August 17, 2012 - 12:37 pm
On The Cycle today, MSNBC got a few more eyeballs and Toure apologizes for using a racial slur against Mitt Romney on Thursday’s show. Take a look.
TOURE: I muddied the discussion by using the ‘n-word. I could’ve made the same point without that word. I shouldn’t have used it and for that I’m sorry.
Toure apologized for using a word but not for accusing Mitt Romney of racism for describing the Obama campaign, which has slandered Romney as a bully, a tax cheat, a felon, a vampire, a thief, a murder and a slaver, as a campaign based on hate.
Toure stands by that slander. He just wishes he would have made his point in a way that did not bring the network suits down on him to make him offer up a halfhearted apology.
I apologize for calling Toure a fatuous asshat. I should have made it clear that what I ment was that no one with an ounce of intelligence would ever take seriously anything he said. About anything. OK?
To me, he comes across as a two-bit race punk, 2cnd in command of a Chicago South Side choom gang, which would make him one of BO’s neighbors? — Oh, I’m sorry, I apologize. I shouldn’ta said any of that. — Back afda da commercial.
MSNBC: just another “Axis of Fraud” member. To be tuned out!
If his employers really wanted to punish him, they’d start forcing him to use that last name that he’s oh-so-embarrassed of, Neblett.
Your remark reminds me of something that happened earlier in the career of John Roberts, the journalist (as opposed to the Supreme Court justice). Most of you probably aren’t aware of the fact that Roberts is actually Canadian and got his start at Canada’s equivalent to MTV, Much Music, and then at a local station in Toronto, CITY-TV. In those days, he was known as J.D. Roberts. Here’s a video I found on YouTube showing him in those days. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv_I_cbKW5o
After a few years of being a rock journalist, he decided to get into news. He took a job in Miami (if memory serves), then came back to Canada and joined CTV, the main private network, at a fairly high level and announced that he was gunning for the job of Lloyd Robertson, the (then) national news anchor (Canada’s Tom Brokaw if you will). That naked ambition didn’t go over too well and Roberts, who was still calling himself “J.D.” – as in “And now back to you J.D.” – decided to go back to the United States as a serious reporter. Only one catch: his network absolutely refused to let him call himself “J.D.”. I can only assume they felt it was unprofessional to refer to him by his initials on-air. So he reverted to “John”.
I was surprised to hear that this Toure individual was allowed to refer to himself by a single name. Then again, I suppose it’s hard to expect professionalism from an outfit like MSNBC….
By the way, I heard that Microsoft is bailing out of MSNBC because they are finding the association between themselves and the leftist news station a net negative. Has anyone heard if they are letting the network keep the “MS” portion of “MSNBC”? If these stories are true, then I would think they’d want to remove the “MS” from “MSNBC” since many (most?) people know that the “MS” refers to Microsoft. That raises the interesting question of what the new name will be. Clearly it can’t be “NBC” due to potential confusion with the broadcast network. Maybe they will take advantage of this situation to adopt the name of their true inspiration: Pravda.
Who was confused?
Everybody got the message exactly as he intended it to be understood.
I apologize to Toure for calling him Touretts. That was so rascist and bigoted of me, especially since Touretts, excuse me Toure reminds me of all the angry black men I used to hide from during high school gym class, especially when we choose up teams for basketball or got called out for a wrestling match up. I apologize to Touretts for his knappy hair do, which reminds me of the same angry blacky guys with their Richard Roundtree shaft do’s and too bad Toure, excuse me I meant Touretts seems to have misplaced his pick. And I apologize to Toure for making fun of his forehead wrinkles from the permanent scowl on his face which displays the anger he obvioulsy has carried around, probably since High School when him and his posse used to corner little pink whities like me and take my milk money. My apologies, really I mean it.
On MSNBC there’s a news-comment show
They have a commentator that likes to deal low blows
He has got nothing to say unless it’s about race
So he invents dogwhistles at an amazing pace
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré really tries
Touré’s lurid, lurid
But no-one really buys
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré’s lurid lies
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Infantile fantasies
He’ll ignore blatant racism from any Democrat
But conservative comment? He will not stand for that
He’ll concoct a racist theory right there before your eyes
Using the sort of language that should get him ostracized
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré really tries
Touré’s lurid, lurid
But no-one really buys
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Touré’s lurid lies
Touré’s lurid, lurid
Infantile fantasies
—to the tune of “Toora Loora Loora (An Irish Lullaby)”
Why couldn’t you set to the Irish tune Spanish Lady?
So he apologized for making a statement he knew would make people mad and got called out on it, so he makes this little apology to make it better and he did so rather quickly, and since he is already a nobody and it looks like he will always be a nobody and is trying to keep his gig going, I do not accept his apology and neither should anyone else on our side of this issue. Liberals need to be fired even if they apologize, he ain’t nothing special anyway just another loudmouth spewing foul crap about conservatives!
Good point. The Left never lets people off with an apology, they just take that as a sign of weakness and push on to extract maximum punishment. A Conservative who made a similar statement would end up getting fired and becoming persona non grata in the TV News business.
We should expect no less.
The Left is just like Islam, true ‘warriors’ for the cause can say or do anything that they want as long as it’s in service to the ‘war’.
Does he also refer to himself in the third person? That seems to be the in thing with these deluded morons who think they are so famous they only need one name.
I apologize for calling Touré a “gangsta-mofo”, that was uncalled for. I allowed myself to be rhetorically inartful, racist perhaps, in borrowing such a term reserved for use by miscreant urban-youth of African-American extraction. I resolve to make Touré’s association with such a dysfunctional culture, in which convicts outnumber high school graduates 2-1, clear without use of such charged language.