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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-11 06:50 PM
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Fox host forced to apologise after on-air tirade about Obama's 'hoodlum in the hizzouse' Read more:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003560/Revoltingly-racist-Fox-host-forced-apologize-air-tirade-Obamas-hoodlum-hizzouse.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

By Paul Bentley

A Fox Business host has apologised on air after referring to guests of Barack Obama at the White House as 'hoods in the hizzy'.

Conservative TV star Eric Bolling was accused of 'revolting racism' after he made the comments on Friday as a means of chastising the President's engagement with Ali Bongo Odimba, the president of Gabon in Africa.

In a gratuitous reference to linguistic quirks of rap stars such as Snoop Dogg, he said: 'Guess who's coming to dinner? A dictator. It's not the first time he's had a hoodlum in the hizzouse.'

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2003560/Revoltingly-racist-Fox-host-forced-apologize-air-tirade-Obamas-hoodlum-hizzouse.html#ixzz1PIVRz500
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pa28 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Jun-14-11 06:59 PM
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1. It's just another insincere half apology. Republican excel at those.
'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.'

Contrast that to Ed's four minute on-air apology.
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