CBS's Nancy Giles Claims UCLA Student Mocking Asians Was 'Straight Out of the Rush Limbaugh Playbook'
On CBS's Sunday Morning, left-wing commentator Nancy Giles managed to attack Rush Limbaugh while condemning a UCLA student's internet video rant against Asians: "Her monologue was straight out of the Rush Limbaugh playbook from a few months ago....And Rush is a cartoon. In my humble opinion."
A clip was played of Limbaugh mocking Chinese President Hu Jintao after a joint press conference held with President Obama in January. Giles could have just as easily said that UCLA student Alexandra Wallace was taking a page out of the Rosie O'Donnell playbook.
Concluding her commentary, Giles called for greater civility: "Freedom of speech doesn't mean you have to say the first nasty thing that comes out of your mouth or threaten someone you don't agree with or call them names. Freedom of speech is why I have this job. And I try to choose my words carefully. And if not that, there's always the old saying that if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything. I'm just saying."
Perhaps Giles should take her own advice, given her long history of offensive and threatening comments towards those she disagrees with:
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Here is a full transcript of Giles' March 27 commentary:
10:09AM ET
NANCY GILES: In case you haven't heard, there was a recent video posted on YouTube by a UCLA student with some issues.
ALEXANDRA WALLACE: The problem is these hordes of Asian people.
GILES: And that video went viral and it's now been viewed millions of times.
WALLACE: In America, we do not talk on our cell phones in the library.
GILES: Now when I first saw it, it looked like something from Funny or Die, the comedy video website. I mean, she was too much of a stereotype. Blonde valley girl student, push-up bra, vapid speech patterns, blissfully self-involved and blind to anything around her.
WALLACE [IN MOCK ASIAN LANGUAGE]: Ching chong, ling long, ting tong.
Of course she'd be mocking all the Asians at UCLA. Her monologue was straight out of the Rush Limbaugh playbook from a few months ago.
RUSH LIMBAUGH [MOCKING CHINESE PRESIDENT HU]: Ching cha!
WALLACE: And Rush is a cartoon. In my humble opinion. But she was a real student. And her name is Alexandra Wallace and the mind boggles. Years ago, a student told me that UCLA really stood for United Caucasians Lost Among Asians. Funny, right? And telling.
So, maybe Miss Wallace was feeling surrounded and scared and she didn't like it. But why post a video? Why not confession? Or therapy? Or medication? But in the age of YouTube and Facebook, millions of people want millions of other people to know what's on your mind. And what used to be a snarky note sent in confidence has now morphed into ready and willing public meanness or a not-so-funny tweet.
Of course, free speech is one of our country's fundamental rights, and a big part of what makes the United States great. And levity, irony, even sarcasm can be powerful tools to deal with some of life`s darkest moments. And, hey, I get Miss Wallace's whining about college kids whose parents wait on them hand and foot.
WALLACE: Everybody that they know that they've brought along from Asia with them comes here on the weekend to do their laundry, buy their groceries.
GILES: In college, I had to do my own laundry. Who wouldn't want someone to do their laundry? Now, I might be old school but I think Japan's terrible time is a lot more than a nuisance of emergency calls in the library.
WALLACE: I swear they're going through their whole families, just checking on everybody from the tsunami thing. I mean I know, okay, that sounds horrible.
GILES: And maybe Miss Wallace was just kidding around. But where's the joke in Japan right now? Is it the knee-slapping destruction? The belly laughable loss of life?
Freedom of speech doesn't mean you have to say the first nasty thing that comes out of your mouth or threaten someone you don't agree with or call them names. Freedom of speech is why I have this job. And I try to choose my words carefully. And if not that, there's always the old saying that if you don't have something good to say, don't say anything. I'm just saying.
— Kyle Drennen is a news analyst at the Media Research Center. You can follow him on Twitter here.
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Another Page Out of the Lefts Playbook
Submitted by Utherpend on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:42pm.
Misdirect, Insult, and cloud the issue.
Rush's Jintao impression went viral because
Submitted by SickofLibs on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:44pm.
it is freakin' hilarious.
Nothing funny about Giles whatsoever.
Humble...
Submitted by PJRyan on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:45pm.
is not nearly a strong enough term for her opinion.
racist
Submitted by cyborg0012 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:45pm.
She's such a enraged racist, throwing fits around like that. She makes me ill.
Or
Submitted by Ashrak on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:46pm.
She also could have chosen Danny Devito
This idiot.
Submitted by Texndoc on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 5:47pm.
Wow, her past hits are like a "BEST OF". I remember her telling Larry King to cut the mike of the Tea Party spokeswoman. And I remember Larry King telling her to shove it.
I haven't been to CBS for News since the 1970s.
WALLACE [IN MOCK ASIAN LANGUAGE]: Ching chong, ling long, ting tong.
That's "straight out of" Rosie ODonnell and "The View", stupid.
You're right, Texndoc
Submitted by Galvanic on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:07pm.
And don't forget Biden's quip about Indians working in 7-Elevens in Delaware.
Oh no! We musn't make fun of tyrannical commie puke "leaders"
Submitted by Dave. on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:00pm.
And I suspect that is what many on the far left were really upset about, not that Hu is Chinese.
(For the record, I think what Rush did was hilarious).
Hu sucks, and so does his stinking commie country.
Commies pretty much suck no matter what country they run, and deserve whatever derisive insults are thrown at them.
If comrade Giles doesn't like it, she can move to friggin' China, and take her red star printed thongs with her.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
and they wonder why...
Submitted by spepper on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:15pm.
....the ratings on their programs at the Columbia Broadcasting Service keep plummeting? Because most people wanting honest news stories are increasingly avoiding channels that keep showing the same "train wrecks" over and over again-- the predictable "train wrecks" of robotic, biased propagandizing that ALWAYS swerve in the same direction on the same alphabet soup networks...
When Giles is just...
Submitted by Kingfish17 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:18pm.
When Giles is just as outraged over moments when someone like Hillary Clinton slips into a "Negro dialiect", I'll believe she's equally indignant over someone like a Rush Limbaugh using a "Chinese dialect".
"You can’t go take a trip to Las Vegas...on the taxpayer’s dime." Barack Obama
Hey Nancy Giles........
Submitted by djwolf12 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:22pm.
look up Rosie O'Donnell on Youtube making fun of Oriental people. You seriously must have spent your weekend sniffing glue.
When I saw the UCLA clip I didn't make the connection
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:15pm.
But when I heard the audio only, it sounded exactly like that Rosie rant. I don't recall that getting as much press.
That clip could also have passed for any of Margaret Cho's stage routines.
And whos the cartoon?
Submitted by brutony1 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:27pm.
Love the pic of this "journalist!" THATS a cartoon character if I ever saw one! Nice hair-Hey, Nancy- the 70's called-they want their 'fro back!
When will liberals WAKE UP AND SMELL THE COFFEE! -Me
Who the Hell is Giles Nancy and why should we care?
Submitted by ConservaSerb on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 6:44pm.
Is she what I sometimes step in when I visit a dairy farm?
A wise & frugal government, which shall leave men free 2 regulate their own pursuits of industry & improvement, & shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government. T. Jefferson
THIS WOMAN IS A BOZO.
Submitted by StewartIII on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 8:09pm.
WHAT LIMBAUGH DID WASN'T NEW:
Jerry Lewis - Chinese Chef in Hardly Working
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRCsSrnz90s
Gotta wonder...
Submitted by Radical1979 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 9:12pm.
I wonder how she feels about the South Park musical mocking Mormons?
More Time
Submitted by Jerry Mack on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:12pm.
If they had given her more time she could have worked Beck,Palin and Hannity into the story and blamed it on George Bush. Maybe next time.
The video of the co-ed
Submitted by JPTSO3 on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 10:32pm.
The video of the co-ed complaining about Asians in a UCLA library went viral and stayed viral for a week. About a week longer than Giles' relevancy. Staying current for a week in internet time (calculated in nanoseconds) is akin to forever.
The girl in the video, Alexandra Wallace received quick condemnation, followed by vitriolic outrage, followed by death threats. That's right, death threats.
I found the video offensive, but not for the reasons most have cited. It’s nothing but a disorganized muse of a dimwitted breasty blonde. It wasn’t threatening. It wasn’t contextually interesting. The rant wasn’t demeaning. Substantively, she complained of Asians talking in the library. Arguably, that complaint isn’t offensive. In fact talking in the library is offensive not complaining about it.
Beyond being so foolish as sitting for a video and broadcasting it on YouTube her universally fatal mistake was doing a Charlie Chan mockery accent of an Asian. She imitated an Asian by saying “ching-chong-ling” – those words cooked her goose. It wasn’t her complaint of “old” Asians showing up to do the laundry of fellow students – I think that’s a valid point. If I’m 20 years old, I don’t want my weekends invaded by parents like me or grandparents (old people) doing laundry. The complaint isn’t racist – that’s a 20 year wanting to be in the company of people her own age. I understand that. Culturally Asians are tight with family and apparently that includes mom and grandma doing their laundry, but just because she doesn’t want to hang with grandma doesn’t make her a racist.
What bothered me (while watching the video) wasn’t her complaints, it was her. Wallace is a dimwit… but she’s also a junior at UCLA. She acts like a dimwit. She talks like a dimwit. She dresses like a Denmark streetwalker. She was wearing a top that pushed her breasts up and together like a couple of Saturn 5 missiles ready for launch. God help me, I couldn’t take my eyes off her tits. I expected to hear Mission Control start a launch sequence… 3…2… 1 blast off! through her top. She’s also clearly foolish and lacks an off switch – so, how on God’s green Earth did this dimwit get into UCLA? Unless you have a 4.8 GPA, an SAT of 21,000,000, won the Nobel prize for Literature AND saved a Blue Whale from beaching, you’re not getting into UCLA.
So… What… THE … HELL? How can so many qualified students be rejected or left on waiting lists and this dimwit gets into UCLA?
What really bugged me to my core – people sending hate filled loathsome emails and harassing her on campus, and threatening her life. She said nothing threatening. Silly, bemusing, ridiculous but it wasn’t threating. Nonetheless, she received hate directed at her, a thousand times worse than what she said. Her poli-sci professor was appalled at what she said ( no surprise - he a poli-sci prof) but he was even more unnerved by the unbridled, hate filled responses. Wallace had to leave UCLA last week because of the death threats. Wallace had to take her finals in secret to avoid being attacked and harassed. To UCLA’s credit, the admin didn’t attempt to sanction her. The admin watched the video and concluded it was protected speech.
Good for UCLA and good for her prof. What she said offended many but it was clearly protected speech. She has a right to say what she thinks. She has a right to be a dimwit. She had a right to remain silent – a right she should have exercised; but she has a right to be a student, unfettered by death threats.
Have you noticed? The ones who demand – in fact scream for tolerance, are the ones who scream the loudest at those with whom they disagree.
Separated at
Submitted by Jerry on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 11:04pm.
Separated at birth??
http://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl=http://shark-tank.net/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/buckwheat-poster-card-c10230417.jpg&imgrefurl=http://shark-tank.net/2010/03/23/poiter-to-obama-listen-up-buckwheat/&h=450&w=357&sz=29&tbnid=5iE8pK2WVnsgaM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=101&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dbuckwheat&zoom=1&q=buckwheat&hl=en&usg=__MuzJ3u46JtgRqFvHtxbaZ9wB0is=&sa=X&ei=iUqRTbqUGoautwe-pq1J&sqi=2&ved=0CFEQ9QEwBg
I went to the University of
Submitted by mostlymoderate on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:00am.
I went to the University of California for my undergraduate as well as law school degrees. There was like 73 percent Asian. As long as they were California residents, I see no problem. I love asian culture.
It's not just a stereotype: every Asian I have ever known had a family that took education extremely seriously. Much more so than other cultures.
Why does Nancy Giles feel Limbaugh would in any way dislike Asians? Also, why does Nancy Giles insist on the Afro hairdoo from last century?
I don't recall Rush ever
Submitted by Thoreau on Tue, 03/29/2011 - 1:40am.
I don't recall Rush ever mentioning asians. I do recall a racist black lady talking about them though.