Fallon Bandleader Accuses 'Tea Party Extremists' of Sending Him Racial Epithets on Twitter
If you thought you'd heard the last of Jimmy Fallon's band and the case of the offensive song played on NBC's Late Night last week as Republican presidential candidate Michele Bachmann walked onto the stage, think again.
On Thursday, the bandleader responsible for the song choice was interviewed by Pitchfork, and he not surprisingly made some accusations of racism at "Tea Party extremists" (serious vulgarity warning):
Pitchfork: What kind of reactions have you received since?
?: I've seen some really colorful epithets in the past four days, but "nigger fuckhead ghetto stick" is probably the one that takes the cake. I'm still trying to get my head around that one. Blocking 3,500 tea party extremists [on Twitter] in a three day period is no fun, especially when you're a drummer dangerously close to carpal tunnel. In the end, was it worth it? Absolutely not.
But here's the really delicious part. It seems Bachmann - the "Lyin' A-- B--ch" - might have been the one that saved this man's job:
Pitchfork: Was there a moment when you were scared that you might get fired?
?: Yeah, last Wednesday, the day before [Thanksgiving]. We were seeing where she was going to go with it because, if you call the right channels, next thing you know advertisers are in the NBC building asking for proper action to be done. So we were definitely waiting with bated [sic] breath. And then her camp was like, "Look, it's Thanksgiving. Let's just put all this behind us and call it a day."
So the woman that was attacked basically called off the dogs and saved this man's job.
You'd think he'd be more grateful and not go after her supporters this way.
But that would require some common decency he possibly doesn't possess.
(H/T Fox Nation)
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Trying to score pity points. Image rehabilitation through
Submitted by Lipton on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:00am.
making yourself out to be a victim. Nothing new here.
I don't doubt some nut jobs sent him stupid tweets, but a man would have been thankful for his job and left it at that.
Some images cannot be rehabilitated.
Submitted by drsamherman on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:32pm.
That piece of horse manure will never learn from his mistakes. He will do something stupid again and then blame others for his own actions. Standard pattern of denial I see in these borderline types.
Hmmmm....
Submitted by pcnav on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 3:02pm.
Sounds like that song he played for Michelle Bacman should have been played for himself.
Check out "questlove"s twitter picture:
Submitted by SickofLibs on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:04am.
LOL, turns out he's a big fan of L-A-Bs.
This guy, the bandleader,
Submitted by wdvander on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:02am.
This guy, the bandleader, referred to a presidential candidate as a Lyin' A#$ B$%&h on a nationally broadcast television show. This presidential candidate is very popular of millions of conservative voters, so some blowback should be expected.
I do not put it past any Libtards to contacting "Pitchfork" via Twitter posing as Bachmann supporters. I cannot imagine anyone who genuinly supports Bachmann using the language posted in the article.
The guy is lucky he still has a job.
he must be physic
Submitted by dmacleo on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:04am.
to know who wrote the messages. when ignorant, blame the TP as the media facilitates it.
I'm sure if we told
Submitted by rwesley2.0 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:06am.
I'm sure if we told "Pitchfork" it was just a spur of the moment joke, he would understand.
Pobrecito..
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:19am.
Awwww.... he got mean messages on Twitter. that he didn't even have to read.
He's actually lucky he insulted a conservative. Bachmann was gracious and accepted his apology. A liberal would have insisted on his head on a platter. Hell, he didn't even get a two-week suspension like David Shuster!
They called him names?
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 4:52pm.
Wonder if he'd rather have the "sticks & stones?"
What's good for the goose
Submitted by MOONSTRUCK on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:20am.
What a jerk. You can't stand a little right back in your face!!!!! Not as much fun when you are on the other end is it you pinhead!!
wahhhhh
Noel, you do realize that he
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:23am.
Noel, you do realize that he is a member of one of the most prolific music groups of the past decade right? Band leader is a side job. I doubt he'd even notice if he were to lose the Fallon job. Thank Bachmann? No need.
Thanks PaleHorse,
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:29am.
for that completely irrelevant and pointless post. I couldn't care less is he's a member of the most "prolific" music groups, not the point.
Try and stay on task.
NC Cop, you're welcome,
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:37am.
NC Cop, you're welcome, although you and Noel could have learned that by using a cool new gadget called Google.
And that would make a
Submitted by motherbelt on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:23pm.
And that would make a difference to this story.....how?
Again, Palehorse
Submitted by NC Cop on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:42pm.
your post is completely irrelevant. I don't CARE how impressed you are by this guy. He's an idiot.
A side job?
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:29am.
That's why he was waiting with bated breath on whether or not he could keep his job? You beclown yourself, yet again. If he didn't think there would be consequences, he should have manned up and told NBC he stood by his selection of music and they didn't have to apologize for him.
UpNorth, as a matter of fact
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:36am.
UpNorth, as a matter of fact it is a side job. His band, The Roots, tour constantly and he also tours as a solo DJ. He's got plenty of work. The Fallon show is the least of it. You "beclown" yourself by speaking on things on which you have no grasp. The song was a bad choice, classless, and risky, but let's not pretend he didn't know that going into it.
A touring DJ?
Submitted by UpNorth on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 12:47pm.
Well, then, I take back everything I said and thought about this bandleader who waited with trepidation over whether or not he'd lose his gig. Sorry, my bad./sarc.
And you're the one pretending here.
Then why does his own quote
Submitted by Smartypants on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:35am.
Then why does his own quote appear to indicate that he was worried about losing the gig?
My guess would be that he was
Submitted by PaleHorse on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:37am.
My guess would be that he was embarrassed.
So what your saying is that
Submitted by ThePickle on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:45pm.
So what your saying is that you have no idea as to why he would express concern with regards to losing his job.....you "guess" that he was "embarrassed".....yet throughout the rest of this thread you have stated, as though it were an irrefutable fact, that because he was a member of a "prolific band".....that he really wasn't concerned about losing his job.
Care to reconcile these two diametrically opposed opinions?
Either he was not concerned for his job....a position that you have vehemently defended based solely on his affiliation with a "prolific band"or...
He was in fact concerned for his job, a logical assumption that would tend to be bolstered by the fact that he expressed the idea, albeit somewhat indirectly, that he was in fact concerned for his job. This coupled with the fact that he gave thanks that the target of his juvenile shenanigans chose not to peruse a course of action that could have led to the lose of said job and this would tend to lead one with the facility for critical thinking to conclude that he indeed 'said what he meant and meant what he said' and that your insistence that he was not at all concerned with the lose of his position is based solely on a poorly supported assumption and said assumption in fact flies in the face of the conclusion most would draw from the available data.
In other words.....you sir...are a dumda$$.
Most prolific music groups of
Submitted by Scuba Dude on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:49am.
Most prolific music groups of the past decade? I never heard of them so they must not be that good.
Now if you were to say Dream Theater or Porcupine Tree or the leader of Porcupine Tree, Steven Wilson, who is involved in soooo many other projects then I would agree with you.
Now I would love to see this idiot prove that the tweets he was getting were from Tea Partiers. I would say it would be the libturds posing as a Tea Party member posting the offensive tweets.
PaleHorse, you are very generous
Submitted by cocodrie on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:49am.
PaleHorse, you are very generous to call the noise created by Roots music. Then again maybe you are totally deaf..
Jesus Loves You so much He died for you
Interesting...
Submitted by Unsane on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 10:56pm.
Oh, I see. You flip out and go bezerk if you even perceive racism, even if its not there. But you wholeheartedly, cheerfully endorse sexism if perpetrated by a band just because they are prolific.
Being a "prolific band" does not excuse the members thereof from being a**holes. Unless you are PaleHorse.
"CONSUMED DEMOCRACY RETURNS A SOCIALIST REGIME" - Slayer, "Fictional Reality", from Divine Intervention (1994)
How does this dude know the
Submitted by Smartypants on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:32am.
How does this dude know the messages he received are from members of the Tea Party? Is this just his assumption? Of course, this is a rhetorical question. He assumes because he received some racist messages, it must be Tea Party members who sent them. Only members of the Tea Party would do that, right?
Exactly
Submitted by Galvanic on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:38am.
Once the Dems and MSM labeled the Tea Party as racist, the others just pile on.
When Tracy Morgan uttered some slurs about homosexuals, did anyone assume that they came from the African-American community? Of course not.
Like the other desperate
Submitted by celator on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:40am.
Like the other desperate members of the Lefty radicals, he makes stuff up as he goes along. Telling the truth about anything is like drinking lemon juice to these characters.
Put Up or Shut Up
Submitted by scottyusmc on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 11:41am.
Let's see some of these awful remarks along with the twitter ID... I'm sure we can trace them to their origin and determine exactly who they are. I for one, based on my contact with Tea Party folks do not think they would be bothered with this useful idiot. But, one way or the other, there is a trail to follow, if he really wants to go down that path. My guess is that he's just talking out his a$$ to get a little pity.. Worthless tool!!!
A$$clown
Submitted by helomech on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:10pm.
That's what this 'bandleader' was when he elected to do this little ditty and disrespect Mrs Bachmann. Who gives a flying you-know-what at the above comments of 'he's in one of the most prolific musical groups in the country!' If that's the case, why is his mug not on the cover of written periodical in the country/world? Give me a break. That douchebag showed no leadership in doing what he did.
Another comical line in that interview was: "but those who truly know me know that that's not me. I was really just going with her whole revisionist history angle, I wasn't calling it out on her being a woman."
Say what? 'that whole revisionist history angle'? Is he taking after Spike Lee and studying revisionist history now? Dude, how about you STFU and GTFO. Afterall, "you're in one of the most prolific groups in the past decade".....I'm sure you'll get by..
That was a REALLY racist
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:14pm.
That was a REALLY racist post, helo...............
Hmmm..
Submitted by helomech on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 2:08pm.
What part of my comment was racist?
I think
Submitted by Prisondog1776 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 2:37pm.
killa`s post was sarc. Can`t read his mind, just knowing his previous post`s , i think he was being funny.
I was kind of thinking that
Submitted by helomech on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 2:48pm.
I was kind of thinking that too. Just didn't want to sh1t in my mess kit, that's all. Thanks P-dog, ;-)
But that 'bandleader IS a dipsh1t!
Of course I was being
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 3:13pm.
Of course I was being absurdly sarcastic, helo...........I'm not a thin-skinned purple-lipped politically correct woosie-assed queebie.........and I'm sure as hell not 'racist'!!! I know jerks, dipsh*ts, and a**holes in every race, creed, religion, political pursuasion, and sexual orientation known to man!!!
Hahahaha-no worries from me!
Submitted by helomech on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 4:45pm.
Hahahaha-no worries from me! I too, have met quite a few of the aforementioned dipsh1ts-in-question..
Of course the 'tweets' (Jeez,
Submitted by killa37 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:11pm.
Of course the 'tweets' (Jeez, I have a hard time being serious while writing that dumb word) came from TEA-baggers - 3,500 of them!!! Had to be, because they were RACIST!!! Who else would ever play the race card??? Hmmmmmm - he's got a photo of himself with Boy Barry on the twitter thingy - but anything coming from that side can't be 'racial', can it???? 3,500 anonomys white TEA-baggers, writing him dirty, flity, racial 'tweets'!!!
And he said he was dangerously close to having 'carpel-tunnel'...............I don't know about the 'carpel', but I'd say his brain is definitly in the 'tunnel'............
And - hey paleface - I haven't figured out what ANY of your posts has to do with this conversation
Why does this no-talent a-hole still have a job?
Submitted by Dave. on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:11pm.
-Dave
Vote for the American in November
ChickaBOOMer: Jimmy Fallon's Drummer Gives Tea Party Some Stick.
Submitted by StewartIII on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:22pm.
Jimmy Fallon's Drummer Gives Tea Party Some Stick.
http://chickaboomer.blogspot.com/2011/12/jimmy-fallons-drummer-gives-tea...
He is Right It Is Tea Party Members Giving Him Hell.
Submitted by Avitar on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:34pm.
But it is Black Tea Party Members! Some black men but all of the Black women Tea Party members are giving him hell for being worse mannered and more irresponsible than Richard Pryor. In the words of one black woman speaking about the tune played for Michelle Bachmann "A man (actual term used is the 'N' word) who will do that you know will sleep with a twelve year old girl."
During the conversation his conduct got around to attacking an eight year old boy. The band leader is not an asset to any race including the human race. I guess that makes me a racist.
Familiarity Breeds Contempt
Submitted by HardRightTurn on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:46pm.
I was color blind before Obama became President.
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http://jonjayray.tripod.com/psycho.html
Wow.
Submitted by gobnait06 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 1:52pm.
So this race-baiting hater expects us to believe that the people who tweeted 'mean things' to him were Tea Party extremists. I see- all 3500 of them must have signed their tweets 'from a Tea Party extremist'.
Sounds perfectly logical. This guy is becoming unhinged at the unexpected negative reaction to his little stunt. He's one raisin short of a fruit cake.
Who's The Evil One?
Submitted by rammingspeed on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 3:11pm.
Interesting he called all 3,500 tweeters "tea party extremists." Did each tweeter identify him or herself as a Tea Party member? Did even one do so? Shows how the media has slimed the Tea Party, so that even a complete ignoramus like this band leader calls everyone who disagrees with him a tea party extremist. And the left calls the right evil.
i wonder
Submitted by jimtrees on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 3:32pm.
If he would do the same for her. Poor baby with the carpel tunnel.
So... where are the tweets?
Submitted by PatBattle on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 4:22pm.
I just searched 'questlove' on Twitter. I don't see 3,500 racist tweets. Did all 3,500 of those people delete their posts? Or does Questlove have a secret 'delete tweets about me' button on Twitter that I don't know about?
I assume the interviewer asked him this question, right?
Hmmm...
#fail
A coward of a man, playing
Submitted by TerryWest on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 5:03pm.
A coward of a man, playing the projection victim card instead of just owning up to his own bigoted tendencies.
The guy responsible for playing that song is a jerk. Because...
Submitted by jawebster1 on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 5:26pm.
of him I will NEVER watch the Jimmy Fallon Show.
If he got some nasty e-mail then all I can say he deserves it for what he did.
P.S. As long as Fallon did not fire the person responsible for playing that song, his apology means nothing, zip, zero, nada!
Sic?
Submitted by Falze on Fri, 12/02/2011 - 5:34pm.
"So we were definitely waiting with bated [sic] breath."
What's up with that? 'bated' is both spelled and used correctly. I don't see the "[sic]" at the link. Who added it and why?
Of course it was the Tea Party
Submitted by Cool Arrow on Sat, 12/03/2011 - 2:01am.
Mr. Bandleader must have come to a prefectly logical conclusion that liberal women consider it high praise to be calles Lying-a$$ b(r)itches.
Ok, maybe just the women he parties with or those who carry his progeny .