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Black political group demands firing of Fox Business anchor

An African American political organization is demanding that Eric Bolling, the anchor of Fox Business Network‘s “Follow The Money,” be fired for making what they called racist comments about President Obama and saying that he hosts “hoods in the hizzy.”

Greg Braxton of the Los Angeles Times writes, “ColorofChange.org, which bills itself as the nation’s largest African American online political organization, said it has collected 65,000 signatures demanding that Bolling be fired for comments, including one in which he said that Obama was ‘chugging 40s in Ireland’ while tornadoes ravaged Missouri.

“Bolling also said that Obama had a habit of hosting ‘hoods in the hizzy,’ alluding to visits by the president of Gabon and rapper Common, who they said advocated violence against police.

“The host on Monday addressed his earlier remarks, saying ‘we got a little fast and loose with the language and we know it’s being interpeted as being disrespectful. And for that, I’m sorry. We did go a bit too far.'”

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Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.