A Google image that supposedly prompted the host's racist comments.
[An update to this story appears at the bottom of the post.] — Arizona Republican radio host Barbara Espinosa not only exhibits her racism for all to hear, but then when challenged on her admission that she refers to President Obama as the “first monkey president,” she doubled down by quoting the definition of ”monkey” and then claimed she couldn’t be racist with the last name Espinoza.
On her radio show, “Hair on Fire,” Barbara was taking a call from a listener who referred to Obama as a communist and the one with “rabbit ears,” when she decided to elaborate on the caller’s depiction of the president and offer her own racist view.
Take a listen (story continues below the audio):
According to The Klute, Barbara initially tried to excuse her comments by saying they were based on an email image she received:
The comment was prompted by the google image cartoon that was sent to me.
Oh, well, that’s OK then! Someone sent you a racist cartoon, so what can you do except agree with it 100%! She actually includes a link to a Google image search that brings up dozens upon dozens of racist cartoons. You and I might think: “Well, that’s not cool”. Barbara Espinoza [sic] apparently thinks: “What a succinct way of expressing my terrible beliefs”.
With a last name of Espinosa I’m anything but racist.
That’s from the same comment. Apparently, you can play the race card, but only if you’re conservative.
This morning Barbara took to her website and boldly admits that she called the president a “monkey,” and then defends the racist statement by noting that, “Unless there has been a takeover of America and free speech is no longer allowed and I can be put to death for making a remark, I refuse to take the fifth.”
She then inserted Wikipedia information on evolution and monkeys along with the image shown on the right:
According to theory of evolution humans are a descendant of primates. Evolution is any change across successive generations in the inherited characteristics of biological populations. Evolutionary processes give rise to diversity at every level of biological organisation, including species, individual organisms and molecules such as DNA and proteins.[1]
A monkey is a primate of the Haplorrhini suborder and simian infraorder, either an Old World monkey or a New World monkey, but excluding apes. There are about 260 known living species of monkey. Many are arboreal, although there are species that live primarily on the ground, such as baboons. Monkeys are generally considered to be intelligent. Unlike apes, monkeys usually have tails. Tailless monkeys may be called “apes”, incorrectly according to modern usage; thus the tailless Barbary macaque is called the “Barbary ape”.The New World monkeys (superfamily Ceboidea) are classified within the parvorder of Platyrrhini, whereas the Old World monkeys (superfamily Cercopithecoidea) form part of the parvorder Catarrhini, which also includes the hominoids (apes, including humans). Thus, as Old World monkeys are more closely related to hominoids than they are to New World monkeys, the monkeys are not a unitary (monophyletic) group.
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Almost every single one of you make me want to give you all big hugs. Love all of your comments. The chick is delusional and needs waking up.
If true that humans evolved from apes, this proves that not all did, especially this bitch.
I voted for Obama and I will vote for him again, you devolved lunatic.
Upon reflection, the bitch mentioned didn’t even reach the ape stage…..
Then she believes in evolution?!
Barbara Horny (translation) – Espinoza is a joke. Your station loses credibility with ignorant rantings such as this one.
Barbara Espinoza seems to forget that we Hispanics were once called Grease Monkeys.So she should not be calling OUR President Names.She seems to forget the OUR President is also half WHITE.
Not surprizing she is from Arizona,home of the racist redneck who shot Gabby Giffords. How do the republibaggers get away with this kind of open racism?
Racist redneck? Where do you get this from? The guy is mentally ill. Don’t judge the whole state based on one individual. If I applied your logic to New York, California, Florida, or Illinois, people would be upset.
Ron – Did you bother to read the story or listen to the audio. It’s not a “guy.” It’s a woman. Your argument might be more believable if it appeared that you even bothered to read, etc. before trying to defend your state.
Ron if this were the first crazy racist thing that came out of arizona I would agree with you, but it never ends with Arizona, starting with the governor.
I think Ron is referring to the guy who shot Giffords.
Simple. They just don’t care what anybody thinks. Racists actually think they’re RIGHT. They don’t even think they’re racists. They decry science in the name of the Bible, then quote “science” when it’s convenient for them to do so. Remember: racism is only one kind of ignorance. ALSO: Ignorance is NOT a condition, it’s an activity.
Following interrogation, the man who shot Giffords was determined to be a registered liberal, not a conservative or REDNECK, you fuck brain. Get your facts straight, robot liberal filth.
Hey Joa –
(1) It is a lie to say that the man who shot Gabby Giffords was a “registered liberal.” That was disinformation spewed by the extreme right (Faux News).
(2) If “robot liberal filth” is the best you can muster with your vocabulary then you should go back to watching all the Fox News you can. There’s no hope for you…. Fuck Brain.
Harmon, you show your ignorance and resort to profanity in an attempt to prove your point. Why is it that we see this over and over again from conservatives on the far right. Spew your hate for everyone to see and I believe you will come out the loser.
She sounds like a low down old nut bag. Her callers are brain washed.
after obama just help mexicans stay in this country they beg to live in- and this barbara b!tch calls him a duamn monkey… look mexican yo ass aint white and white ppl hate mexicans
Can you please read what you wrote and tell me if you are been serious? I mean… how ignorant can you be to believe that she is Mexican based on her name alone? oh I forgot, any one that has brown skin is Mexican right? unbelievable how ignorant and stupid people can be sometimes. something you should know too, not all white ppl are so close minded and racists to hate other people. Oh and uh… Obama have not helped Mexicans stay in this country, in fact, he has deported way more people than any other President in the United States. and he has not giving amnesty to anybody so I really don’t know where you get that idea that he has helped these people stay here.
She states she is Hispanic. That doesn’t necessarily mean Mexican, but it doesn’t mean Spanish, either. She is from somewhere on this continent, south of the U.S. border.
I saw one photo of her holding a sign “No Government Healthcare” so obviously she doesn’t want her Medicare so let’s take it away from her and give it to someone who is more deserving.
I was born and raised in Kentucky when segregation was the law but my family were in the territory before it became a state and were abolitionists and in the years before the Civil war were part of the underground railroad. My ancestors fought for the Union.
It always astounds me that so many blatant racists claim they are not but every act screams that they are. This unholy disrespectful speech regarding the President is something I expect from gutter trash – and I’ve heard plenty of it and she exemplifies it. She is the one who has not yet evolved – no monkeys in her family tree – I would guess one of the (now extinct) sloths.
This sort of stuff is nothing new. Check out these right wing racist emails we’ve received. http://www.hillbillyreport.org/tag/Email
Now here’s ONE sorry ass Mexican I’d like to see deported!!!
Where does it says she is from Mexico?
NOT TRUE THIS IS THE CARTOON https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&hl=en&source=hp&biw=1280&bih=667&q=obama+as+monkey+cartoon&gbv=2&oq=obama+as+monkey&aq=1S&aqi=g1g-S1&aql=&gs_l=img.1.1.0j0i24.3479.10072.0.12675.15.13.0.2.2.2.955.4463.2j3j2j2j1j1j2.13.0…0.0.YdCME7wRnYY
I’m not Mexican. I’m American, Texan, Jewish
The President is a mulatto or political correct bi-racial he’s half white half black. The names you have been calling me and you think I’m racist?
Dearest Barbara – The image you refer to is just one of the many (including the one we put in our story) that were included in a link you posted yourself to a set of Google images.
The image you specifically refer to is worse.
It seems that every time you open your mouth, or attempt to justify your actions and words, you dig the hole deeper.
Yes, sadly, a few people have resorted to name calling in their passionate response to your ignorance, bias and intolerance.
You are a racist pig. You deserve no respect or understanding.
We can only hope that your days broadcasting your bigotry and hatred are numbered.
That’s not censorship. That’s protecting society.
Climb back in your hole.
Barbara: Isn’t it funny that you call yourself “an American, Texan, Jewish”, followed immediately by “The President is a mulatto….”. I believe you meant to say “The President is also an AMERICAN, Hawaian, Christian”. How DARE you bristle at being labeled a Mexican, then turn around and label the President! How you can live with yourself, I do not understand. I am ashamed that you are a woman, much less a member of society who has a chance to spread peace and civility and you just spread more hatred, lies, rudeness and bigotry. Maybe there is a place for you on one of the “Real Housewives” shows….seems you’d fit well there
Very well said Sherri! I second your response!! Save yourself the shame, she should be ashamed of herself . . . .
Barbara you need to put in your application over at fox news. Your a prefect fit.
A good number of the Google search results for “obama monkey cartoon” or “monkey president” actually depict George W. Bush. I guess that would make President Obama the second monkey president, not the first.
A racist (and an ignorant bully) is one that demeans others, no matter their race, religion, or ?? to make themselves appear better, bigger or more important, but what this behavior actually does is show the person truly believes they are of little worth in their own minds because they have no objective reasoning.
I’ve met a great number of racists and every one has been a coward, attempting to elevate their status by making others feel shame or guilt for those traits over which they have no control.
Don’t relate your attitude to being partly Jewish.
In the early 1960s I lived with a family of Orthodox Jews as their Shabbat goy in exchange for a room in their home and was treated like one of their daughters. They were very active in the civil rights movement, marched with African Americans in the south and couldn’t understand the horrific acts of racists, not only in the south. No one taught them this attitude, they were born with it.
I’m about as white as anyone could be (proved by DNA), several of my ancestors arrived before the Mayflower, some in the Jamestown colony, others in the Carolinas, Virginia, Lord Berkeley’s colony (later New Jersey) &etc. My family were abolitionists in Kentucky forty years before the Civil War and slaves that were inherited by my third great-grandfather were manumitted in the 1834 as soon as he came of age.
I don’t understand racism. Humans are all alike under the skin, except in certain limited populations it is difficult to determine race by looking at a skeleton.
Hate filled rhetoric is a sign of fragmented thinking, ignorance or hysteria and the opposite of rational thinking by a person with superior intelligence.
Espanosa: You are a Jewish American from Texas? That gives you the right to spew racism over public airwaves? You are the worst example I can think of for Jews, Americans and Texans. We pay for your right to use public airwaves, one way or another (through taxes or by buying the products of your commercial sponsors). We have the right to demand that you be removed from your racist pulpit.
Wow i lost hope for latinos in Florida a long time ago, I guess now in Arizona as well how shitty that place has become. She’s a Vendida (sellout)
Correction: not a vendida, just a pathetic close minded ignorant and full of…
Can’t be racist because of her last name?
I don’t understand how that works, but she is on RADIO yet still SHOWED everyone she’s a cunt.
If anyone knows of any petition or campaign to have this woman removed from radio, please message me back. Our country was founded on freedoms, speech being one of them. However, to talk about a standing President like this is appalling and shocking. Any attempts to oust her, consider me in!
Please add me to this list, lets send her and Rush off into the wilderness together, they deserve each other, they can fight about which one of them is the most ignorant racist pig
Not a racist?
“I voted for the white guy.”
Uh huh…you’re not a racist. :rollseyes:
This woman should be taken off the air.
As far as Arizona Republican Barbara Espinosa is concerned… I never heard of her. Not surprizingly, I am from Southern Arizona (Tucson)… the kinder, gentler, more Democratic, and astonishingly more tolerant part of a state which, if continued to be controlled by the wingnuts up in Phoenix, will be suceeding any year now. I would much prefer to live in a poor state called Baja Arizona, than to continue to be subjugated to the racist crazies in that pig in the desert whore to our north.
We shouldn’t wait for them to secede, we should kick them out and let them fend for themselves. This is just not acceptable and as Americans we need to refuse to put up with this kind of ignorance.
I am appalled at this kind of language and behavior, if Romney does not speak out and condemn her behavior and her words then he is as guilty as she is.., I think AZ must have the largest percent of crazies and racist in the United States. This makes me ill!!!!
It sadden me to hear and see people act and speak like Arizona Republican leaders and Barbara Espinosa and others that are still lost in the desert, just wandering around trying to find the promise land. They are all “Lost”.
Mahalo and Aloha
From Hawaii the 50th state of America, where President Obama was born. He has “Aloha” in his heart , these people should learn the meaning.
All of this BS, makes me believe that this is truly a race issue. And at the end of the day, this
be-och’s skin is probably burned to a nasty wringgly crisp by worshipping the sun trying to get black. Knock it off… LMAO YEAH DONT LET ME POST
Barbara Espinosa, you judge the President of the United States and yet you are surprised when you are judged. Call it free speech if you wish; I judge your free speech as racist, bigoted, and disrespectful to the office he serves. Your “free speech” reflects badly on all Americans and disrespects our country by disrespecting the office.
As the saying goes, opinions are like buttholes, everyone has one. Yours smells.
And no, you don’t have to have a WASP name to be a racist, you racist idiot.
Thank you Stew for standing up for what’s right. Regardless of whether we like what the President is doing.
It’s apparent Barbara Espinosa is a disgrace to what we want to stand for. Her hateful behavior should not be tolerated. She apparently has a miserable existence to harbor so much fear and hate. Anyone who says those type of things about not just the President of the USA or anybody for that matter, is an unhappy person who probably needs therapy.
Thank you Valerie!
This talk show host, Barbara Espinosa, is a racist and should be taken off the air! Her comments are racism and fearful! President Barak Obama is one of the smartest if not the smartest President we have ever had. Some w people are afraid that America will be taken over by blacks. There is a fear of a black planet! Take that old hag off the air!!!
You are a fool for what u said, Maybe you married a mexican , But if not u are consider a minority . so what are u trying to say. You cant stand that we have a intelligent Black Man in the WHITE HOUSE, Who will not let name calling stop him from doing his job. you are not no beauty, So look in the mirror and see what you really are! Dont hate on President Obama , hater, You are a pure racist , Have you forgot President Obama mother is white. There are no Pure white people, So you probably have monkey in you!
I weep for the future of this country when we are smart and intelligent enough to land objects on the various planets in our solar system yet primitive enough to judge people according to their skin color. And worse, we publicly demean the head of our country publicly while the rest of the world watches. Not sure this is what a true democracy looks like.
Change your last name. You are a disgrace to Espinosa..