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Fox Host Accused Of 'Revolting Racism' For Obama 'Hizzouse' Comments

source: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/13/eric-bolling-accused-of-r_n_876214.html

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Fox Business host Eric Bolling is drawing fire for comments he made about President Obama on Friday.

On his show "Follow The Money," Bolling criticized Obama's visit with Ali Bongo, the president of Gabon, by saying, "Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. Mr. Obama shares a laugh with one of Africa's kleptocrats. It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse."

As he said "hizzouse," a picture of rapper Common appeared on the screen. Common's appearance at a White House poetry event drew loud complaints from conservatives.

Later, Bolling made similar comments. "What's with all the hoods in the hizzy?" he asked, saying that Bongo has been "accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country's dollars."

The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg called the comments "open, and revolting, anti-Obama racism" in a blog post on Sunday.
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38 comments // Fox Host Accused Of 'Revolting Racism' For Obama 'Hizzouse' Comments

  • Leen61
    • +1
      Leen61  

    • This Eric Bolling is an asshole! The former blog I was on would have the videos for his show called "Follow the Money." He always talks like this. With the Glenn Beck gone, the rest of the FOX staff has to make up for his absence.

    • 12 months ago
  • Reaganomics
    • 0
      Reaganomics  

    • Racist Comments from the Left: Matthews “Forgot He Was Black” on Obama’s State of the Union Address...As long as the left can keep racism a focus, the more the truth is ignored.

    • 12 months ago
  • HSouixZ
    • +1
      HSouixZ  
    • Reaganomics:

      To the point that it works both ways on both sides, you are absolutely correct.

      The most ridiculous statement I have ever heard is: "When I see people, I don't see color."
      I have to bite my lip and not ask them: "So how long has your vision been a problem?!"

      Now even though I know that people mean it in the kindest of spirit, and it's a metaphor...I think it devalues what the differences of people that they bring to the table. If I hear an accent that is foreign, I see that a chance to learn about a culture or a place that I may never get to see. I see that as an opportunity in the making. So when I meet people of different races and cultures and nationalities...I welcome the opportunity to ask them about what they bring to they table.

      Chris Matthews, more than likely mean it as a compliment, but it is truly proof, that no matter how far we come in the matter of race in this country...we really have a long way to go, and have not arrived at the end of our journey.

    • 12 months ago
  • stupidamericanz
  • Ashley_Byrd
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      Ashley_Byrd  
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    • Before I get any butt-hurt responses about the dreaded "N" word, I'm black. Every group has their horrible stereotype. I love James Earl Jones. He's one of my favorite actors.

    • 12 months ago
  • HSouixZ
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      HSouixZ  
    • Ashley_Byrd:

      If you think you get a pass by perpetuating the stereotype, because you are black; think again.

      It's a filthy word. It's a ridiculous sign of affection. And calling one's self, or someone who looks like you a N-Word is not "owning" the word...nor does it deflate the impact of the word or devalue its power. Don't believe the hype of people who will exploit you for the sake of selling records, albums, or DVD's to make a buck off of you. It's a lousy word.

      If someone calls you a "C-word" (the word that rhymes with punt, or runt)...and starts telling you bullshit that if you own the word it will lose its impact... that is just bullshit. The same logic applies here.

      So consider this my, but...but...but...

      Now if you don't mind, I won't try and change your mind...just don't ask me to sing the song along with you.

    • 12 months ago
  • hombre76
  • Ashley_Byrd
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      Ashley_Byrd  
    • HSouixZ:

      Who said about owning the word? As I said before, every group has their horrible stereotype. I think Mike Jones, and many rappers, are ignorant fucks that perpetuate the negative stereotype. I get called a Cunt, and I laugh. I get called a Nigger, I roll my eyes. I get called a Fatty Fat McFat, and I give them a smile.

      My Grandmom, who has lived hardcore racism, has told me that I shouldn't be bothered by the word Nigger. Be strong and move on. I don't act like a raging stereotype, so why should I let a word bother me? If other people want to continue to live in ignorance and base all Black people on a negative stereotype, then they're fucking morons who will probably never understand that people are people.

      Why should I be fearful of a word? Why should I care about 'owning' it? I don't let it bother me. Simple as that. You have your logic, I have mine.

    • 12 months ago
  • xena
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      xena  

    • One of the ways to tell if someone is being bigoted or not is to flip the script.

      Would Bolling have made such a comment if the president were white? I think we all know the answer. I think Bolling looked at the African-American president and African president and couldn't help himself from immediately lapsing into a parody of what he thinks is the international black vernacular.

    • 12 months ago
  • TenGig
  • congoboy
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      congoboy  

    • hmmmm not to unlike the comments from within his own party ala harry reid... Mr. Reid as predicting that Mr. Obama could become the country’s first black president because he was “light-skinned” and had “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one.”

    • 12 months ago
  • maasanova
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      maasanova  

    • Well I suppose the language can be considered racist, because they are obviously linking ghetto slang and Common to Obama and by extension, I guess, all of black America.

      But the funny thing is that it wouldn't be racism if the hosts of the Tom Joyner Show or Tavis Smiley said What's with all the hoods in the hizzy"

      Another thing is that Common is far from a hood. Besides Will Smith, Common is probably one of the least "hood" in all of rap music and compared to his early days, he's practically milk toast.

      With that being said, these teevee conservatives know what they are doing and how to manipulate the knee-jerk far left who literally feed on racism and use it to stir up controversy against their political enemies.

      Obama is about as far away from the average black man that you can get. He was first marketed to the white liberal voting block before the America's black community got behind him for president.

      He went to Harvard, not known for its hoods, but very much known for elite its whites and Jewish students and staff. When Obama was in the Senate, he didn't live in a black neighborhood, he lived in Hyde Park, and was very much tied to Chicago's Jewish community.

      He grew up around Asians and whites, and went to Punaho, a private school for the children of Hawaii's priveledged class. When I lived in Hawaii, I don't think I ever heard of a black person attending Punaho. Another thing about Hawaii is that polite racism is common and out in the open, and not just towards blacks. I frequently heard the n-word in reference to blacks and Hawaiians have their own racial slur for blacks: it's called "papolo."

      So besides his wife and the Church that he allegedly attended for twenty years, where is this so-called Obama connection to the black community?

    • 12 months ago
  • HSouixZ
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      HSouixZ  
    • maasanova:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc7VJAhnxlc

      The fact that the he is black. That's his connection to the black community.

      Black is not limited to a ghetto. Or a hizzhouse. Or a basketball court.

      Being black, is being black....and it specious of FOX News (or anyone else, for that matter) to presume that BLACK can not be successful, erudite, articulate, educated, and matriculated at the best colleges and universities that this country has to offer.

      Black is Barack Hussein Obama, Michael Jordan, Aretha Franklin, Moms Mabley, Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Eddie Murphy, Edward George, Jr., Janet Emerson- Bashen, Patricia Bath, David Blackwell, James Bowman, Charles Drew, Percy Julian, John Uzo Ogbu, James E. West, ....and the list could go on. Please note the highly skilled mathematicians, and scientists, in the list provided, as well as the talented athletes and entertainers.

      Black is beautiful....and there are many young people who for the first time in a very long time, are finding out what it means to be "Young, Gifted, and Black!"

      "That's where it's at!"

    • 12 months ago
  • maasanova
  • HSouixZ
    • +1
      HSouixZ  
    • maasanova:

      Yeah, except that's not the part of him that strikes fear in the Republican party or the white community.

      And as to his being part white....that part isn't obvious... that's the part that can only be ascertained by Q & A. If Barack Hussein Obama were just walking down the street, and he hadn't ran for an elected office....you would see the face of a black man.

      No one is denying his ethnicity as being a mixture of race. It's just that the white community is struggling with the fact that it is mixed with black blood, from an African father. It is this what Republicans find that is insulting and frightening.

      And as to race, per se...as a whole...we HUMAN BEINGS are all ALL Africans. Since the earliest of mankind finds itself and its remains in a cave in Africa, at a ravine called Olduvai Gorge. That just chills the shit out of White Republican America.

      I expect that some day....some day when Sarah Palin has a geography lesson and learns that Africa is a continent, and not a country...she will try her hand at revisionist history there...as she did with her Paul Revere debacle.

      So it really doesn't matter your patriotism, or nationality, or which terra firma you try to attach yourself to, it all comes back to Mother Africa.

      See: "Quest for Humankind's Beginnings," by Charles and Mary Leakey 1995, Simon & Schuster,

      And that my friend is just pissing people off.

    • 12 months ago
  • sgordy1
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      sgordy1  

    • "accused of human rights violations and plundering billions of his country's dollars."

      Wow sounds like a president we already had... oh wait he's talking about Bongo and maybe Bush

    • 12 months ago
  • Paratus
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      Paratus  

    • Boy this is a stretch. After all the wing nuts whine and cry about being a racist for simply opposing Obummers policies now we have this. How about Goldberg turning his attention to the racism in the Obummer Justice Department. Now that is "open and revolting". What a joke. Goldberg needs to be transferred to the obituary section where he can't embarrass his paper is such a fashion.

    • 12 months ago
  • hombre76
  • sharin
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      sharin  

    • Bollings apology:"One editorial note. On Friday, we did a story about the president meeting with the president of Gabon. We got a little fast and loose with the language, and we know it's been interpreted as being disrespectful, and for that, I'm sorry. We did go a bit too far. More Follow the Money coming up in just a minute"
      typical Fox bullshit
      "it's been interpreted as being disrespectful"
      no, asshole, it IS disrespectful and over the top racist and makes you a perfect fit for Fox

    • 12 months ago
  • NiceN
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      NiceN  

    • If only the harsh police state of America could be reflected upon these ignorant bastards. Don't the cops beat up journalists? Let's execute for treason and discuss much much later.

    • 12 months ago
  • jennilamb007
  • Milieu
  • stupidamericanz
  • Prijedor
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      Prijedor  

    • thats what obama drones do, they will point out this racism (thats not even there) but obama inviting a dictator over, they ignore that

    • 12 months ago
  • hombre76
    • +1
      hombre76  
    • Prijedor:

      because calling you particularly a racist seems to fall under personal attack as well as fact I'll rephrase my response to this.....A dictator is prefrable to a racist thay look classy compared to a racist.....and your coments are those of a racist person prij, however I am not making any statements that you are a racist yourself. there PC enough for you and the current censors you keep complaining to?

    • 12 months ago
  • Simone_Castillo
  • Nick19
  • HSouixZ
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      HSouixZ  
    • Nick19:

      Gabon is an African country. To FOX News that means it should be suspect and circumspect.

      This was the point of mentioning it the way it was presented. If the President of Gabon was an elected ruler of a European Nation....it wouldn't require mention.

      The thought amongst FOX News is that if two or more black people meet or gather together....for what ever the reason...they are meeting to conspire against the United States of America.

      It's a bunch of bullshit, and FOX News knows it's a bunch of bullshit and the American public knows it's a bunch of bullshit.

    • 12 months ago
  • wayseeker
    • +18
      wayseeker  

    • http://it.th

      It's time for the majority of patriots in this country who elected Obama to let these bigoted non-patriots know that we demand respect be shown for the Office of President of the United States and for the man who was chosen too hold it. Democrats and the liberal press are failing miserably by not making this clear. How shameful.

    • 12 months ago
  • SFirman
  • grammabet
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      grammabet  

    • That's one of the requirements for working for faux Fox,you have to have a racist mentality,it's encouraged.Wonder if he'd talk that shit in a mixed crowd minus his bodyguards?

    • 12 months ago
  • cherry5000
  • cherry5000
  • EdJoyProductions
  • TimALoftis
  • SFirman
  • letsliveinpeace
  • TimALoftis
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