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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: Tucker on February 16, 2012, 06:21:24 PM
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 12:57 PM
Star Member Cyrano (7,851 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
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Fox host compares Maxine Waters to Whitney Houston. Tells her to "step away from the crack pipe."
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Every time you think the Republicans can't get any deeper into the sewer, they do. Here's the link:
http://livewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/entries/fox-host-compares-rep-maxine-waters-to-whitney?ref=fpb
(It's a short piece and you can read it in less than a minute.)
Do you suppose that his comment had something to do with both women being black? Then again, when talking about Fox "News" do I really need to ask that question?
From link in OP:
FOX Host Compares Rep. Maxine Waters To Whitney Houston: 'Step Away From The Crack Pipe'
Bolling made the comment after he and his hosts had watched a video of Waters giving a speech in which she referred to the House Republican leaders, John Boehner and Eric Cantor, as "demons."
So waters can call people "Demons" and yet nobody can call her as they see her. Next to Shela Jackson Lee, waters is the stupidest person elected to any political office, ever.
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:03 PM
Star Member Amerigo Vespucci (27,660 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
2. Fox was on Whitney's death like flies on shit.
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I posted the details the night she died.
They had some horrid "anchor" with a droning Long Island accent talking about some magazines that had photos of Whitney's home showing a crack pipe and "stuff AWL OVAH the place." Said she should have been arrested and forced into rehab. This was within MINUTES of the news that she died.
YES, Whitney had drug and alcohol problems that she admitted many times in interviews.
But Fox just can't resist "connecting the dots" to other black women. Sadly, no one calls them on this garbage. The option is basically the grass roots move of threatening to boycott Fox advertisers. Money talks, everything else goes in one ear and out the other.
Oh boy!! ANOTHER BOYCOTT!!!!!!
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:08 PM
Star Member Lint Head (7,754 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
6. These are racist code words that are not so subtle.
The jig is up. You caught us.
waters is an idiot. No wait. She's a black idiot.
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:18 PM
Star Member HockeyMom (7,485 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
11. Slander/Defamation of Character
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Ms. Walters is a public official. She was specifically called a drug addict (crack pipe) over the national airwaves. This smears her reputation amoung the general population as representing her district, and the people who elected her. It implies she is not capable of doing her job.
Bad, bad, bad. I would love to be a fly on the wall at Fox to hear what their lawyers are saying to this stupid host. A comment like "what is she smoking" is just vague enough, but "Put down the crack pipe" is VERY specific and leaves no doubt what he was calling her.
And as such, I'm free to say what I want to about her. She'll take it a shut up about it.
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 01:44 PM
Star Member jaysunb (7,232 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
15. I feel a lawsuit coming....
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This, will be a slam dunk !
Another fine example as a DUmmy.
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 02:02 PM
Star Member onenote (19,602 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
18. I hope that's not your expert opinion as a lawyer
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There are few "slam dunk" defamation cases and they are particularly hard to bring if you are a public official or a public figure. "Put down the crack pipe", like "lay off the booze" and other similar sayings have both literal and non-literal meanings. I'm fairly confident that Waters isn't going to win a big lawsuit. She won't even bother to bring one.
And before people take this the wrong way, I am in no way condoning the statement about Waters. It was highly offensive. But not everything that is highly offensive is legally actionable.
:lmao:
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Thu Feb 16, 2012, 05:39 PM
noiretextatique (20,075 posts) Profile Journal Send DU Mail Ignore
23. i am sure colorofchange.org will be on this
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i expect an email today or tomorrow with a petition for faux.
http://colorofchange.org/
Who?
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I remember the outrage they had, when Herman Cain was told to lay off the crack pipe, oh wait.
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I always liked listening to Eric Bolling. And, he got himself and his family into shooting not too long ago.
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Quote from "Tucker"
"The jig is up. You caught us."
When I post my idea for a new topic "Words you can't say that rhyme with, or sound like bigger" This is one of the words going right to the top of the list. Libs say they're for free speech, while they're using verbal extortion to quell it.
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Quote from "Tucker"
"The jig is up. You caught us."
When I post my idea for a new topic "Words you can't say that rhyme with, or sound like bigger" This is one of the words going right to the top of the list. Libs say they're for free speech, while they're using verbal extortion to quell it.
They'll get over it. If they don't, **** em.
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I remember the outrage they had, when Herman Cain was told to lay off the crack pipe, oh wait.
If I could H5 you, I would (I believe I am only a couple of posts away from that "milestone" though)
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I remember the outrage they had, when Herman Cain was told to lay off the crack pipe, oh wait.
I have heard nothing from Gloria All Red, and all the accusers of Herman Caine. This leads me to believe they had an agenda, and not a grievance.
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I remember the outrage they had, when Herman Cain was told to lay off the crack pipe, oh wait.
I thought the allegations against Herman involved a different, but no less polically damaging, type of crack.
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Ms. Walters is a public official. She was specifically called a drug addict (crack pipe) over the national airwaves. This smears her reputation amoung the general population as representing her district, and the people who elected her. It implies she is not capable of doing her job.
Well she isn't, and I would hazard a guess that the majority of the people who elected her were smoking crack as well.
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Hey, LURKING DUMBASSES! I think Hank Johnson, Corrine Brown, Sheila Jackson-Lee, AND Maxine Waters need to lay off the crack pipe. They're either on crack, or they're too illiterate to serve and only serve because their constituents are also illiterate.
You pick which one.
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Amerigo Vespucci
2. Fox was on Whitney's death like flies on shit.
Did he just call Whitney Houston, shit?
Is that some racist dog whistle code speak about her skin color?
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Did he just call Whitney Houston, shit?
Is that some racist dog whistle code speak about her skin color?
Well, they are Democrats, they cling to the party of racism like white on rice.
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HELL at least if she was on crack it would explain the insane amount of stupid shit that flys out of her pie hole.
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Well, they are Democrats, they cling to the party of racism like white on rice.
Like ugly on ape.
Don't get me going, I got a million of 'em.
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Well, they are Democrats, they cling to the party of racism like white on rice.
Changing ones spots after 100+ years of being the party of racists is hard to do.
They haven't changed. It's all an illusion.
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Maxine Waters need to pull her head out of her ass and get some oxygen to her brain.
You just don't make up that kind of stupid.
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So according to the DUmmie, only black people smoke crack?
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