Someone needs a good ear cleaning.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/06/11/naacp-urges-hallmark-pull-racist-card-shelves/
The card has been on sale for 3 YEARS. And now they don't like it???
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 03:28 PM
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The Los Angeles NAACP Needs To Clean The Crap Out Of Their Ears
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Yes, it's a stupid reaction by the LA/NAACP.
But the larger story, completely unnoticed by you, is that it's the kind of non-story Fox News pushs on a regular basis to further a political narrative.
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 03:37 PM # -
Exactly, fire up the racist base!
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 03:42 PM # -
Ooops. I forgot. Anything critical, no matter how stupid, of any person or group other than white Americans is being a racist.
Pathetic.
Edit add: I don't like Obama's white half either, so I guess I'm racist against white people too?
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 03:51 PM # -
No, you're just racist.
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 03:55 PM # -
Based on comments made in the forum, the evidence certainly points in that direction skybill.
I may have many faults but being a racist or being prejudiced against someone (or a group) is not in my blood.
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 04:08 PM # -
"No, you're just racist."
Nope. I dislike everybody equally!
Seriously though, I have no issue with anybody's color or nationality.
I just don't tolerate stupidity well, no matter where/who it comes from.
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 04:25 PM # -
Skybill, this is truly a non-story that Fox is trying to conflate into something that it isn't - and you are falling for it.
Hey, everyone has a right to complain. Conservatives complain about Obama using a teleprompter too much; NAACP complains about the way an audio card sounds; everybody complains about the call that kept Armando Galarraga from his perfect game. Question is, what are the people who have the power to do anything about it going to do about it?
Obama kept using his teleprompter and the complaining eventually blew over (thanks a little to Palin's use of her own little 'digital' teleprompter.
Bud Selig said 'screw you' to the masses and wouldn't overturn the call.
Hallmark decided to pull the card off the shelf, probably thinking that it was bad PR for anyone to take any offense to any of their cards (and it's not like there aren't a zillion other cards they can sell you). It was Hallmark's decision, not NAACP's, to remove the card.
But this is where we have to look at what Fox did with this story. First, they reported on it as if it were some kind of 'news'. I'm sure that Hallmark gets hundreds of complaints about their cards, and I'm sure that they have discreetly pulled cars in the past based on this type of feedback. This time, it was the NAACP! Oooooh!
And note the way Trace Gallagher starts off the story: "It was the LA Chapter of the NAACP that had Hallmark pull this card..." Hey, the NAACP can't have Hallmark do anything, but the first words out of the reporter's mouth allude that it is possible for a black right's group to make a private company pull a product. T'ain't so. A real non-FOX reporter would have said, "It was the LA Chapter of the NAACP that demanded that Hallmark pull this card..." There's a clear agenda behind this story being reported, and it's not to be 'fair and balanced'.
One last gripe, mostly about Fox but probably other networks as well. They need to stop putting question marks at the end of headlines. In the upper corner of the webpage that contains the linked story, it says "Illegals Jailed in Lap of Luxury?" Well, are they or aren't they? This is an insidious device, allowing the 'news' department to sell opinion, rumor and innuendo as news. They need to ban question marks from headlines - perhaps from news stories altogether.
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 06:56 PM # -
This is not a " non story ".
It is a STUPID STORY. And it is stupid because of human beings with a militant agenda who construe the arcane and ridiculous and involk uncalled for solutions to remedy absolutely nothing. Infact it creates more trouble than it ameliorates. Malcom X comes to mind, so does Shaun Hannity.
It must have been a slow month in LA at the NAACP headquarters.
And who can blame FOX news or Skybill for posting this as another bizaare example of Stupid Human Behavior. There is plenty of it out there on both sides of your particular political persuasion.
This has something to do with racism allright , but I question WHO is really the racist here...White Man ( Hallmark, Fox, Skybill, Me ? ) or the LA/NAACP...
We live in a world that is FAR TOO POLITICALLY CORRECT...we are so politically correct sensistive now that every single conceivable opinion or nuance of an opinion half assed or not tends to get equivocated into some kind of media stream or another to hound and sometimes entertain us to no end !!
Would Jesus have been Politically Correct ??
Posted on June 11, 2010 - 11:37 PM # -
Hallmark pulled a card that some of their customers (doesn't matter if it's the NAACP or whoever) perceived was saying "black whore". If it had instead been a typo that read "black whore", would you still think Hallmark should leave the card in circulation?
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 10:23 AM # -
"If it had instead been a typo that read "black whore", would you still think Hallmark should leave the card in circulation?"
That is an entirely different situation.
Of course they’d have to pull it as there would be no doubt about what it said. Just like they’d pull a card with ANY typo.
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 03:31 PM # -
A poorly printed card that inadvertently says "black whore" should be pulled.
A poorly recorded audio card that inadvertently sounds like it is saying "black whore" should stay on the shelf.
Makes perfect sense.
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 03:36 PM # -
@edselehr You nailed this one. Conservative use this divide and conquer strategy all the time. At Christmastime they are the complainers... Use of Holiday instead of Christmas. For anyone who doesn't think this article isn't racist, needs to look at comments it generates at the end of the Fox article.
You are also correct on the use of the rhetorical question in titles. In the video OutFoxed they pointed out that Fox uses the phrase "some people say" without saying who the people are. Journalism at it worst.
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 03:59 PM # -
Here's another one:
Questionable lyrics cause Wendy's chain to pull Disco Fever CD from kids' meal offer
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10899052
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 06:45 PM # -
Oh no, Wendy's has been captured by the PC liberal left! What's wrong with giving kids a song that mentions getting horny? It couldn't be because it's simply bad business...I bet the NAACP is involved too.
Posted on June 12, 2010 - 07:03 PM # -
http://kirkland.komonews.com/content/little-piggy-sayswhat
The word comes from a Three Little Pigs toy that was part of a McDonald's Happy Meal promotion for the new 'Shrek' movie. The restaurant chain says the toy is supposed say a series of phrases in a German accent, including, "He hoofed! And he poofed!"
Instead, some local parents say they hear words that are vulgar, and believe the toy should be 'hog-tied' and pulled from restaurants.
Posted on June 24, 2010 - 07:13 AM # -
I think that the various stories cited on this thread just show that our society operates on the "squeaky wheel" principle. Bitch and whine loudly enough to get the attention of the media (which loves the sensationalism behind claims of cards, pig toys, free CDs, etc. with hidden offensive messages), and you will get some traction.
I am firmly convinced, by the way, that people and groups of various political leanings and with various different motives have figured out that this strategy works. It is not just "PC Liberals," "The Religious Right," or "Hillbillies wanting quick money and 15 minutes of fame," etc. that have figured out that this strategy can be quite effective.
Posted on June 24, 2010 - 12:28 PM #
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