Cunningham alleged that "Obama wants to gas the Jews"
SUMMARY: On his Cincinnati-based radio show, Bill Cunningham asked a fictional Jewish character voiced by a fellow WLW-AM host: "Did you hear about this Khalidi tape where Obama is toasting a guy who wants to gas and fry Jews? ... This Obama guy loves the PLO. Can't you figure that out?" Cunningham later added, "Jews for [Sen. John] McCain because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews."
During the October 30 broadcast of his Cincinnati-based radio show, Bill Cunningham asked "Randy Furman," a fictional Jewish character voiced by fellow WLW-AM host Scott Sloan: "Did you hear about this [Columbia University professor of Middle East studies Rashid] Khalidi tape where [Sen. Barack] Obama is toasting a guy who wants to gas and fry Jews? ... This Obama guy loves the PLO [Palestinian Liberation Organization]. Can't you figure that out?" Cunningham later added, "Jews for [Sen. John] McCain because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews. You got Obama introducing Arab terrorists, and the L.A. Times won't release the story."
Echoing McCain's reported October 29 statement that "if there was a tape of John McCain in a neo-Nazi outfit ... I think the treatment of the issue would be slightly different," Cunningham stated earlier in the show: "I guess the L.A. Times still has that tape on Khalidi, and they don't release it because it's injurious to the interest of Obama. Can you imagine if the media had a tape of maybe John McCain at a Ku Klux Klan rally or at an abortion-clinic benefit and he's standing there toasting the guy who bombed the abortion clinic, and the L.A. Times wouldn't release it?"
The New York Times profiled Khalidi in an October 30 article. The profile quoted Rabbi J. Rolando Matalon of Congregation B'nai Jeshurun, who "said he has known Mr. Khalidi for years," stating of Khalidi: "In no way has he ever indicated that he favors the destruction or disappearance of Israel. ... He has always been consistently in favor of dialogue and common ground." The article also reported that Khalidi "has denied working for" the PLO.
As Media Matters for America has documented, numerous conservative media figures have compared Obama to Adolf Hitler or the Nazis in recent days.
From the October 30 broadcast of The Big Show with Bill Cunningham:
CUNNINGHAM: And I guess the L.A. Times still has that tape on Khalidi, and they don't release it because it's injurious to the interest of Obama. Can you imagine if the media had a tape of maybe John McCain at a Ku Klux Klan rally or at an abortion-clinic benefit and he's standing there toasting the guy who bombed the abortion clinic, and the L.A. Times wouldn't release it? What would the media do?
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CUNNINGHAM: Randy Furman, how are you?
SLOAN: Why do you gotta drag me into your GOP mess? Listen, it's people like you that screwed up the Grand Old Party, OK? You racist morons, you. Because this is the year that Obama's -- you do it just to twist the knife in my stomach don't you? You just a -- you like to twist the knife, and then pull it out, don't you?
CUNNINGHAM: Did you hear about this Khalidi tape where Obama is toasting a guy --
SEG DENNISON (WLW host): What?
CUNNINGHAM: -- who wants to gas and fry Jews? Don't you understand? You're into self-loathing. You and your brother are meshugana. This Obama guy loves the PLO. Can't you figure that out?
SLOAN: You just don't [unintelligible] -- you just don't like one-half-percent black people, that's your problem.
CUNNINGHAM: One-half-percent black people.
DENNISON: What the?
[...]
CUNNINGHAM: Well, Randy, we gotta go, but get back on the bus.
DENNISON: Maybe your brother will call.
CUNNINGHAM: Jews for McCain --
AUDIO CLIP: You are atrocious.
CUNNINGHAM: -- because Obama wants to gas the Jews, like the PLO wants to gas the Jews, like the Nazis gassed the Jews. You got Obama introducing Arab terrorists, and the L.A. Times won't release the story. It is time for the Furman brothers to stand with McCain-Palin. Pay --
SLOAN: The only gas that I care about is running his mouth right now on 700 WLW. That's the only gas I'm hearing.
CUNNINGHAM: I think he's talking about you, Seg.
AUDIO CLIP: Jeepers, I sure hope I don't get a gas attack.
CUNNINGHAM: He's talking about you.
DENNISON: I haven't said anything. It's you.
CUNNINGHAM: It's you.
DENNISON: It's you.
CUNNINGHAM: You're the one with the gas attacks.
DENNISON: Who's talking now?
CUNNINGHAM: You.
AUDIO CLIP: Hello, sucker.
SLOAN: We need an America that represents everybody, not just the white majo-- just not the white minority in this country.
CUNNINGHAM: The white minority now. We've lost already, haven't we?
DENNISON: Wow.
AUDIO CLIP: Hey.
CUNNINGHAM: Thank you very much.
SLOAN: It's over. It's over. It's over. Yes. Yes. Yes. Yes.
AUDIO CLIP: This season is over.
Can we expect the Anti-Defamation League to go after Cunningham for this filth?
"Can we expect the Anti-Defamation League to go after Cunningham for this filth?"
Yes they should!!
But I wonder... don't all these self-hating rightwing projectors hate Jews already? and the blacks, the Mexicans, the Asians... well... why beat around the arbusto... anyone that is not white and Christian?
It would seem to me that to many of Cunninghams listeners... the posibility that Obama (which legally could be libel against Barack?) gasing all the Jews... one might believe that his (Cunninghams) listeners might well be happy to hear that... ??
Wouldn't this prospect make one consider that Cunningham 'wants' Obama in the WH... Cunningham 'may' have said this vileness... but my guess is that its his listeners that believe it... and that is all Cunningham wants?
For what its worth.... Mr Cunningham? In the immortal words of Caribu Barbie... "Thanks, but no thanks!"
But I wonder... don't all these self-hating rightwing projectors hate Jews already?... one might believe that his (Cunninghams) listeners might well be happy to hear that... ??
Captain, I'm guessing you don't listen to much right wing radio. Jews, as a group, are rarely ever on the air treated with anything but respect. More often the subject is avoided. What they actually think is conjecture.
Right wing talk radio has been allowed to flourish in part for just this reason. It acts as a safety valve for anger with the status quo to be directed away from Jews and toward the liberal straw man and ethnic groups without the resources and clout in the media, business generally, and politics which the Jews have. It also crowds out any competition which might otherwise develope which is hostile to the Jews.
Such a newsworthy tinge you calmly spew, eddy39. Your benign & insidious palaver attempts to sow more…blood libel? Your master race kin did the same thing. Your deceptive, unsubstantiated discord reeks with anti-Semitism.
Yikes. Just when you think Cunningham has run out of crazy, here he comes again.
Because you were colleagues with someone who fought for the palestinian people, and was NOT associated with the PLO, somehow you want to kill Jews? This Cunningham character is utterly and completely amazing to me. How he sleeps at night, I'm not so sure really. What a POS. No, seriously.
This was the same guy who really LOVES to use Obama's middle name isn't it? What this joker does make me believe though, is that if he can get a radio show, hell, anyone can.
I thought Michael Savage was the one who frequently used Nazi references
The right likes to label everyone who is a liberal a Nazi. Which doesn't make sense because Nazi's views weren't nowhere near the same Liberals - they were much closer to the right.
They were in fact well to the right of our Right. If they want to engage in hyperbole, they should call liberals, "commies." It's absurd, but it's at least directionally corrent. Call liberals "Nazis" is idiotic. I mean come on... We HAVE Nazis (Neo-Nazis anyway) in this country NOW. AND THEY'RE NOT BLOODY LIBERAL!!! (They are, in fact, just like the old Nazis, to the right of the Right.)
wrong. they are left of left. they want to run our lives.
Wrong. They are right-wingers. Don't you remember what Hitler did to liberals, communists and socialists? HE HAD THEM KILLED.
You, as a right-winger, are closer to Nazism than any left-winger could ever be.
you are way off base. the nazis were national socialists, so i think they had a warm place in their hearts for socialists.
Nazis were the right wing of their country at the time. To say otherwise shows a lack of understanding of history.
LA Times, April 10, 2008
In the 1970s, when Khalidi taught at a university in Beirut, he often spoke to reporters on behalf of Yasser Arafat's Palestine Liberation Organization. In the early 1990s, he advised the Palestinian delegation during peace negotiations.
Khalidi has been accused of having ties to the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO). An editorial in the Washington Times contended that Khalidi's work for Wafa in the late 1980s, and his later service as an unofficial advisor to the Palestinian delegation during the Madrid Conference of 1991,[18][19] allegedly provided evidence of such a connection.
Khalidi has denied claims that he was ever employed by the PLO or served as a PLO spokesman.[20] Khalidi explained that he often spoke to journalists in Beirut, and was usually cited, without attribution, as a well-informed Palestinian source. He also said that he was unaware of any misidentification as a PLO spokesman.[18] Palestinian sources, speaking to The Jerusalem Post, also denied that Khalidi was a PLO spokesman.[21]
Why did John McCain give Khalidi so much money? That's a problem in repug land.
Not that I'm arguing with anything you wrote, but the topic is that this empty scrotum stated that Obama "wants to gas the Jews".
How does your response have anything to do with the topic?
This sounds like a the same bunch of dejamoo that we've been hearing from this rat bastard all week. This unedumuhacted fool needs to get his nutsack stuck in a paper shredder. :-0)
But I'm not for violence usually!
Wow, JJ, it must be Friday. He might like the paper shredder thing. Sounds interesting. What type of shredder do you have...ooooo
When the ADL goes after him, he will say he was misquoted. And an idiot like Cunnigham will say I meant the PLO wants to buy the Jews gas.
This cretin is surely giving DR. Savage a run for his audience.
POW, for me everyday is Friday. :-)
For Cunningham, every day is just another excuse to spew racist, sexist, and anti Obama rhetoric. And since WK said he's an empty scroutum, your run of the mill, otc shredder should do just fine. :-0) I wouldn't waste any hard earned cash with a special shredder for Mr. Numbnuts.
Wow. Wow. Wow. This guy can't get anymore immature and racist.
Just as long as Obama pays for my gas and my mortgage I'm ok with the rest.
John McCain wants me to buy up your bad mortgage. He must be a Marxo-fascist pinko commie, too.
I am a Libertarian so as far as I am concerned McSucky is just as bad as Barry.
GG, Read this post after answering you on another thread. Sorry about calling you a Repub..but isn't a Libertarian a Conservative who is still in the closet or a Republican that likes porn!!!
Porn yes! Republican no!
Libertarians are anti-democracy. They are nuts. That's why they've never come close to achieving national office.
Oh. Thanks for clarifying.
These guys are really starting to hit some high notes. Where do you go from here?
The good new is that there's no where to go but down. They're goin' down! And they know it! :-0) Desperation has set in.
I am guessing muslims.
A Howdy Doodie reference...dating ourselves. Howdy sort of dressed funny as did Clara Belle..wasn't that a guy...were they an item. SORRY, wrong thread. BYE
Yes, Clarabelle the Clown was a guy, played by a man named Bob Keeshan, who went on to become very famous as Captain Kangaroo.
Good times.
Cross dresser
Cross talk
kept my ancestors entertained....
After reading the topic title, I would have bet a small amount of money that it was somehow mistaken, that nobody could possibly be stupid enough to make such a direct claim tied straight to Obama. Of course I would have lost the money.
I'd prefer to have media people fired over being repeatedly wrong rather than insensitive. Luckily this lands in both categories with both feet. Cunningham should vanish from public view immediately.
Has he already come out and talked about the race war, or is this his first mention of it? What a pathetic little man.
I don't think it is so farfetched. Consider FDR and his NRA. The test case for this attempt to control every facet of the economy was against orthodox Jewish brothers who ran a poultry business. The brothers could hardly speak English. The case was attended with all the anti-semitic ranting that was reminiscent of the Dreyfuss case. This was the Democrats trying to ruin jews. which they did, but eventually the brothers won the case, though they were bankrupted. by the effort.
l.a. schechter poultry v. u.s.
Not playing the "race card" one bit are we?