Ice Cube, for instance, appeared in radio advertisements for St. Ides. Some rappers vigorously opposed this trend, feeling that malt liquor manufacturers were exploiting the African American community. For example, Chuck D, of the group Public Enemy, took a very strong anti-malt liquor stance and once sued St. Ides over an advertisement that sampled his voice without permission.



Take an event where Obama drinks a beer in Ireland to fit in with the locals (and besides, Guinness is awesome! :beer: ) and recast it as Obama with his "homies" drinking Colt 45 in the "hood". Real classy...
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joeybee12 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:30 PM
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1. Racist a-hole...
What really bothers me is the other media let these tools get away with this crap.
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Viking 1 Donating Member (275 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:34 PM
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2. What is a douchebag?
Great. Let's have fake news organizations for $600
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lapislzi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:36 PM
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3. I'm the whitest person in the world, and *I* heard that dog whistle
Ick.

And you, upthread. Stop insulting douche bags. They can be useful, unlike fox noise pie holes.
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nichomachus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:14 PM
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8. Hey!
Pie holes are useful too. How else would I eat my pie?
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lapislzi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:19 PM
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14. Begging pardon
It is only the pie holes of the fox noisemakers that are useless for everything except...making noise.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:38 PM
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4. If I were Irish I would find that very offensive
Guiness is like the National Drink of Ireland, so in a nutshell this guy just told not just another nation but the millions of irish decendents here in the USA that their beverage is no better than drinking cheap malt liquor.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:23 PM
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16. As an Irish beer snob...
I'm insulted, true... but any idiot who can compare the two beverages without laughing is just that, an idiot. An idiot with no taste buds to boot.
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Sonoman Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:39 PM
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5. And Ed's in the hot seat for calling Laura Ingraham a 'slut'?
Typical.

Sonoman
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backscatter712 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:43 PM
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7. But Laura Ingraham is a slut!
/me ducks...
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The Doctor. Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:21 PM
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9. You can call me a slut any day...
but don't you dare call me a 'Laura Ingraham'!
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 01:43 PM
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6. How in the world would someone confuse a pint of Guinness with
Edited on Wed May-25-11 01:44 PM by Obamanaut
a 40 oz malt liquor.

I don't think it is as much racist as just dumb.
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ieoeja Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:30 PM
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10. Um, he *didn't*?

He is not unintentionally using a negative, African-American stereotype in reference to Obama drinking a pint because he mistook the pint for a 40 oz Malt Liquor.

He is purposefully using a negative, African-American stereotype in reference to Obama drinking a pint because he wants to call Obama a nigger, but would be fired if he did.
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RainDog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 02:33 PM
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11. and there you have it
cultural stupidity and general racist bullshit all the way around.
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Obamanaut Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:03 PM
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12. I was not clear. I didn't mean to suggest that people may have thought
PRESBO mistook a pint for a 40 0z beverage. I saw a photo, and the glass is obviously smaller than a 40 oz container.

As to the other, I think comparing the two drinks is a stretch, and so I agree with what you said.

My apologies for any confusion I may have injected.

Having had several 'pints' during my Navy career, I'll still go with 'dumb' for anyone who would call a Guinness 'pint' a 40 ouncer.
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Mimosa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:30 PM
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17. ^ Exactly! ^
The racism is getting worse lately.
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MilesColtrane Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:17 PM
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13. Hey Bolling, an Irish pint is 19.27 ounces, not 40, you moronic, racist scumbag.
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JuniperLea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed May-25-11 03:19 PM
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15. They all wanted to have a beer with the alcoholic GWBush...
But Obama can't drink one... at all...

And these asshats don't get how stupid they look grasping at all this foolishness.
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