Word: poinsett
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Sierra Vista clinic in Lamont, pediatrician Pierrette Poinsett said she would quit before turning away patients. "I see up to three kids a week who test positive for tuberculosis," she said. "This proposition will result in more disease, more teenage pregnancy. It targets the most vulnerable population -- children. It is unconscionable...
...think some people still get exercised over Rush Limbaugh. They have obviously never run across Dr. Herbert Poinsett. A square-jawed, balding former chiropractor, Poinsett is host of a nationally seen talk show based in Tampa, Florida. With Nazi and Confederate flags as backdrop, he rails against everything from the Jewish-controlled media to "black bucks" taking over our cities. A typical Poinsett point: serial killers are mostly white because "blacks don't have the brains to be serial killers...
...Poinsett and Ta-Har represent the lunatic fringe of the talk-show spectrum. But they are far from lonely voices. White supremacists, neo-Nazis and other extremists have found a comfortable, if not quite welcoming, home on cable's public-access channels. In 1991 the Anti-Defamation League counted 57 different "hate shows" across the country. The audience for these crudely produced and crudely reasoned programs is relatively tiny. But the virulence of their message has roused protests from New York City to Pocatello, Idaho, and launched a classic battle between community standards and First Amendment rights...
...Poinsett's show, inspired by Metzger's and also called Race and Reason, is even more extreme. An unabashed neo-Nazi, Poinsett asserts that "America is becoming darker and dumber every day" and considers Rudolf Hess and Adolf Hitler "the greatest white men who ever lived." When his show began running in New York City in January, viewer protests forced the program's local sponsor to withdraw it. Poinsett was appalled. "I am a political dissident," he says. "The First Amendment was meant for people like...
...Inns motel chain, noting that he had instructed his motels to obey the new law, said: "The alternative is eventually anarchy, chaos and destruction." And in Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenville, S.C., integration proceeded without major trouble. In Greenville, a young Negro was sipping tea in the Jack Tar Poinsett Hotel dining room when South Carolina's Democratic Senator Strom Thurmond, one of the rights bill's bitterest foes, walked in. Apparently unaware of the Negro's presence, Thurmond sat down in another part of the room and quietly ate breakfast...