Bill Press blasts right-wing radio host as racist

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Bill Press blasts right-wing radio host as racist
by John Aravosis (DC) · 1/24/2008 12:57:00 PM ET ·

From Bill Press:
Who says racism is dead in America?

It’s alive and well – on talk radio – WABC in New York – and talk show host Bob Grant.

Grant’s record of racist, hate-talk is as old as he is.

He once complained about New York: “Minorities are the Big Apple’s majority, you don’t need the papers to tell you that, walk around and you know it. To me, that’s a bad thing. I’m a white person.”

He hated the fact that Magic Johnson was still alive: “Why is it taking so long for the HIV to go into full-blown AIDS?”

And he was disappointed in Ron Brown’s plane crash: “I have a hunch Brown might be the lone survivor. But then, I’m a pessimist at heart.”

Radio & Records magazine announced plans to honor Bob Grant at their March meeting in Washington, but changed their mind after complaints about his hateful comments.

Get this. So now conservative talkers Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, and Neal Boortz are threatening to boycott the meeting because, they say, Grant’s First Amendment rights are being violated.

more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/01/bill-press-blasts-right-wing-radio-host.html

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Since when is it a First Amendment right to get an award?

This person has the right to spew his hate, but that doesn't mean that any organization must thereby honor him in any way. Without the 'wingers, though, it sounds like it might be a decent event.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Right wingers just don't seem to understand how

the 1st amendment works. It guarantees your right to speak. It doesn't guaranty people will agree with and applaud what you say and it doesn't mean they have to give you a venue to say it.

[DCKit]

3. Wow, how different is that?

Last time I was in NYC, I about got whiplash checking out all the beautiful people from black to white and all ten thousand shades/ethnicities in between. Maybe he's just got a really bad inferiority complex and doesn't believe in therapy. Poor Republic.

[OzarkDem]

4. Who woke up Bill Press?

He's been in a GOP induced hypnotic trance the last 10 years.