Will Obama demand that Randi Rhodes be fired as he did of Imus?

[ElsewheresDaughter]

As some of you already know the talent-free Rhodes has been "indefinetely" suspended from Air America for her hateful and sexist attacks on both Geraldine Ferraro and Senator Hillary Clinton.

Obama as well as many others demanded the firing of Don Imus for his hateful description of the Rutgers women's basketball team.

I'm interested to know if Obama will demand the same of Rhodes especially considering that the event where she did her stand up "comedy" and uttered her hate speech was in fact a fund raiser for Obama and the event was advertised on his website.

http://noquarterusa.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/04/barackrh odes.jpg

For once I'd like to see him walk it like he talks it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioYrNYsNUfY

[anonymous171]

1. lol. Will Hillary denounce every single offensive statement made by her supporters?

No.

[libnnc]

Hillary should DEMAND that Taylor Marsh be FIRED from her.....

oh wait.

She doesn't have a job.

Oops. Mah bad.

[chascarrillo]

9. Took the words right out of my hands.

:rofl:

[tekisui]

2. The public airwaves have a higher standard than a night club.

[Cali_Democrat]

4. Exactly

nt

[ElsewheresDaughter]

18. the point is...obama can choose not to listen to imus as well...

i dont think that obama, or sharpton listen to him ever. so then why fire or suspend Imus if its ok elsewhere. i think racism is racism whether its in comedy or on "news" radio. lets not pick and choose who its ok with and if al sharpton was serious about advocating it, he should also do his best to make black comedians that use racism in their comedy to stop doing what they are doing.

[anonymous171]

20. The statements that got her suspended were not made on air.

[Dissent Is Patriotic]

3. You do realize that Randi made those comments in a nightclub

not on the public airwaves.

[libnnc]

6. they know that

this is just deadhorse thrashing

[MadBadger]

5. Imus was on air and Randi wasnt

Imus made a disgusting statement about young college players and Randi made them about Public politica officials. Though I dont think that Imus should have been fired anyway.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

23. the point is...obama can choose not to listen to imus as well...

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[Kittycat]

11. I'm gonna need a link for that.

That poster was on their 10-strike warning with me, pre-ignore. Please give me a reason to banish them to my own personal Granite city.

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=132&topic_id=5158952#5159854

[Warren Stupidity]

31. Ouch.

And Yikes.

[Faygo Kid]

8. Hillary and Ferraro are public figures. The Rutgers basketball team were young students.

I think Hillary can take care of herself, thank you very much.

[TTUBatfan2008]

10. Did Randi say it on the air?

Did Imus? Those two simple questions completely defeat your argument. And guess what, the event wasn't sponsored by Obama's campaign. The link you provided doesn't even work, but I have seen the actual "advertisement" and it's by a community blogger. I could have written that on my.barackobama.com...ANYONE can sign up on there and post things. It's not moderated very heavily. In fact, there have been Hillary supporters that come on there trashing Obama and their posts are not deleted.

[kwenu]

12. I hope he doesn't because these "calls" to affirm or denounce irrelevant people have become stupid.

[Noirceuil]

14. The Obamists are Unhinged...

You know the inmates are running the asylum when great Democrats like Bill Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro who have long records on civil rights are called racists and huge numbers of people actually believe that.

[redqueen]

15. Logic

can be your friend.

Try to make friends with logic.

[IsItJustMe]

16. Honestly, It would be rather insane to expect something like that.

[Shakespeare]

17. Private event v. public airwaves.

Newp. Nor should he.

[Blondbostonian]

19. Clinton supporters seem to have no critical thinking skills

It's no surprise that people with college degrees support Obama overwhelmingly.

[rodeodance]

28. BO supporters seem to have no critical thinking skills

It's no surprise that people with college degrees support Obama overwhelmingly.

[rodeodance]

30. What a snobish, elitist attitude your post was.

Clinton supporters seem to have no critical thinking skills

Edited on Mon Apr-07-08 05:47 PM by Blondbostonian
It's no surprise that people with college degrees support Obama overwhelmingly.

[Mags]

21. if he has any integrity left he will. No never mind.

[WillyT]

22. Nope... But Thanks Anyway !!!

:shrug:

[Lucky 13]

24. Nope. Imus was wrong.

See Imus was wrong. Those were fine young women all attending college, all great student-athletes, and all headed to a bright non-ho-ish future. (I would also like to point out that their hair was also quite nice.) He made IGNORANT comments based on nothing more than his own awful sterotypes about black women. It was utterly ridiculous and outrageous. And UNNECESSARY. They didn't do anything to warrant any critcism! They weren't running for office. They were just playing basketball for their school in the NCAA tournament.

Randi... well... she was kind of right. While, I CERTAINLY would not have used the word "whore", it is well within her right to do so, is not "profane", AND is fairly consistent with an alternative meaning NOT having to do with sex. She's saying, rather crudely, that Hillary is a sellout. And while I do not agree with her choice of words, I agree with the point.

What's more, when we start getting into suspending or firing people for criticism of politicians, we get into a very dangerous area. How would we feel if a radio host we liked was suspended because they called President Bush an incompetent drunk loser jackass? The next step from there is getting people kicked off the air for saying bad things about your policies or politics or party or administration or war...

[madrchsod]

25. when will this randi crap stop?

beating a dead horse at some point in time becomes futile...

[libnnc]

27. When AAR does some charity work and gives poor Taylor Marsh a real job

so she can stop pretending to be a radio professional.

Sadly that's what is driving this thing. Trying to get that poor woman gainful employment.

If AAR doesn't give her an honest living, poor Taylor might have to pay to get another crappy book published.

[madrchsod]

33. i think you are right....

by the way cool myspace page...i still have`t figured out how to have cool pictures and graphics

[libnnc]

37. thanks

I just googled myspace graphics and found some sites.

[matcom]

26. Why ask US?

why not go ask Barak?

how am *I* supposed to know what he will do. go ask him and leave us alone k?

[Warren Stupidity]

29. I haven't asked him but I'm guessing no

As from a superficial consideration of the two cases, they basically have nothing in common.

[Mags]

32. no, that is just what he wants, someone to do the dirty work, wash his hands

and plead innocent. She is his down and dirty one, to cast away after he is done.

[kid a]

34. CENSOR THE WITCHES!!! CENSOR THE WITCHES!!! BURN BURN BURN!!!

[zulchzulu]

35. I overheard some dude say that he thought Hillary was a "f*ckin' bitch" today

Should Obama demand he retract his statement?

:crazy:

[tritsofme]

36. Randi is a nobody. I hope Mr. Obama doesn't waste his time.

nt