Posted on 04/10/2007 8:34:10 AM PDT by Pyro7480
The coach of the women's basketball team is speaking now.
You called it!
Oh, so true; since Tom Synder left TV, there is no place to hawk those books. I hate it, too; I found some good books to read on Snyder’s show.
I love her!
She would have blown him out and this would have been over in two days.
Jesse will only call off the dogs after Jesse gets paid. Also, this situation is like the legal aphorism that bad cases make bad laws. Imus has given great ammunition to impose more PC restrictions on talk shows and radio and shut down discourse completely unrelated to his idiocy.
The only way Imus gets out of this, is to fire his sidekick and put some black comic in his job, so he can control Imus as he learns black sensitivity. The whole thing is a joke, but my (german word for enjoying their misery, that I cant spell) is working overtime on it.
Notice all the fuss, hype, fuming, outrage. Notice how it is way out of proportion. He just said a few words! He didn’t kill anyone!
Notice any fuss, hype, fuming or outrage over Rosie O’Donnell’s ‘Ching Chong’ comments?
The double standard is at play here.
Pat Summitt has won 7 NCAA titles and is chasing John Wooden’s record, no way is she gonna get in the middle of this!
Sean Hannity was doing a great job of pointing out Rev. Al’s racist statements in the past last night on H&C.
Ohh ....never-mind
Don’t carry the water for this guy. This is a particular group of people he insulted. These women accomplished great things in the NCAA tourney with hard nosed team play and a great work ethic and spirit. Instead of saying something positive about the Rutgers v. Tennessee nat. championship game and support the local State U, he chose to slam them and cheapen their efforts with particularly vile, classless, superficial, comments designed to denigrate ethnically “black” women athletes’ appearance, attitude, and culture and contrast them with the “cute” black Tennessee girls. He is a very bigoted person and there is no defense for his comments.
Additionally, if a rapper had penned a rap that included those same comments about those particular women, he too would be attacked and vilified.
That I seriously doubt...if anything, the worst that would happen is he'd be slammed for penning them, but defended for his "right" to do so.
He is much closer to being a foulmouthed political commentator than he is to being a "shock jock."
I don't listen to Imus, and I don't particularly care for him. I just hate the way this is being covered.
Additionally, if a rapper had penned a rap that included those same comments about those particular women, he too would be attacked and vilified.
That's probably true, but I still think there's a double standard.
lmaorolf...........now that is some funny right there
Lord forgive me and help the little pygmies too
The coach was very elegant. She was very passionate in her defense of her young players. If you want to hear the reasons why so many people are upset with Imus, have her on your program. These girls were not trying to get in the limelight with bad behavior. They were just trying to do their best and Imus made fun of them.
Imus would have been fired if he made those comments in a business setting. Being in the media doesn’t exempt people from acceptable behavior.
Some conservatives are using their dislike of Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, to give Imus a free pass. I don’t care what Jesse Jackson said 19 years ago. There’s no way you could say what Imus said “accidently”. He made racists comments pure and simple. Whether Jesse Jackson or Al Sharpton condemn rap music is a separate issue. It has nothing to do with Imus.
I can’t believe how many conservatives are giving Imus a free pass. This is going to backfire big time on them. I just went to a few “conservative” sites and they are making fun of the players and the coaches. I am disgusted.
I bet those of you who applaud Imus's statement would be livid if someone went on the air and called your daughter a whore. There are very few who can both dish it out and accept the same sort of criticism against themselves and their loved ones.
Oh... what? Too positive? No victim?
OK. Let’s go back to a joke told about a group of college basketball players for 30 seconds on a radio show. That’s a bigger story.
‘’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’’
Imus chose to denigrate both Stringer and Summit and both teams by treating their efforts on the court as some black minstrel show where the “dark and nappy” hos from Rutgers were compared to the cute “mulatto” looking hos from Tennessee. This is a big story, bigger than the game unfortunately. It shows how liberal stereotypical bias destroys individual accomplishment by treating all individuals as part of racial groups.
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