Imus
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And now he's been fired from CBS Radio.
Whitlock is one of the very few who gets it.
As for Imus being let go from CBS, everyone cheer. Another victory for that uppity, nappy haired man-ho Al Sharpton. Glad to see white guilt is alive and well.
You get the award for whiniest bitch evar.
"Nappy headed hoes" is now apparently enough to get a nationally syndicated talkshow host fired as long as he's white.
Regardless of whether you like the guy, that's just stupid. I hope Al Sharpton's racist ass feels better about himself after this too. I mean really, the good reverand showed us all the way, didnt he? Thank god the blacks can count on him.
Regardless of whether you like the guy, that's just stupid. I hope Al Sharpton's racist ass feels better about himself after this too. I mean really, the good reverand showed us all the way, didnt he? Thank god the blacks can count on him.
Now that Imus is fired and you found a black man who agrees with you, mind going back and answering my questions, you coward?
Here's the second one again:
Once again, could you point to me where I said that? You're projecting a lot of hostility here. You're more pathetic than the Rutgers girl who said she's been scarred for life by this. After all, she was the target of the insult. You're a totally removed party who is getting awfully worked up at the uppity negroes who are playing Imus and people like yourself like a finely tuned violin...
Sharpton's got you dancing like the pathetic puppet you are, and you're too stupid to even realize what's happening. Maybe if you ask nice, he'll give you a reach around. After all, it's your birthright as a white man...
I got a question that isnt directly related to this issue, but has to do with Imus.
What is that stupid thing that looks like airplane headphones from the 80s that he's always got hanging from his head or neck or whatever?
What is that stupid thing that looks like airplane headphones from the 80s that he's always got hanging from his head or neck or whatever?
Welcome to America in 2007. This whole thing is just sickening.
I became a little more racist today because of all this sh!t.
Well none of this has changed my perception of individual races in any way. What is sickening is, as silver pointed out, a guy like Sharpton having so much influence still, even after he's a known parasite. CBS and NBC didnt do what they thought was "the right thing" they just caved to pressure brought on by this pile of walking feces, Sharpton, and set a precedent that will easily create more problems than it solves. Its just stupid.
The problem was apologizing to Sharpton in the first place. Why Imus thought that he could go kiss the self proclaimed black king's ring and this would all go away is beyond me. All he needed to do was apologize to the Rutgers girls at the beginning, and ignore Sharpton and his ilk.
I think this actually might be the beginning of the end of Sharpton pulling this kind of stuff. Because it's pretty clear that no matter what Imus did or said, Sharpton wasn't going to accept his apology. I think people are going to start to realize that if you're going to get crucified, it's counterproductive to go buy the hammer and nails and bring them to the guy who's trying to do it to you.
As well you should. It's racism that got you the education and job you have today. To do any less would be ungrateful.
Of course, if you really want to take advantage of racism, you can go to countless other nations, like, well, pretty much any of them except Canada.
Imus getting the can is a simple result of economics. Big advertisers were going to/did pull ads. He got the axe to placate them. It's all about $$$$ and has nothing to do with free speech IMO.
In Canada he'd hate on those drunk ass no good freeloading Indians who get everything handed to them on a silver platter courtesy of the taxpayer.
So, okay, this thread really isn't about the topic at hand any more, but I just thought I'd toss this out there:
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/04/firing-don-imus-stinks-no-no-for-rude.html
In between the hilarious analogies and curses, it's still a good post.
http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/2007/04/firing-don-imus-stinks-no-no-for-rude.html
In between the hilarious analogies and curses, it's still a good post.
The Imus lynch party
Pat Buchanan
Posted: April 13, 2007
In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us.
Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air?
Cards on the table.
This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman.
And Imus is among the best interviewers in our business. Not only does he read and follow the news closely, he listens and probes as well as any interviewer in America. Because he is a comic, people mistake how good a questioner he is.
Is "Imus in the Morning" outrageous? Over the top at times? Are things said every week, if not every day, where you say, "He's going too far"? Yeah. But outrageousness is part of the show, whether the skits are of "Teddy Kennedy," "Reverend Falwell," "Mayor Nagin" or "The Cardinal."
And when Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "tattooed ... nappy-headed hos," he went over the top. The women deserved an apology. There was no cause, no call to use those terms. As Ann Coulter said, they were not fair game.
But Imus did apologize, again and again and again.
And lest we forget, these are athletes in their prime, the same age as young women in Iraq. They are not 5-year-old girls, and they are capable of brushing off an ignorant comment by a talk-show host who does not know them, or anything about them.
Who, after all, believed the slur was true? No one.
Compare, if you will, what was done to them – a single nasty insult – to the savage slanders for weeks on end of the Duke lacrosse team and the three players accused by a lying stripper of having gang-raped her at a frat party.
Duke faculty and talking heads took that occasion to vent their venom toward all white "jocks" on college campuses. Where are the demands for apologies from the talk-show hosts, guests, Duke faculty members and smear artists, all of whom bought into the lies about those Duke kids – because the lies comported with their hateful view of America?
And hate is what this is all about.
While the remarks of Imus and Bernie about the Rutgers women were indefensible, they were more unthinking and stupid than vicious and malicious. But malice is the right word to describe the howls for their show to be canceled and them to be driven from the airwaves – by phonies who endlessly prattle about the First Amendment.
The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw.
What was the term the I-Man used? It was "hos," slang for whores, a term employed ad infinitum et ad nauseam by rap and hip-hop "artists." It is a term out of the African-American community. Yet, if any of a hundred rap singers has lost his contract or been driven from the airwaves for using it, maybe someone can tell me about it.
If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is, why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not pariahs in the black community? Why would black politicians hobnob with them? Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio stations that play their degrading music?
Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used. The issue is who Imus is – a white man, who used a term about black women only black folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity.
Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton – hero of the Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives – sit in moral judgment upon them.
"It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves," says Sharpton. It says something about America that someone with Al's track record can claim the role of national censor.
Who is next? And why do we take it?
I did a bad thing, but I am not a bad person, says Imus. Indeed, whoever used his microphone to do more good for more people – be they the cancer kids of Imus Ranch, the families of Iraq war dead now more justly compensated because of the I-Man or the cause of a cure for autism?
"We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality," said Lord Macaulay. Unfortunately, Macaulay never saw the likes of the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson.
Imus threw himself on the mercy of the court of elite opinion – and that court, pandering to the mob, lynched him. Yet, for all his sins, he was a better man than the lot of them rejoicing at the foot of the cottonwood tree.
Pat Buchanan
Posted: April 13, 2007
In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us.
Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air?
Cards on the table.
This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman.
And Imus is among the best interviewers in our business. Not only does he read and follow the news closely, he listens and probes as well as any interviewer in America. Because he is a comic, people mistake how good a questioner he is.
Is "Imus in the Morning" outrageous? Over the top at times? Are things said every week, if not every day, where you say, "He's going too far"? Yeah. But outrageousness is part of the show, whether the skits are of "Teddy Kennedy," "Reverend Falwell," "Mayor Nagin" or "The Cardinal."
And when Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "tattooed ... nappy-headed hos," he went over the top. The women deserved an apology. There was no cause, no call to use those terms. As Ann Coulter said, they were not fair game.
But Imus did apologize, again and again and again.
And lest we forget, these are athletes in their prime, the same age as young women in Iraq. They are not 5-year-old girls, and they are capable of brushing off an ignorant comment by a talk-show host who does not know them, or anything about them.
Who, after all, believed the slur was true? No one.
Compare, if you will, what was done to them – a single nasty insult – to the savage slanders for weeks on end of the Duke lacrosse team and the three players accused by a lying stripper of having gang-raped her at a frat party.
Duke faculty and talking heads took that occasion to vent their venom toward all white "jocks" on college campuses. Where are the demands for apologies from the talk-show hosts, guests, Duke faculty members and smear artists, all of whom bought into the lies about those Duke kids – because the lies comported with their hateful view of America?
And hate is what this is all about.
While the remarks of Imus and Bernie about the Rutgers women were indefensible, they were more unthinking and stupid than vicious and malicious. But malice is the right word to describe the howls for their show to be canceled and them to be driven from the airwaves – by phonies who endlessly prattle about the First Amendment.
The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw.
What was the term the I-Man used? It was "hos," slang for whores, a term employed ad infinitum et ad nauseam by rap and hip-hop "artists." It is a term out of the African-American community. Yet, if any of a hundred rap singers has lost his contract or been driven from the airwaves for using it, maybe someone can tell me about it.
If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is, why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not pariahs in the black community? Why would black politicians hobnob with them? Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio stations that play their degrading music?
Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used. The issue is who Imus is – a white man, who used a term about black women only black folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity.
Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton – hero of the Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives – sit in moral judgment upon them.
"It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves," says Sharpton. It says something about America that someone with Al's track record can claim the role of national censor.
Who is next? And why do we take it?
I did a bad thing, but I am not a bad person, says Imus. Indeed, whoever used his microphone to do more good for more people – be they the cancer kids of Imus Ranch, the families of Iraq war dead now more justly compensated because of the I-Man or the cause of a cure for autism?
"We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of its periodic fits of morality," said Lord Macaulay. Unfortunately, Macaulay never saw the likes of the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson.
Imus threw himself on the mercy of the court of elite opinion – and that court, pandering to the mob, lynched him. Yet, for all his sins, he was a better man than the lot of them rejoicing at the foot of the cottonwood tree.
for someone who doesn't care, you sure do expend a lot of energy.
He is probably just copying someone elses caring.
Sort of like how he "ignores" people.....
I wonder what would have happened if he called a predominantly white athletic time like the US Womens soccer or the WPGA a bunch of whores. I'm guessing the same thing with different folks getting pissed.
The Ben Wright LPGA "bunch of lesbians" thing that happened 10 years ago may apply. He got canned, and there was no race issue there.
I'm guessing Roburmoney got just as irate then too.
No, he just got a little more homophobic that day.
cant believe somebody got banned for posting in the P&WN3D forums.... especially after the whole "whore fetus" thread in the Lounge....
Oh boo hoo. God forbid someone go without Ridemonkey for a week. No, instead we gotta play Internet Tough Guy by re-registering to prove our manliness.
You can't ban me! See? SEE?!
Yes, we're all very impressed. Opie had a history on this topic and his comments were over the line.
The only reason the P&WN forum gets such free rein is because most of you do such a good job of being mature and moderating yourselves. If you can't handle that (like Opie couldn't), you'll see how fast this forum ends up getting a lot of attention.
You can't ban me! See? SEE?!
Yes, we're all very impressed. Opie had a history on this topic and his comments were over the line.
The only reason the P&WN forum gets such free rein is because most of you do such a good job of being mature and moderating yourselves. If you can't handle that (like Opie couldn't), you'll see how fast this forum ends up getting a lot of attention.
irate2:
i was wondering if a mod had given nathanial a new sig file, but then the spelling error of 'plagerized' (sic) solved that question rather quickly.
that's nathaniel, bucky
and if its misspelled, its cuz whomever i stole it from kant speel
I resent the implication that I'm mature. Moderate this (insert smilie of VB chucking a brown-eye)
you certainly can't argue that using belt and suspenders usually is the only recourse w/ our special one.
Banned.
havent posted here in a while...
silver/v'bounce aside from your insistence that us poor white people are so oppressed and stand atop a pile of colored misfortune, can you set that aside and discuss the double standard?
why IS it ok for a brotha to say bitches aint nothin' but tricks and hos?
silver/v'bounce aside from your insistence that us poor white people are so oppressed and stand atop a pile of colored misfortune, can you set that aside and discuss the double standard?
why IS it ok for a brotha to say bitches aint nothin' but tricks and hos?