Ferraro Calls For Randi's Head! (Updated With Video)

Ferraro has wasted no time calling for Rhodes to be fired.

*NEW* Video- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6nGyanlQiM

"What did they do with Don Imus when he went after the young black team who was playing basketball with kind of the same language? Treat them both the same...She's coming at me and Hillary in a ... sexist way... To incite people with language like this young woman just did on radio is very, very dangerous because ... some people take this stuff so seriously that it can affect your security."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeff-norman/rhodes-says-air-america-b_b_94981.html

The man behind the suspension, Charlie Kireker is an Obama supporter!

http://my.barackobama.com/page/dashboard/public/gGg3Fp



Location: Weybridge, VT
Why I support Barack Obama: He has the character, intelligence and unique upbringing to provide transformational leadership, and unite a badly divided country.
Birth Date: July 5th
Issues: equality / civil rights; peace & social justice; economic fairness / security; environment / conservation; smart energy policy; good government / ethics
Registered to Vote: Yes

get the picture? She's no purist or feminist, not really.

Neither is Hillary, Hillary is using her "experience" as "first lady".

but what most people are paying attention to is the fact that Ferraro goes to Fox to talk against Dems,Hillary and her husband say MCCain will be better as president,and more patrotic,Hillary hangs with mellonscaife and Rupert Murdock and other neocons so what are we suppose to think. I think they are showing who they really are...

they can say anything they want and our leadership never goes after them. Just like they never call for heads to roll over ending the war or health care or anything that matters.

The fact remains that because liberals are not their target audience they have no interest to get rid of those people.

*In fact* because we're liberals and we watch their show they probably consider it *good* that those shows get called out on their shit.

It means they're doing their job.

Hard to believe I once supported her.

out of context. PURPOSEFULLY. He is using his race.

Ferraro is a strong independant woman.

THINK FOR YOURSELF.

Ferraro was NOT taken out of context. She attributed Obama's success in the campaign to being a black man, and that America was just thrilled to be able to support the token candidate.

If Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position," Ferraro told California's "Daily Breeze" newspaper. "And if he was a woman (of any color) he would not be in this position. He happens to be very lucky to be who he is. And the country is caught up in the concept."

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/03/11/politics/horserace/entry3925257.shtml

Or am I somehow missing Geraldine's subliminal references to Obama's presidency of the Harvard Law Review, his years as a community organizer, years in the Illinois Senate, his prominence as one of the few Democratic voices who spoke-out loudly and presciently against the Iraq war, his US Senate experience, and his inspirational speeches and presence?

I don't give a crap what Geraldine Ferraro is or was. Her comments were clear. And absent an admission of some sort there's no way to attribute her comments to anyone or anything more than a moronic, out-of-touch US citizen, who's shown that her opinion isn't worth a plug nickel.

she's manipulative.

:eyes:

I'm not really sure how you can complain about people pointing it out.

woman of no means just because she dissed her and accurately, I might add. This certainly validates my original negative thoughts about Ferraro way back when she aspired to be VP.

I hear it's a good living.

Kick it up a notch next gig Randi, really let her have it.

Thanks for your help.

:wtf:

Like she has a lot of room to talk, give me a break. :eyes:

"No, I won't apologize. I meant every word!" - Geraldine Ferraro -

These two instances are completely different.

Rhodes was clearly doing a stand up-comedy like shtick. It was supposed to be funny and satire.

I hope the powers that be get this and stoip this bullshit idiotic reaction to things like this.

... while Randi was criticizing, however "emotionally", public political figures -- who are fair game. The stature of the target matters.

There goes Gerry again with her race bullshit. It was a multi-ethnic team, Ger. Damn.

not a "young black team." How sad that it always comes down to that for Gerry, in the most condescending way possible. These comments continue to say a lot about her.

Imus' comments were vile and targeted at a women's basketball team, who had done nothing more than to excel in a basketball tournament. RandiR was criticizing, however indelicately, public political figures. There is a vast difference, obvious to those free of bias.

...it's inciting violence (sarcasm).

What a far-out statement from Geraldine Ferraro.

I was much more sympathetic to her in this matter before she implied that Randi Rhodes standup-routine is illegal like inciting a riot.

She could have used the same language and been hysterical, she ended up just sounding demented.

Geraldine Ferraro could have said that it wasn't funny. Instead, she called it a security threat.

I used to think her comments may have been orchestrated by Wolfson or Penn, now I'm wondering whether she's not just a little crazy.

for her racist remarks

What Randi said was uncalled, and as host on a progressive radio that trys to get progressive listeners, you don't alienate half your audience by insulting their candidate with such vile remarks

I also believe that ferraro's comments that Obama wouldn't be where he is if he wasn't black, is racist code for "he didn't do it on his own", it was just the color of his skin was why "THEY" are giving him a break

Hillary should fire ferraro for those outrageous comments

If for nothing else Rhodes should be let go for business reasons

If for nothing else ferraro should be let go from the Clinton campaign for her racist comments which reflect on Hillary, no matter whether justified or not, she should kick her off her campaign

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/12/politics/main3932552.shtml

March 12, 2008

Obama apparently expressed similar sentiments himself, in a newspaper interview a couple of years ago. That if he wasn't black, he'd be just one of many juniour senators.
And why isn't anyone screaming when Kerry said to the effect that Obama would make a better president because he is a black man?
But when Ferraro said something it's racist?

Kerry: "Obama would make a better president because he is a black man."

Ferraro: "Obama is only where he is because he's a black man. ... America is caught-up in the concept."

Kerry's statement is in-line with Hillary's statements that a female in the White House would bring a new perspective. Kerry's and Hillary's statements communicate supplemental benefits that the more diverse background of either candidate might bring to the Presidency.

Ferraro's statement communicates that Obama's skin color is the *main* reason for his success, not that it's a contributing factor, and that he's only doing well because America is just so thrilled to be able to vote for a token black candidate.

It's a pretty obvious difference, really. So I suspect my spelling it out hasn't aided you a bit.

... but her not doing so supports the implication that Ferraro wasn't the free agent she appeared to be. Ferraro's comments fit within the broad pattern of the Clinton campaign's attempt to recast Obama as "the black candidate", in an effort to scare superdelegates into overriding Obama's elected delegate majority. (psst! Hey, you know a black guy can't win in November, right?)

I am so sad to see this kind of idocy. Actually more like pissed.
How dare Ferraro make a mockery of sexism!
RR was out of line. This is something worthy of real discussion. Now it is going to get thrown of track by Ferraro's BS.

No way should she be fired. C'mon people.

the line....way way over the line.

Calling a presidential candidate a vile sexist slur......NOT alright.

Anyone who sells themselves is a whore. I don't associate the word with sexism in this day and age. I actually agree with Randi. Ferraro and Hillary have sold themselves over many issues, as have many male politicians and media types who come to mind.

I need to write my letter of criticism. Randi's comments were no more sexist than every other DUer and AAR host using the terms media whore and corporate whore.

We should stop peanut butter because some people are allergic.
We should spend over half of our operational budget on defense, because some people are paranoid.

:toast:

wasn't on the radio Ferraro you horse's ass ... It's a stand up routine- and it offended none of the people who paid to see it.... No one else had to watch that tape - it wasn't presented on the airwaves. If she said it on the radio then all you Drama Queens would have a bitch ... but it wasn't.






Paid for by

personalities to stand against Bush in all those years when people were lining up to kiss his tush and to buy flag pins to prove their patriotism. She has spoken out time and time again over blatant violations of the law and the Constitution by this war criminal and his minions. I don't recall hearing much dissent from either Ferraro or Hillary during the really dark days.

I hope we hear her again on the air.

and he may get a big settlement out of it too, if he hasn't already.

NT

That's absurd.
And Imus kept groveling and apologizing. That didn't help him.
Did Randy apologize for what she said?

:thumbsup:

OK, maybe a little over the top, but Ferraro must be loving this attention...

position if he were a white man. Seems that Obama agreed with Ferraro in an interview with the Chicago Sun Times in 05 obama said if he were not black he would not be getting all this attention as 1 of the 11 new senators sworn in. Kinda like what Ferraro said, but most of the obama folk in here were so quick to call her a bigot and racist.

That's 3 years ago and Ferraro literally said that Obama would NOT be where he is if he were a white man. And that his success is only because "America is caught-up in the concept."

Saying Obama's race is a contributing factor is decidedly different from saying it's the MAIN factor, and that he's merely the token black -- Affirmative Action -- candidate, as Ferraro indicated.

From whom she thinks is coming from the Obama camp? I could have it wrong but I thought I read that somewhere?

on the face of this planet.

Geraldine Ferraro, by her very nature, is *A POLITICO* and not an "innocent victim."

Shame on her and the creeps (Hannity, Coulter, etc.) at FOX piling-on Randi Rhodes to be fired.

And yes, shame on "those of us" who support such KNEE-JERK sentiments.

Take a step back and consider that there are NO VICTIMS here, merely *feigned outrage* by contributing Journalist Geraldine Ferraro with a little help from Fox and Friends.

Yes, as blunt as I can be at times, I'll admit that Randi goes "one step beyond" -- BUT -- that in NO WAY gives me (or you) permission to abandon her right to free speech.

REINSTATE RANDI RHODES because it's "The AMERICAN Way!" :patriot:

....would Ferraro just shut the fuck UP already? Bitter old crone. x(

And I'm glad she didn't call her a "racist trollop."

That would have been completely inappropriate.

Glad she didn't call her that, either.

- as

Obama acknowledges, with no small irony, that he benefits from his race.

http://obama.senate.gov/news/050626-when_it_comes_to_race_obama_ma/

If he were white, he once bluntly noted, he would simply be one of nine freshmen senators, almost certainly without a multimillion-dollar book deal and a shred of celebrity. Or would he have been elected at all?


Oh, the hypocrisy!

Hypocrisy?