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Ariz. Radio Host Calls Obama a ‘Monkey’ and Stands by It

Barbara Espinosa Obama monkey

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:

Comments (163)

  • Nevermind
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am

    GatorSkin
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am
    Why are you here then?????????????????

    ************

    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?

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    • kansas hawks 3
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:35am

      Yes why are all of you people so S T U P I D…………

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    • M13
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:38am

      Shouldn’t your name be neverhad a mind?

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:40am

      Did you believe that your juvenile quips would make you look any less pathetic NEVERMIND?

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    • Truthbeliever2
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:20pm

      Madeleine Morgenstern removed my comment.

      Freedom of Speech much???

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:41pm

      NEVERMIND:
      Here!!! Have a peanut and a banana. Good boy!!!

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    • Independent4233
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 1:43pm

      Nevermind
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am
      GatorSkin
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am
      “Why are you here then?????????????????”

      ************

      “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?

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    • mils
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 1:58pm

      obama 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.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:12pm

      Hey 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.

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    • DisgruntledInClinton
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:59pm

      This is an insult to fine monkeys everywhere.

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    • yiska8
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 3:31pm

      Yeah, 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.

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    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:47pm

      Because MSNBC was too hard to spell…

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    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:49pm

      Because his favorite pedophila site is down.

      Report Post » BIgWheeler  
    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:51pm

      Because he was searching for “blaze” in the context of marijuana.

      Report Post » BIgWheeler  
    • BIgWheeler
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Because he’s a closet racist and it scares him.

      Report Post » BIgWheeler  
    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:04pm

      I’m Appalled – this woman just insulted Monkeys!

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    • majasdad
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:35pm

      Thanks for the intelligent comments Nevermind.
      Keep up the good work!

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    • charleyrocks
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 4:48am

      No 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.

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    • scruffycat
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:01am

      Chimpanzee
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee

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    • Steel
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:41am

      Geez! 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!

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  • nomoonbat
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am

    Did’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.

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    • Unbelievable
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:32pm

      Exactly!!

      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.

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    • LetUsReason
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 2:06pm

      I 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.

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  • Winedude
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:15am

    I 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.

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    • M13
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:24am

      Your name should be whinedude, whinedude.

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    • Voice_of_One
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:09pm

      @Winedude
      You think that’s bad, wait till she starts in on oblahblah’s black half.
      What a loser.

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    • stogieguy7
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:10pm

      Booo 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.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:10pm

      I 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.

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:31pm

      Winedude 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.

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    • 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.

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    • SocialistSlayer
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 5:07pm

      I’m shocked that the racist liberals can read!

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    • vanman4446
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 7:31pm

      Dude go suck on a lollipop

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  • Cemetery
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:15am

    Monkeys could do a better job.

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    • Dismayed Veteran
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:16pm

      Put a monkey in a room with paint and a brush. Soon or later, it will paint the Mona Lisa.

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    • chips1
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:48pm

      Just another topless painter.

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  • Tri-ox
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:12am

    So 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.

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  • Blazen420
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am

    Good thing she is hispanic, or whites would have to bow down again.

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  • Nevermind
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:09am

    teddrunk
    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.

    ***********
    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.

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    • AvengerK
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:17am

      NEVERMIND…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?

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    • mayasaay
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am

      Uh, no. We don’t even say those things in private. Sorry to disappoint you.

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    • loriann12
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:13pm

      I 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?

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:26pm

      NoMind, 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.

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    • disgustedAmerican
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 3:08pm

      I’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

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  • term limits for congress
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:05am

    She’s only 1/32 non-racist.

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  • scrudge
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:03am

    I see you stilllll have your head up your backside

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  • Justus39
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:02am

    We could be like Democrats and wish they were dead or tell folks to go an attack the White House.

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  • TROLLMONGER
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:00am

    Typical right wing racist.

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    • stogieguy7
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:13pm

      I 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.

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:53pm

      Trollmunger 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.

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  • scrudge
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:00am

    Ah Yes….. worse than a monkey… he is a sack of sub-human waste

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  • jakartaman
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:52am

    LLL = Low Life liberals.
    Stay classy conservatives – we could win the battle and lose the war!

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  • Nevermind
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:50am

    Of 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

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    • GatorSkin
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:11am

      Why are you here then?????????????????

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    • AZRACISTBIGOT
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:27am

      Definition 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
      If you don’t agree, then don’t listen.
      That’s how First Amendment works

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    • Corwin of Amber
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:17pm

      Please 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?

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    • hayesstephen
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:45pm

      If 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.

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    • bumfuzeled
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 12:50pm

      @Never a mind
      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.

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    • BCanook
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:32pm

      Let’s move along folks. Nothing to see here but a name calling hater.

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  • plastinoid
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:43am

    Well 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.

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    • phillyatheist
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:59am

      wow. just wow.

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    • 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”…

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    • Kisses6350
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 8:49am

      Seriously??????????????????? Wow!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • phillyatheist
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:42am

    no racism here. moving on…

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  • teddrunk
    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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    • 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.

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    • M13
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:25am

      More stupidity and lies from jrook.

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    • usedCZARsalesman
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 4:31pm

      how 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

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  • lukerw
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40am

    I wish… then we could throw him a Banana… and he would go play himself!

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  • Conservative-Atheist
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40am

    Obama is not a monkey! He’s a jackass!

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:52am

      Amen. Jesus loves you.

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    • oldchevyguy
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:11pm

      Please! I have 2 donkeys and when they are compared to Obama it take me hours to calm them down.Stick with the monkey thing.

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  • aChameleon
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40am

    This is not helping the cause.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:23pm

      Who 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.

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  • contkmi
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:40am

    There 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%.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:22pm

      How 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.

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  • NOT A CRAZY
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39am

    The Choom Chimp.

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    • TROLLMONGER
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:03am

      Another right wing racist comment.

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    • M13
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:26am

      Troll if you don’t like it leave.

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:17pm

      That is all you could come up with Troll? Did you just copy and paste?

      Bow down and worship your Choom Chimp, Chump.

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  • vsraglan
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39am

    I 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.”

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    • NOT A CRAZY
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:53am

      Where is the “hate speech” clause in the 1st Amendment?

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    • BCanook
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Hate 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.

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  • nolefan2
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:39am

    The only problem I have with that is that it insults monkeys.

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    • 3monkeysmomma
      Posted on June 20, 2012 at 11:19am

      Agreed! I call my babies my “monkeys”. They are far classier than Obama and have a better understanding of the constitution.

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    • Retired-Navy
      Posted on June 21, 2012 at 10:37am

      I 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.

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  • Cabo King
    Posted on June 20, 2012 at 10:37am

    I have a sudden urge for a Banana

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