Why would TV execs want to put Bill Cunningham's hate speech on TV?
July 28, 2010 4:30 pm ET by Matt McLaughlin
Right-wing radio host Bill Cunningham is getting a nationally syndicated television show, the Chicago Tribune reported today. One is left to wonder how the Tribune Co., which will syndicate the show, thought it would be a good idea to broadcast Cunningham's caustic commentary on TV.
Cunningham is no radio powerhouse in the mold of Rush Limbaugh or Glenn Beck, but what he lacks in audience size, he makes up for in sheer vitriol.
Vituperative remarks about President Obama are a staple of Cunningham's radio show. He has attacked Obama as a racist, alleged that the president wants to "gas the Jews," and invoked "six-six-six" and "the beast" in discussing "Barack Hussein Obama." He's adopted the rhetoric of birthers and even made racially charged remarks about Obama's father, stating, "That's what black fathers do. They simply leave."
The poor are also among Cunningham's favorite targets for attack: He has stated that they are impoverished "because they lack values, ethics, and morals," and advocated "beat[ing] the hell outta" homeless people with "a big old cane, Singapore-style."
This is the guy Tribune wants to put on TV five days a week?
Or, perhaps, the Tribune CEO is another Racist Troglodyte who thinks the national dialogue could stand another dose of poison? You don't necessarily have to be smart to get rich.
Why would a group of wealthy white men put a white man on teevee to blame everything wrong with the US on poor people, brown people, non Christians, and women?
Give it a sec, it'll come to ya.
BURN HIS BOOKS & BAN HIM FROM THE AIR FOR THE GREATER GOOD!...Because the answer to speech you don't agree with is censorship, not rational & reasoned debate...right?
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