Posted on 04/10/2007 4:35:47 PM PDT by genefromjersey
Are you one of those who feel Don Imus "deserves a pass" ?
Would you feel the same way if it was one of YOUR daughters,a sister, a favorite niece ?
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Where's the outrage?
Where's the outrage?
Nope, I’m not any better. If those words are so offensive that the mere utterance is grounds to destroy one’s career, then let’s destroy the careers of ALL who utter those offensive words.
If, on the other hand, there is a class of people that can use those words with impunity, with regularity, and even with celebrity, and another class of people who cannot use those very same words in the very same context, then one must conclude that it is not those words that are offensive, but the mere fact that an outsider dared to utter them.
People who line up to buy Ludicrous CDs should not, and I would argue can not, be offended by anything Imus said.
Imus should be free to say whatever he wants on his radio show, and everybody else should be free to tune out if they don’t like it.
It’s called freedom of speech and free enterprise.
And why the hell should anybody have to apologize to Al Sharpton for anything?
So, in other words, I should be free to tell you-right here and now-to carry out a sexual improbability. Free speech, right ?
You would, of course be free NOT to read this.
Sure.
Look, I don’t believe I’ve ever listened to five minutes of Don Imus in my life. He’s kind of insignificant to me. But what he said only made him look like an insensitive ass, and brought the whole world crashing down on his head. Contrast that to Rosie O’Donnell’s treasonous remarks that brought - what? Nothing.
There’s enough hypocrisy to go around.
This whole thing is bs. I’ve been listening to Imus for ten years and he says stuff like this all the time. Why the outrage all of a sudden. I wouldn’t give Al Sharpton the damn time of day. He’s just an oversize James Brown looking fool.
Barry, from what you say, this has become part of his stock-in-trade. (I haven’t listened to the guy since the early days,so I’m not up on his present routines.)
The indignation (on my part,anyway) is that a group of young women-most of them freshman students-who had played a magnificent season,were trashed-very,very publicly,and very crudely.
The very fact some of them made it into college at all meant they had to overcome the disdain and jealousy of their own high school mates-who would have criticized them for “acting white” , or dismissed them as “lesbians” because they played a competitive sport.
What Imus showed us was the unwashed underbelly of our society: something you’ll see flaunted every day on the internet.
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