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primeralives
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what an idiot..
SmokinPurp
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i think they are blowing it WAY out of proportion...
MightyBuddha
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He was the original shock jock before the term even existed... this is total horse crap and then going on Sharpton made him sound like a total fuckface - 'those people' - Why the Fuck would you say that to a black guy?
Seriously though he is paid to be shocking and he is not a NEWS ANCHOR or CONGRESSMAN though he does tread that fine line by doing political commentary.
This has actually been great for IMUS and CBS... most people wouldn't even know the name Don Imus if it weren't for Howard Stern & then Private Parts.
So in closing, I don't like the guy & he looks like a goof but he shouldn't loose his job or have to be suspended. Sure it was offensive but it wasn't hate speech!
Seriously though he is paid to be shocking and he is not a NEWS ANCHOR or CONGRESSMAN though he does tread that fine line by doing political commentary.
This has actually been great for IMUS and CBS... most people wouldn't even know the name Don Imus if it weren't for Howard Stern & then Private Parts.
So in closing, I don't like the guy & he looks like a goof but he shouldn't loose his job or have to be suspended. Sure it was offensive but it wasn't hate speech!
Resinman
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before anyone answers you have to know Imus,,,and he has been on the air 40 years most have never actually listened to him
Please read this first link about Imus,,,then you will understand a little more,,,
Imus Plantation
Please read this first link about Imus,,,then you will understand a little more,,,
Imus Plantation
Resinman
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Don Imus behavior has increasingly drawn the attention of the press. He famously called Rush Limbaugh "a fat, pill-popping loser" and Lesley Stahl a "gutless, lying weasel." His exchange of insults ("fat pig") regarding his shows former news reader, Contessa Brewer, recently made news as did Brewer's response ("cantankerous old fool"). When Tucker Carlson brought up Brewer on the program in 2005, Imus hung up on him, calling him "a bowtie-wearing pussy." More recently, his targets have not been so prominent, and his attacks have displayed a more vindictive quality; see Controversies.
Imus, maintaining his 2007 commitment to the U.S. troops fighting overseas, helped raise over $6 million toward Center for the Intrepid, a Texas rehabilitation facility. Considered to be the largest technological center of its kind in the country, it is designed to help treat disabled veterans and help them with their transition back into the community.
Imus and his crew, Charles McCord and Bernard McGuirk, have been repeatedly accused of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. For example, Imus referred to African American sports columnist Bill Rhoden as a "New York Times quota hire" and PBS anchor Gwen Ifill as a "cleaning lady" over twenty years ago.[5] Imus has repeatedly referred to Arabs as "ragheads."[6] He has berated many female newsreaders, most recently Contessa Brewer, which caused her to leave the show. After she left the show, Imus went on a tirade, saying, With that fat ass shes got, she wouldnt be one of em, (a beautiful woman). Imus said on the air, "That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning." The tirade was also tied to comments that were overheard of Contessa's calling Imus a cantankerous old fool at a dinner in a restaurant in 2005, when she was still newsreader.[7] During Imus's show a producer also poked fun at poet Maya Angelou.[citation needed]
Sid Rosenberg
Sid Rosenberg, who provided sports updates on the Imus show, got into trouble when he suggested on air that tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams were animals better suited to pose for National Geographic than Playboy[8]. Rosenberg also stated that Palestinians mourning the death of Yasser Arafat were "stinking animals" upon whom the Israelis "ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now..."[9] He was fired from the Don Imus show after making crude remarks about Australian singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis, despite the hysterical laughter from his crew.[10] Chris Carlin replaced Sid Rosenberg.
Imus, maintaining his 2007 commitment to the U.S. troops fighting overseas, helped raise over $6 million toward Center for the Intrepid, a Texas rehabilitation facility. Considered to be the largest technological center of its kind in the country, it is designed to help treat disabled veterans and help them with their transition back into the community.
Imus and his crew, Charles McCord and Bernard McGuirk, have been repeatedly accused of racism, misogyny, and homophobia. For example, Imus referred to African American sports columnist Bill Rhoden as a "New York Times quota hire" and PBS anchor Gwen Ifill as a "cleaning lady" over twenty years ago.[5] Imus has repeatedly referred to Arabs as "ragheads."[6] He has berated many female newsreaders, most recently Contessa Brewer, which caused her to leave the show. After she left the show, Imus went on a tirade, saying, With that fat ass shes got, she wouldnt be one of em, (a beautiful woman). Imus said on the air, "That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning." The tirade was also tied to comments that were overheard of Contessa's calling Imus a cantankerous old fool at a dinner in a restaurant in 2005, when she was still newsreader.[7] During Imus's show a producer also poked fun at poet Maya Angelou.[citation needed]
Sid Rosenberg
Sid Rosenberg, who provided sports updates on the Imus show, got into trouble when he suggested on air that tennis stars Serena and Venus Williams were animals better suited to pose for National Geographic than Playboy[8]. Rosenberg also stated that Palestinians mourning the death of Yasser Arafat were "stinking animals" upon whom the Israelis "ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now..."[9] He was fired from the Don Imus show after making crude remarks about Australian singer Kylie Minogue's breast cancer diagnosis, despite the hysterical laughter from his crew.[10] Chris Carlin replaced Sid Rosenberg.
Resinman
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During the period January 27–February 2, 2007, Imus attended the dedication of the Center for the Intrepid, a privately built rehabilitation center for wounded veterans. Imus aided the building of the center by raising over US$10,000,000 and he personally contributed over US$300,000. The dedication received little coverage in prime time news, a fact that angered Imus. On his show in this period, he argued that Fox Network personalities Bill O'Reilly and Sean Hannity were too cowardly to attend or cover the dedication because they had supported the Iraq war so vigorously.[citation needed]
Smirgen
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Don Imus calling Black Women Nappy ho's is bad but Rappers calling Black Women Nappy ho's is good.
Kramer calling Black men Niggers is bad but black rappers calling black men Niggers is good.
Al Sharptons Hypocrisy based on race is noted.
I have to admit Bigfoots impersonation of mayor ray nagin was hilarious.
Kramer calling Black men Niggers is bad but black rappers calling black men Niggers is good.
Al Sharptons Hypocrisy based on race is noted.
I have to admit Bigfoots impersonation of mayor ray nagin was hilarious.
I listen to a lot of Sports talk radio, like Jim Rome and chit..
And ENUFF! already...
Sheesh.
He called Rutgers womens basketball team some Nappy Ho's?
BFD!? Bad comment , sure, but who the fuck cares?
Since when do people get so upset at name calling? Last time I checked, nobody got killed, shot, stabbed, set on fire, robbed, or impregnated from his comment..
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are quick to jump on his Imus's ass! Well, how about a fukking apology for the 3 Duke LaCrosse players you condemed as racist rapists who have since been found completely innocent??
Double Standards and Political Correctness gone way to wrong.
String somebody up for that?
Fukkin Media love to cannibilize their own given the opportunity.
And ENUFF! already...
Sheesh.
He called Rutgers womens basketball team some Nappy Ho's?
BFD!? Bad comment , sure, but who the fuck cares?
Since when do people get so upset at name calling? Last time I checked, nobody got killed, shot, stabbed, set on fire, robbed, or impregnated from his comment..
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are quick to jump on his Imus's ass! Well, how about a fukking apology for the 3 Duke LaCrosse players you condemed as racist rapists who have since been found completely innocent??
Double Standards and Political Correctness gone way to wrong.
String somebody up for that?
Fukkin Media love to cannibilize their own given the opportunity.
7xstall
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Imus was the result of the scheduled announcement of who is the father of anna nichols baby...
with the impending end of that used up and burned out story they had to have something cued, so what if it was even less newsworthy...
if you ever hear the word "black", sharpton will be the first person you see clamoring for a spot light...real leadership there...
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with the impending end of that used up and burned out story they had to have something cued, so what if it was even less newsworthy...
if you ever hear the word "black", sharpton will be the first person you see clamoring for a spot light...real leadership there...
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abudsmoker
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when you are in that position you must watch your words, if you dont you will likely have to eat them
ViRedd
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Resinman ...
Your response was terrific! Thanks.
Now then, if the "reverend" Jesse Jackson makes ananti-semitic remarks by calling New York "Hymie Town," that gets a pass by the news media, right?
Have you guys ever noticed that the ONLY people that are taken to the woodshed over "racial" comments are CONSERATIVE commentators?
Vi
Your response was terrific! Thanks.
Now then, if the "reverend" Jesse Jackson makes ananti-semitic remarks by calling New York "Hymie Town," that gets a pass by the news media, right?
Have you guys ever noticed that the ONLY people that are taken to the woodshed over "racial" comments are CONSERATIVE commentators?
Vi
MightyBuddha
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This has to be hands down the best commentary on the situation:
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK
Columnist
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude 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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.
Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.
But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.
In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?
I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?
When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.
No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.
To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to [email protected]. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK
Columnist
Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.
You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.
You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.
Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.
The bigots win again.
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude 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 $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.
I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.
But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.
I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.
Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.
Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.
But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.
In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?
I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?
When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.
No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.
To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to [email protected]. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com
Dankdude
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What I see is a double standard, when a black woman can lie against 3 white students saying that they raped her (when proven otherwise), and nothing is done, no apologies are offered, and she is not held accountable.
Then Don Imus makes a racial comment calling women in a basketball game "nappy headed hos" and the man is raked over the coals repeatedly to the point he loses his job.
What has happened to free speech in this country?
[rant]
The Women on the basketball team's lives were not ruined, the nappy headed hos comment won't hang over their lives, yet on the other hand, those boys who were accused will never live down what was done to them.
Once it has been proven that the woman lied to authorities, the rape shield laws should not apply, she needs to be exposed for what she is, a lier and scumbag. [/rant]
Then Don Imus makes a racial comment calling women in a basketball game "nappy headed hos" and the man is raked over the coals repeatedly to the point he loses his job.
What has happened to free speech in this country?
[rant]
The Women on the basketball team's lives were not ruined, the nappy headed hos comment won't hang over their lives, yet on the other hand, those boys who were accused will never live down what was done to them.
Once it has been proven that the woman lied to authorities, the rape shield laws should not apply, she needs to be exposed for what she is, a lier and scumbag. [/rant]