A Monkey... A Obama... Is there a Difference

[Dawgs]

1) www.ajc.com
2) Click video under Obama's in town.
3) Notice the image that comes up before the video is played.
4) Hint: Monkey.

The image you see at the beginning never appears in the video.

http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/content/multimedia/video/index.html?clip=90408&cxntlid=homepage_tab_newstab

Edited to add screenshot and link to video.

[MinneapolisMatt]

1. OMG

WHAT THE HELL?

[nc4bo]

2. oh sh*t. I saw that, it's on the sign right?

sending email now......

[Flarney]

3. No effing way!

I'm speechless.

[nc4bo]

5. Don't remain speechless................

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[MinneapolisMatt]

4. I got a screencap of it.

Sick.

Edited to add image:

[nc4bo]

6. so do i and i'm sending THAT along with my complaint. n/t

[goldcanyonaz]

7. please include a screenshot in your op

[MinneapolisMatt]

8. K&R

K&R

[Marrah_G]

9. I don't see it? The words on the sign are bad enough.

What a disgusting person the sign owner is.

[texastoast]

10. Unfuckingbelievable.

And someone thinks it's just being funny. Where are the grownups?

[Dawgs]

11. Deleted

[goldcanyonaz]

12. Thanks for the screenshot! This should have a lot more recommends

[nc4bo]

15. I thought it should too :S n/t

[jhain]

13. I just saw it- 10:15 am

sent a complaint.
idiots.

[vaberella]

14. And it's actions like this which show that Racism lives a strong life in the US...~sigh~ K&R!!!

[scheming daemons]

16. The image is from their second story on the video page.....

About a town owner who won't remove his sign.

[nc4bo]

17. Sloppy editing, no pass from me. n/t

[Dawgs]

20. Yeah, but it has nothing to do with a video that is about Obama coming to town.

They should be called out on it. It's sloppy at best.

[scheming daemons]

21. I agree... i think it is sloppy..... they are an Atlanta station... Atlanta has a LARGE

black population....


It would be economic suicide to do this on purpose.

[nc4bo]

22. But

it's also ooooh so advantageous to leave it in place, don't you think?

[scheming daemons]

23. Not when 40% of their audience is black....

TV stations in Atlanta can't afford to be viewed as openly racist..... economic suicide, with protests and boycotts that follow.


I think it's a mistake... not an act of malice. If it IS an act of malice, it is a low-level staffer who updates the web page - and not a station policy.


I know nothing of the station management.... but it is common sense. They are broadcasting in a large metropolitan city in which 40% of the residents are black. They want to make money. They aren't WILLFULLY this stupid.

[Elidor]

25. Actually, Atlanta is almost 60% black.

[sourmilk]

18. As overheard in Ogdensburgh, NY, July 4, 2008:

"Well - If voting for McCain because I'm white is racist, why isn't it racist for all those ni--ers to vote for Obama just because he's a ni--er?"

I
SHIT
YOU
NOT.

I got my pasty-white, cracker ass back over that bridge the minute the fireworks ended, let me tell you.

[helderheid]

19. motherfucker

[salinen]

24. Bush is chimpy

Obama is a racehorse.

[goldcanyonaz]

26. kick! funny how these threads drop to the bottom

[bunnies]

27. "A Obama" ?!

wow. Racism AND literary genius. :banghead:

[nxylas]

28. A Obama?

If the sign owner is not brought up under the Civil Rights Act, the Grammar Police should get him.

[tblue37]

29. K&R n/t

[texastoast]

30. I think it is gone now?

Couldn't get it to come up this afternoon. They must have fixed it?

[litlady]

31. I just watched the news report on their site...

it is just about a business owner that won't remove the sign despite complaints. Apparently, the same business owner made headlines in the past because he had a sign about Michael Jackson that used the "n" word.

[slackmaster]

32. Only a total asshole equates a human being with a non-human species

At least in our culture.

[ChimpersMcSmirkers]

33. K&R

[nc4bo]

34. I think they fixed it and moved onto the next big story :)

When i played the same video again, no more still from the previous story.

Hopefully the editing dept. will take their time and be more careful next go round.

[AZBlue]

35. It's now it's own story under "Owner Refuses to Remove Obama Sign"

It's at the Georgia Peach Oyster Bar on Highway 120.

Googled it and found this interesting thread on the owner, Patrick Lanzo, and his brother - sound like a pair of losers to me: http://www.paulding.com/forum/lofiversion/index.php/t162515.html

And I love this quote:
Channel 2’s Tom Regan asked Lanzo if he was racist and he said he wasn’t. He did say he allowed the Ku Klux Klan to use the property behind his bar for rallies but added that a gay rights group was also invited on one occasion.
http://blackpoliticalthought.blogspot.com/2008/07/patrick-lanzo-owner-of-georgia-peach.html

OY!