Saturday, July 26, 2008



Racist to diss Obama -- says hip-hop artist "Nas" and 620,000 others

I guess Nas didn't really mean his song "Hate Me Now":
"At 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Nas is joining the Web sites ColorOfChange.org and MoveOn.org to deliver a petition with more than 620,000 signatures demanding that the network end what the organizations call a "pattern of racist attacks against black Americans including presidential candidate Barack Obama and his wife, Michelle." "Fox poisons the country with racist propaganda and tries to call it news," Nas said in a statement. A spokesperson for Fox News could not be reached for comment at press time.

A press release announcing the event accuses the network of an alleged pattern of incidents, which "many believe are a veiled attempt to prey on racism and intolerance and cast the Obamas as `outsiders,' " citing as evidence an onscreen graphic that referred to the candidate's wife as "Obama's baby mama," a pundit who "confused" Obama with terrorist al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden and then joked that both should be "assassinated," and the now-infamous comment by a Fox anchor who described the Obamas' fist bump as a "terrorist fist jab." It also cites an incident in February, when Nas nemesis Bill O'Reilly talked about calling a "lynching party" to deal with Michelle Obama.

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I think the 620,000 would have a lot more reason to criticize Fox if Fox used the sort of language that Nas uses in songs such as "Shoot 'Em Up", "Got Urself A Gun" etc.

See here for the Fox response to the petition.

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

First of all, what is a "Nas"? I assume from the post it must be something black, noisy, and being paid far more than it's worth. And if that's the case, why/how is it relevent?

Also, why is it always blacks who inject racism into every conversation and debate? Is it a case of the pot calling the kettle black?

Anonymous said...

Rap artists claiming others are racists, what a joke.

Anonymous said...

Here is a good question, why is there not a petition to get rid of MoveOn.org, there is a lot of anti-Semitic comments made on there as seen in this article that copied the chat: http://www.israpundit.com/2008/?p=1620#more-1620

Anonymous said...

Here's a better question. Why are jews, who are known for complaining about everything, so quiet when it comes to ultra-left, socialist, and Marxist organizations like move-on?

Anonymous said...

Because most American Jews (and many elsewhere) are themselves ultra-leftwing, and especially among American Jews there's a lot of anti-Semitism (mistakenly called anti-Zionism).
Like so many leftists they hate themselves with a vengeance.
And like so many leftists they don't have the guts to take that hatred to the logical conclusion and commit suicide.