Asshole who insulted Michelle Obama with racist commentary fired.

[MADem]

It would be real easy to insult this little turd about his looks but I won't go there.


http://money.cnn.com/2015/03/12/media/univision-fires-rodner-figueroa-michelle-obama/

A Univision executive denied that the White House called to complain. The executive said Univision reached out to the White House this morning to share its public statement.
In a broadcast on Wednesday, Figueroa said, "Michelle Obama looks like she's part of the cast of 'Planet of the Apes.'" Figueroa made the comments as a photo of the first lady was shown on screen.
But in his statement today, Figueroa said that his comments were intended as a criticism of an unflattering job done by Obama's makeup artist.
"The full video clip in context shows that," he said.
Figueroa referred to his own background in asserting that he's "no racist."

[HassleCat]

1. It's probably not racist

But he deserves to be fired for it.

[spanone]

5. not racist? Figueroa said, "Michelle Obama looks like she's part of the cast of 'Planet of the Apes.

[hlthe2b]

10. Are you kidding me? NOT RACIST? REALLY?

Uggh... I'm thinking you made a wrong turn.

[malaise]

12. Huh?

Please!

[Starry Messenger]

13. Ffs

[HassleCat]

19. I should have said I don't know.

Not that there is a probability one way or the other. I just mean to say it to could occur to the guy that she reminded him of one of the ape characters from the movie because they were all so heavily covered in makeup. I mean, people compared George Dubya Bush to a chimpanzee, and he's about as white as they get.

[Starry Messenger]

20. Did you grow up in another country?

There is a long racist past that comes with comparing Black people with apes, that has nothing to do with GWB. At all.

[HassleCat]

21. I know that

It does sound racist, but not everything is the way it appears.

[tkmorris]

23. Give it up dude, that is racist as can be

Not sure what you are trying to prove here, but you really need to let it go. Comparing Michelle Obama to a character from Planet of the Apes is being a racist shithead, no matter what this idiot says by way of "explanation".

[HughBeaumont]

2. Isn't it funny how frequently racists assert up and down that "they're not racist"?

Or not?

[trueblue2007]

3. HE IS A HATEFUL RACIST PIG. i am glad they fired him. how dare he make fun of our FIRST LADY

[GGJohn]

6. Did you express the same outrage when people were making fun of Barbara or Laura Bush?

It's inappropriate on both sides of the aisle.

There is this thing called free speech, I don't like it, Michelle is a classy lady, but it is his right to say it, and he paid the price for it.

how dare he make fun of our FIRST LADY

Just like going after the children of politicians if they're not in politics.

[hlthe2b]

11. Had anyone actually done so, I would have absolutely....

But I have yet to EVER see anyone on DU (since I registered in 2001) say anything even remotely on this scale of inappropriateness towards Laura or Barbara Bush. Making fun of their clothing or general demeanor, however unseemly and unjustified even towards Republicans, is not even in the same ballpark as comparing our current first lady to an ape.

How you could compare the two makes me wonder...

[GGJohn]

15. I'm sorry, I should've made myself clearer, I didn't mean on DU, I meant IRL.

I agree, I've never seen any DU'er say anything like that towards Barbara or Laura, or even Nancy Reagan for that matter.

[trueblue2007]

22. do you know you are on DEMOCRATIC UNDERGROUND ??

I DON'T REMEMBER ANYONE on this message board saying racist remarks about the Bush first ladies. your remark is ridiculous.

[tabasco]

4. Act like an asshole. Lose your job.

Tough shit.

[tblue37]

7. This story is a year old. nt

[MADem]

9. No idea why it popped up on my feed!!! Internet is a strange thing, innit?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

16. It was probably trapped in one of the vacuum tubes.

[MADem]

18. Woooshed down from Alaska....!!! Where it was TRAPPED!!! nt

[Journeyman]

8. 49 weeks ago . . .

Still unemployed, though he seems to be making a go of it with a fashion webcast. He apologized but qualified it so much it was almost meaningless. His explanation for the comment's genesis seems plausible though unbelievably tone deaf. Nothing reported since on how Mrs Obama reacted. Three hours ago he tweeted he's having a wonderful time in St. Barth.

A somewhat perplexing tale of a very vexatious flaw in our humanity.

Perhaps, one day, we'll come home from all the wars.

[Greybnk48]

14. He's a liar, of course it's racist.

He's also a coward who won't own up to his ugliness.

[Mosby]

17. i suppose univision doesn't see the irony

That he was a host of a show called "the fat and the skinny".