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CNN has suspended Roland Martin indefinitely for tweets he wrote during the Super Bowl which were construed as homophobic.
In one tweet, Martin writes, “If a dude at your Super Bowl party is hyped about David Beckham’s H&M underwear ad, smack the ish out of him, #superbowl.” CNN stated, “Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated.”
Yet in November 2010, it was Martin who wrote, “Maybe someone should kick Sarah Palin,” after Palin criticized First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity campaign. Did CNN reprimand Martin in way, shape or form? What do you think?
Apparently language that demeans Sarah Palin (and conservatives in general) is not inconsistent with the values and culture at CNN and is not only tolerated but encouraged.
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Bob| 2.9.12 @ 12:38AM
That's rich. "Language that demeans is inconsistent with the values and culture of our organization, and is not tolerated." Double standard much?
Rick Sanchez was fired too for pointing out the obvious and saying the Daily Show and CNN are run in pretty much the same way.
irmaladuce| 2.9.12 @ 1:04AM
no, he was fired for saying the media is run by a Jewish cabal.
drive by post. Carry on.
Dimitry Aleksandrovich| 2.9.12 @ 1:03AM
Just another example of the thought police in America. Land of the free? Yeah right.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.9.12 @ 9:24AM
What is the saying? Hoisted on his own Petard?
It couldn't happen to a bigger Puke.
Richard Baker| 2.9.12 @ 1:11AM
Roland who?
JazzyJeff| 2.10.12 @ 2:15AM
Isn't he the bass fishing guy?
With God all things r possible| 2.9.12 @ 1:22AM
Finding bias and hypocrisy at CNN is like finding lies and broken promises in President Obama's record or abandoned buildings in the Democratic Party's paradise of Detroit--so easy a caveman could do it, as the ad says, but without the humor.
Finding an example of fidelity in any of the above would be like, say, finding a straw in a stack of needles.
There must be something more productive to do with your time.
Rick V.| 2.9.12 @ 5:14AM
Yeah, who? CNN? Who watches that?
spike59| 2.9.12 @ 6:23AM
sorry, Roland, but you should have learned that when you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas...did you honestly think that you, as a committed Leftist, were somehow immune from the PC Nazis?
WL| 2.9.12 @ 8:22AM
Roland Martin didn't just lie down with dogs...he's one of them.
Hacks firing Hacks.
btims| 2.9.12 @ 7:35AM
As much as I detest Roland and CNN, this is another example of how the super-sensitive, hyper feminized and homosexualized media shapes our culture.
Homosexuals are in large part, emotionally and sexually immature, maladjusted misfits, in the true sense of the word "misfit".
Send me to prison, I don't give a damn about your laws, rules and the like.
Bill| 2.9.12 @ 8:06AM
Ronald Martin is a liar. That's why he got his ass kicked.
WL| 2.9.12 @ 8:27AM
I'm sincerely glad that most conservative posts on the Roland Martin kerfuffle have more of a "see, this is what you get" tone rather than that STUPID tendency to take up the the liberal hack (like Juan Williams) strategy usually employed...
Just because they are getting fired by their liberal buddies...doesn't mean they are some sort of "good guy"..
It is especially irritating how they take to throwing their firebombs at us as soon as the dust has settled from their feuds with fellow liberals...
Kinda like J. Williams and his "racial code" crap...
WL| 2.9.12 @ 8:28AM
Bottom line...R. Martin got what was coming, since he is definitely a pioneer of creating the monster that bit his fat butt.
Bob Grant| 2.9.12 @ 9:05AM
Didn't he team up with Dick Martin and went on to create Laugh In?
Bob Grant| 2.9.12 @ 9:16AM
Doe anyone know where I can acquire a Protected Class rulebook?
So now sexual preference trumps race?
When did THAT change?...I thought the reverse was true: That race trumps everything? That if you were black you had carte blanche to go after any group, per the rules of the Protected Class, article one, section fourteen.
Being outside of the protected class, I do find it amusing when they go after one another.
WL| 2.9.12 @ 12:28PM
"sexual preference" trumps race right now because 96% percent of the race based vote is already in the bag and Obama could shoot all of our nuclear weapons into the air and set the targeting systems to have them boomerang right back at the United States...effectively nuking ourselves...and STILL keep 95 of that 96%...
So pandering to the "sexual preferences" is quantifiably justifiable as long as the Democrats have Obama on the ticket.
beebop2| 2.10.12 @ 5:57AM
It changed because 0bama can COUNT on blacks, but he needs the gays if he stands a chance at reelection.
Pete| 2.9.12 @ 12:34PM
When I heard Chris Matthews say that someone should "Do In Sarah Palin" I knew that with the media women are still fair game, especially conservative women.
beebop2| 2.10.12 @ 5:57AM
ONLY conservative women. Only.
Oldefarte| 2.9.12 @ 12:57PM
And to think he was only insulting OUT-OF-THE-CLOSET-QUEENS [opps sorry, meant ALTERNATIVE LIFESTYLE PARTICIPANTS]!!!!
PCP Smoker| 2.9.12 @ 3:02PM
Wow, this is the first time I have agreed with CNN's biggest (and fattest) P-I-M-P. Keep it up, Rolland. Time to smash the homosexuals.
franke| 2.9.12 @ 7:08PM
Obviously Anderson Cooper took it personally and got him suspended. And Conservatives of any stripe - be it race, gender, or preference - are not protected classes. On the contrary, any non white men who step off the Plantation need to be taken down and taken out lest other "special" group members start thinking for themselves and not parroting Democrat.
Bob K.| 2.9.12 @ 7:12PM
I never heard of him, but then I never watch CNN either.
Minikrediet | 2.10.12 @ 2:03PM
How can you suspend a man for being absolutely right?