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If there's any demand for him he'll find another job on some other medium.
No doubt all the people who think he's a martyr will be rushing to tune in.
It's like the Dixie Chicks in reverse.
CBS radio announced about an hour ago that he's fired from his radio show.
If there's any demand for him he'll find another job on some other medium.
No doubt all the people who think he's a martyr will be rushing to tune in.
It's like the Dixie Chicks in reverse.
what a double standard used against him to lose his job. a witch hunt led by a "reverend" that cheated on his wife and a man that called jews "diamond merchants" and said “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.". where's the outrage in that? mel gibson said anti-semitic slurs when he was drunk. al sharpton wasn't. i could care less about imus, but what happened to him was waaaaaaaaaaaay uncalled for. i'm sure harsher words than "nappy headed hoes" are found on 99% of every rap album that has been released in the past 5 years. should their record companies suspend or void their contracts? no. this country is going to folks.
sometimes, it seems that way.
Why does everyone keep throwing the "well rappers....." card all the time. This was NOT about what rappers are singing or talking about it was what came out of Imus's hole...period.
Funny had this been a black man saying "crackers" or the "white bread honkeys" you wouldn't have heard one word.
Thats a fact.
Well, you know, I hate gay people. I let it be known I don't like gay people. I don't like to be around gay people. I'm phobic. It shouldn't be in the world, in the United States, I don't like it.
They talk about it, cause thats what they bring up and say quite a bit in their music.Why does everyone keep throwing the "well rappers....." card all the time. This was NOT about what rappers are singing or talking about it was what came out of Imus's hole...period.
Period, fact, end of discussion.
Its the same old double standard bull .
how do they differ?
Imus raised over $10M for a private rehab center for veterans right in the middle of the Walter Reed scandal and gets no media attention besides his own. Then he makes a throwaway statement about the finalists in the women's basketball tourney (remember, he thought the Tennessee team was cute) and he loses his job.
He's not going to Sirius - remember, Stern hates Imus. He's going to that ranch in New Mexico he always talks about and will fade into eventual obscurity.
You mean like the double standard that existed for minoriites for many, many years? It is bull .
Jason Whitlock:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815474/postsWe have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, at ude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.
It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
It wasn't too long ago that a black man would be lynched for saying it either and thats a fact.
just laugh at it and move on.
people that take this seriously don't have enough to worry about.
just laugh at it and move on.
people that take this seriously don't have enough to worry about.
so that makes it ok?It wasn't too long ago that a black man would be lynched for saying it either and thats a fact.
Great logic.
Damn, I agree with Jason Whitlock.
stop the damn presses.
Yeah. Like the logic about rappers makes it okay for Imus?
Great logic.
Doesn't make it ok.
No one said that.
They are saying, wheres the similar outrage for them as there is Imus?
I finally read that Whitlock article. That was great.
richard justice's take from his blog:
I doubt we'll ever have a reasonable discussion of Don Imus. Everyone comes into the room looking for a fight. I speak as having been an regular listener for more than a decade. I'm not arguing against his firing. I support it. As someone at Indiana told me of Bob Knight, ''Just because you do some good things doesn't give you the right to do all the bad you want.''
It's important to note that Imus didn't limit his withering, coarse humor to African-Americans. Ted Kennedy, Bill and Hillary, Democrats, Republicans, Gays and a long list of others were constant targets. It was sometimes funny and almost always brutal. He referred to George W. Bush as ''a war criminal'' and railed about the mishandling of the war in Iraq, the mess at Walter Reed and the slow response to Katrina. His interviews with Michael Beschloss, Frank Rich and others shed more light on issues than you can get on most of the morning talk shows in a month.
He attempted to have an honest discussion of race relations when one of his regulars, Harold Ford, who is black, was beaten in a Tennessee Senate race. And there's the Imus Ranch for Kids with Cancer. That's why I'm writing about Don Imus one more time.
If you think Imus was cantankeous on the air, you should have heard the stories about the way he treated those sick kids. He made them shovel and sweep and cut and mow and and do a dozen other chores. When they got thrown from a horse, he made them get back on.
He didn't treat them like sick kids. He seemed to pretend they weren't sick, that they weren't any different from other kids and they were at the ranch to work. When they left the Imus Ranch, they had more self-esteem than they'd had in years. Ask any parent who sent a sick kid there. As some of the kids died over the years, Imus occasionally attempted to talk about them on the air--and broke up.
This is in no way a defense of his racist comments. Racist is racist whether it's supposed to be funny or not. As these shock jocks pushed the envelope on sexual, racial and crude humor, it's not surprising that a few of them have gone down. One of Washington's highest paid radio personalities--The Greaseman--got his about a decade ago. And there was the guy who phoned Air Florida on the air the day after a horrific crash and asked about the one-way fare from National Airport to the 14th Street Bridge. If you can tell me what happened to that guy, you win? Hint: you've heard of him.
Are Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton shameless opportunists? Of course, they are. Allowing shameless opportunists to shine a light on an issue like this means America is a better place because once upon a time, minorities had no voice.
Thanks to Imus, we also know what a remarkable story that Rutgers women's basketball team is. I imagine he'll find another gig. I hope those sponsors who dropped Imus don't drop the kids. I hope he can keep bringing them to the ranch.
Nice article by justice.
To all that in the Spurs nation that are frequent posters from here and across the sea:
I have not seen such hypocrisy in my life. Let me be frank. What Imus said was offensive, but I tell what really offends me. I am a Christian man who acknowledges the majesty and soverignty of God. It just goads me when someone says "g-- d---" or "Jesus Chirst" or talking with the "Man Upstairs." It seems that we cannot get away with blasphemy against a particular section of the human race, but we can against the creator of the worlds.
Racism to some here in the US seems to take place just here, but in realty, it is around all parts of the earth. To you posters from overseas, you know what I mean. In Mexico, no foriegner can purchase land within 50 km of the coast or 100 km of the border. In article 32 of the Mexican Cons ution, it states that Mexicans shall have priority over foreigners under equality of cir stances for all classes of concessions and for all employment, positions, or commissions of the Government in which the status of citizenship is not indispensable.
In Zimbabwe, the dictator Mugabe mobilzed mobs to seize and loot 5,000 farms that were owned by white people. In Burma, the Burmese launch vicious attacks on the Karen peoples along the Burmese-Thai border.
In concluding my vent, I ask you folks. Where are Sharpton and Jackson when black people in the south of Sudan and Mauretania (sic) are sold into slavery TODAY? Where are they where the people in Zimbabwe are crying for freedom from the oppression of Mugabe? Where are they when over 1,000 Christians murdered by rampaging Muslim mobs in Borno State in Nigeria? Oh, I guess they before the microphone protesting the words of some washed-up talk show host.
That is all for now.
CBS's decision to fire Imus was logical from a business standpoint, but they shouldn;t have had to feel like they needed to do it in the first place. It was a bonehead comment no doubt, but why the do black people, like sharpton and jackson, feel like they have to attack Imus for saying the things he did when the notion of the hoe as something particularly black is constantly being promoted every day on the radio by their own people? It's double standard. It's sickening because hardly ever do ou hear about members of the black population, scuh as Jackson and Sharpton, ever being so concerned about what should be and shoud not be said about black women when black men say it. Are comments like the ones Imus said only innapropriate when there is racial disparity? If Sharpton claims that it is an attack on BLACK WOMEN than he needs to have every single rapper on his show apologizing for things they have said about black women. All party's need to be treated the same for their comments about women, otherwise it is only a matter of one person crossing the line not because of what he said, but because who was saying it.
If it is really an issue about black women, Hip hop artists and entertainers who say this stuff need to suck sharptons ass
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