Obama On Imus: I Wouldn’t Have Anyone Like That Working For Me
Here’s what Obama had to say about Don Imus after the latter referred to a black girl’s sports team as a bunch of “nappy-headed ho’s.”
April 11, 2007—“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”
Here’s Obama’s reverend, who was on Obama’s campaign and who was referred to just day by Obama himself as a member of the family, preaching just after the 9/11 attacks:
We bombed Hiroshima, we bombed Nagasaki, and we nuked far more than the thousands in New York and the Pentagon, and we never batted an eye. We have supported state terrorism against the Palestinians and black South Africans, and now we are indignant because the stuff we have done overseas is now brought right back to our own front yards. America’s chickens are coming home to roost.
Now I ask: Which comment was more offensive? The stupid remark from Imus or Obama’s reverend saying that 9/11 was our fault for being American?
Then ask yourself why Obama condemns one of these men but not the other.
