Posted on 04/13/2007 9:44:41 AM PDT by NapkinUser
Well, another Boortz prediction down the tubes. Yesterday I said that CBS would fire Don Imus after his show today. Well, they didn't wait. Couldn't stand up to the pressure. The fired him yesterday afternoon.
When the history of this whole affair is written we'll see that the biggest mistake Imus made, other than uttering his ridiculous comment in the first place, was to add to Al Sharpton's aura of legitimacy by groveling before him on his radio show. Sharpton is a race hustler. That's it. One issue ... race .. and exploiting the sense of black victimization for his personal aggrandizement. I absolutely believe that Al Sharpton is a man with blood on his hands. His role in instigating racial violence in the Freddie's Fashion Mart incident and the Crown Heights riots has been largely ignored by the media. So here we have the spectacle of the management of CBS falling to their knees to lick the boots of a man who's words very well may have helped to send innocent men to their graves. You're really looking good, CBS.
This is only the beginning. Sure, Imus is a liberal. You can measure the depth of his vapidity through his endorsement of John Kerry for president. Some of you have asked how in the world I can say that this is the beginning of an all-out push to damage or destroy conservative talk radio when it was a liberal who bit the dust. Simple. Imus was sacrificed. A "proof of concept" exercise, if you will. Now the left knows that race hustler Al Sharpton can move large corporate mountains with his racially charged dialogue ... so it's time to use him to go after the real nemesis -- talk radio.
Sharpton is feeling very impressed with himself, I'm sure. Yesterday he told an anxiously awaiting media that; "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."
Yup .. you heard him. "What is permitted in terms of the airwaves." Big Al is just the man to decide. Somewhere soon Sharpton will sit down with some cronies to review the talk radio landscape to figure out who needs to be the next to go. In the meantime he'll give some lip service to the cause of cleaning up rap lyrics, but know this ... talk radio is the target. Conservative talk radio. Liberals can't succeed at the medium ... so it must be destroyed.
Silver lining? I think there well might be. Perhaps hundreds of thousands of people -- maybe much more -- are going to be tuning in to their local talk stations to see if the situation is really as hideous as Sharpton and his sycophants allege. Leftist websites are going to drive even more people our way. What will these people hear? They'll hear logical and fact-based arguments against the anti-individual, anti-liberty cult of liberalism. They'll hear ideas and concepts presented that they haven't previously been exposed. They'll hear information about Democrat schemes and dreams in Washington that will make their blood curdle.
Here's just one example: Read the mainstream newspapers and listen to liberal talking heads on television and you'll soon generate a burning hatred of those evil people who constitute the mysterious "richest Americans." Listen to talk radio and you'll soon learn that a huge percentage of these people vilified for their income levels are actually the small businessmen and women of America .. and that they are considered to be rich because all of their business as well as personal income is reported on their personal income tax returns. You'll learn that these people -- the people targeted for huge tax increases by the left -- actually provide between 70% and 80% of all jobs in America ... perhaps your job. And then you're going to start wondering what a tax increase might do to them ... and to the people who work for them.
This, of course, is not healthy for liberals. There recourse is to shut down these channels of dangerous information. Sharpton is showing them the way.
Just a few more thoughts .... I want to make sure to give Sharpton and his goons as much to go over as possible.
You would have thought that "Rev." Sharpton and Imus would have gotten along famously! After all, they have the same hairdresser. (Ohhhhh. That's not a racist statement, is it? I mean ... after all ... one of them is black and one of them is white.)
I see that Obama had to chime in and call for Imus to be fired. A little late to the party, weren't you Barack? I guess he just couldn't sit back and watch that fool Sharpton suck all of the oxygen out Barackobamamania.
Rutgers Coach Vivian Stringer says it's time to "go forward and let the healing process begin." Healing process? What healing process? I'm not buying any of this nonsense that the Rutgers woman's basketball team was egregiously hurt by Imus' comments. Tennessee wins the championship and Rutgers gets all the publicity. It wasn't the Tennessee girl that were allowed to sit before the national TV cameras a few days ago. And how many of you can name the Tennessee coach? Let's face it .. the only people really, genuinely hurt in this episode are those connected with the Imus show who are now going to lose their jobs. Maybe those were the people Stringer was talking about with here silly "let the healing begin" comment. (Uh oh. Stringer is black ... I think ... and I just called her comment "silly." Do you think I should resign?)
Al Sharpton is the real nappy-headed ho of this story.
I just wonder who - if anyone - advised Imus in his handling of this mess.
Pat Summitt.
I’d like to see Sharpton go after Mark Levin. It would really be fun to watch and listen as Mark cut him down hard...
(Rutgerettes? Uh-oh, I'm gonna lose my $10 million-a-year gig, too!)
Sharpton doesnt have the brain power or testicular fortitude to go after The Great One.
Neal had the right idea, but his example left something to be desired.
Mike Savage. Not El Rushbo. The low hanging fruit is always the first plucked.
I think Imus will be back. And Sharpton ain’t heard the last of him. I hope Imus dogs Sharpton for the rest of the Reverend’s “career.”
Its funny how all of Imus’ liberal supporters (like the weasly Chris Dodd) fled like rats off a sinking ship. Hillary knows the feeling, with the Hollywood crowd now fawning over Obama, the new kid in town.
The upside of this whole sorry affair was to put a spotlight on the hypocrisy of the Dems and the racial arsonists known as Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
Neal better hope that Boo got shot thing doesn’t come up.
lol! That's the truth!
Try not to be so...
“Boo Got Shot.” I almost forgot about that - but wasn’t the guy who was acting as “interpreter” also black?
Imus sold his soul to the devil and now the devil has come to collect. He really thought he was tough $hit when the media and libs were running cover for him, but look at him now. I don’t agree with what happened to him, but if someone is going to get screwed, why not him?
Right on Neil!!
James "banjo boy" Carville did.
(Preparing for the Gollum pics to be posted...)
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