Ariz. Radio Host Calls Obama a ‘Monkey’ and Stands by It
- Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:32am by
Madeleine Morgenstern
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Radio host Barbara Espinosa (Image source: Facebook)
An Arizona radio host has stood by her recent comments referring to President Barack Obama as a “monkey” and saying she “voted for the white guy.”
Barbara Espinosa, host of “Hair on Fire” on KFNX in Phoenix, made the comments earlier this month to a caller who had just referred to Obama as “rabbit ears.”
“I don‘t call him ’guy with rabbit ears,’ I call him a monkey,” Espinosa said, according to audio posted online. “I don’t believe in calling him the first black president. I voted for the white guy myself.”
According to Mediaite, Espinosa stood by the comments in a post on her blog — a page that has since been deleted:
To set the record straight I did use the word monkey and Obama in the same sentence. Yes I did say I voted for the white guy. Unless there has been a takeover of America and free speech is no longer allowed and I can be put to death for making a remark, I refuse to take the fifth.
Espinosa also addressed her words in an unrelated post on the conservative Arizona blog site Sonoran Alliance, saying her comments were inspired by a cartoon depicting the president as a monkey. She also said that because of her last name, she is “anything but racist.”
The comment was prompted by the google image cartoon that was sent to me.[link]
With a last name of Espinosa I’m anything but racist. You are not on a playbill you are posting comments about a political article. Use a stage name for the stage and your given name every place else. I don’t agree Veritas on much but I agree on “The Klute”
Listen to Espinosa’s original comments below:




















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Nevermind
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19amGatorSkin
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am
Why are you here then?????????????????
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I like to keep an eye out to see what racist idiots are thinking , luckily Beck rounded you all up into 1 conveniant site so i dont have to surf anymore. Any other questions?
Report Post »kansas hawks 3
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:35amYes why are all of you people so S T U P I D…………
Report Post »M13
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:38amShouldn’t your name be neverhad a mind?
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:40amDid you believe that your juvenile quips would make you look any less pathetic NEVERMIND?
Report Post »Truthbeliever2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:20pmMadeleine Morgenstern removed my comment.
Freedom of Speech much???
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:41pmNEVERMIND:
Report Post »Here!!! Have a peanut and a banana. Good boy!!!
Independent4233
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 1:43pmNevermind
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am
GatorSkin
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am
“Why are you here then?????????????????”
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“I like to keep an eye out to see what racist idiots are thinking , luckily Beck rounded you all up into 1 conveniant site so i dont have to surf anymore. Any other questions?”
Yes, is it because you are a lab rat that has been programmed to see racism in everything not of the PC bent that you spew PC dogma whenever your PC bell is rung?
Did you know that you do not have an objective mind,but a sponge that soaks up brainwashing techniques to the point you can’t think for yourself?
Do you ever take a trip through the comment forums as you surf the net? If so, do you not notice that white people everywhere are as vociferous and outspoken regarding race than people here, with many of them much more critical, because they’re outraged and fed up?
Don’t you know we are headed for civil war and when it comes your ass will be hung out to dry?
Report Post »mils
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 1:58pmobama would call this freedom of speech…if a black person was saying it…you know like the new black panthers.. Hate speech?..no…truth hurts..
for those of you that are so pro obama..either your’re brain dead..or you actually believe you are going to look good in the unemployment lines,
drooling in the bread lines,
or super fancy in those brown shirts with the jackboots…
GET A LIFE MONKEY LOVERS…this is far from the only conservative blog site…it’s not even the most popular.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:12pmHey NoMind, What race(s) do you eliminate from the ‘racist’ category? Did you ever think that possibly it has nothing to do with racism but that it actually has more to do with anti-Liberal Political Correctness Nanny State BS? You are a typical Liberal Monkey Moron. Eat another bannana. From now on the bannana is going to fall into the same category as kool-aid.
Report Post »DisgruntledInClinton
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:59pmThis is an insult to fine monkeys everywhere.
Report Post »yiska8
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 3:31pmYeah, ok.she voted for the white guy. Big deal. I voted for that same crazy old white man too and the lady from Wasilla. I voted for the Americans. Crazy, racist idea, huh? Hey, my gut said the big eared biracial man was born in Africa and I saw the media lying,covering, and creating propaganda. Of course, monkeys are highly trainable and intelligent, and respond well to treats, so I guess technically King Barry could be called or compared to a monkey. He’s been trained well by Ayers, Wright, Harvard, Soros, and his Wookie wife. He’s easily bought off and gets treated to many a party and vacays, so I guess this lady hit the mark. It’s not like she gunwalking and putting American and foreign lives at risk.
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:47pmBecause MSNBC was too hard to spell…
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:49pmBecause his favorite pedophila site is down.
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:51pmBecause he was searching for “blaze” in the context of marijuana.
Report Post »BIgWheeler
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:02pmBecause he’s a closet racist and it scares him.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:04pmI’m Appalled – this woman just insulted Monkeys!
Report Post »majasdad
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:35pmThanks for the intelligent comments Nevermind.
Report Post »Keep up the good work!
charleyrocks
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:48amNo it’s not right she called the president a monkey, they are still hurting because of the past. Some people on the right have to grow up. Most republicans don’t think that way.
Report Post »scruffycat
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:01amChimpanzee
Report Post »http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee
Steel
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:41amGeez! If you had a mind, you‘d realize that we’re all racists, including you. Please tell me that in your lifetime you’ve never used a politically incorrect word to describe a person who is unlike yourself. If you do, I’d immediately assume you are lying. So why be hypocritical? Perhaps it’s because all liberals are? But I know you can’t help it – it’s in your DNA. By the way, I wear the title “racist” as a badge of honor because, try as I may, I sometimes do utter racists remarks. The difference between you and me is that I readily admit and you don’t. That makes you and those like you hypocrites, doesn’t it? In a word – yes!
Report Post »nomoonbat
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19amDid’nt Bill Maher just call the Republican party “the party of the apes” when refering the rep. Allen West? Oh that’s right, they can and we can’t.
Report Post »Unbelievable
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:32pmExactly!!
I don’t condone name calling for anyone.. Can’t stand personal attacks!! I’m like Corry Booker, we can disagree with civility…. but on the other hand the left can not call out the right for doing the same exact thing they do.
Report Post »LetUsReason
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:06pmI don’t condone this, either, but you can call someone whatever you’d like. This isn’t China or Iran, yet. Free speech is still what we stand behind as a unique country. If someone gets offended by what she said, then that’s something they are going to have to deal with. The words did not threaten safety, so let her say what she wants. The free market will determine her punishment, if/when people stop listening to the station.
Report Post »Winedude
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:15amI cannot say I’m shocked to find this story on the Blaze. It has all the nastiness towards the President that Glenn and his ignorant sheeple want to see. Moreover, it gives them the opportunity to “pile-on” with even more racist nonsense.
Report Post »M13
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:24amYour name should be whinedude, whinedude.
Report Post »Voice_of_One
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:09pm@Winedude
Report Post »You think that’s bad, wait till she starts in on oblahblah’s black half.
What a loser.
stogieguy7
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:10pmBooo hooo hooo. Any excuse to change the subject that Obama the choom gang veteran is utterly incompetent and – as such – is incredibly dangerous. Curious George could do better.
Disclaimer: any resemblance amongst the characters discussed in the above post are purely coincidental.
Report Post »Baddoggy
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:10pmI hate racism. I hate peple like you who think this is racism even more. It was NOT racist. How is saying someone a monkey a racist statement? My father called me that all the time when i was a kid…Maybe my father was calling his pinkish kid a racist name? Huh….
You sir are an IDIOT.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:31pmWinedude it should Whinedude. White Liberal Trash will be the death of us all. The lady was not referring to obama (lower case on purpose) being related to a monkey, it had nothing to do with race. omam is half black and half white, after all. My Gran used to call me a monkey and I’m red headed or at least used to be and freckled.. Maher can call all of us monkeys and WLT(White liberal Trash) swoons with delight. When obama usurps the Consitution and the Bill of Rights WLT will think they’ve died and gone to heretics heaven. God save the Republic, He is the only one who can.
Report Post »Cesium
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 1:42pm@WineDude.. Or like most people, the Blaze finds this reprehensible and actually will report News… When crazy right wingers do something criminal.. Blaze reports it… That is what I respect about this source, though it is conservative biased but not too far right either.. I love when they present scientific discoveries and they only get 30 comments opposed to some faith based story getting 1000 comments.. Just shows how stupid humans are and how in this country, they place more value on mythical answers than the real search for truth… The protected civil peace we all enjoy is thanks to scientific discoveries that we capitalized on… If we all still lived under rule of the cross, it would be a very brutal place indeed.
Report Post »SocialistSlayer
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:07pmI’m shocked that the racist liberals can read!
Report Post »vanman4446
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:31pmDude go suck on a lollipop
Report Post »Cemetery
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:15amMonkeys could do a better job.
Report Post »Dismayed Veteran
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:16pmPut a monkey in a room with paint and a brush. Soon or later, it will paint the Mona Lisa.
Report Post »chips1
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:48pmJust another topless painter.
Report Post »Tri-ox
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:12amSo what. The left called Bush a monkey – a chimp, all the time – this woman can say whatever she wants – we still have freedom of speech – at the moment – but if obama is re-elected, that will quickly change.
Report Post »BumperMorgan
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:47amTime for God to flush this toilet and start over again.
Report Post »bigdaddyt46
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 6:37amanyone who needs a good laugh and a short education on econmics 101 watch this vis it’s quite funny.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=3h8O7V-WxWQ
Report Post »Blazen420
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11amGood thing she is hispanic, or whites would have to bow down again.
Report Post »booger71
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:21amShe is another white hispanic
Report Post »Nevermind
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:09amteddrunk
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:41am
My God what an idiot. Once again, a woman is starting trouble that we don’t need.
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What trouble? All she is doing is saying in public what the majority of the TEA/GOP say in private. All the racist emails sent back and forth to each other and name calling in private, at least this women has enough guts to say how she feels. I dont like racists but i do repsect them if open wiht their views, at least you know where she is coming from . Alot of the posters here are coward racists and will point to stats or something else silly to justify a statement when all they want to do is yell the N word.
If you are racist, be proud of it. She inst a coward like most on this site.
Report Post »AvengerK
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:17amNEVERMIND…that “racist tea party” thing didn’t work for you lefties, did you think that dusting it off and trying it again would be a good idea? Are you that rigidly conditioned?
Report Post »mayasaay
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19amUh, no. We don’t even say those things in private. Sorry to disappoint you.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:13pmI thought gorilla was a slur for black people….no one called Bush a gorilla, they called him a monkey. Or were they calling his white half a monkey?
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:26pmNoMind, What about your boy, Bill Maharhardharhar? Are you going to condemn him as a racist for referring to black republicans as Planet of the Apes? I didn’t think so.
Report Post »disgustedAmerican
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 3:08pmI’m not racist… I’m an equal opportunity hater. Further more, thank you Randy for this great quip…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=t12jpv_O3Jk
Report Post »term limits for congress
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:05amShe’s only 1/32 non-racist.
Report Post »scrudge
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:03amI see you stilllll have your head up your backside
Report Post »Justus39
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:02amWe could be like Democrats and wish they were dead or tell folks to go an attack the White House.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:00amTypical right wing racist.
Report Post »stogieguy7
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:13pmI suppose that you should go and hang out with the radical left wing then. If you’re white, you’ll make lots of friends in places like south Chicago, south Bronx, Roxbury (MA), Compton/Watts/Inglewood, CA, Liberty City (Miami), etc. No racism in those places – the residents there NEVER hurt someone because of the color of their skin. Only white places do that. Maine and New Hampshire are SO dangerous.
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:53pmTrollmunger I’ve told you this before. One last chance than I fear you will have an experience of a super natural nature that will forever change your life, perhaps not for the better. Come up from under your bridge walk in the sun shine, find the path of love. If you do not your life will change and you will either live a better life or you will truly know hell before you pass on to the next life. As Scrooge found out you will be visited not be three but by one specter. Beware Troll. The super natural is nothing to play around with.
Report Post »scrudge
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:00amAh Yes….. worse than a monkey… he is a sack of sub-human waste
Report Post »jakartaman
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:52amLLL = Low Life liberals.
Report Post »Stay classy conservatives – we could win the battle and lose the war!
Nevermind
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:50amOf course the TEA party and GOP arent racist, lol. Stay classy you racsit fools, looking at the comments on here it seems she isnt the only one that feels that way. As i have said , the TEA party and the GOP are racist idiots and they show it more and more each day. Luckily the last tea party idiot i ran into got fired by my lawyer , she was sendin gthose racist Obama emails and i alerted him to it. Sh e is now unemployed and lost her home, she is where racist trash belong. On the streets.
Funny thing is racists think names like this hurt balck people, they dont. All they show is how stupid and scrared white people are of losing power. The more the countbecomes mulit cultural the more white people go nuts and try to cling to power. Be it voting rights, immigration or prsins. they try to find a way to hold on to power but it isnt owrking and more people are waking up to see that whitees are just scrared and have a lust for power. Shame
Report Post »GatorSkin
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11amWhy are you here then?????????????????
Report Post »AZRACISTBIGOT
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:27amDefinition of “Racist & Bigot” (Synonyms)
“A conservitive winning an argument with a liberal”
The last time I checked, this woman has the right to call him anything she wants
Report Post »If you don’t agree, then don’t listen.
That’s how First Amendment works
Corwin of Amber
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:17pmPlease learn to spell before posting. It is very hard to take you seriously, and it becomes harder when your poor language skills are demonstrated. By chance, did you go to high school with Sheila Jackson Lee?
Report Post »hayesstephen
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:45pmIf your story is true (probably not) than you are one sad excuse for a human being. You act more like a monkey. As a matter of fact even if your story is true your’e still a sorry excuse for a human. Why don’t you take the time and give us names dates locations. Oh I forgot you’re liberal trash, you like to shout people down, back stab, lie,steal, cheat, disrupt, create havoc and violence, all the while hiding in the shadows. I take back calling you a monkey, a monkey is a decent animal, you are in no way decent or anything that has a moral sense of honesty about it. God save our Glorious Republic, because he is the only thing that can.
Report Post »bumfuzeled
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:50pm@Never a mind
Report Post »Seems you have made the typical liberal mistake of grouping All conservatives as racists again. No one I know could be considered racist or scared of anything this administration has done. We can and have survived stupidity in the white house (Carter years) and will survive the current idiot in chief. We are however, disappointed in the lack of intellect noted on the left. You lefties seem incapable of holding civil debate and resort to racist talk far too often to take you seriously. When/If you grow up, please rejoin the discussion. Maybe after you have held your first real job and actually paid taxes will you understand the Tea Party.
BCanook
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:32pmLet’s move along folks. Nothing to see here but a name calling hater.
Report Post »plastinoid
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:43amWell let’s see……….Ears like a monkey…check………..the intelligence of a monkey…check…………..throws poop at everyone he does not like….check……married to what many call “The Silverback” I would say she was correct in her summation.
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:59amwow. just wow.
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:40pm@PHILLY…is it ONLY racist because it is a black person being called a monkey? Or is the label “monkey” racist no matter who it is describing? PLAST made a pretty good case for him sharing enough in common w/ a monkey that he could logically recieve that label…why is that “wow. just wow”?
I refer to my oldest daughter as a “monkey” just about everyday of her life. There are MILLIONS of people EVERY day that are referred to as whatever animal they seem to resemble, why is this the only one that is racist? I just don’t get you liberal “monkeys”…
Report Post »Kisses6350
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:49amSeriously??????????????????? Wow!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »phillyatheist
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:42amno racism here. moving on…
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:41amMy God what an idiot. Once again, a woman is starting trouble that we don’t need.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:57am“With a last name of Espinosa I’m anything but racist” As though only whites can be racists. I think East LA is a shinning example of how well the these two groups get along. And this is the type of individuals media companies put on the radio and businesses support with their advertizing. But hey it makes for good blog reports and posts. Brings out all the people who either hate their lives and want to blame it on someone else or the individuals who seek to make money feeding and fueling that hate. This report is the case in point.
Report Post »M13
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:25amMore stupidity and lies from jrook.
Report Post »usedCZARsalesman
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:31pmhow so M13? I don’t agree with JROOK very often, but she definitely seems like someone that is using that discription to fuel tensions (because there’s money in it, just ask Al). Just because you have free speech, doesn’t mean you should say EVERYTHING that comes to your fool head
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40amI wish… then we could throw him a Banana… and he would go play himself!
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:04amAnd another right wing racist comment.
Report Post »Conservative-Atheist
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40amObama is not a monkey! He’s a jackass!
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:52amAmen. Jesus loves you.
Report Post »oldchevyguy
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:11pmPlease! I have 2 donkeys and when they are compared to Obama it take me hours to calm them down.Stick with the monkey thing.
Report Post »aChameleon
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40amThis is not helping the cause.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:23pmWho is not helping what cause? You don’t know anything about anyone commenting on here or what their true intentions are. This forum is open to any idiot who wants to comment.
Report Post »contkmi
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40amThere are so many things wrong with this presidency. Do we really need to resort to racially suggestive overtones?
C’mon lady, stick to the facts. Like U6 at 16%.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:22pmHow do you know who is making comments? NOBODY on here knows for sure what anyone’s political leanings are. Anyone can comment on here. The same Leftist idiots who call into conservative talk shows and claim they are conservative write garbage on here and try to make it sound like it is coming from the Right.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39amThe Choom Chimp.
Report Post »TROLLMONGER
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:03amAnother right wing racist comment.
Report Post »M13
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:26amTroll if you don’t like it leave.
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:17pmThat is all you could come up with Troll? Did you just copy and paste?
Bow down and worship your Choom Chimp, Chump.
Report Post »vsraglan
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39amI wouldn’t have said it, but she’s right; it’s still a free country. I don’t think what she said is “hate speech.”
Report Post »NOT A CRAZY
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:53amWhere is the “hate speech” clause in the 1st Amendment?
Report Post »BCanook
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:43pmHate speech, hate crime, hate thought, racist, racism … Look them up in the lefty handbook – words to use when you don’t agree, or can’t understand what someone is saying.
Report Post »nolefan2
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39amThe only problem I have with that is that it insults monkeys.
Report Post »3monkeysmomma
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19amAgreed! I call my babies my “monkeys”. They are far classier than Obama and have a better understanding of the constitution.
Report Post »Retired-Navy
Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:37amI was going to post that this shows a lack of respect for monkeys. Now, it would be redundant for me to create my own post.
Report Post »Cabo King
Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:37amI have a sudden urge for a Banana
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