Listen to that honeyed voice, belonging to one Barbara Espinosa, a sweet old grandma type who loves nothing more than to go on her radio show, “Hair on Fire,” and say things about how she voted for the white guy and how she doesn’t call Obama “the first black president” but prefers to call him “a monkey” instead.
Surely, Ms. Espinosa couldn’t be … A RACIST????!!!!!
Of course not, DON’T BE RIDICULOSE!
So, are some of Ms. Espinosa’s best friends black? Well, no. Is her calling Mr. Obama “a monkey” the fault of the Google, for hosting images of racist monkey cartoons she was sent? Sure! But here is the best reason Barbara Espinosa is not a racist, and we are sure you all will agree it is air-tight and if anything it just makes too much sense:
Barbara Espinosa cannot be a racist because her last name is Espinosa. CASE CLOSED!
CASE REOPENED! Does this fly in the face of every conservative statement for the past 30 years, about how minorities are the real racists? Yes. Does “logical consistency” or “coherence” or “not being a giant racist” matter to Barbara Espinosa? MAYBE — PERHAPS — the answer is “no.”
Here, to finish off this post in an elegant manner, is Barbara Espinosa’s explanation regarding her calling the president of the United States a monkey, and why that is not racist.
Oh fine, here, via intrepid commenter La_Cieca, is her cached apology. And now we are done.
[ThinkProgress, via intrepid Wonkette operative "Weejee"]
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She's not a racist; just an evil, ignorant old whore.
And I can say that without it being offensive because it's Wednesday
Fuckin' anchor grannies.
Just Arizona being Arizona.
When did Jan Brewer get a radio show?
That's who I thought the article was going to be about…until I saw the picture.
No, Brewer looks more like one of those shriveled-up apple dolls they forced us to make in Art class when we were kids.
http://www.dollkind.com/images/dried-apple-dolls….
If she wasn't so busy pointing her finger in POTUS' face, or building a wall to keep out them there for'ners, or passing anti-vag bills, I'd have someone check her for vital signs.
Wow, kudos to the portraitist, that really captures her perfectly.
I cannot be anti-Semitic. My name is Schickelgruber, for cripe's sake.
"Now scram, I've got paper to hang."
"If you wouldn't write it and sign it, don't cache it." http://goo.gl/wgxDd
A Republican citing evolution to explain her commentary? HAHAHAHAHA…(head explodes)
Wow, she really is retuuuurrrhhhh… ridiculous. Barbara, honey, if you're gonna attempt to use evolution as your defense, you gotta realize that monkeys are not apes (it's right there in your cut'n'paste you moron), and it's apes from which we evolved, not monkeys.
precursors of apes.
In what respect, Charlie?
Apes broke off from simians before we broke off from apes, and so I believe it would accurate to say that our common ancestor with chimpanzees was an ape. Monkeys and apes share common ancestors, and hence monkeys and humans, but our ancestry does not pass through Cercopithecoidea (old-world monkeys) or Platyrrhini (new-world monkeys)
thanks for that, you are obviously much more evolved than the average chimp…dance monkeys dance! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX24
Is this lady related to Marge Schott?
The Monkey Speaks His Mind. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJ07w3i6L0&fe…
God, that voice….she calls Barry a monkey, yet she is the one screeching like one.
Also, flinging feces.
Is she one of Mitt's sister moms?
The Monkey Speaks His Mind.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXJ07w3i6L0&fe…
The Great Andre Williams!!!
With a name like Smucker's, it has to be good.
"We can say whatever we want about the Coon because 'Chimpy'!!!!11!"
She doesn't look very "brown" to me. Did she marry outside her Aryan supremacist race?
She is — according to one of her own bios — a widow. My three-minute google search limit doesn't reveal if Espinosa is her maiden or married name.
Lost track of how many times she said "I voted for the white guy, myself," but she did so at least five times in thirty seconds. Nope, not racist at all…
Bitch.
Er . . . I believe that's because we were listening to the remix, darlin'.
Can't wait for the EP dance version!
Send this thing to David Guetta, and he'll make this old bat a star, I tells ya'! A STAR!
Yes Barbara, because if the history of America has taught us anything, it's that minorities don't hate on minorities. Except the Krauts hating on the Irish. And the Irish hating on the blacks. And the blacks hating on the Koreans. And the Koreans hating on the blacks. And the Cubans hating on all other Hispanics. And the closeted Republicans hating on the gays. And the WASPs hating on everybody.
Aaaaaaaaaand everybody hates the Jews….
And the Jews hate the Arabs….and that's what it's all about!
That's right honey, you aren't racist. You're mentally ill and racist.
Wasn't that George Zimmerman's excuse too?
Another reason to hate old people.
wait, I am becoming one of those old people.
Death panels, 'Bot. Death. Panels.
When in Jr. High I was a stock boy at a grocery store and it never ceased to amaze me no matter how wide the isles were a little old lady would ram me in the back at least 4 times a day. THAT'S WHY I HATE OLD PEOPLE. And their smell too also.
Oh yes, back when I worked at a Woolworth's, shortly before the chain died, I very quickly learned that old people and teenagers were the absolute worst customers.
Also, they always smell like a mixture of Ben Gay, peppermint, and liver and onions. Yummy.
At least the smell warns you that old people are near!
Argh, guess I'm headed for the "recycling" center, like Robinson in Soylent Green. *sob*
Hey!
Barbara Espinosa cannot be a racist because her last name is Espinosa.
Good to know. So she won't mind me telling her that her dried-up husk of a face, makeup that looks like it was applied with a paintball gun, glasses that are two centuries out of style, teeth that make saber-toothed tigers envious, and hair that hasn't seen a brush, hot wax treatment, or decent conditioner since the Paleolithic era, could all really use a serious makeover. Because I'm a fag. I know these things.
Your critique is complete and….wilting.
I'm guessing there's more that could be said, but it sure was as scorching as the Arizona sun.
she needs a good old fashioned bikini waxing , the old fashioned way , with hot tar and feathers , on a rail , on the way out of town …
Me-OWW!
Ms. Espinosa, I can overlook all this parlayed-about derring-do if you'll just let me hear you say the word "Vagina" on the air, plz.
Twat? Twat's that? You know the oldes in Arizona are hard of hearing after all those un-earmuffed years at the range.
In your FACE, Michigan!
Love,
Arizona.
Alabama, you've been all too quiet of late.
Tex-Ass hasn't done anything really stupid in almost a week.
Barbara Espinosa cannot be a racist because her last name is Espinosa.
Isn't Espinosa Mexican for "Derbyshire?"
Well, Derbyshire is French for Côte d'Azur, so yes, I think you're right.
There was this one time…I had a fly in my face.
Zipper or buttons?
She says she "voted for the white guy"
Yea, what was that guy's name? You know, the one that was running with Sarah Palin?… He was old and he fought in WWII or something… Then he did some commercials for boner pills and was on Dancing With the Stars…
What was that guy's name?
That would be Trollop McCunt, I believe.
Hitler?
McStain?
Tucker Carlson?
The one who has been her own senator for 26 years? You know, Senator Whatshisname.
This actually gives me great pleasure—so glad to see he's had such an impact.
All of them, Katie. Every last fuckin' one of them. You know what they say, they all look the same.
Her lips may be racist, but her dusty vagina wants some monkey lovin'.
not dusty so much as festering
ew. and ew.
By that logic I'm vegan because my name is Baconzgood right?
Racist, or maybe a different 'R Word'.
Ritler?
Retrograde? Repulsive? Rectalcephalic?
Ridonkuloso
Ruh-Roh?
"But I'm calling him a WHITE monkey!"
Espinosa must be bilingual. She speaks Arizona hick and radio host racist.
The one good thing is that people like this hateful crone are old so they'll die soon.
Not soon enough.
If you stare at her long enough, she changes from an old crone into a lovely young woman in a hat. It can take awhile. Kind of let your eyes go out of focus. I'll get back to you.
Some of my best friends are bla.. people. *nervous twitch*.
Yet another national embarrassment.
She absolutely IS a piece of racist shit.
No offense.
I'd be happy to see the whole state consumed in a hate-fire. Except Pinal County. Really, they serve no purpose. Burn, assholios.
Pinal?
Sure. Your place or mine?
Marie?
Sometimes it's fun being a middle-aged white guy in this country, what with how everything revolves around me and all, but there is a downside. Racist jackasses like this revolting crone see me and assume, based on how I look, that it's safe for them to say whatever ignorant, hateful thing pops into their head.
Calling the President a "monkey" is nothing compared to some of the shit otherwise normal looking people have said to me in the past three years.
yes, but her first name is "barbara," so she definitely hates most people.
If her hair is not really on fire, it should be.
Time to change the name of her "radio show" from Hair On Fire, to Pants On Fire? Oh, I would never call someone a liar though, because my name is…well, that's not the point. I do believe anything old white women say though, because my grandma was one, and she didn't lie, hence, no old white woman lies! That's what you call a syllogism.
Aaaaaaaaaand we have an update!
Arizona GOP Chair On Radio Show When Host Called Obama A ‘Monkey,’ Said Nothing
Both parties do it.
Red Peter would approve. http://records.viu.ca/~johnstoi/kafka/reportforac…
What a cheeky monkey!
Yes, it's not racism, it's Stockholm Syndrome.
I remember being in Mexico a few years ago, and they had Little Black Sambo stuff in stores. But it wasn't racist, 'cause it was made by yellow people and being bought by brown people.
"America thinks it, Barbara says it."
Not all of America, Barb. And when it's race war time, you might want to move back to the Third Reich.
BTW, Barb, Alcohol Victoria is not a gargle.
The Root, in the midst of being Adult about the whole tawdry business, quotes a transcript of a caller later on in the show (Death Squads have been dispatched to correct this fellow's departure from Conservative Orthodoxy):
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/crazy-talk-first-monk…
Wow! How did they let the voice of common-sense get through?
Spinoza's sure ain't what they used to be.
"E"-spinozas were the branch of the family that were descended from monkeys.
Repugs should do a better job of keeping an eye on their women folk!
But monkeys are cute!! Calling the black monkey in the White House a monkey is a term of endearment!
In a Howard Coselly kind of way.
What's interesting is, this is the kind of ugly mindlessness that you'd expect from a caller or commenter, and yet she is actually the host of a radio show. Does her show have any actual reach, or is it just some tiny-wattage station you can hear for a block and a half? It's just hard to imagine the inmates being let in the asylum's studio in anything like a mainstream AM station. (I complain, again, about the shoddy journalism of the blogosphere, including at times Wonkette.)
This is exactly the kind of ugly mindlessness I'd expect from, say, Rush Limbaugh.
Rush would never straight-out call Obama a monkey, he'd find a different way to insultingly come up to the edge of it, while blaming liberals and black people.
"Take that bone out of your nose and call me back"?
"Barack the Magic Negro"?
"Halfrican American"?
Maybe you've got a point, it just depends on where you want to say "the line" is.
She appears to have show on at 7PM on Wednesdays on KFNX, which is an AM wingnut talk radio station, very heavy on the syndicated shows. They don't have Rush or Hannity, so maybe they're not the prime outlet in Phoenix.
I have far exceeded the amount of time I should have allocated to this bimbo, so I believe I'll go cut down some manzanita.
Oh, and Espinosa is a widow, but I don't know if that's her maiden or married name.
A widow? Really! One can only imagine how her husband died.
With a relieved smile on his face, one assumes.
From her cached blog:
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.
Another wingnut who does not seem to understand that free speech only means you are free to speak, not that you will be free from mockery, criticism, and being called a racist. All of which are exactly the same as being put to death.
More than that, free speech guarantees our right to call her a racist for being racist and a moron for not understanding how free speech works. And also to say "Burn Her!" (as long as we're not addressing a pitchfork wielding mob in her near vicinity)
She's either too dumb to know what taking the fifth means (in a non-Jack Daniels kind of way), or she spends a lot of time in court.
Don't Renig 2012?
While we're bashing Az…….Ron B. was sworn in and promply
New U.S. Rep. Ron Barber crosses party lines with vote on border bill
http://azstarnet.com/news/local/new-u-s-rep-ron-b…
As a Pima County politician friend of mine says, "It's going to take a while to get Ron up to speed on local southern Arizona issues, he's been in D.C. too long."
I do not understand why any rational, reasonable business owner interested in promoting the business to rational, reasonable consumers would ever advertise on talk radio.
Arizona may be a center of whole lot of crazy, but Obama is still only 4 points behind Romney there.
That voice! Who else applied for the radio host job and didn't get it? What on earth did they sound like? Brakes with no pads at the bottom of a five-mile hill?
It would be bad enough if she had nothing to say. But she's just got to get her racist on. On the airwaves owned by the public that her radio station pays nothing for.
I've looked at the station's website. I believe you can buy time from them for your very own show.
So, if I translated her "apology" right from crazy speak, her answer is literally…
"By calling Obama a 'monkey' I only meant to imply that he's sub-human!"
Dear God, she's completely snark proof.
"…during a Monday Night Football telecast on September 5, 1983, (Howard) Cosell said of Washington Redskins wide receiver Alvin Garrett, "That little monkey gets loose, doesn't he?" The Rev. Joseph Lowery, then-president of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, denounced Cosell's comment as racist and demanded a public apology, but Cosell refused, citing his past support for black athletes and stating that "little monkey" was an affectionate term he had used in the past for diminutive white athletes (including Mike Adamle, for whom Cosell was on record using the term 11 years prior), as well as for his own grandson." (Wikipedia)
See? Barbara was merely expressing her love for our president, the little monkey!
Espinosa? Hmmmm… I smell taco.
Meanwhile, warbloggers : http://www.americanfreedombybarbara.com/
Seems like she can't control her racism in any of her posts.
in Michigan, the call it a vagina. It Arizona, it's cunt.
I'm sorry – even thirty years ago in bumfuck North Carolina, this kind of talk would get you fired from a radio station. We'd be polite enough to call them Negroes.
Barbara Espinosa isn't a racist because shut up.
Finally explained in it's right context- thanks!
How in the h3ll did that screetchy fidiot get a radio show?
I would say that she's the hostess with the mostest, but she's got way too much competition & I don't want to jeopardize my soul/ lunch my attempting an informed comparison…
"I don't believe in calling him the first black president … I voted for the white guy myself."
Nope, no racism there.
From her blog bio…
IntroductionNew Media/Blogger, News,Talk Radio Host, Political Activist, Conservative, Sexy Young Senior
InterestsAmerican Politics, Reading, Computers, Traveling The World, Board Games, Cooking, Putzing in Garden, Racism
Favorite MoviesBirth of a Nation
Favorite MusicMinstrel Shows
Favorite BooksAtlas Shrugged, Texas, Exodus, Black Like Me
I guess they came up with the magazine title Arizona Highways because they didn't expect anyone would want to spend any time in their state.
That cunt. 122 Posts and I can't believe I even beat Barb and Limey Lizzie. What. is. going. on?
Maybe Barb is playing poker.
What is Barb up to? The mind boggles….
welcome to your 15 minutes barb.
hope you like it.
Clearly the greatest non-apology EVER.
"Did I call you a monkey? Why yes my good sir for monkeys are the most intelligent creatures on earth. And the shit I just put in your shoe is good luck too! You're welcome."
It's good to see you here, a_m.
"DON’T BE RIDICULOSE!"
Balki Bartokomous libel!
I don't think all Republicans are hate-filled bigots. I know many Republicans and am fairly certain they don't think that way. I'd bet most of the elected leaders of the party serving in DC are not. But they all are entirely willing to exploit the bigotry in others for crass political ends. So, if they don't stop it, they must own it. One way or the other, they are racist assholes too.
Not a racist bone in her body? Only cause she can't get laid.
If we can't allow bitter, old Conservative radio hosts to call black people "monkeys" (you know, in the EVOLUTIONARY sense, even though they also don't believe in evolution by the way) then all our precious Freedoms(tm) have been set ablaze and now Obama and his brownshirts are toasting marshmallows in the flames.
Therefore, send not to know for whom the Belle trolls, she trolls for thee.
But, you guys, some of her best friends are insane!
So can you squeeze me
Into an empty page of your diary;
And supernaturally change me?
cached copy a no go. can't you please, please just tell me what it said?
Most of the time he does try to maintain plausible deniability, I agree, but sometimes he just can't help himself. Maybe it's the drugs, or maybe he's just not as smart as he thinks he is (he's definitely not as smart as he thinks he is).
Along the same lines, I was going to say "I can prove I don't hate niggers – I tanned once."
Well, and he was becoming more and more emboldened until he called that woman a prostitute.
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