Bill cunningham: "barack hussein obama is a bolshevik."

National radio talk host Bill Cunningham (KVI Sundays, 7-10p) warmed up the crowd at a McCain rally in Cincinnati Tuesday saying Obama sympathizes with "world leaders who want to kill us" and invoked Obama's middle name three times calling him "Barack Hussein Obama."

Cunningham is the charming piece of shit who said Islam's goal is to have "sex with children for eternity." Audio here.

The Michael Savage wannabe is a local host in Cincinnati, who went national last fall and replaced Matt Drudge on KVI in October.

John McCain is shocked, shocked, and says he's distancing himself from Cunningham.

But here's the Republican template for the next 8 months: extreme surrogates will trash Obama for his "Islamic" name, and alleged softness on on terrorism, and Mr. Nice Guy will pretend to disavow it. The voters will be exposed to unrelenting months of the crap, and McCain will cruise above it all. 

These are the tactics predicted by Time Magazine's Mark Halperin and outlined here.

Cunningham called Obama "a hack Chicago Daley-style politician who is picturing himself as change. When he gets done with you -- all you're going to have in your pocket is change," he said.

Cunningham, warming up a crowd of about 400 people before McCain's arrival, accused the "stooges from the New York Times" and "sycophants in the media" of conspiring to elect Obama.

"At some point in the near future the media ... is going to peel the bark off Barack Hussein Obama," he said. "At some point the media will quit taking sides in this thing and maybe start covering Barack Hussein Obama the same way they cover Bush, the same way they cover Cheney, and same way they cover every Republican."

Cunningham said he'd had a dream about "Barack Hussein Obama's wonderful life a year from today." In the dream, he said, Obama was president and had just met with Iranian leader Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and was set to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jon Il. Then, Cunningham said, Obama was going to "saddle up" to Hezbollah.

"All's going to be right with the world when the great prophet from Chicago takes the stand, and the world leaders who want to kill us will simply be singing ["Kumbaya"] together around the table with Barack Hussein Obama."

Cunningham is already reaping the publicity tsunami after of his remarks. He appeared on the Sean Hannity Show Tuesday, and will appear triumphantly on Fox News' .

He told Hannity: "Don't call him Barack Hussein Obama, call him 'the Messiah.'"

Despite the picture above, Cunningham has apparently weathered the rumors in the wingnutosphere that he's a lesbian. 

(Racism dipped in a thin, patriotically correct sugar shell of "security" really works on conservatives! The ambiguously racist remarks made by the likes of Don Imus, Limbaugh, Savage, Glenn Beck and Cunningham are calculated, and ubiquitous on right-wing radio- and gives listeners cover for their racist hearts-of-heart).

Comments

[cowpotpi3]

Yeah I believe McCain on this one...and about all that anti-lobbyist stuff too! I guess they're depending on a lot of really ignorant or racist people (read: their base) to vote on this one.

[Rich]

sad sad sad

[wutitiz]

First off, Don Imus is a lefty, so you've got that wrong.

I know little about Mr. Cunningham, but nothing in the quotes supplied indicates racism. If I've said it once, I've said it a million times--when accusing of racism, have evidence.

It is ironic that a large part of Obama's appeal is that he rejected the politics of racial division, and yet left-wingers use his candidacy to keep the embers of division glowing.

[sparky]

re: his picture...
what a classy guy.

Imus does not like Bush..it does not make him a leftist liberal. He holds some very non-liberal ideals.

[abob]

There is only one Michael Savage. Cunningham doesn't have the chops to fulfill that role.

[wutitiz]

Imus said he voted for Kerry. Sometimes people come up with very convoluted reasons to decide whom to vote for, so you may have a point...maybe he's not "a lefty." Whatever he is, he is not a 'right-winger' nor does he appeal to conservatives.

[KS]

Cunningham is a poor imitation of Michael Savage and credit John McCain for denouncing his comments.

However, it does not help when Farrakhan (a well known racist) endorses Obama. They tabloid proctological media is keeping that hush-hush, but it sure as hell wouldn't if say David Duke endorsed McCain. Double standards continues to f*** up journalism.

[KS]

Cunningham is a poor imitation of Michael Savage and credit John McCain for denouncing his comments.

However, it does not help when Farrakhan (a well known racist) endorses Obama. They tabloid proctological media is keeping that hush-hush, but it sure as hell wouldn't if say David Duke endorsed McCain. Double standards continues to f*** up journalism.

[Recife]

So Farrakhan endorsed O'Sambo, funny how we didn't hear about that on the Right Wing controlled media. But wait.... Farrakhan can't be racist, he isn't white. And the Seattle School Board told me only whites are racist!

[blathering michael]

I didn't say Imus was a rightie, just that his racist remarks and jokes give listeners cover for their own supressed racist feelings. He's just a $million entertainer who knows where his audience is buttered. Doubt he has too many profound political or any other principles -- just good professional instincts -- like any whore.

[cowpotpi3]

Why does the right wing contingent continue to make up stories that discuss neither the substance nor the issues of the political race? Farakhan? Are you guys kidding me? So by your litmus test, any person of poor character that endorses a candidate magically makes that candidate unelectable? That is just a fallacious argument on its face and you dimwits know it.

Then again, you guys most likely read this stuff from Free Republic or the like and totally ignore things like Obama rejecting and denouncing Farakhan's support. You guys really ought to start telling the truth one of these days, the American people are on to you.

[Jerrod]

A woman as president in a world where half the countries worldwide have zero respect for. And the most ironic is a black muslim whose mother has been twice divorced, no real experience, makes grand promises that no political party ever keeps and is almost comical that his name is barrock hussein Obama given our present situations. Not to mention try to imagine this. George Washington...John F Kennedy...and Barrock Hussein Obama????? doesen't sound right and doesn't send much of a message to the world as a figure head. Might as well send out invitations..... please attack us!

[mungo]

I often wondered what became of Howdy Doody. The years haven't been kind

[wutitiz]

An interesting article appears in the local section of Tuesday's Seattle Times about a national survey from Pew on religion in America.

The study found that 7 pct. of Americans were affiliated with a 'historically black Protestant church.' Since blacks are about 12% of the total population, that means that 58% of blacks are affiliated with such churches, which are generally fundamentalist in nature. In other words, they have a lot more in common with Pat Robertson than with say, Howard Dean.

Hence, I can forsee the possibility of the black vote reverting to where it was before the 60's, namely overwhelmingly R. We can see the beginnings of this trend with people like Ken Hutcherson, Jesse Peterson, Wayne Perryman, etc. The school-choice issue especially is a ticking-time bomb in the black community, as blacks realize that the alliance with Dems has produced a 1/3rd drop-out rate among black youth. Talk host Ken Hamblin used to say that if he were KKK, he could find no more effective strategy for destroying blacks than that pursued by the National Education Association.

I would have mixed emotions about such a development. As a Republican, I would love to see the party finally integrate. But as a non-religious person, I would not welcome a massive reinforcement of the social conservative wing.

However, seeing lefties, who all these years have painted conservatives like me as 'ambiguously' racist, being hoist on their own petard, would be undeniably nice. Seeing the smug accusers tried and convicted of racism over their educational policies, anti-nuclear-family policies, etc., would give me an inner smile that would last quite a while.

[cowpotpi3]

Wzzz is in denial about everything right wing I see. When you have voices in your movement out there saying and doing things that are racist and you guys do nothing to repudiate them, rather you defend them like lawyers arguing vagueries of patent law, you look really bad. Especially when legislation Republicans enact and government agencies they control come down on the wrong side of issues...what do you expect?

Besides, racism isn't the only problem you guys seem to have these days. I submit that incompetence, cronyism, hypocrisy and outright lies are a bit more applicable descriptions of the Republican party today.

But hey, keep living in denial, the next few years are likely to be quite edifying.

[wutitiz]

Cowpie, please give me 3 examples of conservatives 'saying and doing things that are racist' so that I can respond, if you want a response, that is. I can't respond to such a gaseous, ill-formed, non-specific allegation such as you have made.

Again, your gassy barbs against conservatives remind me of nothing so much as the racist bloviations of older males gathered at the barbershop, pool hall or whatever, that I heard growing up as a child in the early 60's.

[abob]

Is it unfair to use Barack Hussein Obama's middle name.

[wutitiz]

The use of 'Hussein' is clearly an effort to link Obama to his Muslim roots without doing so directly. It a way to point a finger at Obama and cry 'Muslim' without having to supply evidence, and it is sleazy politics. It's no different than when CCP3 points a finger at me and cries 'racist' without evidence.

I didn't like it when left-wingers used to derisively call former rep. Rick White "Rich White" (as in wealthy caucasian), and I don't like it when right-wingers call Obama 'Hussein.'

Sleaze is sleaze is sleaze.

[abob]

"It is wrong to use the middle name of Barack O\bama" _ Franklin Delano Roosevelt

[abob]

"References to Obama's middle name is dirty politics" _Richard Millhouse Nixon

[abob]

"The right wing is trying to discredit Obama by using his middle name" _Dwight David Eisenhower

[abob]

"Conservatives are playing the race card by calling Obama by his full name" _William Jefferson Clinton

[JOHN WALSH]

HAS ANYONE CHECKED OUT HILLARY & BILL CLINTON'S NEIGHBORHOOD? ALSO HAVE SOMEONE CHECK OUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF ALL THE OTHER NOMINEES FOR PRESIDENT. ARE THERE ANY OBAMAS LIVING NEAR THEM?
I SEEM TO RECALL THE DEMS, WAY BACK WHEN, CHECKING OUT THE NEIGHBORHOODS WHERE REPUBLICANS LIVED.
I LIKE THE IDEA OF RALPH (DESTROY AN ELECTION) NADER, RUNNING ONCE AGAIN!

STAY STRONG,
JOHN WALSH

[sparky]

Hmm how about the time Rush referred to Obama as
"half-rican"....
I know, you probably dont see that as racist. But, you aren't black.

[joanie]

Go back to bed and try again, a-boob.

[wutitiz]

abob, don't be dumb. Obviously the difference between 'Franklin Delano Roosevelt' and 'Barrak Hussein Obama' is that FDR himself chose to be known by that, while BHO has been so identified by political enemies. It is basic human decency to call someone by the name they have chosen for themselves.

Sparky I would have to hear that 'halfrican' comment in full context. If Limbaugh was making fun of Dems obsession with racial identity then it's fair game. And I have listened to Limbaugh enough to be convinced that he is not a racist. His longtime right-hand man James Golden is black, and also his longtime top fill-in host, Walter Williams is black. That is hardly what you would expect from a white supremacist.

That said, it may be that Media Matters may have finally found the instance where Limbaugh went over the line after numerous flubbed attempts ('phony soldiers,' etc.).

[sparky]

well he might have just been repeating what they said on Fox news..I think it started there with one of the women on a morning show. But even repeating it is crap. Racism can be subtle at times, and one does not have to be a KKK member to display it. I have family members who pass on horribly racist jokes and yet they would never for a minute consider themselves bigoted.

[wutitiz]

I can certainly see your point Sparky. I go through the same thing at my job with guys making gay-baiting jokes, which to me is bigotry, and is wrong. In fact I don't really enjoy it when they make jokes about me being 'the Republican' (I work at a union job) but I don't say anything, or I'd be considered overly sensitive.

Anyway, it's one thing to say that Rush was wrong to repeat 'halfrican,' another to say that Rush is a racist, and yet another to infer that conservatives generally are racists as Mr. Hood and ccp3 do.

[michael palmer]

Bill Cunningham has an inferior complex, probably was a piece trash wimp in high school. Probably scared of any male physically. Just an outright wimp. He's like the spotlight, him and Rush, and this is the way they get it by running there fat mouths. They know what they are saying, when they do this. Really they probably can't do anything in life. Scared of physical work, but they are trash from the beginning, while taking out their short comings on nationalities and cultures.these kind of people don't mean anybody any good. They are a menace to society. Bill cunningham your a racist piece of shit. I hope you get fired.

[joe]

Bill do you have a women? Ugly as you are, i bet you can't get none. You need to stay off tv, and take your pictures off the internet. If i was ugly as you, i would keep quiet, freak.

[wutitiz]

Once again, I call on Gov. Gregoire to enact PUI (posting under the influence) legislation.

[wutitiz]

ccp3, you threw out the sweeping accusations of racism, but never backed them up.

I officially declare this a skedaddle.

[J.Hova]

wutzi has a union job! can't you inherit a dept store?

[joanie]

Another non-response from whats up. Typical.

[joanie]

...I have family members who pass on horribly racist jokes and yet they would never for a minute consider themselves bigoted.

Are they?

[sparky]

Yep, because the jokes are only the tip of the iceberg on how they view brown people.

[wutitiz]

Joanie, you're confused again. The question was from, as you call me 'whats up.' The non-response was from ccp3.

[JOHN WALSH]

HI BILL.THE NEWSPAPER CARTOONIST WILL HAVE A FIELD DAY WITH OBAMA AND HIS MUSLIM GARB...
JUST PICTURE THE FOLLOWING WITH OBAMA WEARING THAT OUTFIT...

1. RETURNING WITH GENERAL DOUGHLAS MAC ARTHUR TO THE PHILLIPINES.

WITH GEORGE WASHINGTON CROSSING THE DELAWARE.
JOKING WITH A BUNCH OF CLOWNS AT THE CIRCUS.

ETC., ETC.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY TO YOU.

[armslover]

Bill Cunningham should be hanged the way his ancestors used to hang black folks!

[ronaldseeya]

hey jackasses out there including michael hood, this is AMERICA. HUSSEIN OBAMA IS NOT EVEN A FUCKING CITIZEN!