Joan Rivers Freak Out

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Joan Rivers went ballistic on a BBC talk program aired a few days ago between herself and a British black activist who was on to pitch his movie and got into a nuclear war with Rivers over whether or not the term "black" is appropriate and whether Joan Rivers was a racist for saying that she thinks race shouldn't matter.

The fireworks ensued, as BBC's Newshour program reports. Special bonus feature: a follow-up review of the broadcast.

http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/16053/Newshour 102505a.mp3

 

[jcolletta275]

Joan Rivers Reacts Understandably

She had every right to go ballistic. This jerkwad was trying to frame her as a racist by saying "black offends you", then when she shot him down over that one, he changed it to "the use of the term 'black' offends you" (but only after he realized the prior approach wasn't going to work). She never said any such thing or anything to imply that she took that stance, and here's this guy trying to pin her down and portray her as a racist! I'd go ballistic, too!

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[Gnarlodious]

Re: Joan Rivers Reacts Understandably

I have a lot of respect for Joan Rivers, she's a sharp one. Maybe she should have a radio show...

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[KingDaevid]

> Joan Rivers went ballistic on a BBC talk program aired a few
> days ago between herself and a British black activist who
> was on to pitch his movie and got into a nuclear war with
> Rivers over whether or not the term "black" is appropriate
> and whether Joan Rivers was a racist for saying that she
> thinks race shouldn't matter.
>
> The fireworks ensued, as BBC's Newshour program reports.
> Special bonus feature: a follow-up review of the broadcast.
> http://www.myfilehut.com/userfiles/16053/Newshour 102505a.mp3

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[wxctintern]

Re: Joan Rivers Reacts Understandably

She had one. It aired on the WOR Radio Network. She got fired for saying the "F" word one too many times. Then a couple years ago when El Rushbo went into rehab Citadel put her on as a local host to replace his replacement on WPRO 630 AM in Providence. That only lasted a couple days because Premire Radio Network cried like a little bitch and told WPRO they needed to carry Rush's replacement.


On that note, Infinity has no problem when Greater Media replaces "The Best of Imus" on 96-9 FM Talk in Boston with a local show. And as far as I know Infinity didn't do anything to Nassau when they aired local programming on a couple of stations in Northern New England even though Imus was actually live.

 

[Pat2]

Re: Joan Rivers Reacts Understandably

> She had one. It aired on the WOR Radio Network. She got
> fired for saying the "F" word one too many times. Then a
> couple years ago when El Rushbo went into rehab Citadel put
> her on as a local host to replace his replacement on WPRO
> 630 AM in Providence. That only lasted a couple days because
> Premire Radio Network cried like a little bitch and told
> WPRO they needed to carry Rush's replacement.
>
>
> On that note, Infinity has no problem when Greater Media
> replaces "The Best of Imus" on 96-9 FM Talk in Boston with a
> local show. And as far as I know Infinity didn't do anything
> to Nassau when they aired local programming on a couple of
> stations in Northern New England even though Imus was
> actually live.
>
I'm glad she blew off steam. I wish more people would fight back everytime someone plays the race card. Lots of people have had their reputations tarnished because they were accused of being racist.