Cunningham: "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says"
SUMMARY: Radio host Bill Cunningham stated: "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says." Cunningham also asserted that "Flavor Flav, 50 Cent, and Diddy" are "really in charge of the [Obama] Inaugural [Ball]."
During the "Stooge of the Week" segment of the October 10 broadcast of The Big Show with Bill Cunningham, Cunningham hosted a frequent guest, who was identified as Miss C and as a supporter of Sen. Barack Obama, to discuss the role of race in the presidential election. During the conversation, Cunningham asked her, "If he [Obama] loses, are you gonna burn down this town?" Cunningham later said, "I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says."
In addition, after repeatedly airing a clip throughout the broadcast from Flavor Flav's show, The Flavor of Love, that lays out the criteria for joining "The Pimp Legion of Doom" as driving a Cadillac and having a perm, Cunningham stated that "Flavor Flav, 50 Cent, and Diddy" are "really in charge of the [Obama] Inaugural [Ball]." Cunningham added: "It's going to be the best Inaugural. Normally you wear - you wear, you know, black tails, white -- this is going to be a rap concert. I mean, it's going to be the best ever."
From the October 10 broadcast of Clear Channel's The Big Show with Bill Cunningham:
CUNNINGHAM: What are you going to do if he loses, Miss C?
MISS C: He won't lose.
CUNNINGHAM: If he loses, are you gonna burn down this town?
MISS C: There's too many good white people tired of white men.
CUNNINGHAM: White people are tired of white men?
MISS C: Yes. Yes. We've had 43 white men presidents, and we're in the lowest point of history. Our stock markets, our money, home foreclosures -- white people cannot lead -- white men. Now it's time for them to get out the way.
[...]
CUNNINGHAM: Will this town burn down if he loses?
CO-HOST: I don't know. What do you think?
CUNNINGHAM: Yeah. I think there will be 100 cities burning if Barack loses. Yeah, that's what the black intelligentsia says.
[...]
ERIC DETERS (700 WLW radio host): Is it true, Willie, that you've been playing this Flavor Flav. Is he really in charge of the Inaugural?
CUNNINGHAM: Yeah. Flavor Flav, 50 Cent, and Diddy.
DETERS: Oh my God.
CUNNINGHAM: It's going to be the best Inaugural. Normally you wear - you wear, you know, black tails, white -- this is going to be a rap concert. I mean, it's going to be the best ever.
So Obama is going to deliver his inaugural speech wearing a Phat Pharm shirt and Sean John pants, both that are 3 sizes too big? And is Obama going to deliver that speech in ebonics? Will it contain language inappropriate for Don Imus?
/sarcasm
Cunningham's entire understanding of the matter appears to be that Obama is the biggety-blackest blackety-black to ever black his way out of blacktown.
What a tool.
Aren't these the same people who said that Obama "wasn't black enough" during the primary? I seem to remember that was one of the meme's floating around back then.
The basis to this
In a word: no. Next question.
I don't know about "100 cities burning", but if Obama carries his current numbers into November and loses, there would have to be some major fraud going on. People should take to the streets and protest it, because if that's what our Democracy is, we're no better than some two-bit banana republic.
The GOP has that covered with the Bradley Effect.
And BTW, this country is a Republic, not a Democracy
I don't think that after the last eight years that people will buy it.
I hope the smiley face means you're kidding about that, and you know that a Republic is a form of Democracy.
Tom Hartmann gave an interesting explanation of that on his radio show yesterday. I forget the details, but he said that the whole "Republic" vs. "Democracy" debate is based in politics, going all the way back to the Federalist Papers. According to him, our recent conventional wisdom about it has been pushed by the Republican Talkers, since "Republic" sounds like "Republican".
Is it true? Sounds logical, but I haven't researched it myself.
I don't know how far back it goes, but the argument is so ludicrous that it can't be made for any genuine reason. It seems obvious from the people who have pushed it on these boards that it's all about downplaying the "democracy" connection with "Democrat" and touting the "republic" aspect of "Republican".
Indeed, it is an entirely rhetorical argument meant to imply that Republicans are the only "true Americans" and Democrats have it all wrong.
Depending who you ask, the United States can be referred to as a Constitutional Federal Republic, a Democratic Republic, a Representative Democracy, or a Capitalist Republic.
Actually, I've read papers arguing all 4 at once.
PS: Cunningham is a racist t*rd.
"I hope the smiley face means you're kidding about that, and you know that a Republic is a form of Democracy"
I hope so too...but...a republic is a form of GOVERNMENT...it's not restricted to just democracies.
If we're not a democracy, WTF are we allowing Americans to die by bringing democracy to Iraq?
Worrierking, obviously a republic is better than a democracy. A democracy is good enough for Iraq, and worth having Americans die for, but to bring a republic to iraq would be an assault on the traditional republic as we know it. The Republic has always been defined as between Americans, and if we start re-defining it to include "others", the next thing you know a man and a goat will be establishing a republic.
I hope that clears things up a little.
The Republic has always been defined as between Americans, and if we start re-defining it to include "others", the next thing you know a man and a goat will be establishing a republic.
Bird do it, bees do it, even educated fleas do it....are they to be left out of the republic thingy also?
Not if they're Americans.
It clears it up a bit, but the last phrase has me wonderin' if you suggestin' that a Republic would be sort of a Santorum slipery slope.
You might be noticin' that I'm not usin' those confusin' "G's" at the end of some words. I feel it makes me sound kind a like a Joseph Six Pack kind of guy. Wouldn't want anyone thinkin' I'm an elitist.
That's exactly the slippery slope I'm suggesting.Think of a democracy as the "civil union" to a republics "traditional marriage".
-- democracy to Iraq -- king
It appears that Iraq has covered all their bases. From the Iraq constitution:
-- The Republic of Iraq is a single, independent federal state with full sovereignty...
We the people of Iraq...are looking with confidence to the future through a republican, federal, democratic, pluralistic system... --
In that context, the words "republican" and "democratic" (small "r" and "d") have sweet F-A to do with the US' two political parties.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/10/14/polls-obama-surging-in-fo_n_134543.html
If Obama carries these numbers into November and yet loses there will indeed be some explaining to do.
I would like to know who is encharged of " explaining " ?
That's exactly what I've been thinking too.
wow, talk about race baiting and stereotyping. 100 cities burning?
Tell you what - after seeing all those mccain supporters, I am concerned that when Obama does win there will be a very real likelyhood that he will be asassinated, or at least one attempt made.
What about the incident in Colorado?
If Obama does win, and that looks likely right now (emphisis on now). What size of win would convince any neocon that the win was legitimate? I'm thinking it'd have to be by 75%
75% won't cut it. No matter what, they will claim it was either illegal aliens voting, election fraud because of ACORN, some lawsuit or a combination of them. It will never occur to them that McCain will lose because the republicans caved in to the bankrupt right wing who in turn showed the country what they really are and no one liked it.
What about all the senior citizens who will riot if McCain loses? AARP will be organizing violent demonstrations across America, they are one of the most powerful and militant lobbies in the nation!
Good point, Kyle. On the bright side, the riots will wrap up by around 4 in the afternoon, so we won't be kept up all night.
Good point, Kyle. On the bright side, the riots will wrap up by around 4 in the afternoon, so we won't be kept up all night.
It will be interesting to see the steady procession of "AARP Freedom Riders" en route to DC on their Hoverounds.....
And we can get our oxygen bottles back in time to collect the retainage.
And they might forget why they're rioting by the time they get there.
Actually, I would love to see Diddy manage the Inaugural.
Obama taking the oath with the Clintons looking on: Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and George...
Everybody at the Inaugural Dances getting nice replicas of the White House in Belgian Chocolate...
Mm-hmmm...
the Clintons looking on: Bill, Hillary, Chelsea and George...
Ha! And Bootsy Collins telling Huckabee his bass playing services are no longer needed !
Bootsy is so much better than Huckabee will ever be, that's for sure.
Again, I just have to ask the right wing talking heads. Why don't you just call Obama the "N" word, and get it over with? You know that you're just dying to yell it out from the hilltops (talking about Cunningham, not you Col).
I guess this is the modern incarnation of Nixon's "Southern Strategy".
Hey, at least he admits there is a black intelligentsia.
Yea, I caught that, too... Now Cunningham will have to retract his statement. ;>)
Poor Bill Cunningham--he's just too stupid to realize that he's just gutted the whole, "Obama's playing the race card," argument by making a statement that's so obviously racist.
Calm yourself, Cunningham. No cities are going to burn. Morons like you are reminding ratinonal folks how important it is to get to their polling place and vote against everything that's reflected in your brand of stomach turning idiocy.
Here's a picture taken at a recent meeting of the Bill Cunningham Fan Club:
Yes, he is, as he claims, the "Voice of the Common Man." Assuming, of course, that the Common Man has taken a few too many blows to the head.
I thought that was the "Palin 2012" Exploratory Committee.
I thought that was the "Palin 2012" Exploratory Committee.
No - THIS is the "Palin 2012" Exploratory Committee:
Wow...I often wondered what happened to Howdy Doody...he got his own radio show!...cool...the years haven't been kind tho..
Hey, I was saving that suggestion for the director of NASA.
i don't doubt that 100 cities would go up in flames!!!! gangs already run huge sections of our large cities, and most of our mid-size cities. in my home state i can count at least 10 cities that would riot.the only thing that would stop it is a mccain landslide, and that won't happen. tell me, what will the 'minorities'do after 4 years of obama's rule and they are no better off? who will they blame then? upon obama's election, which will happen easily, expect'celebrations' in some areas, if he loses[which i doubt] expect violence.
Huh???
Aside from having to re-read coninuing misunderstandings, how about what a good dictionary defines as...
Democracy: "A system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives."
Republic: "A state in which supreme power is held by the people and their elected representatives, and which has an elected or nominated president rather than a monarch."
"State" was somewhat confusing until Webster's 1913 had this:
"In some ancient states called republics..."
So can one now deduce the difference between the two?
Actually didn't James Carville say something like that?
James Carville himself thinks there will be rioting and looting. Here
Look at this ignorant piece of trash Cunning-Ham,
Him and his ilk already have the whole nation burning down with an Autism Pandemic
http://www.fluoridealert.org/health/brain/
Debaters Feign Ignorance on Autism
http://ww.freewebs.com/writingindependence/main.htm