Out Of Pocket CEO Compares First Lady To A Chimpanzee?!?!

Posted on March 8th, 2010 - By Bossip Staff

Categories: Barack Obama, Bolitics, Hip Hop Wired, Ho Sit Down, Michelle Obama, Michelle Obama, News, out of pocket

The CEO of Tennessee’s Hospitality Association made the bold decision to send an e-mail out to a group of public figures where he compares the First Lady, Michelle Obama, to a chimpanzee.

It was reported by the Tennessean of Nashville that CEO Walt Baker’s e-mail compared Obama to the sidekick of character Tarzan, Cheeta. The message features a picture of the first lady caught off guard with her lips pursed, accompanied by a chimp that has a similar expression on its face.

Since news broke, Baker has apologized for his actions.

On Saturday, he stated, through e-mail to Nashville Metro Council, that the message was not meant to be looked at as being something malicious, but was only trying to provide some type of “political humor.”

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  • http://www.thenoireffect.com GotYou

    Late news and not worth reporting. There will continue to be racist people out there that will hate the fact that Michelle Obama will go down in history as one of, if not the, greatest first ladies we’ve had. Report on what you know.

    GOING TO READ

    w w w . t h e n o i r e f f e c t . c o m

  • Human Racist

    just callin’ it how he sees it… the proof is in the picture

  • 2Sweet

    Why do people in such high positions do such stupid sh*t, like people aren’t going to talk about it! Dude is a CEO, his azz should have realized that he would have to apologize for this!

  • Eva

    That’s very offensive. She should be ashamed of herself. I wonder what Hannibal will say about this one… (hint: his past Gravitar)

  • victoria

    if yu gonna apologize or have to, why would yu even do it ? wonder what youR as$ looks like.

  • memchee

    he can’t be sorry knowing full well that the e-mail would work it’s way into the media.

    he expects a windfall of kudos from somewhere, having circulated such an e-mail.

  • victoria

    go 2sweet!

  • Yapper

    Opinions are like a-s-s holes. Everyone has one and everyone thinks everyone else’s stinks.

    I will just leave it at that :)

  • chaka1

    FAIL

  • lt

    A mind is a terrible thing to waste. smh.

  • juliemango

    He is not a political humourist but a CEO!!! anyways> Planet of the Apes was\is a popular flick bc they are humanlike so the sting boomerangs!!!MObama is 2 knowledgable to be insulted!!!

  • Eva

    I meant he should be ashamed of himself…

  • Ha! Too Bad Haters!

    Doesn’t matter she still in the White House. She still made history and nothing will ever change that. So I just sit back and laugh about this, about how these fools are still mad and can only resort to typical name calling and old insults to vent on. Well vent away racists because she is in the WHITE HOUSE honey.

  • http://. annahuko

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  • Sydney™

    I know these sorts of incidents should have ceased shocking me a long time ago, but I’m still amazed at the boundless gall of some people.

    BTW, this stunt cost this imbecile a contract — from thetennessean.com:

    “The Nashville Convention & Visitors Bureau on Saturday dropped its contract with Baker’s marketing firm Mercatus Communications. The firm had received almost $50,000 to market the new convention center and money that came indirectly from Metro to market the annual Music City Bowl.

    NCVB President Butch Spyridon issued a statement Saturday expressing his remorse for Baker’s actions:

    “The content is deeply hurtful to all in our city and beyond,” Spyridon said. “The attitudes expressed in the e-mail are both appalling and unacceptable, and are not shared or condoned in anyway by the NCVB or by me personally.”

  • Gimmeabreak78

    Why do people who should know better, think it’s okay to go in on this woman. Epic fail on this CEO’s part.

  • ♥Kenra♥

    Well, why dont they compare white people to something that burns in the sun and gets skin cancer.

    Something like a hairless Asian cat?

    At least we dont have THAT problem.

    I’d rather look like a Chimp, than one who will look like a prune at 20.

    Though, it was disrespectful, white people are only tough when they are behind something else.

    Seldom do they say these things in the face of the people they talk about.

  • http://aol ebonieladi

    These white people make me sick with their oops moments. They know d.a.m.n well what they are doing when they do it, then all they have to say is, oops I didn’t mean it, or I didn’t realize it would be offensive. B****S**t.

  • Kevin

    Not funny

  • http://bossip.com K3BABY

    HE MENT EXACTLY WHAT HE SAID…BECAUSE IF YOU DID NOT THINK IT…IT WOULD OF NEVER BEEN IN AND E-MAIL SO SAVE THE DRAMA FOR YOUR MAMMA…WHEN IT’S ALL SAID AND DONE SHE IS STILL THE FIRST LADY RATHER YOU LIKE IT OR NOT…AND PPL KILLS ME WHEN THEY DO SOMETHING AT SOMEONE’S ELSE EXPENSE THEN TRY TO SAY THEY DID NOT MEAN IT LIKE THAT OR TRY TO COVER IT UP….GET A LIFE..MICHELLE KEEP DOING WHAT YOU DOING AND GIVE THE HATERS ONE MORE REASON TO HATE…

  • Sydney™

    I sometimes feel like I’m (we are) fighting a losing battle — We still have to grapple with external racism, and we have our own raging intra-racial battle surging ahead as well. It’s demoralizing to me.

  • Caramel Cat™

    racism will NEVER go away…I am positive of this…

  • Yah Yah Yah, Get Out My Face

    My girl doesn’t even like Michelle Obama. She can’t stand her.

  • Alrighty Then…

    typical… white people are ALWAYS sorry AFTER the fact… how bout take that apology and shove it up your a$$???

    @Caramel Cat – me too…

  • she’s a monkey

    i knew she was a monkey when she decided her platform would be childhood obesity in light of the fact that a large number of families don’t even have money to buy expensive fresh foods with.

    she does EVERYTHING republicans want her to do and still gets no respect LOL LOL no one respects a selfish person who doesn’t stand up for right

  • barrack HUSSEIN obama

    Kenra,

    No you dont have that problem, but you do have aids, heart disease, and rampant diabetes. Plus take a look at that pic, exactly like a chimp, cmon now.

  • LADYKILLER69

    MOST N I G G AS ARE CHIMPS WITH WIDE THICK NOSES & LIPS…MICHELLE JUST MADE A FACE THAT RESEMBLES A CHIMP. THAT’S ALL. BUT MOST N I G G AS HAVE CHIMP GORILLA FEATURES!

  • LADYKILLER69

    LOOK A TRINA TO THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN A CRYIN CHIMP! MONIQUE A LAUGH GORRIA… AND THE LIST GOES ON! GET OFF THE PRESIDENT’S WIFE!

  • CHEETAH

    BEFORE YOU POST ANY COMMENTS GOOGLE HIM AND YOU’LL FIND A PICTURE OF HIM. AND HE LOOKS LIKE A RETARD. NOW HE HAS A NERVE TO CALL OTHER UGLY. SHOULDN’T HE BE GETTING SOME SERIOUS SURGERY TO FIX UP HIS RETARDED LOOK BEFORE HE CRITICIZES OTHERS?

  • Sydney™

    @Glok

    “TS F.UKKING UGLY AZZ PIC OF HER…IT DOES LOOK CHIMPISH!!”

    So you’re agreeing with the CEO?

  • Yapper

    I have no clue why ppl make a big deal about what she looks like. My question is are you sleeping with her? Are you married to her? Do you have to wake up to her? The answer to all these questions is NO. So why worry about what she looks like worry about what the hell is going on in this world.

    @ Sydney

    I meant to ask you last week if you seen Sunshine Cleaning? If not it’s a must see and Alan Arkin is in it.

  • cruzan trini

    She is one of the better looking first ladies. Remember Barbara Bush, looking like the old bitty from the package of Grandma’s cookies. She looked more like her husband’s mother than wife.

    First lady Obama was on the cover of Vogue, to my knowledge, none of those other first ladies were ever on the cover.

  • Sydney™

    @Yapper

    Hi, I wanted to see Sunshine Cleaning (I like Amy Adams, too), but I missed it. I’ll have to catch it.

  • ReALiSt aka ReALeSt(Rae Rae is my Name)

    WHY DO PEOPLE GET EMOTIONAL ABOUT IGNORANT COMMENTS??? I’D RATHER BE A CHIMPANZEE THAN A REPTILIAN FROM MOUNTAIN CAUCASUS WHO’S WHITE IN THE COLD WEATHER,RED IN SUMMER,GREEN WHEN ANGRY,PURPLE WHEN CONFUSED,YELLOW WHEN DEPRESSED AND BROWN WHEN SAD…BLACK IS BEAUTIFUL!!!!!!

  • Tia

    Most of the comments on here about First Lady Michelle is “ignorant”…You have the racist posting today under this thread and some haters from her own race posting too…

    Here is my message for all you Fools hating on the First Lady…”SHE WILL STILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK FIRST LADY OF THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY ON EARTH.” and there is nothing you can say or do about it to tarnish that “historical” fact. So hate on bytches!!!!…lol

  • http://aol ebonieladi

    I don’t remember seeing anyone putting up picures of Barbara Bush next to the Quaker Oats box. I guess they wouldn’t find that to be funny, but this crap is funny to them. I amazes me at the blatant disrespect being shown to the President and First Lady who are the only attractive Presidential couple aside from the Kennedys.

  • Glok…Book of Obama, Chapter bullchit!

    SYD!
    NO IM NOT AGREEING WITH HIM AT ALL ,..BUT IF I SEEN THAT PIC AND ASK MY SELF WHY SHE LOOK LIKE A CHIMP IN THAT PIC ISNT ME SAYING THAT I SHARE RACIST VIEWS …IT IS WHAT IT IS IN THIS CASE!….SHE COULD BE MY MOMMA AND ID SAY THE SAME THING ,..MOMMA WHY THIS PIC GOT YOU LOOKING CHIMPISH…I WANT TO HEAR HER COOMPLAIN BEFORE REACT I GUESS ..SO FAR SHE IZ MUM!

  • tg

    And people seriously wonder why things don’t change for the better. Look at the people who are running our Corporations and the people who hold our top Political positions and then you’ll see why things DON”T CHANGE. This man is a CEO and he’s racist – probably like 90% of the CEO’s in this country – UNFORTUNATELY. Well one thing for sure – Obama’s administration is bringing all the UGLY to LIGHT.

  • Secret

    Wow, Glok you can’t be black and if you are you are one disrepectful idiot. You apparently think being ignorant and tacky is cool. NOT You are a sad excuse for a person. And that’s the truth so you deal with that you lowlife loser. What real man sits up on the net and talks about women all day everyday besides YOU and the rest of the loser on this site.

  • Sydney™

    @Glok

    “I WANT TO HEAR HER COOMPLAIN BEFORE REACT I GUESS ..SO FAR SHE IZ MUM!”

    She’s not going to complain — She’s the FLOTUS, and she has a national agenda of her own with which to be occupied.

    I would never think of telling my mother she looked “chimpish” in any photo. Perhaps it was the way I was raised.

  • bluekid

    ”SHE WILL STILL GO DOWN IN HISTORY AS THE FIRST BLACK FIRST LADY OF THE MOST POWERFUL COUNTRY ON EARTH.” and there is nothing you can say or do about it to tarnish that “historical” fact. So hate on bytches!!!!…lol
    _________________________________________________

    @Tia, this is so true, ROFL!
    United States is one the most racist country in the world. When ever this next draft happens there will be rioting in the streets, what black person in their right mind would want to fight for a country full of white racist, it’s time for the white racist fight for their own racist ways that they believe in. Take all the white raciest cracka’s and draft them to fight in Iraq and Afghanistan where the real ni66as are.

  • DreTruth

    She does look like mother chimp in that picture she’s not pretty she’s just powerful and her stance shows it.

  • Wellhung

    Why was that pic used for this story?

    I think she is pretty. Probably one of the best looking first ladies in our nation’s history.

  • Glok…Book of Obama, Chapter bullchit!

    SECRET!
    I COULD GIVE A F.UK WHAT YOU THINK…I SAY WHAT I WANNA SAY ..AND WHY IS MY BLKNESS AT QUESTION CUZ IM NOT DEFENDING HER,..DO I HAVE TO COSIGN WITH EVERYTHING BLK PLZ…IM MORE BLK THAN YOU COULD EVER IMAGINE I JUST DONT GIVE A F.UK ABOUT THEM LIKE THEY DONT GIVE F.UK ABOUT US!

  • Somali Ninga

    Both Bush and Michelle Obama have “monkey” faces. Sorry but its true.

  • IJS

    Well truth be told she does look “chimpish”! Can people NOT have their opinion because she is the “First Lady” that happens to be his opinion (mine as well); that in no way takes away from her position or her intellect…just his opinion. Let’s be honest people we all have seen people and said that look like or favor something…get over it already HIS opinion

  • Lush_Us_Lipps

    Totally outta pocket!

  • Sistawithavoice

    Why are we even commenting on this…ppl have said worse about the President and First Lady, you,me, your mama, etc… There will always be ignorance, racism and hatred in this World, b/c evil does exist. Though I feel this man should have some form disciplinary action taken towards him, we all know it won’t, and somewhere else, someone will forward the same image. Let’s stop wasting our energy going back and forth about nonsense.

  • smittyt

    i see yall blocked out what i posted so it must be white folks who own this site, just wanted to know because white folks can call black people monkeys and you post it but when i try to explain the real truth yall blocked it out but that,s kool there,s other so called black web sites.

  • Black is beautiful! Don’t F*cK it up!

    Why is it that white folks can’t find any other way to joke about the POTUS and the First Lady with out making racial overtones? People have been lampooning politicians for years and they can always find something. Republicans are real dumb if they can only make fun of the 1st couples race. How unoriginal!!!!

  • Mz.

    In the words of Kanye, “Dont ever fix your lips like collagen and say something that you gonna end up apologizing.” ………

  • Rrrrroe Ski Love- A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

    I put white people in check all of the time when they make racist remarks or comments. I know that it is discussed at their dinner tables. I know that they raise their kidds to think that we are below them. (not all)It is a power struggle from withen, because they know that they are losing the race to the countless amounts of minorities who are changing the face of this country everyday. They feel threatened by us people of color, who are strong and determined but misguided due to ignorance. Time has a way of changing things and every great power that rose, will fall. If you know about the great Kufu, Hannibal or other African kings who once ruled the world. If you know about Napoleon, Hitler, Stalin, Mao etc. all of these races once ruled and are now fallen. It is God’s way of showing all of his people favor. The question is when we get our chance to rule again, what will we now do with it? (God’s Favor)

  • nywoman23…yay glok & me worked it out

    she does look like a monkey in that pic.

  • ***JUDY***

    People are so jealous of Michelle Obama and I cant figure it out…..she is such a beautiful a person.It doesnt matter because at the end of the day they cant take anything away from Michelle.

  • Sammantha

    Black people we are the chosen race. Everything about us is GOD (Beauty, Intelligence, Strength, Power, Faith, Love, etc.) We just have that thing about us that makes other races jealous and hate us for no apparent reason. HOE SIT DOWN TO ALL THE RACIST INGLOURIOUS BASTARDS THAT ARE STILL BREATHING!

  • Chi-Town Diva (Wild 100′s)

    THAT CEO MUT$A FU@KA NEW THIS WOULD MAKE HEAD LINES THATS WHY HE SAID THAT SHYT. THEY WANT HOW THEY FEEL 2 BE KNOWN

  • Chi-Town Diva (Wild 100′s)

    I THINK BARBARA BUSH WAS ONE OF THE UGLIEST FIRST LADIES THIS COUNTRYS EVER HAD. SO IF THEY WANNA PLAY THE DOZENS ON UGLY FIRST WIVES TALK ABOUT THAT UGLY BROAD. THAT CHICK LOOKED MORE LIKE GEORGE BUSHS MAMA THAN HIS WIFE.

  • TANGIE

    @GLOK, your comments are always funny as hell! LMAO!!!

    Anyway, to all you racist bastards, this is a BLACK site…If you do not like black people, stay off of this f’ing site!

  • jt

    she is ugly and looks like a monkey but they did the same thing to bush

  • TRUTH IS….

    lol….monkey face….my opinion and am sticking to it…she aint no halle berry or nia long or beyonce….truth hurts!

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  • trywhtny

    monkeys dont have big lips think about it its reverse

  • kalifa.williams@yahoo.co.uk

    she does look like a frigging ape…..truth hurts

  • Theorius Stylez

    ROTFLMAO!
    How do you hold back an entire generation of youth. Have them focus on foolishness. -Willie Lynch

    Get your head out of the sand!!!
    Use your head for more than a hat rack!!!
    Get your education!!!

  • obamadrama

    well i must agree with it, she does look like one but u shouldnt put her out der like dat.

  • nu

    Sad and pathetic, but not surprising.

    It just makes me laugh that that his all they have got!

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