Clinton, Obama rapped for taking cash from hip-hop producersJim Brown
OneNewsNow.comApril 27, 2007
An African-American ministry is drawing attention to what it sees as the selective moral outrage of two Democratic presidential candidates, Senators Hillary Clinton (D-NY) and Barack Obama (D-IL), who were outspoken critics of former MSNBC host Don Imus following his denigrating comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Clinton reportedly raked in $800,000 at a fundraiser hosted by rapper Timbaland, whose obscene and demeaning lyrics about women, critics say, make Don Imus's remarks pale in comparison. And Obama, who was quick to call for the firing of Imus, collected more than a million dollars at a fundraiser hosted by Hollywood mogul David Geffen, whose record company produces the albums of profane rappers like Snoop Dogg.
Dean Nelson is with the Network of Politically Active Christians (NPAC), a ministry of Wellington Boone Ministries. He says both Clinton and Obama are employing a double standard.
"Where some may suggest that they need to return the cash, I think at least they have to answer the question, what do you stand for," Nelson asserts, "because, if you're running for the highest office in the land, you can't say publicly that it is wrong to make derogatory comments like [those for which Imus was fired] but then, at the same time, take money from people whose livelihood is from an industry that makes millions, if not billions of dollars from that same type of language through the airwaves."
Both the Clinton and Obama campaigns are refraining to comment on the accusations, but the NPAC spokesman insists that both presidential hopefuls demonstrated hypocrisy by taking campaign donations from the producers of obscene and misogynistic rap lyrics while condemning Don Imus's denigrating remarks about the Rutger's women's basketball team.
"The question must be asked of both of those candidates, what do you stand for," Nelson says. "And you can't say you stand for upholding a sense of righteousness and good values," he contends, "when you take money from people who make their living entirely off the promotion of such vile words as 'hos' and other derogatory comments that they have made."
Nelson says Clinton and Obama's apparently selective moral outrage speaks to a political double-standard that is common in both the Republican and Democratic parties today.
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