Go figure: John Dennis is not only still a racist, he doesn't see the hypocrisy of somebody who's had his weight problems criticizing somebody else's weight.
Via Bruce Allen, who notes the misogyny of that Minihane guy who's also on the show.
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that station is FAR too right
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 12:54pm
that station is FAR too right winged to be liked or respected in this blog.
I can't picture how that kind
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:01pm
I can't picture how that kind of hate can be liked or respected ANYWHERE.
The station isn't right-wing: it's just those two obsolete old
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:19pm
farts. And even they have been forced by management to tone down their mocking-poor-black-kids act since they started getting their ratings asses handed to them by The Sports Hub.
The younger demographic that advertisers covet seem to be a bit more uncomfortable with foaming bigotry and Fox News level distortions of current events with their morning coffee. Most of the rest of EEI's lineup keeps the politics out of it, except occasionally for Mikey Adams, who gets the garbage time slots and everyone treats as seriously as their hippie great-uncle who fried his brain on acid in 1969, anyway.
If you know Mike Adams
By Brian Riccio
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:20pm
you know it's the booze that fried him out.
It is typical for the far
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:32pm
It is typical for the far left to label someone a "racist" when they do not agree with their agenda. Just look at how many Rebublicans got that label when they did not go along with President Obama on most issuses. Someone stick a fork in the "race card", it is dead.
"Rebublicans" lol
By Yeah Dude
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 4:43pm
Comparing a Metco student to a gorilla is racist. Stick a fork in your Obamaphobia, it's lame.
Calling a bigot a bigot is, in this case,
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 9:33pm
just noting widely-acknowledged facts. D&C's racist comments are well documented and have gotten them suspended. Mouthing some lame rightie talking point ("playing the race card", like calling out ugly prejudice is some kind of game) isn't going to alter that history.
It boggles my mind that these
By ZachAndTired
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:01pm
It boggles my mind that these idiots are still on the air. I know so many people who stopped listening to that station years ago due to their show (myself included).
This seems like a rather
By gotdatwmd
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:15pm
This seems like a rather catty post, no?
Regardless, are fat people now a protected class?
Catty? Nope
By adamg
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:26pm
Catty would have been complaining about his weight a few years ago just for the hell of it. You know, like he did with Michelle Obama. But I didn't. I just find a public figure who has or had a certain condition complaining about somebody else for allegedly having the same condition more than a touch obnoxious.
man criticizes woman's body
By Sharon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:50pm
That she is fat and he is as well is ironic, sure. Obnoxious. definitely. That it seems far too ok for men to comment on women's bodies never mind the fate hate out there, it's inappropriate BS. Our airwaves never used to be littered with this crap.
him being fat doesnt change
By Scumquistador
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 10:51pm
him being fat doesnt change the fact that the woman is fat. i dont see anything wrong with calling a spade a spade, even if you're a spade
Yeah, it does
By adamg
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 11:04pm
But unless you're able to comprehend the concepts of shaming and men who never really left the fourth grade, and who expect women to simply be objects on which they can drool, there's not much point in discussing it, I suppose.
Are doctors in fourth grade too?
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 11:14pm
when they set guidelines for BMI and call some patients obese? The government and schools too? Are Biggest Loser shows wrong? Are some men wrong for preferring a big booty? So too in some foreign cultures? FYI, sexual preferences are not monolithic either.
Are some men just completely clueless?
By adamg
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 12:26am
Do some men not understand what it's like to be called out as fat? Were some men never bulled in school? Are some men unable to differentiate between what a doctor tells her patient and what is shouted at that person in a public forum? Do some men not realize this is the US we're talking about, not some hypothetical foreign country with different standards of "beauty?"
i personally don't care that
By Scumquistador
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:42am
edit: fuck it
you need to seriously tone
By Scumquistador
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:02am
nwi
If you have nothing to add
By adamg
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:14am
No need to squander those precious electrons.
sorry i thought it was
By Scumquistador
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:23am
sorry i thought it was obvious that i edited out my comments because i didnt really feel like continuing the discussion. you can sort of tell because the subject is still there like they had actual content but the bodies don't contain much.
hope that helps!
OK, so you have a daughter
By Markk02474
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:25am
and the media in the US has a very large (excessive) influence on the everyday lives of the population. That media doesn't need to call anyone fat when they glamorize thinness. Encouraging healthy weight isn't the problem, its when people choose to lose weight in unhealthy, lazy ways, and that isn't the fault of media (other than those hawking such products). I'll give you an actual foreign country where people will encourage heath and fitness and tell fat people they are fat. Hint: they just won the World cup in soccer.
Funny you should bring up Germany, Markk ...
By SwirlyGrrl
Fri, 07/18/2014 - 9:18pm
You know how it is they stay so klein?
Well, for starters, the Germans have a lot of bike lanes and bike parking, and charge a lot for car parking
They have programs to get young children on their own bikes and biking to school, and build safe facilities for cycling and walking
They invest heavily in public transit and wide sidewalks
They require drivers to know and follow the laws, and strictly enforce them.
A car driver who hits a cyclist or pedestrian is automatically at fault for the accident.
A truck driver who runs over a cyclist or pedestrian would lose his or her license, job, and might do jail time if they left the scene (rather than being comforted and coddled by police who don't do anything).
Drivers can be required to prove their fitness to drive at any time and have their license removed for medical reasons.
Speed limits are strict and strictly enforced with large fines, insurance surcharges, and license termination. Want to get somewhere quickly in an urban area? Take the train or use your bike. Your favored attitude about how special driving is is tolerated only on the Autobahns, which are built solely for cars and speed.
All of this means that Germany is promoting fitness much the way Michelle Obama is - through good food AND through making it safe to conduct the activities of daily life from the youngest ages without sitting in a car.
fat?
By bibliotequetress
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 7:33pm
Michelle Obama isn't fat. I wish I looked that good-- I'm just a few years younger, and I didn't have two kids.
Being fat doesn't put anyone in a protected class, though scientists now realize that the causes of obesity and how an individual plateaus at a certain body weight is more complicated than we all once assumed. Fatness, however, is not only not a valid reason to attack anyone, but when a fat white guy attacks a fit black woman and specifically focuses on the size of her butt, then I suspect he's actually a frustrated racist who wishes he could attack her based on her skin color but as he wants to cling to his crappy job, he goes for other body characteristics.
But who knows. I'm sure someone is going to say I'm reading to much into this. The question is, who will be first.
D&C are like a lot of right-wingers:
By MC Slim JB
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:13pm
old, frightened, desperately out-of-touch white bigots who mercifully are about to sink into the tar pit of oblivion. (Not sure what Minihane's excuse is, but his comments are repugnant, too. Call him Mini-Hate to D&C's Doctors Crotchet and Hemorrhoid.)
Good riddance, grandpas. If you promise to stay retired and away from microphones, we'll promise to stay off your lawn.
Hate?
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:38pm
Pot meet kettle. Your post is dripping with irony.
Pointing out obvious facts is
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 6:38pm
Pointing out obvious facts is hate? I mean, I know Republicans have a tenuous relationship with reality between their global warming denying, creationism supporting, and Laffer Curve straightening, but I think you're delving into brave new territory here.
D&C are like a lot of right-wingers:
By John
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:20pm
Please don't generalize the right-wingers, as you call us. I am mid-40's with two Masters degrees, I am not a racist homophobic bigot who hates everyone. We want lower taxes, responsibility and accountability in our government and for the most part, to be left the hell alone. We are sick of the hyphenation of our population. Most of us don't listen to their drivel but they do what they can to retain their small listening audience.
Those of us on the right have a simple premise - "Equal Protection Under the Law"
What?
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 4:29pm
I hesitate to ask, but what does sick of the hyphenation of our population mean? Like Irish-American or Italian-American or something else?
People with hyphenated last names
By Markk02474
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 6:47pm
Names like Janette Sadik-Kahn and Sonia Chang-Diaz for two. It was a short lived fad for couples to hyphenate their last names when marrying, though politics of the parents were often integrated into their kids upbringing.
Who is John Dennis?
Of course
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 8:06pm
I should assumed it was something to do with a right winger having an issue with someone else's freedom to make a personal choice. The fact that people would have a problem with what a woman choses to name herself is only too perfect. I do feel bad for the previous poster who was so frustrated by a 'short term fad' that he had to voice his displeasure with it though.
Just one thing
By Waquiot
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:19am
Mark responded to the person who posted, making an assumption what "John" meant by hypenation. I read it as something else- that we are a nation losing it's unity, that rather than being Americans we are Irish-Americans or African-Americans or Transgendered-Americans or Left Handed-Americans, that the pluribus is overtaking the unum.
Of course, I don't want to put words in John's mouth, but still, if he is trying to stake out his brand of conservativism as different from D&C, no one should try to define it other than himself.
Really?
By Bob Leponge
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 8:31am
Some people have a hyphenated last name because it was their father's name, who had it because it was his father's name, and could take you back to England and show you ancestors' graves from the 1500s with the same hyphenated name. You really gonna judge somebody over their surname?
I one's inflated self-importance relies on....
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:03am
... the ability to be judgmental, then pretty much any excuse will do.
"Those of us on the right
By kvn
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 5:30pm
"Those of us on the right have a simple premise - "Equal Protection Under the Law" "
I can dig it , but still, stay off my lawn, that's my prerogative , it's big , and it's fabulous !
But what does "equal protection under the law" even mean?
By acer98foo
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 9:18pm
"In its majestic equality, the law forbids rich and poor alike to sleep under bridges, beg in the streets and steal loaves of bread."
There are multiple ways to interpret what is meant by "equal protection", and unless you're prepared to describe what specific kind of equality you'd like to see optimized, I'm just going to interpret your statement as a rather unimaginative euphemism for "F-you, got mine."
How are you confused ? Splain
By kvn
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 12:24pm
How are you confused ? Splain it to me , Ace . You don't like my lawn ? Do you know how to get one ? You earn it , it's a fruit of your labor. You invest in yourself. Maybe forgo a few vacations , clear the timber , doze the soil , spread some loam, seed and nurture, instead of laying out in the sun at the Cape. Thats how I got my lawn. Be productive and prosper. Got my education equally just as the other lads in the room. Paid my taxes , whichever ones the threw at me, equally , like most people. I could go on, but you get my drift. Want Rights, there are Responsibilities that go along. As in nature , there is no such thing as a free lunch.But I don't go along with the notion that anyone has the right to pick my pockets. The old saying , give a man a fish , he eats . Give him a fishing rod , he eats everyday. But you don't buy him a flucking fish franchise restaurant. Carry on , have to mow the lawn .
Well, I'm glad we got that all cleared up.
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 12:59pm
There's nothing quite like a farrago of randomly strung together cliches to provide a window into your thinking.
Now if you'll excuse me, I think my soil has dozed long enough; time to wake it up.
Another peep from the peanut
By kvn
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:00pm
Another peep from the peanut gallery. I got your number already, your window looks out to fantasy land.
Don't get me wrong; I quite enjoyed that, uh, manifesto, or
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:17pm
whatever that was that you just posted there. I assume you patched it together from Salada teabag tags, diner sugar packets, and rebuses from the underside of Mickey's wide-mouth malt liquor bottle caps.
Haffenreffer or go home.
By Scratchie
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:34pm
Haffenreffer or go home.
Equal Protection = Rule of Law
By Waquiot
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:12pm
No, it doesn't mean that anyone is entitled to a lawn or anything else.
Equal protection means that under the law all are considered equal. You have access to the courts (though not necessarily to the best lawyers) and you have certain rights that apply to all. There are legal rights, voting rights, items in the Bill of Rights, that we all are allowed to have.
Some think it means equality of outcome, which it doesn't. It also doesn't mean that we all start out equal. It just means that we all have certain rights that cannot be taken away.
so...
By bosguy22
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 3:10pm
It's ok to generalize about one group of people (right-wingers), but no others? D&C are complete assholes, but they don't represent anyone but themselves. What you said is no worse than what they say.
You conflating "like a lot of
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 3:27pm
You conflating "like a lot of" with "all," while I'm sure inadvertent, is still hilarious in the context of this discussion. BRAVO!
Uh, you mean equating?
By bosguy22
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:30am
So it's ok if I say "a lot of black people are lazy", or "a lot of asians are bad drivers" or "a lot of Muslims are terrorists"...as long as I don't say "all"? Generalizing any large group of people (be it ethnic class, political party, religion) is wrong and foolish.
You might have a leg to stand on here
By MC Slim JB
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 2:23pm
if the Republican Party weren't the comfy home of racism, religious intolerance, homophobia, and xenophobia in this country. You can stop complaining about being tarred with the bigot brush when the GOP stops exploiting those kinds of fear and prejudice as a central part of its strategy for winning elections.
The fact that these two radio hosts are deeply conservative and laugh heartily while making racist slurs isn't a coincidence. When more conservatives speak out openly every time one of their leaders exhibits this kind of intolerance, then you can complain. In the meantime: prejudice is the conservative brand. If you promote it and you exploit it, or you sit by silently when your fellow conservatives do, then you own it. If you're sorry about that, imagine how the people that conservatives routinely vilify for political ends feel. If you want to distance yourself from such ugliness, stop putting those assholes up for public office.
Good Riddance, grandpas?
By moxie
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 6:18pm
What kind of hate-mongering age-ist crap is that? I demand an apology. And reparations, by gum. I'm very very offended!
Aside from the awfullness of it all...
By whyaduck
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:26pm
Jackie? Really? A woman with the intellectual heft of an empty cabinet, albeit a lovely to gaze at empty cabinet.
you have to admit, those
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 1:27pm
you have to admit, those comments on erin Andrews were classic. does anyone even still have a crush on her nowadays?
Count me in , along with Suzy
By kvn
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 4:41pm
Count me in , along with Suzy Kolber.....
WEEI's
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:34pm
advertisers and business partners like the Red Sox must endorse this bonehead banter. As people, these corporations are merely expressing through Johnny the chin, Gerry the hood and Kirk the cross dresser, their first amendment right to free speech.
Need a magnifying glass to find racism, hypocrisy here
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:51pm
So it's now racism to point out more dismal poll results for this president while acknowledging the hypocrisy of an overweight woman telling people what to eat, even taking away food choices for children? Wow. I don't recall John Dennis ever lecturing people on their diet. If he did, that would be hypocrisy. As for unflattering comparisons of Jackie Kennedy's looks with other First Ladies, Eleanor Roosevelt, Hillary Clinton and a few other FL's could probably relate. Racism? Hardly. FWIW, I find daily sports radio trite and only listen during major playoffs or controversies.
Go
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:51pm
for an eye exam.
20/15 in both, bulgingbuick
By O-FISH-L
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:54pm
Witty, but your comment avoids the fact that there is no racism or hypocrisy there. Typical. It involves a non-liberal public figure, so throw it out there anyway. I get it.
We need to take
By bulgingbuick
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:56pm
"our" country back.
People were saying the same
By Dave
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 3:35pm
People were saying the same sort of things when the cigar shover was in charge, and he's even whiter than Callahan.
"Take our country back" was
By racist dog whistle
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 4:50pm
"Take our country back" was practically Howard Dean's campaign slogan in '04. Hillary Clinton said it a bunch during her '08 campaign as well. Much like dissent is only patriotic when a Republican is president, "take our country back" is only hateful and inflammatory when Dems are running the show.
Richard Nixon
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:08pm
Barry Goldwater, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George HW Bush, Pat Buchanan, George W. Bush all enjoyed the take our country back tour through the South and brought us the modern Southern centric GOP. Ask Thad Cochran how it works.
Sure
By Kaz
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:57pm
And the picture of Obama as a witch doctor was all about healthcare.
We should all just stop discussing this
By SwirlyGrrl
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 6:18pm
A white man just told us all that it wasn't racism or sexism. So, therefore, it can't possibly be anything of the sort. White men being the ultimate arbiters of what is and isn't racist or sexist, after all. The rest of the population isn't qualified to even consider it.
At the very least, the comments
By roadman
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 7:39pm
have nothing to do with SPORTS (you know, the supposed purpose of the show). The fact that 'EEI tolerates this stuff just shows how out of tune they are with their core mission.
And, sorry, but opinion polls are NOT facts and have no legitimate place in media reporting.
How is this any different than TMZ?
By Pete Nice
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 2:57pm
They have tons of jokes like the ones on the WEEI morning show, and I don't think anyone is claiming that WEEI is anything different than a local TMZ show.....
TMZ isn't local
By adamg
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 11:07pm
And I'm very parochial that way. But in any case, just because TMZ does it (which I have no knowledge of, since I don't visit the site) doesn't make it right.
It is a larger social media trend though....
By Pete Nice
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 12:21am
being mean, disrespectful, etc ,etc.
Hell, Joan Rivers called the first lady a tranny last week and there wasn't much hoopla about that one.
that's because...
By John-W
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 8:07am
...Joan Rivers is an irrelevant lump of silicone and scar tissue that should have called it quits when Johnny Carson left the screen.
I never understood...
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 8:10am
... (over the course of around 50 years) why anyone ever considered her to be funny.
Joan Rivers is fucking
By gotdatwmd
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 9:35am
Joan Rivers is fucking hilarious. Everyone needs to watch the documentary about her ("A Piece of Work") on Netflix. She's a wonderful comedian.
Humor is subjective
By Michael Kerpan
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 10:04am
and her "humor" always made me cringe.
That is
By bulgingbuick
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:10pm
insulting to scar tissue and silicone.
Oh Shush!!
By John-W
Thu, 07/17/2014 - 1:42pm
.
" It’s lily whiteness vs.
By kvn
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 3:22pm
" It’s lily whiteness vs. savage blackness. And if you don’t see that … if you think it’s merely a comparison between two individual women, well, you’re blind. Absolutely blind."
That is kind of incendiary in itself. It's a picture of two wives of Presidents. Being a wife doesn't make anyone an expert on anything. I just see a picture of two women that enhanced their own worth by being wives of Presidents. I read what I read , and eat what I eat, don't need advice from the such.
...with the text that reads
By anon
Wed, 07/16/2014 - 4:28pm
...with the text that reads "What Happened America?" So what was meant by that?
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