Rosen defended guest's remark that "if you have a white mother and an African father ... [y]ou're just some kind of mutt"
Discussing Sen. Barack Obama, guest John H. McWhorter of the conservative Manhattan Institute stated on the April 1 broadcast of Newsradio 850 KOA's The Mike Rosen Show, "Obama didn't grow up with two black parents like I did. Barack Obama has something to prove. Barack Obama decided 20 years ago, 'I am going to be black.' You know, if you have a white mother and an African father -- and I've tried not to say this too loud in public, but it's true -- you're not black-American culturally if that's your background. You're just some kind of mutt. I am a great admirer of the man, but that's not black."
Later in the broadcast, after a caller identified herself as "a mother of a biracial child" and stated, "I don't like hearing biracial people referred to as 'mutts,' " host Mike Rosen chided her, "Oh now, please. Let's take the chip off your shoulder," then asserted that McWhorter "said that affectionately."
From the April 1 broadcast of Newsradio 850 KOA's The Mike Rosen Show:
MCWHORTER: I can't defend the things he [Rev. Jeremiah Wright] said, and I should also say I would not be part of a church where somebody got up and talked like that even every 20 Sundays. But Barack Obama didn't grow up with two black parents like I did. Barack Obama has something to prove. Barack Obama decided 20 years ago, "I am going to be black." You know, if you have a white mother and an African father -- and I've tried not to say this too loud in public, but it's true -- you're not black-American culturally if that's your background. You're just some kind of mutt. I am a great admirer of the man, but that's not black. He decided that because he looks black, and whatever else -- you have to read his books to find out -- he's going to be a black-American man. Well, if you are, then there are certain gestures. And so Reverend Wright is sort of Barack Obama's dashiki. I don't need to don a dashiki, and so I can listen to Reverend Wright, and I would be more interested in hearing the content. I could be more interested in making my own individual gesture. He didn't have that luxury. He was donning the culture. And so -- there you go. It's a very, it's a very tricky issue. But I think my main point is that it doesn't matter. Everything we thought about Barack Obama before all of this came out is the same. Reverend Wright has white hair.
ROSEN: Can I quote you? "Reverend Wright is Barack Obama's dashiki." I think that's wonderful.
MCWHORTER: Yeah, I just came up with that.
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CALLER: And also, as a mother of a biracial child, I don't like hearing biracial people referred to as "mutts."
ROSEN: Oh now, please. Let's take the chip off your shoulder. He said that affectionately.
CALLER: I don't like that --
ROSEN: You may not like it, and you're free not to like it. But I don't like the fact that we live in a politically correct world where so many people have a hair trigger about which to take offense. Given the source, it was obvious he meant no offense.
—E.B. & J.F.B.
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McWhorter: "...just some kind of mutt."
Rosen: "He said that affectionately."
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary has two definitions for mutt:
1 : a stupid or insignificant person
2 : a mongrel dog : cur
Two definitions for cur:
1 : a mongrel or inferior dog
2 : a surly or cowardly fellow
Seven definitions for affection (two apply here):
4 (obsolete): partiality, prejudice
6 : propensity, disposition
One definition for propensity:
: an often intense natural inclination or tendency
One definition for liar:
: a person who tells lies
Thanks, MAUMAN. We better get used to it. Gonna get a lot worse than this. I guess the fact that mcwhorter is African American is a showstopper, but it goes to show that paid conserves do what they're told. I know mcwhorter's been on jon the con's show and gave at least one speech to the depens institute. Once again we see that these echo chamber types are part of a not so large circular group that simply recycles the same garbage show after show. His manhattan institute is pretty notorious. Wikipedia does a good job, but there's even more stuff on mi on google. rosey's listeners were a slightly different demographic 10 years ago. reds? Yes. conserves? yes. But the sophistication was a little more prevalent, in that the guttural language and mean spirited-ness was not quite so in your face. At one point rosey was highly regarded as conservative fiscally but actually close to human on social issues. People could actually tune in for financial discussions and learn something. It's different now. Those more discriminating listeners are gone. Sure, the mean spirited top 2% racists and goobers still listen, and the "mutt" smear resonates with them, but a huge portion of the ancient buffoon's once loyal audience has left him. 850 koa is by and large rnc radio at this point. Between rosey, komerade herr streicher, that idiot on the weekends that ZAPPATERO calls slima, and the fillers, it's all rnc all day. Even the football guy and his partner on the drive home are tap dancin' to the red message. In red world, desperate times call for hate filled measures.
Rosen defended guest's remark that "if you have a white mother and an African father ... [y]ou're just some kind of mutt"
And as I've said for years now, Mike Rosen is just some kind of nut.
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