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While VL Was Down, We Missed a Racist Controversial Cartoon

4:32 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Media|Politics|race · 3 Comments

23 Feb 2009

Perhaps you didn’t miss it, but if you did, let me know what you think of this cartoon in that pillar of American journalism, The New York Post:

The cartoon ran late last week and could have been expected was met with much public clamor. On the left people are calling this a racist potshot at President Obama. The righties say it’s merely an unfortunate coincidence — a simple allusion to the Chimpanzee who had recently escaped and mauled a woman in Connecticut. Yeah…

What do you think? Racist or bad timing?

Via / New York Post

Bigotry pays on CNN

12:40 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|Politics|TV · 4 Comments

17 Oct 2006

Lou Dobbs, the CNN “journalist” whose favorite pastime is scapegoating Mexican immigrants for every problem this country has, has just been promoted by the cable news network. CNN had axed old timer Aaron Brown to make room for their new faves, Anderson Cooper and Wolf Blitzer, and it seems now that Dobbs has been bumped up to star level as well, giving him a seat as anchor for the midterm elections right next to those guys:

Dobbs’ weeknight news show will expand to seven days a week, with the two weekend editions presenting highlights of the week’s reporting beginning Oct. 28.

The longest-running anchor on CNN’s air, Dobbs is suddenly hot again, due to his new opinionated persona as a crusader on issues like immigration reform. His hourlong “Lou Dobbs Tonight” is up 22 percent in viewers this year over last, a bigger increase than any show on CNN or Fox News Channel.

According to CNN, Dobbs won’t be on hand to interview analysts (like normal journalists do) but strictly to provide his opinion on things. Get ready to hear the words “broken borders” and “the outsourcing of America” numerous times.

Anyone remember when journalists were discouraged from offering their own opinions on the news — when they at least pretended to be objective — and when they did offer opinions it was made clear that that was the case with the word “OPINION” written in big letters across the screen?

That’s not the case anymore, since spitting hate is now better for your career than proper reporting.

Via / Yahoo! News

Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”

1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|radio · 6 Comments

28 Mar 2006

It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.

LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?

I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.

Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.

Via / Media Matters

What would you do?

1:42 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · race|TV · Comments Off

24 Mar 2006

I rarely watch network TV, but last night I was lucky enough to catch a fascinating episode of ABC’s Primetime entitled “What would you do?” ABC conducts experiments to see what people what people would do in certain situations: if they saw a child getting beaten up by other kids in a park, a couple fighting, etc. But I was particularly interested in the segment called “Taxi Cab Slurs”.

The premise is simple: put an actor in taxi cab as the driver and have him go off on a racist tirade to see how the passenger reacts, if at all. All of this is caught on hidden camera, of course.

They started out in New Jersey, where they picked up a business woman who is described as “Puerto Rican”. The driver starts going off on “Arabs” and the woman looks uncomfortable. Slowly she starts to counter his claims saying something like “I don’t agree because that would be prejudice and I am not anywhere close to being prejudiced.” Well, maybe not against middle eastern people, but what about Asians? When given the chance, this “woman of color” starts on Asians and can’t stop. Her prize-winning moment is when, in talking about the way Chinese people drive, she says “You know they can’t see right to left out of their eyes.” Classy.

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Posts Tagged ‘racist’

While VL Was Down, We Missed a Racist Controversial Cartoon

Bigotry pays on CNN

Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”

What would you do?

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