tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13346431.post6560642041576100518..comments2023-10-20T06:31:56.952+00:00Comments on The Lone Voice: Michelle Obama and that monkey story.Fidothedoghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13588552210424845667noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13346431.post-69839508231087709632009-11-27T18:01:43.653+00:002009-11-27T18:01:43.653+00:00http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/arch...http://i.telegraph.co.uk/telegraph/multimedia/archive/00667/michelle-obama-404_667764c.jpg<br /><br />Is this the offensive image?Oldrightiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03192587284458430556noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13346431.post-31166923498944417022009-11-27T15:10:52.533+00:002009-11-27T15:10:52.533+00:00Comrade, very true and I neither excuse or gloss o...Comrade, very true and I neither excuse or gloss over the folk out there who will play the race card in order to score hits on her. <br /><br />Its as tiresome as it is predictable. Thing is it is a non story in every sense of the word and a case of tired lazy hacks looking for an "offence" story. <br /><br />I am sure that Mrs Obama has heard it all before and no doubt will hear it many more times, she makes an easy target for folk out to attack her husband.Fidothedoghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13588552210424845667noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13346431.post-65104846000902407092009-11-27T14:44:03.631+00:002009-11-27T14:44:03.631+00:00There is a fact, however, that you are glossing ov...There is a fact, however, that you are glossing over: There is a very long history in the US of white people referring to black people as "monkeys" in a very derogatory manner.<br /><br />The reverse is not true.Comrade Misfithttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15404477636451308763noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13346431.post-8779535721392198992009-11-27T13:52:03.552+00:002009-11-27T13:52:03.552+00:00There was much staged frustration and upset on the...There was much staged frustration and upset on the Beeb over this the other day.<br /><br />They got some "internet content consultant" (WTF?) bloke on to discuss it, who informed the presenter of Five Dead's flagship Marxist drive time show that as this is/was hosted in America, their constitution is a little more difficult to work around. <br /><br />So lot's of whining and "so how do we police the blogosphere" came thereafter. It was duly noted by a couple of highly unaffected-either-way colleagues that blogs usually don't charge £150 a year for their content.Corrugated Soundbitehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17305817712647242394noreply@blogger.com