Calling Himself ‘The Whitest Man In America,’ Fox’s Gibson Defends ‘Ooga Booga Fever’

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/06/04/gibson-whitest-man/

Calling Himself ‘The Whitest Man In America,’ Fox’s Gibson Defends ‘Ooga Booga Fever’

Last week, during a discussion of the “TB Man story,” Fox News anchor John Gibson declared that tuberculosis usually effects someone “from the third world” or who contracted “ooga booga fever” in “some godforsaken hellhole.”

Noting the criticism of his remarks from Media Matters and ThinkProgress, Gibson responded on the June 1 edition of his radio show.

Calling himself “the whitest man in America, who is the black man’s best friend,” Gibson said his comments were not racist because he had just “invented” the term. “Now, I could have called it Machu Picchu fever or Latino jungle fever or something. I’ve gotten sick in those places too.” (Gibson noted, however, that he wouldn’t have called it “Potomac fever,” after Washington, DC.)

Later, Gibson contradicted himself, claiming he learned the phrase from reading Joseph Wilson’s book, which references Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso. “So I, in making up ooga booga fever, I actually mispronounced the name of Burkina Faso. I should have said Ouagadougou fever.”

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This is not the first time John Gibson has spouted such casual racism on the air. On a recent edition of his radio show, he claimed that the U.S. invasion of Iraq had “unmasked” the Iraqis as “knuckle-dragging savages from the 10th century.” In 2006, he directed his viewers to “make more babies” because in “wenty-five years…the majority of the population is Hispanic.”

Furthermore, Gibson’s attacks on ThinkProgress are blatantly dishonest. Claiming “these guys are going off the deep end,” Gibson and his producers read statements attributed to ThinkProgress that ridiculed him in a personal manner. Gibson didn’t mention that nothing they read was actually written by a member of the ThinkProgress staff; he was reading the words of ThinkProgress’ readers in the comments section of the post.

Transcript at link, too~

[marmar]

1. He's also the dumbest man in America....

That this troglodyte has such a prominent role on a TV network speaks volumes about Fox. :dunce:

[LoZoccolo]

2. I think he's got ooga booga teeth, personally.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gibson_%28media_host%29

His haircut could be described as an "oogaboogadour".

[AndyTiedye]

3. FauxNews: Working to Make Racism, Bigotry, and Hate Repectable

[Ishoutandscream2]

4. And doing a fine job of it, I might add

[unpossibles]

5. well, yeah

and if we try to point out their racism, they call us "PC"

You'd think Gibson would have learned from Allen's 'made up' words to not use that excuse.

[11 Bravo]

6. Gibson, shut up and go gnaw down another sapling ...

you beaver-toothed jackass.

[rasputin1952]

7. I hear he got some parasites in the abrasions he has

on his knuckles; dragging said knuckles on the ground through feces will do that...if there ever was a "reason" for cleaning up the gene pool...:eyes: