jonalvy44
05-29-2003, 11:49 AM
I'd like to see proof of this allegation by Star Jones...I cannot believe that 500 people that would tune in to both AI and The View would say such things via email.
She's already introduced politics into this accusation by inferring that it's Republicans saying such nasty things. This could be another example of leftist media trying to taint public opinion of Republicans!
I cannot believe she has received over 500 emails full of hate and racism.
I'd like to see proof. she should be willing to come forward with the emails. Something stinks here.
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'IDOL' HATE STUNS STAR
By MICHAEL STARR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/76944.htm
May 29, 2003 -- 'THE View" co-host Star Jones says she's received hundreds of hateful e-mails for her on-air support of "American Idol 2" winner Ruben Studdard.
"I have to tell you, being on this show six years, I have never received such vicious e-mails . . . 'Take Ruben and go back to Africa,' vicious things," Jones said on "The View" yesterday to gasps from the audience.
"I'm shocked at the level of acrimony, at the viciousness," Jones told The Post. "I'm used to people coming after me - I'm on TV and it's my job to express my opinion.
"But to take my true excitement over ['American Idol'] and match it with a young man who won and to make it a race issue is disheartening more than anything.
"I'm more offended that in this day and age I'd get such racist and hateful e-mail."
Jones said that "about 10 percent" of the 5,000-plus e-mails she received over the course of discussing "American Idol" have been nasty.
"I was such a big Gore supporter and was pretty verbal in my support of the Democrats in the last election . . . and I got a lot of mail saying, 'You're a liberal b**ch,' " Jones said. "But I didn't get the level of racist anger I've received over this.
"It's really sad that some people took a wonderful way for people to have their dreams come true and turn it into a lesson on race relations."
Throughout the run of "AI2," Jones had been a big booster of Studdard, the soft-spoken "velvet teddy bear" from Birmingham, Ala. who eventually won the contest, barely beating runner-up Clay Aiken
Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY
PABAAH: Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (Become a Member) Visit Alvy's forum: http://groups.msn.com/AlvysForum Bush Country www.bushcountry.org
She's already introduced politics into this accusation by inferring that it's Republicans saying such nasty things. This could be another example of leftist media trying to taint public opinion of Republicans!
I cannot believe she has received over 500 emails full of hate and racism.
I'd like to see proof. she should be willing to come forward with the emails. Something stinks here.
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'IDOL' HATE STUNS STAR
By MICHAEL STARR --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/76944.htm
May 29, 2003 -- 'THE View" co-host Star Jones says she's received hundreds of hateful e-mails for her on-air support of "American Idol 2" winner Ruben Studdard.
"I have to tell you, being on this show six years, I have never received such vicious e-mails . . . 'Take Ruben and go back to Africa,' vicious things," Jones said on "The View" yesterday to gasps from the audience.
"I'm shocked at the level of acrimony, at the viciousness," Jones told The Post. "I'm used to people coming after me - I'm on TV and it's my job to express my opinion.
"But to take my true excitement over ['American Idol'] and match it with a young man who won and to make it a race issue is disheartening more than anything.
"I'm more offended that in this day and age I'd get such racist and hateful e-mail."
Jones said that "about 10 percent" of the 5,000-plus e-mails she received over the course of discussing "American Idol" have been nasty.
"I was such a big Gore supporter and was pretty verbal in my support of the Democrats in the last election . . . and I got a lot of mail saying, 'You're a liberal b**ch,' " Jones said. "But I didn't get the level of racist anger I've received over this.
"It's really sad that some people took a wonderful way for people to have their dreams come true and turn it into a lesson on race relations."
Throughout the run of "AI2," Jones had been a big booster of Studdard, the soft-spoken "velvet teddy bear" from Birmingham, Ala. who eventually won the contest, barely beating runner-up Clay Aiken
Jon Alvarez Syracuse, NY
PABAAH: Patriotic Americans Boycotting Anti-American Hollywood (Become a Member) Visit Alvy's forum: http://groups.msn.com/AlvysForum Bush Country www.bushcountry.org