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To Republicans: Do Not Use Racial Slurs
Brit Hume called former Senator John Glenn a “partisan—spearchucker” to describe his role in a Fred Thompson investigation back in his old Senate days on FOX News Sunday.
Video and transcript, of course, at Crooks and Liars.
John Amato looked “spearchucker” up in the urban dictionary: “A derogatory phrase for a black male used in reference to his primitive abilities to hunt animals with a long sharpened object.”
Earlier today, I defended a Republican, namely the leader of the GOP in Arkansas. This time, however, I have no intention of doing so. This was a racial slur and Brit Hume should be held accountable for using it on national television.
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18 Responses to “To Republicans: Do Not Use Racial Slurs”
Definitely an interesting choice of words to use against a white senator.
Aside from this story, it amazes me that Brit Hume is still often recognized as an unbiased journalist. Especially after his rant about Murtha in February:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/02/18/hume-murtha-smear/
Asking republicans not to use racial slurs is a tall order. We’re talking a group of people that wonder out loud on on air about how come black people get to call each other nigger and white people can’t.
Brit Hume is a macaca.
Carp: lol
“Brit Hume is a macaca.”
Ni macaca ni cabron. Liberals more irritated at Hume would say pendejo instead.
Ok, it is now official. Brit Hume is a Republican Yea!
I thought he’d be passed off as just another teleprompter reading newsie hack (liberal all of course), but nope, he’s been officially called a Republican LMAO I love it.
And I agree, he’s macaca as well. Of course it sounds like caca with a suave “ma” inflection to make it sound foreign to me LOL.
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Hume has always been biased towards the GOP. I think its obvious every time he opens his mouth. So, I don’t find the comment surprising- though I’m not that upset about the racial epithet.
“Hume has always been biased towards the GOP.”
In a liberal media he certainly stands out for that reason. (Look at what the rest of the media think of Fox, and more broadly, which media source journalists widely identify as conservative.)
“I’m not that upset about the racial epithet.”
It was more accurate than “attack dog” or “spear carrier.”
i can’t believe i’m about to defend a republican, let alone brit hume, but he wasn’t talking to, with or about black people, he was talking about some one throwing weapons as a metaphor.
granted, if he had said “bomb thrower” then he could have avoided the “macaca” remarks. but you have to stretch really really hard to find a racial slur in that sentence. it’s just not there.
for the record, i hate bigotry only slightly more than i hate brit hume. but i think there’s no there here, kids.
If you mean actual journalist seem liberal you’d be somewhat correct DLS, they like to find truth to stories so that makes them a threat to the modern conservatives, therefore assaulted by the right and called liberal media for doing their jobs.
The rest of the media are nothing but hacks peddling infotainment making them nothing at all other than useless.
Fox is almost entirely, blatantly off the tilt to the right tho.
Pyst- Fox ran a clip of William Jefferson on the floor of the House today, talking to Gonzales. Except the black man in the video turned out to be Rep John Conyers, lol, and they were there for the investigation of GONZALES. I guess when they all look alike, its too much effort for conservative journalists to check identities before airing a story.Their audience won’t care whether or not the video’s accurate , after all. And they wonder why the Democrats don’t want to have Fox host their debates! Lmao!
DLS I’d say pinche puto!!
skippy, sorry to disagree, but the “spearchucker” comment shows, as “macaca” did with Allen, that such racist epithets are an inherent part of his vocabulary, regardless that they were used (in this case) in a race neutral circumstance.
and rudi, watch your language cabron.
Does anybody else think it’s not positive that we are SO damn sensitized that the mere use of an obscure racial epithet (how many people have ever heard it said before today?) used in a context that wasn’t even racial in nature obliges us to be scandalized?
When Nancy Pelosi was sworn in as Speaker, I literally heard at least 5 different programs spend minute after minute analyzing the suit she was wearing, I think one of them even managed to get the name of the designer! The sheer sexism was so obvious that it even got through my thick skin. Yet rivers of outrage were not spent on the matter, nor are they spent when anti-woman or anti-X religion words are used. But race is a whole different ballgame? Why? How does society benefit from all this faux outrage?