Are we getting the service we should be getting from the media? We are the customer remember? Well on March 28, 2008 Lou Dobbs in one of his famous rants was making a comment about something Condoleezza Rice said about race in the U.S.
Dobbs began to say how "these cotton..." and then caught himself. It appeared Mr. Dobbs was heading down the path of using a racial slur in response to what Condoleezza Rice said.
What is so distrubing about this is that CNN removed the work "cotton" from the transcript when they posted in on their web site as you can see right here.
BLITZER: Let's check in with Lou. He has a show coming up in an hour. I
want to pick his brain on some intriguing comments from Condoleezza
Rice involving race in our country.
You saw what she said.
LOU DOBBS, HOST, "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT": I saw what she said. That the
United States has a birth defect on the issue of race. I think it's
really unfortunate that Secretary of State Rice believes as she does.
The fact is most Americans don't have a problem talking about race.
What we have is a problem of talking about race without fearing
recrimination and distortion and someone using whatever comments are
made for their own purposes. Usually political purposes.
The
reality is, this is the most socially, ethnically, religiously,
racially diverse society on the face of the earth. Wolf, we don't make
enough of that in the nation media. We listen to some idiot say you
can't talk about race or there ought to be these responses when you
talk about race or ethnicity and too often, in fact nearly always, we
fail to point out that there is no country on the face of the earth as
progressive, as racially and ethnically diverse as our own.
It's something for us to be proud of and if any - and to hear a
politician whoever it may be talk about how difficult it is to talk
about race, well the heck with them. We're living with the issue of
race. We've got to be able to talk about it and I can guarantee you
this, not a single one of these just ridiculous politicians should be
the moderator on the issue of race. We have to have a far better
discussion than that.
BLITZER: Lou, we'll see you back here in one hour. Thanks very much.
Ok now you look at the video and see for yourself!
Where we have been let down is that the ONLY place I can find this in the blog world, no major news group as reported on this, at least not much. What great service we are getting from the media!
I would really like to hear from you on this, am I off the mark or should Dobbs and CNN be held accountable on this? Ned
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