{"id":9060,"date":"2011-08-11T15:38:40","date_gmt":"2011-08-11T19:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9060"},"modified":"2011-08-11T14:05:53","modified_gmt":"2011-08-11T18:05:53","slug":"steve-harvey-cornel-west-tavis-smiley-are-uncle-toms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=9060","title":{"rendered":"Steve Harvey: Cornel West, Tavis Smiley Are &#8216;Uncle Toms&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During his syndicated radio show, comedian <strong>Steve Harvey<\/strong> called out <strong>Cornel West<\/strong> and <strong>Tavis Smiley<\/strong> for their poverty bus tour, while defending <strong>President Barack Obama<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After a listener sent an email about the duo&#8217;s tour being a hustle, <strong>Harvey<\/strong> didn&#8217;t shy away for offering his own opinion &#8212; accusing <strong>West<\/strong> and <strong>Smiley<\/strong> for using personal vendettas to damage the <strong>Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was a huge fan of <strong>Cornel West<\/strong>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;[But] <strong>Tavis<\/strong>, I seen him coming a mile away. His anger started when he had a town hall meeting, <strong>President Obama<\/strong> couldn&#8217;t come because of the campaign trail and he sent <strong>Mrs. Obama<\/strong>. He has held that grudge every since.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The writer and comedian also mocked <strong>West<\/strong> for not getting extra tickets to <strong>Obama&#8217;s<\/strong> inauguration. <strong>Harvey<\/strong> said, &#8220;Have you ever been invited to the damn inauguration? Did <strong>Bush<\/strong> send for you? Did <strong>Clinton<\/strong> send for you? Did <strong>Reagan<\/strong> send for you?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey<\/strong> continued his rant by referring to Smiley and<strong> West<\/strong> as being affiliated with UTLO.org (which stands out for &#8220;Uncle Tom Look Out&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harvey<\/strong> mocked the tour by saying, &#8220;Make sure you don&#8217;t get on the poverty bus&#8230; because if you ain&#8217;t po&#8217;, when you ride the bus, you become po&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During his syndicated radio show, comedian Steve Harvey called out Cornel West and Tavis Smiley for their poverty bus tour, while defending President Barack Obama. After a listener sent an email about the duo&#8217;s tour being a hustle, Harvey didn&#8217;t shy away for offering his own opinion &#8212; accusing West and Smiley for using personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9060\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}