”Nappy-headed hos,” the phrase that cost radio shock jock Don Imus his job and triggered a debate on how far free speech can go, was named on Thursday as the most egregious politically incorrect turn of phrase in 2007. Trailing behind that phrase in the annual survey by Global Language Monitor, a word usage group, were ”ho-ho-ho” and ”carbon-footprint stomping”.
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/ 27 September 2007
One of Rupert Murdoch’s leading pundits on the Fox News television channel, Bill O’Reilly, has become embroiled in the latest public row over the depiction of black people in the mainstream media. O’Reilly has been accused of ”velvet racism” for comments on his radio show about the famous Harlem restaurant Sylvia’s.