Juan Williams: Hannity Would Have Been Fired For Doing Amos and Andy Voice Like Stewart
As NewsBusters previously reported, Jon Stewart earlier this month did a segment on "The Daily Show" wherein he impersonated Republican presidential candidate Herman Cain using an Amos and Andy voice.
On Tuesday's "Imus in the Morning," Fox News's Juan Williams said that if Sean Hannity had done that, "He'd be out there barking with the dogs after they threw him out" (video follows with transcript and commentary):
DON IMUS, HOST: When he did, Chris played, he played a Herman Cain clip, and then he affected a, an Amos and Andy voice.
JUAN WILLIAMS, FOX NEWS: Correct.
IMUS: What other white guy in the media, say could Hannity do that?
WILLIAMS: No, he'd be out there barking with the dogs after they threw him out. Come on.
IMUS: Yeah. So I was talking to my friend Mike Lupica, who is also very smart. Do you know him?
WILLIAMS: Not very well, but I like his writing.
IMUS: He’s a smart guy, man. Anyway, he said, "You know, the rules are just different, Don. Hello, can you recognize that?" I said, "Well, yes." But the rules are different. So, they just are.
WILLIAMS: Well, I think it's a fact, and I think that the assumptions that go for conservatives, and you know, it's interesting, Stewart said this, that conservatives are more easily charged with being bigots and racist and intolerant than people on the left. And part of this has to do with history, I suppose. You know, there’s a terrible history in this country in terms of race, and then I think people think back to who supported the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights, all that stuff.
IMUS: Sure.
WILLIAMS: And of course now the south is solidly Republican and whites are in the Congressional districts that vote heavily Republican. They’ve got blacks in a few smaller districts. It was I think a devilish trade off there. But anyway, all of that now plays into the idea of who can say what and who can take on an Amos and Andy voice in this country, and believe me, Don, it's not anybody on the right. The minute you do it, you are at jeopardy.
Readers are reminded that when Wallace brought this up on "Fox News Sunday," Stewart responded, "Why don't you show -- do you want to show me doing the voices for all the other people that we do? You want to see my New York voice? My Chinese guy voice?"
Actually, the "Chinese guy voice" brings up another double standard, as conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh got into a lot of trouble earlier this year when he did a satirical impersonation of visiting Chinese President Hu Jintao.
How much trouble, you ask?
Well, a Google search of "Rush Limbaugh Chinese" produced 2.5 million results.
I guess that's another thing liberals are allowed to do that conservatives aren't.
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~Juan really needs to get his facts straight
Submitted by Wrathful Brunette on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 9:33pm.
You know, there’s a terrible history in this country in terms of race, and then I think people think back to who supported the Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights, all that stuff.
That "terrible history" belongs to the Democrat Party.
Getting Facts Straight, Part 2
Submitted by Galvanic on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:53am.
WILLIAMS: "And of course now the south is solidly Republican and whites are in the Congressional districts that vote heavily Republican. They’ve got blacks in a few smaller districts."
Smaller districts, Juan? Congressional districts are all the same size.
They are based on the number of citizens residing in them, and that's why they are reviewed and some realigned after every national census to reflect the shifts in population.
And in fact, there was a deliberate effort to create districts with majority black populations under the assumption that it would increase the number of black Representatives in the House. The result was some awkward gerrymandering, including one district in North Carolina (12th?) that at one point is not much wider than the interstate highway that connects several largely black communities.
So any implications -- intentional or unintentional -- that somehow the black vote in the South is marginalized is false.
Unintended consequences
Submitted by Farley on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:30pm.
Unintended consequences rears its head once again. By gerrymandering blacks into a CD so as to insure the election of a black representative, any conceivable leverage blacks might have had in an evenly divided CD was destroyed. The Congressional Black Caucus might have its 40 odd members but candidates for "other" congressional seats are not chasing the black vote -- because there is none.
What were the consequences suffered by Rush
Submitted by Jer on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 10:29pm.
for his Chinese voice mimickry [or for the past instances of his black dialect affectations such as saying "axe" instead of "ask"]. Did he lose any sponsors? Did any stations drop him or suspend the broadcast of his show for a few days? Not that I recall.
I only heard Stewart's riff on Herman Cain once--I'll listen again--but it sounded to me as if he were merely attempting to emulate Cain's actual speaking voice, not mock him with Amos n' Andy impersonations. Of course, Stewart was skating on thin PC ice just by virtue of his spoofing Cain's remarks on limiting proposed legislation to three pages, so it's not surprising this controversy arose in its wake.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:15pm.
So it is ok for Stewie to be a racist?I don't listen to Rush.I did watch the the Stewie interview.He is a liar and a hypocrite.Like a punk that hits you and then says you can't hit me. Stewie crys oh I am a comedian.Bullsh$$ on both.What the heck liberals are allowed to be racist ask them.Just a note:.PC right.Glad to see you trying to cover his a$$ with that.I have heard Amo's and Andy back in the day.They didn't sound like Herman Cain and neither did Stewie.
well99...
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:30am.
So it is ok for Stewie to be a racist?
Of course not.
I don't listen to Rush.
I rarely listen to Stewart except when NB posts clips.
PC right. Glad to see you trying to cover his a$$ with that.
Huh? I don't understand what you're getting at. If anything, I was baring his a$$ with that.
I have heard Amo's and Andy back in the day.
So have I--both when they were "voiced" by a couple of white guys on radio, and also when they were portrayed by black actors on TV.
Jer
Jer,
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:45pm.
Do you agree with Juan, that Sean would had been fired?
I think these folks are entirely too thinned skinned.
Making fun of dialect is now off limits, making fun of Gay's is off limits, Making fun of Obama, is off limits, making fun of Muslims, is off limits, but go ahead and get after the Jews, Christians, Tea Party members, The Pro life folks, and the folks on the Right in every conceivable way.
Anyone else detecting a pattern here?
Yeah,
Submitted by Bob K on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:44am.
keep telling yourself that. After all, it would only be racist if a conservative did it, right?
A friendly response to Jer
Submitted by Ted Clarke on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:13am.
Hello Jer,
The reason Rush Limbaugh has not been fired for doing Chinese voice mimickry is because he owns his own show. He answers to his audience. He does not answer to Leftists who control the mainstream news corporations. But if you want to compare apples to apples, look at how he was abruptly fired from his gig as a network football analyst. He told the truth about Leftist sports journalists and their soft bigotry of lowered expectations. He made a valid and vindicated argument that the media hold people like Donovan McNabb to lower standards because their skin color is more important than their talent. The media lied about Rush and distorted the facts. They falsely portrayed him as a racist who was attacking a black man.
If you are truly concerned about the scourge of racism, then you should move to the Right and sing a conservative tune. Letists are the true bigots. Here are a few examples to make my case:
1) Gore's call for a recount in the Florida election was predicated on a false accusation that Bush had "disenfranchised" black voters...that he had robbed them of their civil rights. Gore's reasoning behind this baseless charge was that the butterfly ballot was so confusing that blacks had mistakenly voted for Pat Buchanan. This is racist for two reasons. First, it assumes that blacks -- and ONLY blacks -- were incapable of understanding the butterfly ballot. Second, it assumes that blacks are automatic Gore voters. We on the Right do not limit blacks to one party and one vote. We honor their power to choose. Folks on the Left, however, are racists because they pressure blacks to stay on "the plantation", lest they be tagged as "Uncle Toms", "Aunt Jemimas" or traitors to their race.
2) Leftists believe that voter IDs are comparable to Jim Crow laws. Huh?! Since a voter ID law would apply to all people and all races equally, how could it possibly be unfair to blacks? The only way it could be seen as unfair is if people viewed blacks as handicapped in their ability to present an ID when they vote. If whites can present one without a problem, why can't blacks do the same? This is what true racism looks like!
3) Bill Maher accused Donald Trump of being a racist for questioning Obama's status as a natural born American. And then he said this: "I have a feeling, if you [Trump] have such a great relationship with 'the blacks,' walk through Harlem this weekend without security." Is this not the true face of racism? Maher is stereotyping Harlem as a dangerous place and blacks as uncivilized beasts who would attack a white man in the streets. And similarly, Sandra Bernhard wished for Sarah Palin to be "gang-raped by my big black brothers".
The stories are legion. Leftists use and abuse blacks. They keep them down by convincing them that they are losers, victims and reviled outsiders of their own country.
When a conservative sees a black fetus, we elevate its value and recognize its unalienable right to live. When a Leftist sees a black fetus, it devalues it and denies it a right to live. Their inner-Margaret Sanger -- "We are paying for, and even submitting to, the dictates of an ever-increasing,
unceasingly spawning class of human beings who never should have been born at all." -- is at the core of the Democrat party. They look down on blacks and want them slaves of their party plantation. It makes me sick to my stomach. Decent people on the Left should wake up and recognize the horror that they are advocating.
Wake up, Jer. Wake up.
Ted....
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:28am.
I know Rush owns his own show and probably has no plans to fire himself, which is why I framed the potential sanctions in terms of loss of advertising and, depending upon contractual rights and obligations, possible suspensions or temporary loss of broadcast privileges.
But your point about the McNabb/ESPN brouhaha is a fair one, and, as I just told Steven on another thread, it is late here so I'll need to address this tomorrow.
Jer
Thank you, Jer.
Submitted by Ted Clarke on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 3:04am.
Thanks for the kind response, Jer. And sorry about my jerky way of signing off from that previous post. Had I been a bit more thoughtful, I would have chosen better words. Anyway, I did notice the way you "framed the potential sanctions in terms of loss of advertising". But to be clear, our beef is not with Rush's sponsors nor his listeners. Our beef is with the Leftist media that slanders Conservatives as racists and bigots and holds us up to a different set of rules than their protected ideological brethren. Take care.
Excellent Ted
Submitted by Boudin on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:51pm.
One of the best articulated post on soft bigotry I have read. Thanks
Thank you kindly, Boudin!
Submitted by Ted Clarke on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:59pm.
Hello there, Boudin,
Wow! Thanks for your kind words. You made my day. But check out a radio talk show host named Dennis Prager. He deserves the credit and the praise.
Take care.
One question Jer
Submitted by mel21221 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 8:58am.
WTH is axe anyway? When you hear that, what do you think? The word is ASK ... pronounce it for me ... A S K!!!
Oh please mel, did you read
Submitted by bassndude on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 9:07am.
Oh please mel, did you read what jer wrote? Or just the "axe"? While I do not agree with jer on most anything, that is being a little petty.
Save a SeAL, club a liberal/troll!!
Ok, so this is probably not when or where
Submitted by gailannr on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:10pm.
I should tell this joke but I can't resist. This just came to my email box a couple of days ago and it cracked me up! FOLKS WE NEED TO LIGHTEN UP! EVERYBODY!! Well, I have come to the conclusion that I need to lighten up!
Today's word is................. Fluctuations
I will never hear or see this word again without thinking of this joke.
I was at my bank today; there was a short line. There was just one lady in front of me, an Asian lady who was trying to exchange yen for dollars. It was obvious she was a little irritated . . . She asked the teller, "Why it change? Yesterday, I get two hunat dolla fo yen. Today I only get hunat eighty? Why it change?"
The teller shrugged his shoulders and said, "Fluctuations." The Asian lady says, "Fluc you white people too"
Stewart did an impersonation
Submitted by bob loblaw on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:19pm.
Stewart did an impersonation of Herman Cain, which sounded like Herman Cain. Stewart also impersonates Obama, Bush, Clinton, Nixon, Kennedy, Rod Blagojevich, and countless others. Stewart's impersonation of Herman Cain was not racist.
bl
Submitted by well99 on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:37pm.
Your wrong but you have the right to be.
I'm not wrong, Stewart does
Submitted by bob loblaw on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:53pm.
I'm not wrong, Stewart does impressions all the time, why would he treat Herman Cain any differently?
Now that's a cogent, factual
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/21/2011 - 11:58pm.
response, if ever one has been posted here, Thank heavens it wasn't just your opinion or feelings on the subject, glad you clarified that point for us.
Sorry I couldn't be as cogent
Submitted by bob loblaw on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:15am.
Sorry I couldn't be as cogent as "Your wrong but you have the right to be."
bl
Submitted by well99 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:21am.
Work on it.It takes practice.
"Don't apologize,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:23am.
it's a sign of weakness".
And Well99 was correct.
Well....that got a little confusing!
Submitted by gailannr on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:48am.
I'm just sayin.......Some people need to lighten up! Although your "comment" was very poignant!
I think the point is that
Submitted by tcm14 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:07am.
I think the point is that Conservatives are accused of being racist for so much less, even being accused of using "racial code". If a Conservative had done what Stewart did, the automatic assumption would be that it was racist, but Stewart doesn't have to worry about such attacks because he is on the side that is protected by 90% of the media.
I think a better question for you to ask would be, 'Why would Jon Stewart worry about being perceived as racist? He's a liberal."
I agree sometimes
Submitted by bob loblaw on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:32am.
I agree sometimes conservatives are accused of being racist when they shouldn't be.I can't think of the conservative Jon Stewart, other than maybe the guy from red eye on fox news,. Now since impressions are used quite often on the Daily Show, than it isn't racist. His impersonation of Cain was fairly accurate done is a deep and southern voice. Now if Ed Shultz or another liberal commentator or news anchor would have done an over enunciated impersonation of Cain than the claim of racism would be more accurate.
Stewart doesn't have to worry about be called racist because his impersonation was fair, and he does impersonation all the time.
LOL
Submitted by Bob K on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:49am.
"I can't think of the conservative Jon Stewart, other than maybe the guy from red eye on fox news,"
That pretty much speaks volumes. Feel free to run back to DU or HuffPo now and brag about your encounters here.
Swing and miss
Submitted by bob loblaw on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:10am.
I have never watched red eye but have seen a few clips so I know it is a comedy type show, and I dont know what the host name is. I don't go on huffington post unless it is apart of a link from another website, and don't know what DU stands for. You are wrong about me.
...or a Step 'n Fetchit
Submitted by Jer on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:11am.
...or a Step 'n Fetchit routine to parody Colin Powell, Larry Elder, Thomas Sowell, etc. The incongruity and impropriety would have been obvious and objectionable. Herman Cain is highly intelligent and articulate but his 'southern black' inflection is readily identifiable in his typical speech pattern.
If Stewart was mocking Cain with an Amos 'n Andy schtick, the racist--or at the very least, racial insensitivity--charge would be credible. But, as I noted earlier, my impression was that Stewart was simply trying to imitate Cain's actual voice.
Jer
Jer
Submitted by well99 on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 2:57am.
Well if that was true it was Epic Fail.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw7J7xEOyI8
Hey Jer,
Submitted by UpNorth on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 1:06pm.
how about someone parodying President Present's "negro dialect". Is that offensive, pointing out that Obama doesn't have the "Southern black" inflection, unless he wants to have it?
Oh, snap, it was a dem who said it, nothing to see, or hear, here, move along..
Juan is absolutely
Submitted by marpel on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 10:42am.
Juan is absolutely right...look at Don Imus. He didn't use an Amos and Andy voice, but he used the term, "nappy headed ho's", and POOF, he was outta there. I saw that clip of Stewart on Sunday, and I thought to myself, "How did he get away with that?"...then I was brought to my senses...OH, HE'S A LIBERAL, that's why!!
"Deep within my heart lies a memory. A song of ol' San Antone..."
Liberal Troll Assistance Needed
Submitted by Diesel on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:04pm.
I love the Amos & Andy show! I also like the Herman Cain radio show!
Am I a racist? Can I get one of our putrid lib-trolls to tell me where I go to turn myself in???
Stewart and Hannity on the same plane?
Submitted by Hunter S. on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 12:35pm.
Who would even think of comparing the two?
you guys kill me...
Submitted by jamesWelsh2012 on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:01pm.
so you make up a lie and then compound your lie by attaching truth to it.
The Right is the problem in this world.
WE have to deal with your lies daily and it is getting confusing.
IF a man is a comedian and does comedy, just because you don't get the joke or are offended because the Right really doesn't know comedy, doesn't make it unfunny.
It is funny that this article even exists.
The world watches as fools on the Right get up on a daily basis and tell the lies they have created.
It is funny.
Sad but very funny.
jamesWelsh =~ /Troll/
Submitted by Free Stinker on Thu, 06/23/2011 - 6:09pm.
Do not feed the Troll
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