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On the October 11 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, John Gibson responded to a Media Matters for America item documenting the comments he made on October 10 claiming that he "knew" that 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day had shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, was white because " he killed himself. Black shooters don t do that; they shoot and move on." Gibson responded: "Media Matters for America, a Soros-backed, Hillary Clinton-backed media hit-job website is after me today because of what I said last night, and they are calling me a racist for what I said about this deal at SuccessTech in Cleveland." After playing an audio clip of his comments, Gibson asserted that "Media Matters trashed me for saying these things, which I think were just obvious." In fact, the item documenting Gibson s comments did not characterize him or his comments as racist. Indeed, the word "racist" is used in the item only when quoting Gibson s own statements. Additionally, contrary to Gibson s assertion that Media Matters is "a Soros-backed, Hillary Clinton-backed" website, philanthropist George Soros has never given money to Media Matters, either directly or through another organization, as has been repeatedly and exhaustively demonstrated. Media Matters is an independent progressive organization and is not funded by or affiliated with any candidate or political party. Gibson routinely asserts that Media Matters is funded by Soros, most recently claiming on his October 1 radio show that Media Matters is "funded by George Soros, even though I get letters from them every day saying, No, we re not! No, we re not! " He continued: "Yes, you are. Yes, you are. Or were, certainly at the start." Later in the October 11 show, during a discussion with a caller, Gibson twice rephrased his October 10 statements. He first asserted that "when I say I knew this shooter yesterday wasn t black when he committed suicide because that s not what African-American gangster shooters do. They don t shoot somebody and then say, Oh, I m so unhappy. This is such a scar on my soul, I ve got to shoot myself in the head. " Gibson later said, " Course the guy in Cleveland was a white kid; he committed suicide. Gangster shooters don t do that. They re happy they got off the first shot. They re happy they killed the guy they were aiming at. They get in their car, and they move on down the road. Probably looking over their shoulders a little bit." Gibson also admitted that he "looked at the quotes, I said, Well, they [Media Matters] quoted me accurately " in the October 11 item. From the October 11 edition of Fox News Radio s The John Gibson Show: [audio clip]: Google it on Media Matters. GIBSON [audio clip]: Now, this was a terrible incident out in a school near Cleveland. It s called "SuccessTech." It s one of those alternative schools. Eighty-five percent African-American. Eighty-five percent. First thing you see when you see the pictures today is a whole bunch of black kids. GIBSON: And that was true. The whole deal there at SuccessTech was that, in this case, the shooter that came into that school and shot the teachers -- he was after the teachers, were terrorizing black kids. [audio clip]: [gasp] GIBSON: Am I not supposed to say that? Angry Rich, did I say something I m not supposed to say? ANGRY RICH: According to David Brock, no. GIBSON: Media Matters for America -- [audio clip]: Gorgeous. GIBSON: -- a Soros-backed, Hillary Clinton-backed media hit-job website -- [audio clip]: It s super fabulous. GIBSON: -- is after me today because of what I said last night, and they are calling me a racist for what I said about this deal at SuccessTech in Cleveland, where the white kid came in and shot a couple of teachers and a couple of students and killed himself. And, I think naturally, when you look at these kind of incidents, especially if you re a show like this one, which deals straight up, as an honest broker, with some of the most serious problems that are affecting and afflicting the black community in this country -- naturally, we would look at it and say, "Hey, gun in school. Eight-five percent black school. Has the hip-hop community made its way onto campus and finally, you know, finally brought the carnage of the streets into the schools?" Well, while our antenna may have been up for that, the facts soon intervened. And it turned out that the shooter was not black. ANGRY RICH: And we went on the air and made the premise of the entire hour the fact that we got it wrong. GIBSON: Well, and that there were certain observations to be made from these circumstances anyway. [audio clip of rap music] GIBSON: This is yesterday. [begin audio clip] GIBSON: You can t deny it. I mean, there s a gazillion of those things out there and the kids are listening on their iPods, and the kids listening on their iPods are not all black kids. Some white kids listen too. ANGRY RICH: This kid was a Marilyn Manson fan. GIBSON: He s a goth type. ANGRY RICH: Yes. GIBSON: So he wasn t picking up the hip-hop? RICH: I don t think so, John. GIBSON: Right, and I -- well -- [end audio clip] GIBSON: Right. Well? ANGRY RICH: See? Tongue in cheek. Being honest brokers. GIBSON: He was a Marylin Manson type. Anybody get hold of Marylin Manson? You know, why do you inspire so many kids to go shoot all their classmates? And that led to another observation on my part, and this, once again, is from yesterday and seems to have gotten me in trouble. [begin audio clip] GIBSON: Angry Rich, you know why I knew that this -- through our afternoon of mystery wondering about the kid that was the shooter, I knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting. ANGRY RICH: How s that John? GIBSON: He killed himself. Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn t need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he d shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper. [end audio clip] GIBSON: No hip-hopper. [audio clip]: [gasp] GIBSON: Now, can you -- what an unbelievable thing for Gibson to say. RICH: Now, people on these blogs are horrified that you re conflating people who commit violence in the inner city with quote-unquote "hip-hoppers." GIBSON: I don t know why. I mean, why would they not? I mean, where do they think these kids are getting these messages of, you know, loading an extra shot in their mack? [audio clip of rap music] Fully loaded clip. Lemme, lemme show you how I do this right here. GIBSON: Lemme show you how I do this. Now the rule goes 16. GIBSON: Rule goes. I gotta fully loaded clip. I put 16 in the clip. I put it in, I cock that. I put a number one in the clip, I put it back. I got, I got a fully loaded clip. GIBSON: I got a fully loaded clip. Why would you think African-American kids would be so enamored with messing around with guns? I mean, it s only in every third hip-hop song. Media Matters trashed me for saying these things, which I think were just obvious. [...] GIBSON: Look, the question on the table is, I m being accused of being a racist for making this observation about an issue we ve been talking about here for over a year, and that is the black-on-black boundaries of the African-American community. And when I say I knew this shooter yesterday wasn t black when he committed suicide because that s not what African-American gangster shooters do. They don t shoot somebody and then say, "Oh, I m so unhappy. This is such a scar on my soul, I ve got to shoot myself in the head." Am I right about that or wrong about that? CALLER: John, you re right. And -- GIBSON: Thank you. CALLER: -- I don t call you a racist. I mean, you got black -- we got black leaders saying the same identical thing you re saying. GIBSON: Thanks. It s embarrassing for some reason. I looked at the quotes, I said, "Well, they quoted me accurately. What exactly is it they re complaining about?" I don t get it. Course the guy in Cleveland was a white kid; he committed suicide. Gangster shooters don t do that. They re happy they got off the first shot. They re happy they killed the guy they were aiming at. They get in their car, and they move on down the road. Probably looking over their shoulders a little bit. Triple 8, 788-9910. It s Gibson on Fox. Trying to deal with important issues, and I got these people in the peanut gallery calling me a racist. It s unfair, isn t it?

On the October 10 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing 14-year-old Asa H. Coon, who earlier that day shot four people at his Cleveland high school before killing himself, Fox News host John Gibson asserted that "because the school is very heavily African-American, I did leap to a conclusion" that "the shooter might have been African-American." Gibson went on to say that he "knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting" once he learned Coon killed himself. Gibson continued: "Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn t need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he d shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper." Gibson later stated, "I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don t do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again." Gibson added: "I know there s a few of you who want to call me racist. But when you do, remind -- let me remind you, African-Americans are dying in major cities because people won t face this problem." After a commercial break, Gibson repeated his assertion: "All right, it turns out, though, the kid in Cleveland who did the shooting today -- three teachers, three students -- white." Gibson added: "And I could tell right away cause he killed himself. Black shooters don t do that; they shoot and move on." Later in the program, while speaking to a caller who identified himself as an African-American, Gibson said that "one of the other things that you also don t do -- you being the plural of the [black] community -- is you don t shoot somebody and then kill yourself." After the caller responded, "That is very true," Gibson said, "White people do that." The caller again responded, "That is very true." Gibson continued: "So when I heard the kid shot himself, I said, well, you know, ordinarily I would expect it to maybe be a rapper, thug, gangster on campus with his nine -- I shining my nine, you know how I do. But, you know, it turns out it was a kid who would shoot himself -- well, story over, not a black kid." The caller later asserted, "I just want to tell you that it s quite easy for someone to step up and be like a Jesse Jackson or an Al Sharpton, because it s easy to point out the 20 percent of our problem, which is the white man." Gibson then asked the caller, "Am I a part of your 20-percent white man problem?" The caller responded, "Oh yeah!" Gibson replied, "Oh man, you had to go racist on me?" He then thanked the caller and ended the segment by saying: "OK, I thought the kid was a black man, I ll admit it, until I heard he shot himself. Does that make me a racist?" Gibson has previously made numerous controversial statements on both his nationally syndicated radio show and on his Fox News Channel program, The Big Story. For example, as Media Matters for America has documented: During his September 21 radio broadcast, while discussing recent events surrounding the so-called Jena 6 with the show s executive producer, known on air as "Angry Rich," Gibson asserted that the demonstrators who gathered the previous week in Jena, Louisiana, only "wanna fight the white devil." Gibson aired news coverage of the Jena 6 protests and challenged protestors claims that the incidents in Jena are representative of ongoing racism in this country. He said: "[W]hat they re worried about is a mirage of 1950s-style American segregation, racism from the South. They wanna fight the white devil. ... [T]here s no -- can t go fight the black devil. Black devils stalking their streets every night gunning down their own people -- can t go fight that. That would be snitchin ." On the May 31 edition of The Big Story, Gibson said he was "mesmerized" by what he called "[t]he TB Man story" -- the news that American attorney Andrew Speaker traveled by airline while infected with what was reported to be antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis. Gibson stated: "It seems every time a story pops up about somebody who has suddenly contracted some strange or incurable disease, it s somebody who is either from the third world, or was traveling through some godforsaken hellhole, and somehow managed to contract ooga booga fever." During the June 1 edition of The Big Story, Gibson asserted that Media Matters was "going after him" in reporting his comments, and responded: "Well, the whitest man in America, who is the black man s best friend, is now being alleged to be a racist for having invented something called ooga booga fever." He also said, "I should have said Ouagadougou fever," a reference to the capital of the African nation Burkina Faso. On the May 11, 2006, edition of The Big Story, Gibson advised viewers during the "My Word" segment of his program to "[d]o your duty. Make more babies." He then cited a May 10 article, which reported that nearly half of all children under the age of five in the United States are minorities. Gibson added: "By far, the greatest number [of children under five] are Hispanic. You know what that means? Twenty-five years and the majority of the population is Hispanic." Gibson later claimed: "To put it bluntly, we need more babies." Then, referring to Russia s projected decline in population, Gibson claimed: "So far, we are doing our part here in America but Hispanics can t carry the whole load. The rest of you, get busy. Make babies, or put another way -- a slogan for our times: procreation not recreation ." From the October 10 edition of Fox News Radio s The John Gibson Show: GIBSON: Well, we have an inside look at the production of The John Gibson Show today because there was big news out in Cleveland, Ohio, and I teed it up saying, "What we have here is another example of hip-hop culture bringing murder and mayhem into the rest of our society." Now, this was a terrible incident out in a school near Cleveland. It s called "SuccessTech." It s one of those alternative schools. Eighty-five percent African-American. Eighty-five percent. First thing you see when you see the pictures today is a whole bunch of black kids. Three teachers -- did it turn out to be three teachers or two? ANGRY RICH: Three. GIBSON: And three students shot. Now, all of the teachers and students that were shot were -- survive. The wounds are not serious. Well, I guess there s one of the teachers is in surgery and so forth, but they re all expected to live. The shooter committed suicide. This is one of the students who was shot in the elbow and, you know, was not seriously hurt, although he was shot. [begin audio clip] REPORTER: This is Darnell Rodgers, age 18. He was shot today. Darnell, can you tell us what happened to you? RODGERS: I was walking from my locker to my teacher s classroom. Like, as I was walking to the classroom, I heard gunshots. And then, like, one of the gun shots, like, hit me, and, like, I was, like, shot, and I was like, "Oh my God, my God, I got shot," or whatever. But I would also like to send my prayers out to all the other victims and their families, and I m looking into starting a nonprofit organization to stop violence in schools and give more security in schools. REPORTER: Darnell, did you know the shooter? RODGERS: I might have, but I don t know for sure. I got to see him to see if I really knew him, but I probably didn t know him, though. [end audio clip] GIBSON: Now why would there be guns in schools? [audio clip -- 50 Cent s "Fully Loaded Clip"] GIBSON: Well, that s my working theory, but, you know -- and, of course, because the school is very heavily African-American, I did leap to a conclusion. ANGY RICH: What was that, John? GIBSON: Well, that the shooter might have been African-American. Turns out it s a white guy. [audio clip -- "Is Gibson wrong?"] GIBSON: Gibson s not wrong. Gibson is not wrong. No, in the -- in years past, in the many of these shooting incidents that I ve covered, you ve always looked at things like video games, Grand Theft Auto, and desensitizing kids to shooting people and stuff like that, and all I can say is, "Hey, times change. We move on." All of a sudden, you know, the gun violence in the culture is coming at the kids from a different direction. [audio clip -- 50 Cent s "Touch The Sky"] GIBSON: Well, you know, you can t deny it. I mean, there s a gazillion of those things out there and the kids are listening on their iPods, and the kids listening on their iPods are not all black kids. Some white kids listen too. ANGRY RICH: This kid was a Marilyn Manson fan. GIBSON: He s a goth type. ANGRY RICH: Yes. GIBSON: So he wasn t picking up the hip-hop? RICH: I don t think so, John. [...] GIBSON: Angry Rich, you know why I knew that this -- through our afternoon of mystery wondering about the kid that was the shooter, I knew this was not a classic hip-hop shooting. ANGRY RICH: How s that John? GIBSON: He killed himself. Hip-hoppers do not kill themselves. They walk away. Now, I didn t need to hear the kid was white with blond hair. Once he d shot himself in the head, no hip-hopper. ANGRY RICH: So it s not a classic hip-hop -- GIBSON: It s not even close. I mean it s whatever he is, and it s clear to me that this gun culture right now primarily promoted by hip-hop music -- [rap clip] GIBSON: "I bought a brand new gun today. I m gonna shoot you in the face." This culture has even reached the school campus. We re not in the Kip Kinkel era of school shootings anymore; it has changed. Yes, I know the shooter was white. I knew it as soon as he shot himself. Hip-hoppers don t do that. They shoot and move on to shoot again. Triple-8, 788-9910. I know there s a few of you who want to call me racist. But when you do, remind -- let me remind you, African-Americans are dying in major cities because people won t face this problem. Gibson on Fox. [...] GIBSON: Well, you look at cities around the country, and many of them are suffering an enormous murder rate of African-Americans by African-Americans, and when you wonder why, sometimes it occurs: Could it be the music? [rap clip] GIBSON: All right, it turns out, though, the kid in Cleveland who did the shooting today -- three teachers, three students -- white. ANGRY RICH: Oops. GIBSON: And I could tell right away cause he killed himself. Black shooters don t do that; they shoot and move on. My next guest is [comedian] Patrice Oneal. [...] CALLER: Listen here, first of all, you sure the other caller was not [Rep.] Charlie Rangel [D-NY]? He sounded just like Charlie Rangel. GIBSON: I wish it was, but it wasn t. CALLER: All right John, listen, I m going to give you the black/white crime Litmus test. GIBSON: All right, go ahead. CALLER: All right, white crime: Mom grounded me, I didn t get my Mercedes, so I m going to wipe out the whole school. Black crime: You stepped on my shoe, you said something about my mama, I m gonna shoot you. GIBSON: Or, "I got a new gun today, I m gonna shoot you in the face." [rap clip] GIBSON: See? CALLER: You know, cause there s just some crimes we don t do, like serial killing, white guy, you know, rob -- stole someone s hat -- GIBSON: Oh, I ll tell you something - do I take it that you re a African-American gentleman? CALLER: Yes. GIBSON: All right, one of the things you also don t do, you being the plural of the community, is you don t shoot somebody and then kill yourself. CALLER: That is very true. GIBSON: White people do that. CALLER: That is very true. GIBSON: So when I heard the kid shot himself, I said, well, you know, ordinarily I would expect it to maybe be a rapper, thug, gangster on campus with his nine - "I shining my nine, you know how I do." But it turns out it was a kid who would shoot himself, well story over, not a black kid. CALLER: Yeah, but I don t think, you know, blacks ain t killing each other in school like that -- GIBSON: No, they re killing each other in the street. They generally do not open fire in school. What s going on is in the street. Now you re in Atlanta. How s your murder rate running there? CALLER: It s pretty high. I m originally from the Bronx, though. But it s pretty high here. GIBSON: Well, I mean, don t you find that shocking, [caller] seriously, when you look at towns like Atlanta, New Orleans, Jacksonville, Philly; I ve been talking about the worst cases. And you see these -- I mean, Philadelphia s got a raw number of murders that s almost exactly the same as New York, and Philadelphia is a third the size, or a fifth the size? CALLER: Now listen, I agree with you and I just want to tell you that it s quite easy, you know, for someone to step up and, you know, to be like a Jesse Jackson or a Al Sharpton, because it s easy to point out, you know, probably the 20 percent of our problem, which is the white man. But the 80 percent, which is each other in our own situation, that s a much harder fight. So -- GIBSON: Well let me just ask you something, [caller]. Am I a part of your 20-percent white man problem? CALLER: Oh yeah! I mean, come on, you -- GIBSON: Oh man! Oh man, you had to go racist on me? I thought that was [earlier caller] s gig today! All right, [caller], thanks a lot. OK, I thought the kid was a black kid, I ll admit it, until I heard he shot himself. Does that make me a racist?

During the September 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated Fox News Radio show, while discussing recent events surrounding the so-called Jena Six with the show s executive producer, known on air as "Angry Rich," John Gibson asserted that the demonstrators who gathered last week in Jena, Louisiana, only "wanna fight the white devil." Gibson aired news coverage of the Jena 6 protests and challenged protestors claims that the incidents in Jena are representative of ongoing racism in this country. He said: "[W]hat they re worried about is a mirage of 1950s-style American segregation, racism from the South. They wanna fight the white devil. ... [T]here s no -- can t go fight the black devil. Black devils stalking their streets every night gunning down their own people -- can t go fight that. That would be snitchin ." From the September 21 edition of Fox News Radio s The John Gibson Show, which included an audio clip of a news report of the Jena 6 demonstrations by Tim Tooten, an education reporter at Baltimore station WBAL-TV: GIBSON: But I have been trying to point out the last couple of days that people have been loaded on buses to go to Jena to protest the racial injustice there -- you know -- and be told that slavery still exists and that segregation still exists across the country; that there are -- being told there are schools where principals allow white students to segregate themselves from black and won t let the black students sit under their tree. Tell -- they tell them that. I bet they can t find one other example of it. But they re being loaded on buses from cities where black people are being killed every day, at an astonishing rate, by black people, and no one s saying a word. [begin video clip] TOOTEN: Protestors wore black to symbolize their support for six high school students they say were targets of racism. And some in the crowd hope the outcry over Jena Six is a starting point for a new generation to help raise the banner for justice. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Young people are picking up. We re getting sensitive; we re moving on. It s a wonderful time. CROWD: What do we want? Justice! When do we want it? Now! What do we want? Justice! TOOTEN: There was a similar protest across town at Morgan State University. CROWD: (singing) Free the Jena Six. GIBSON: What is it -- Jeena or Jena? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It s not an isolated incident. Things like this happen all over the United States -- GIBSON: Where?! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- whether they go reported or unreported -- GIBSON: Where?! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: -- or publicized or not. GIBSON: Where do they go? UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So, it s our job to make everyone accountable for what s going on. GIBSON: Where?! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE #2: Racism is not confined just in Louisiana, and we have to confront it everywhere, but racists feel -- GIBSON: Where?! UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE #2: -- ashamed at being racist. That s not acceptable here. GIBSON: Where?! Where is this going on? I ll tell you where it s going -- TOOTEN: As Morgan students hold their protest -- GIBSON: Why didn t that rep -- TOOTEN: -- they also pledged to help Jena 6 families pay their legal bills. [end audio clip] GIBSON: Why didn t that reporter challenge that? Why did he just let them say that? ANGRY RICH: Political correctness. GIBSON: He s from Baltimore. What s the murder number in Baltimore right now? Just up the road. ANGRY RICH: It s hard to tell, because there are two or three more every night. I think it s hovering around 160. GIBSON: And they re all young black men -- right? ANGRY RICH: For the most part. GIBSON: Who are being killed by young black men. ANRGY RICH: That s right. GIBSON: So, this is -- what they re worried about is a mirage of 1950s-style American segregation, racism from the South. They wanna fight the white devil. I -- you know, there s no -- you can t go fight the black devil. Black devils stalking their streets every night gunning down their own people -- can t go fight that. That would be snitchin . ANGRY RICH: New benchmark in Philly last night. GIBSON: Philly hit 300.

On the August 10 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication s The Neal Boortz Show, producer Belinda Skelton told host Neal Boortz about a bilingual Parent-Teacher Association meeting she had attended, remarking that she had been unable to tell how many of the families in attendance spoke English. Boortz responded: "[Y]ou can look at the parents and tell, because the ones with sombreros can t speak English. ... The ones with the bandoliers full of bullets across their chest." As Media Matters for America has noted, Boortz regularly ridicules Latinos on his show. For example, on June 11, while discussing illegal immigration, a caller asked, "Why can t we just load them on planes and keep on loading them until they re back?" Boortz responded, "We re not gonna throw these people out of airplanes with taco-shaped parachutes." On June 18, Boortz commented, "I don t care if Mexicans pile up against that fence like tumbleweeds in the Santa Ana winds in Southern California. Let em. You know, then just run a couple of taco trucks up and down the line, and somebody s gonna be a millionaire out of that." During the show s June 21 broadcast, Boortz offered a suggestion he said he got from a listener s email: "When we defeat this illegal alien amnesty bill, and when we yank out the welcome mat, and they all start going back to Mexico, as a going away gift let s all give them a box of nuclear waste." Boortz continued: "Give em all a little nuclear waste and let em take it on down there to Mexico. Tell em it can -- it ll heat tortillas." The Georgia Association of Broadcasters awarded Boortz and his radio show the honors of "Best Radio On-Air Personality" and "Best Radio Program, Any Type" in 2007. Boortz is a nominee for the Georgia Radio Hall of Fame 2007 Career Achievement Award. Boortz s flagship station is WSB in Atlanta. From the August 10 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication s The Neal Boortz Show: ROYAL MARSHALL (engineer and "sidekick"): Well, the question is this, Belinda: How many children did they have there that could not speak English? SKELTON: See, I don t know because I didn t talk to the children. It may be more for the parents -- BOORTZ: Why don t you ask? SKELTON: -- not the children, because I m sure the children -- BOORTZ: Oh, oh yeah. Oh yeah. MARSHALL: I mean, you can look at the parents and tell the ones that are -- SKELTON: Well, you know we had a few -- MARSHALL: How many of em? SKELTON: -- Hispanic families. BOORTZ: The ones with sombreros. SKELTON: What d you say? BOORTZ: I said you can look at the parents and tell, because the ones with sombreros can t speak English. SKELTON: Oh Lord, have mercy. BOORTZ: The ones with the bandoliers full of bullets across their chest. SKELTON: I just hope the people at this school do not listen to your show. BOORTZ: I m -- Belinda! MARSHALL: It s in English! BOORTZ: It s in English! Oh, this is terrible. Belinda, I feel so bad for your kid.

Download Standard Podcast Words are hard to kill. That being said, I applaud the NAACP this week for bringing up into our collective consciousness the N-Word by staging a mock funeral burying the word as a symbol of racism and social injustice. Something tells me that word isn t dead yet, so watch out for the zombie N-word stumbling around in your neighborhood. Shoot it in the brain if you have to. At the funeral Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick said: Today we re not just burying the N-word, we re taking it out of our spirit. We gather burying all the things that go with the N-word. We have to bury the pimps and hos that go with it. The NAACP is a national treasure and an organization that has defined the paradigm of what a civil rights organization is and can achieve. We owe so much to them and the people who started the organization for helping to make us a better society. But the misguided attempt to metaphorically kill a slur word might drive a wedge between the generation gap. I know Richard Pryor is turning in his grave (even though he also renounced the use of the word later on in life.) Don t tell me you think of Northwestern Air Lines anytime you see the letters NWA. Some words are deeply tied into the consciousness of a society and are hard to get rid of. It s hard to kill an idea. Words for me carry a great deal of power and meaning, and racial slur words are some of the most powerful around. So like a ninja, in order to defeat your enemy you need to acknowledge it s power before you can stab it in the heart with your sword. I m grateful that the NAACP made such a gutsy action and hope that this inspires everyone who hears of the news to start a conversation about race, culture and language. On today s show Miss Ronnie (pictured here to the right with her new Star Trek phaser) joins Marc and me, Fausto Fernós to talk about race and language, Ronnie s recent trip to San Francisco and Mister Rogers being a new target for conservative pundits. THE Mister Rogers? You heard it right. Several ultraconservative personalities are trying to discredit the legacy of Presbyterian minister Fred Rogers television programs, better known as Mister Rogers Neighborhood. They are trying to say that his message is directly responsible for what they perceive as an outbreak of self-entitlement. Why are they doing this? Because the way the economy is going, babies no longer have candy you can steal from. What these arrogant folks really want you to believe is that people, starting with children, have no intrinsic value except what they can provide their employer or the top 1% of the world s financial elite. How dare we feel a sense of entitlement to civil rights? To universal health care? To decent schools? Read the Wall Street Journal Article here. See the FOX news video montage here. The only people I see wreaking havoc on the world around them due to their overinflated sense of self-entitlement live in the White House at the moment. Next thing you know they ll be blaming Mister Rogers for the events surrounding Sept. 11 or global warming. The podcast that is special just like you- Feast of Fools. Featured Music: Gaye Adegbalola - Bitter Sweet Blues: iTunes | Amazon RSS FEED | SUBSCRIBE VIA iTUNES SUBSCRIBE VIA: YAHOO | GOOGLE | PODZINGER CONTACT US DIRECTLY

On the June 19 broadcast of Rush Limbaugh s nationally syndicated radio show, while discussing a recent custody battle stemming from a same-sex civil union in Vermont, guest host Mark Belling asked, "Can a baby have two mothers? It s a new concept for us. And I m not sure it s an especially healthy one. First of all, it demeans the entire notion of fatherhood, implying that a father is an absolute irrelevancy, a concept that has destroyed many black families, the idea that we simply don t need have to have any male role model in the life whatsoever." Belling added that "the desire to have these kids is almost entirely premised on, I want to have a baby. We want to have a baby. Not, Are we in the best situation to be able to raise a child? And I think it comes down to just pure selfishness. And that s what it s all about." In August 2006, the Vermont Supreme Court ruled that two women in a same-sex civil union, Lisa Miller and Janet Jenkins, were both legal parents of the child Miller had given birth to in 2002. On June 15, a Vermont family court judge dissolved their civil union, granting custody of the child to Miller and visitation rights to Jenkins. Belling suggested that the family court ruling would lead to recognition of parental rights "in a three-way relationship." He said, "[T]he larger point is, whether or not society needs to facilitate people s desires to raise children any way they feel like raising them. If we re going to sanction the parental rights of both people in a gay relationship, do we have to sanction the parental rights of a three-way relationship? Let s imagine that a woman and a man have a baby. And the woman later decides to hook up with a female partner. Do they all get rights?" He added, "[A]re we going to base every single decision on the basis of what these parents who are choosing alternative lifestyles want or are we going to start to think about what s in the best interest of the child?" From the June 19 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks The Rush Limbaugh Show: BELLING: And what happens when the relationship ends is you have a fight literally between two mothers. Can a baby have two mothers? It s a new concept for us. And I m not sure it s an especially healthy one. First of all, it demeans the entire notion of fatherhood, implying that a father is an absolute irrelevancy, a concept that has destroyed many black families, the idea that we simply don t need to have any male role model in the life whatsoever. But more to the point, knowing the potential of what can happen when the relationship ends, and watching this particular case, I mean, there is a child here. There is a child who is going to have to decide which mother is her mother, or are they both their mothers? And the desire to have these kids is almost entirely premised on, "I want to have a baby. We want to have a baby." Not, "Are we in the best situation to be able to raise a child?" And I think it comes down to just pure selfishness. And that s what it s all about. As for the decision to award visitation rights to the woman who didn t give birth, let s imagine the situation did not involve a couple of gays. A guy and a woman, unmarried, the woman is artificially inseminated and has a baby. It s not the biological child of her boyfriend. When they break up, does the boyfriend expect to have any kind of visitation rights? Well, what s the difference? Now, those who support gay marriage would argue that s exactly the point: It does not allow us to engage in relationships in which we can jointly be able to raise a child and have equal parental rights. Straight people have the ability to get married. If the guy wants to be able to be involved in the child s life when they split up, well, then he should have married her in the first place. Gays don t have the right to do that, so their argument goes. But the larger point is, whether or not society needs to facilitate people s desires to raise children any way they feel like raising them. If we re going to sanction the parental rights of both people in a gay relationship, do we have to sanction the parental rights of a three-way relationship? Let s imagine that a woman and a man have a baby. And the woman later decides to hook up with a female partner. Do they all get rights? And are we going to base every single decision on the basis of what these parents who are choosing alternative lifestyles want or are we going to start to think about what s in the best interest of the child?

On the June 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh criticized as "pure sexism" recent statements by Dan Rather regarding the CBS Evening News, in which Rather said that CBS was "try[ing] to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience." After airing this portion of Rather s response, Limbaugh said, "Now, when I saw this last night -- I was talking about this -- I said this is -- that s sexism. Dan Blather [sic], this is pure sexism -- dumb it down and tart it up." However, in the past, Limbaugh himself has complained about the number of women working in journalism and their adverse effect on the news media. During a June 11 interview on MSNBC s Morning Joe, host Joe Scarborough asked Rather about CBS purported decision to "soften the news," to which Rather responded: "I want to make very clear that I have nothing against [Evening News anchor] Katie Couric at all. She s a very nice person, and I have a lot of friends at CBS News. However, it was clear at the time -- and I think it s become even clearer -- that the mistake was to try to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience." On his May 8 broadcast, Limbaugh discussed "the fact that newsrooms -- local and national newsrooms in television -- have been overrun with women" and lamented this so-called " chickification of the news": LIMBAUGH: [T]here s no denying that women have become more prevalent in editor-producer positions. And it -- we ve call it the "chickification" of the news here. And one of the things that results from the chickification of the news is we have to have dialogue. We just have to have dialogue. We re going to have -- we re going to have dialogue. To hell with whether anything being discussed is properly built, is true, or any of this. And it s all about feeling good about ourselves. By the way, one -- and yes, we have to have closure after the dialogue. We must have closure. During the same broadcast, Limbaugh went on to complain about the "feminization of America," describing men as having "linguini spines" and women as "pretty much taking over." Limbaugh then returned to women s effect on the news media: LIMBAUGH: The chickification of the news is nothing more than you admit to me that men and women are different. Women look at things different. They have different interests, and they now have more positions of prominence in the news business than they used to have. On the June 4 broadcast of his radio show, Limbaugh mocked an article by Associated Press staff writer David Bauder that addressed Couric s tenure as Evening News anchor. In the article, Bauder reported that Linda Mason, the standards chief for CBS news division, had "speculated" that Couric s ratings have languished because "a tradition-bound audience was reluctant to get the day s news from a woman." Referring to the article, Limbaugh said: LIMBAUGH: Do you know why Katie s ratings are the lowest that CBS has ever had in the evening? Do you know why? No, no. Nothing to do with her. It s not that she s not good at it. Well, it s something to do with her, but it s something she can t control. It s sexism, folks. It s pure bigotry. You people in the audience just will not watch a woman do the news. You just won t do it. It s your fault! That s the -- I mean, I could read the whole story to you here, but that pretty much sums it up. You people are a bunch of bigots. You d rather watch a bunch of doddering old men, saliva dripping down the corners of their mouths than you would watch a babe or a woman do the news. And, of course, what s absurd about this is that the chickification of the news in this country from local to national newsrooms and networks has been accomplished. They re all over the place. They re producing. They re reporting. They re anchoring. We ve got anchorettes. We ve got info babes. They re all over cable news. In fact, most of them are blonde. Where does this supply come from? There s an endless supply of them out there. One blonde goes, another blonde comes in. They re all over the place out there, and it hasn t hurt the cable network people at all in terms of the news. From the June 11 edition of MSNBC s Morning Joe: SCARBOROUGH: You know, Dan, the thing that Chris Licht [executive producer of MSNBC s Scarborough Country] was talking about -- maybe you read in the Times, or I don t know where you read it -- but there was, seemed to me, this terrible miscalculation by Rome Hartman and a couple of CBS News execs that they were going to soften up the news, and that way they could expand their viewership. Yeah, I would think that if I m sitting down at 6:30 to get the news, to see what s happened in the day, I don t want fluff stories. Do you think that s one of the problems that Katie Couric s had coming in -- that maybe they tried to re-brand the Evening News in a way that Americans just didn t want to accept? RATHER: Well, I totally agree with you, Joe. That -- I want to make very clear that I have nothing against Katie Couric at all. She s a very nice person, and I have a lot of friends at CBS News. However, it was clear at the time -- and I think it s become even clearer -- that the mistake was to try to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up in hopes of attracting a younger audience. And I just don t think people at 6:30 or 7 o clock at night, or even 5:30 in the Central Time Zone or 6 o clock when it s seen, that that s what they want. This is the continuation of a trend that we ve talked about before, Joe and Mika [Brzezinski] and John [Ridley], and that is the combination of what I call the corporatizing of the news, has led to the trivializing the news. From the May 8 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: And finally, before we go to break, from the BBC -- well, actually this is Daily Mail in the U.K. The BBC has been ruined by women producing terrible programs, according to Sir Patrick Moore. He s an astronomer. He s 84. He said the corporation needed to revert to the golden days when the news was presented by men with impeccable English. We ve talked about on this program before the subject of the fact that newsrooms -- local and national newsrooms in television -- have been overrun with women. And here s what he says. "He was asked if television had got better or worse. He says, Much worse. The trouble is the BBC is now run by women, and it shows -- soap operas, cooking, quizzes, kitchen-sink plays. You wouldn t have had that in the golden days. Asked about female newsreaders, he said, There was one day in 2005 when BBC News went on strike. Then we had the headlines read by a man talking the Queen s English, reading the news impeccably. Oh, for the good old days. " That s a generational thing going on here, obviously, the man is 84 years old. And, you know, everybody that age looks back and thinks that the golden age was the era in which they lived. He may have a point here, but there s no denying that women have become more prevalent in editor-producer positions. And it -- we ve call it the "chickification" of the news here. And one of the things that results from the chickification of the news is we have to have dialogue. We just have to have dialogue. We re going to have -- we re going to have dialogue. To hell with whether anything being discussed is properly built, is true, or any of this. And it s all about feeling good about ourselves. By the way, one -- and yes, we have to have closure after the dialogue. We must have closure. [...] LIMBAUGH: OK. What do I mean by the feminization of America? CALLER: Right. LIMBAUGH: What I mean by the feminization of America is that feminist doctrine of the modern era, which has its roots in the late 60s and early 70s, has cowed men. Men now have linguini spines, and women and the way they think and do things, pretty much taking over, or is making inroads in a lot places, particularly in education, all the way up to higher education. CALLER: OK. Well, and it -- LIMBAUGH: Lookit. There -- would you agree with me that men and women are different? CALLER: Absolutely. LIMBAUGH: All right. Well, that s all -- women are what they are and who they are, and men used to be who they are --or were. But, you know, men [sigh] -- trapped. I mean, men -- they ll do anything to get where they want to go. The promised land, if you know what I mean. So, there s been this -- there has [chuckling] -- CALLER: [laughing] LIMBAUGH: There s just been a general decline of masculine culture, masculinity, and when it shows up, it s lampooned and made fun of, and it s called brute force and so forth. The chickification of the news is nothing more than you admit to me that men and women are different. Women look at things different. They have different interests, and they now have more positions of prominence in the news business than they used to have. CALLER: So, I guess what I m trying to say, though, is that like -- to de -- emasculate a man isn t the same as feminizing him. Like, I don t think that the lack of masculinity is femininity. So, it s -- to me, like, when you re saying that, you re kind of saying, like -- to be a woman is to be linguini-spined. LIMBAUGH: To be a woman is to be -- what? CALLER: Linguini-spined. When you say that feminization -- LIMBAUGH: No! No, no, no, no. Men are linguini-spined when they become like women, but women are not linguini -- this -- you re opening a big can of worms here, because I actually think that in many cases, women have stronger constitutions than men, and this proves it. CALLER: [laughing] What proves it? Me? LIMBAUGH: No, no, no. Not you. The fact that men are capitulating all over the place. From the June 12 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: You ve got to hear these next two sound bites, folks. They are of Dan Blather [sic], formerly of the CBS Evening News. Yesterday, he was on MSNBC with Joe Scarborough, who was working in the morning. And Scarborough said there was this terrible miscalculation by Rome Hartman -- a producer over at CBS Evening News. And a couple CBS news execs said they were going to soften up the news, and that way they could expand their viewership, get more women in there. Do you think that s one of the problems Katie Couric s had coming in, that maybe they tried to re-brand the evening news in a way that Americans just don t want to accept? [begin audio clip] RATHER: Well, I totally agree with you, Joe. That -- I want to make very clear that I have nothing against Katie Couric at all. She s a very nice person, and I have a lot of friends at CBS News. However, it was clear at the time -- and I think it s become even clearer -- that the mistake was to try to bring the Today show ethos to the Evening News and to dumb it down, tart it up, in hopes of attracting a younger audience. [end audio clip] LIMBAUGH: Yeah, this is a clever technique, folks. I myself have used this technique. I love Katie Couric! Oh, I love CBS -- I ve got friends at CBS News. A lot of respect for what goes on over there. And then you slam them. Tarting up the news. Dumbing it down and tarting up the news. The Today show ethos. Now, when I saw this last night -- I was talking about this -- I said this is -- that s sexism. Dan Blather [sic], this is pure sexism -- dumb it down and tart it up. So we went back today. Here s a montage of Dan Rather on the air on election night November 2000. This is a montage of Dan Rather s coverage. And let s listen to dumbing it down and tarting it up. From the June 4 broadcast of The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: All right, perhaps the funniest news story out there today comes from our old buddy David Bauder at the Associated Press. And it explores the reasons why Katie Couric s ratings are in the toilet. By the way, still no response from CBS News to my magnanimous offer to sit for an interview on the CBS Evening News with Katie Couric to jump-start those ratings. Still no response. Offer stands. Don t expect to hear back from them. Do you know why Katie s ratings are the lowest that CBS has ever had in the evening? Do you know why? No, no. Nothing to do with her. It s not that she s not good at it. Well, it s something to do with her, but it s something she can t control. It s sexism, folks. It s pure bigotry. You people in the audience just will not watch a woman do the news. You just won t do it. It s your fault! That s the -- I mean, I could read the whole story to you here, but that pretty much sums it up. You people are a bunch of bigots. You d rather watch a bunch of doddering old men, saliva dripping down the corners of their mouths than you would watch a babe or a woman do the news. And, of course, what s absurd about this is that the chickification of the news in this country from local to national newsrooms and networks has been accomplished. They re all over the place. They re producing. They re reporting. They re anchoring. We ve got anchorettes. We ve got info babes. They re all over cable news. In fact, most of them are blonde. Where does this supply come from? There s an endless supply of them out there. One blonde goes, another blonde comes in. They re all over the place out there, and it hasn t hurt the cable network people at all in terms of the news.

On the April 18 edition of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh suggested that the attendance of Democratic presidential candidates at Rev. Al Sharpton s National Action Network convention is "similar" to Republican presidential candidates attending a hypothetical convention of "The Rev. David Duke s -- whatever, whatever organization." Limbaugh stated, "[E]verything you need to know for 2008 is encapsulated in this little blurb from ABC News The Note: The Rev. Al Sharpton s National Action Network begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel. Every 2008 Democrat presidential candidate expected to address the convention over the next four days. " Limbaugh then asked, "Can I give you a similar headline that would cause havoc? The Rev. David Duke s -- whatever, whatever organization -- begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel, and every 2008 Republican presidential candidate expected to address ... " According to his "official website," David Duke is a former national director of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. He left the group in 1978 and founded the National Association for the Advancement of White People. Duke is the president and founder of European American Unity and Rights Organization, formerly known as the National Organization for European American Rights. Duke s website identifies him as "David Duke, Ph.D.," but his online biography lists an "honorary doctorate in political science from President s University of Kiev, Ukraine" as his only postgraduate degree. From the April 18 edition of Premiere Radio Networks The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: That would be the golden EIB microphone. Great to have you, Rush Limbaugh, the Excellence in Broadcasting Network. More details of this coming up in a moment, but everything you need to know for 2008 is encapsulated in this little blurb from ABC News The Note: "The Rev. Al Sharpton s National Action Network begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel. Every 2008 Democrat presidential candidate expected to address the convention over the next four days." Can I give you a similar headline that would cause havoc? "The Rev. David Duke s -- whatever, whatever organization -- begins its annual convention at the Sheraton New York Hotel, and every 2008 Republican presidential candidate expected to address --"

On the April 16 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Neal Boortz responded to a statement released by Media Matters for America President and CEO David Brock identifying Boortz as one of many sources of bigotry in the media by asking, "[T]hat George Soros-funded group Media Matters, who are they going to focus on next?" In fact, Media Matters has not received funding from progressive philanthropist George Soros. Later in the broadcast, Boortz proclaimed that he would not allow Rev. Al Sharpton to be a guest on his show. Boortz declared, "[T]his is a man who refers to Greeks as homos. This is a man that talks about white interlopers. This is a man that refers to Jews as diamond merchants. I m going to put him on my show?" He added, "[M]y show doesn t engage in that kind of name-calling." However, on the March 31, 2006, broadcast of his radio show, Boortz said that former Rep. Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) "looks like a ghetto slut," for which he later apologized. While discussing steps he was taking because his "back was really hurting," Boortz stated, "Belinda [Skelton, producer] walked on my back. We looked around the station for a little Asian girl; couldn t find one. So I had to settle for Belinda. That really felt good by the way." Skelton responded, "OK. Love you long time." Boortz replied, "Happy ending. That really felt good." Skelton was repeating a line spoken by a Vietnamese prostitute portrayed in the 1987 film Full Metal Jacket. Referring to syndicated television host Oprah Winfrey s April 16 broadcast of her program from Spelman College to discuss the aftermath of syndicated radio host Don Imus firing for calling the Rutgers University women s basketball team "nappy-headed hos," Boortz speculated, "Will we finally end the denigration of black women through rap music? Personally, I think its jealousy. ... I mean, on the part of the rappers, because, you know, I mean, look at black women, black men. Who are the higher educated, who has -- you know, is there a higher percentage of black women in college or black men? Black women. Moving up the corporate ladder -- black women, black men? Black women." Discussing Winfrey s show, Boortz referred to Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson as "race warlords," stating, "Neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton will be a guest on her program today. They are not going to be a part of the show. ... And you know, ladies and gentlemen, you know they asked to be on the show. And Oprah told them, no . So, glad Oprah had the sense to keep those race warlords away from her town hall meeting this afternoon." In fact, Sharpton was a guest on Winfrey s April 16 show, as the Chicago Sun-Times reported. From the April 16 broadcast of Cox Radio Syndication s The Neal Boortz Show, with producer Belinda Skelton and Royal Marshall, engineer and "sidekick": BOORTZ: I am watching anxiously to see who the media is going to concentrate on next. You know Al "the liar" Sharpton, Jesse "the sloganmaster" Jackson, and then that George Soros-funded group Media Matters, who are they going to focus on next? [...] BOORTZ: My back was really hurting after that golf on Saturday, Royal. I just -- I wasn t in shape to swing that club. I didn t do any stretching exercises or anything. So this morning I took three Advil, OK, and then as soon as I got to the station, Belinda the drug pusher, what did I take Belinda? SKELTON: Two Fioricets. BOORTZ: Fioricets. SKELTON: You re a happy camper, aren t you? BOORTZ: I got three Advil and two Fioricets in me. SKELTON: And I walked on your back. BOORTZ: And Belinda walked on my back. We looked around the station for a little Asian girl; couldn t find one. So I had to settle for Belinda. That really felt good by the way. SKELTON: OK. Love you long time. BOORTZ: Happy ending. That really felt good. [...] BOORTZ: I have congratulations for Oprah Winfrey today. Her show this afternoon is - it s going to take place from here, at Spelman College. Did you know that? Oprah Winfrey is bringing her show to Spelman College. And it s going to be a town hall meeting, and it s going to be on the Imus thing. The purpose is to discuss whether mainstream culture is going to change as a result of the Imus episode, including hip-hop, rap, this, that, and the other thing. Will we finally end the denigration of black women through rap music? Personally, I think it s jealousy. But anyway -- I mean on the part of the rappers, because, you know, I mean, look at black women, black men. Who are the higher educated, who has -- you know, is there a higher percentage of black women in college or black men? Black women. Moving up the corporate ladder -- black women, black men? Black women. MARSHALL: So the rappers are jealous of -- BOORTZ: That s exactly right, so they call them hos and bitches. MARSHALL: Uh yeah. BOORTZ: That s it. MARSHALL: Oh yeah that s it. BOORTZ: I put a lot of thought into this, Royal. MARSHALL: I can tell. You must have volumes of research. BOORTZ: I do. In fact, I ve been asked to testify before Congress on this. But Oprah, this is why I m really proud of her. Neither Jesse Jackson nor Al Sharpton will be a guest on her program today. They are not going to be a part of the show. Jason Whitlock, the Kansas City sports columnist that wrote that column I read to you last week, he will be a part of the show. Al Sharpton, no. Jesse Jackson, no. And you know, ladies and gentlemen, you know that they asked to be on the show. And Oprah told them, "no." So, glad Oprah had the sense to keep those race warlords away from her town hall meeting this afternoon. So, kudos to Oprah, I hope kudos is, is it OK, kudos? I ve never really looked up the meaning of that word. I could get nailed on that. Kudos to Oprah for her program this afternoon. [...] BOORTZ: But this is a man who refers to Greeks as "homos." This is a man that talks about white interlopers. This is a man that refers to Jews as "diamond merchants." I m going to put him on my show? CALLER: Well, that s a valid point. BOORTZ: Yeah. I mean, my show doesn t engage in that kind of name-calling.

On the April 12 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Rush Limbaugh criticized Rev. Al Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson for refusing to apologize to three former members of the Duke University men s lacrosse team who were accused of rape in March 2006 -- all charges were dropped on April 11 -- and asserted that "minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize." Presumably referring to the decision by CBS Radio and MSNBC to stop airing Imus in the Morning following controversial comments by host Don Imus, Limbaugh stated: "Everybody s demanding that everybody apologize in this country for simply breathing. It s getting to the point some people are not allowed to breathe or exhale, or make syllables." Limbaugh went on to complain about the protests Sharpton and Jackson led condemning Imus remarks, saying: "They re members of the minority. Don t ever forget that this is the case. Minorities, victims, members of groups, are allowed to do anything to address their grievances and to get noticed, because ... they re so oppressed." Limbaugh later read from a January 24, 2001, WorldNetDaily.com article to suggest that, when Jackson admitted to an extramarital affair in 2001 that resulted in the birth of a daughter, he "escaped from the same moral judgment that [he] mete[s] out against everyone else." Limbaugh quoted from comments by Rev. Jesse Peterson, which were featured in the WorldNetDaily article: "The black community will accept and defend Jackson s sexual escapade as they did with Bill Clinton. And this is the reason black Americans are suffering today -- not due to racism, but rather because of the lack of character." As Media Matters for America has noted, Peterson, the founder and chairman of Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny, has made a career out of attacking Jackson. From the April 12 broadcast of Premiere Radio Networks The Rush Limbaugh Show: LIMBAUGH: Oh, my golly gosh! Listen to that! As though these women are members of a slave troop -- they are in bondage and they are dragged out before the poles at the "Bada Bing." They re dragged out at all these strip clubs and they are forced to dance nekkid -- and it s the first step toward domestic violence. Dirty little secret here is that some of these women dancing nekkid -- and I m not talking about this babe. Ah, might be -- a lot of them are single mothers. They re divorced, and they can earn 100 grand a year at a good club doing this sort of stuff. And they re protected. But this is the hypocrisy: The Reverend Jackson will climb all over everybody who violates his boundaries and his rules -- but he has no boundaries. He has no rules. He never has to apologize. Like I told you, minorities never do anything for which they have to apologize. [...] LIMBAUGH: Andrea Peyser today in the New York Post: Will The New York Times apologize? Will the Raleigh News s demanding that everybody apologize in this country for simply breathing. It s getting to the point some people are not allowed to breathe or exhale, or make syllables -- and some people who make syllables are being told they d better apologize in advance and after they make those syllables. But the media seems to get a free ride here. The Reverend Jackson wants a free ride. The Reverend Jackson and Reverend Sharpton both want a free ride. They never have to apologize, because they can t be racists, folks. They re members of the minority. Don t ever forget that this is the case. Minorities, victims, members of groups, are allowed to do anything to address their grievances and to get noticed, because they re just -- they re so oppressed. And so they can t -- they have no power. They cannot act on whatever ism they have: racism. They can t be bigots. They can t be sexists. They re -- they don t have the power to be. Only racism, bigotry, sexism, homophobia -- those things are reserved for the majority, because they re the only ones that have the power. Now, here s the Reverend Jackson talking about how nekkid women being forced to dance in front of men is the first step toward domestic violence, and they know it s wrong and nobody should be doing it. Does anybody remember -- have you forgotten this? The Reverend Jackson himself has fathered a lovechild. This is from World Net Daily in 2001: "According to the Reverend Jesse Peterson, head of the Los Angeles-based civil rights group BOND, or Brotherhood Organization of a New Destiny -- it s not a big surprise that the Reverend Jackson has committed adultery, and that his actions are unfortunately all too typical of black ministers and politicians in the black community. " "The black community will accept and defend Jackson s sexual escapade as they did with Bill Clinton. And this is the reason black Americans are suffering today -- not due to racism, but rather because of the lack of character." This was a blistering statement released by the Reverend Jesse Peterson: "Last week, the national media filled with details" -- again, this is January 2001 -- "Last week, the national media filled with details of the Reverend Jackson s long-term extramarital affair with a top aide working for his Monochrome Coalition, which resulted in the birth of a daughter in 1998" -- the aforementioned lovechild. "The Reverend Jackson, at the time 59, has reportedly been paying the mother, who headed the Monochrome Coalition s D.C. office, 10 grand a month after DNA tests determined he was the father of her child." Now, I know we re supposed to forgive. I mean, this happens to a lot of people, too. A lot of people engage in infidelity, a lot of people have lovechilds -- lovechildren, and -- but it s wrong. It shouldn t happen. But all these people escaped the same moral judgment that they mete out against everyone else. They seem to be immune from it. You know what s funny about all this, though? I have to tell you, and I think it s ironic as hell. Why do you think -- this is a simple question -- of all the people in this country, why is it that two of us -- or two of them -- the Reverend Jackson and the Reverend Sharpton -- have become the final arbiters of what s OK and not OK to say on the, quote-unquote, "public airwaves"? By the way, the Imus situation: MSNBC s not public airwaves. It s cable. None of it s on the air. They re not subject to FCC regulations on this kind of thing. The whole argument here that we ve got to clean up and detoxify the airwaves -- well, cable s not the public airwaves. It doesn t apply. That s why all the raunch and rotgut in culture is on cable. You get away with it there. The FCC has no purview. At any rate, why is it those are the two guys who are set up here as final arbiters? Well, who created them? The left; the liberals; the Democrat Party [sic]. Jackson and Sharpton have seats at the Democrat Party table of power cause they deliver votes. They re the ones who have legitimized them, and what s ironic and funny about this is, now they ve got to deal with them. Guess who it is that Sharpton and Jackson are trying to shake down? NBC and CBS. And those two organizations -- ABC as well and The New York Times -- they ve all created this monster. They ve set them up. And now these guys are turning on them. For now. They ll go elsewhere after they get their love donations or whatever they want. But it s hilarious to see this. The left created its own monster, its own Frankenstein, and Frankenstein s attacking the doctor. The monster s attacking the doctor here. It s just -- it s amazing to see.