Madison Talk Radio Host Calls For Rape of Local Politician

Sly Sylvester, the Madison talk show host that called Condi Rice “Aunt Jamimah” Colon Powell “Uncle Tom", then he handed out pancake mix and syrup making light of it has now called for the rape of a local politician.

Wisconsin State Journal: Sly says he'll give on-air apology
A Madison radio talk-show host says he will apologize on the air this morning for remarks that some felt suggested that Ald. Robbie Webber should be raped.

The exact comments made by Sly Sylvester during his Friday morning radio show on WTDY-AM 1670 are unknown, and Sylvester refused to provide the Wisconsin State Journal with a tape of the show.

But in an apology Sylvester e-mailed to Webber, who represents District 5, he said he joked that Webber was uptight and "needed to get laid by someone like Kobe Bryant over a chair." Bryant is the NBA basketball player who was accused of sexual assault in 2003.

The comments came after Webber declined an invitation to discuss proposed changes to the city's taxi-driver licensing policy on his show.

Sylvester said he was not insinuating rape, and noted that Bryant was not convicted of a crime. The criminal case against Bryant was dismissed last fall, and a civil suit filed by his accuser was settled out of court.

Webber said she believes Sylvester's comments clearly implied either coerced sex or violence, but even if they didn't, the underlying sentiment is still offensive.

"It's that tired old idea that if you don't like something a woman does or says or the way she treated you, then she's not getting any, or she needs to get some," Webber said.

This liberal talk show host has shown a pattern of racism and a problem with powerful women, but I expect he will get no real criticism, yet Mark Belling still has local pol's trying to get him fired for a single comment that he has apologized and been punished for.

Sly said he will donate $100 to the Rape Crisis Center... So I guess all is forgiven... Nope, no liberal double standard here!