Posted on 04/10/2007 8:38:39 AM PDT by teddyballgame
I cannot tell you how many people have asked me about my thoughts on Don Imus. As a student of broadcasting, I know Don Imus was one of the original “shock jocks.” I listened to him growing up in New York City in the late 60’s and early 70’s.
He is a radio icon.
That said, it is time for him to go.
I, for one, am really tired of the diatribes, the “humor” at others’ expense, the cruelty that passes for “funny”. Don Imus isn’t the only one doing this, but today he’s the one in the hot seat.
What he said was vile and disgusting. It denigrated an entire team and by extension, a community and its pride in a group that had excelled.
(Excerpt) Read more at allday.msnbc.msn.com ...
Well, hell, if Al Roker says it... :)
I'd say "in addition to," rather than "instead of." It's all wrong ... but it's no more wrong from Imus than from rap performers. He shouldn't be pilloried as if he were the originator or the sole user of that kind of language.
Now my memory is a little hazy, but I recall a somewhat greater fury over 3,000 people getting killed on 9/11 than you're getting over this racist idiot. This is a minor news item that will go away when Imus is fired.
I’m puzzled by the incongruity of the response compared to the provocation. The Rutgers women’s basketball team has won the national championship. It would be fair to say they overcame enormous obstacles, mental and physical, to accomplish the feat. They are students at a major American university. It would be fair to say they overcame enormous obstacles to accomplish the feat. Unless, of course, it was all just given to them under affirmative action. But I think not. Didn’t they have to go into the opponents’ home courts and endure taunts, jeers, trash talk, along with the skill level of the opposing team that was trying to defeat them? Didn’t they have to do that not just once but time after time? Was the world rushing to them every step of the way to provide them with stress counseling to deal with the physical and mental rigors of high-level athletic competition? Was it a tough row to hoe? Did they fold under the pressure, and declare themselves irreparably hurt from the insults, taunts, pressure and public insults? Or did they overcome?
So, now they’re suddenly devastated by three crummy words? They now must descend into despondency, their lives permanently ruined, themselves consigned to total failure for all time, because of three words? What’s next for them, drug addiction, alcoholism, lifelong depression, crippling post-traumatic stress disorder? Suddenly they’re not stronger than that? Did the obstacles they had to overcome every step of the way, from high school through college to the national championship, pale in comparison to three lousy words? Now we choose to insult these strong women, in one breath telling them the enormity of their accomplishment makes them great, in the next breath that we think they can’t shake off three stupid words?
Get a grip. There must be money involved here for someone.
Amen, that is the point.
Just heard the not so reverend Jackson talking about Imus. I think Jackson was broadcasting from a place he called Heimy town... (my bad)
It’s time for Al Roker to go too.
Taken over? Time for a timeout maybe? It'll all be OK. Really. Trust me.
I will not be surprised to see Imus on XM real soon.
Nope. They lost
Free Don Imus...
...with every fill-up.
That was my point. This is an EXTREMELY minor bit of news of no consequence whatever--yet it's getting more airplay on the so-called news and even on FR than other, far more important news.
While that’s true, I don’t think it minimizes the fact that Imus said an offensive, idiotic thing and deserves to be fired. It may not deserve news coverage, but this should be the end of his career.
We could say Imus jumped the shark last week, but that occurred years ago when he got sober and became a cranky lefty. Of course we can laugh about anything...if it's about white, conservative, Christian males. Only 50-cent, Ludacris, etc. can call black women "nappy-headed hos." If one of them had, trust me, the Rutgers players would have worn it like a badge of honor. Imus is an over-the-hill punk with a disgusting new-age trophy wife. But he should stop saying he's sorry; that only eggs on the black race-baiting poverty pimps such as Sharpton & Jackson and will get him fired.
I don’t care who you are, that’s funny right there!
As several others have posted - and stated - I believe the I-man’s motherboard is probably a little scrambled. He doesn’t look good and I guess a few years ago he would have went after these folks. I don’t think he can handle it now.
I feel bad for the girls and what he said about them, but now I’m beginning to get a little creeped out watching the media drag his corpse all over the place.
I don’t care for what Imus and McGurk do for entertainment - so I just don’t listen to them.
From Digable Planets “Examination of What”
“I don’t take s$@t for granted, I think of scott la rock
also of tyrel and battles at the borders
my cousins in the joint and the homeless grippin quarters
the forests are all shrinking, this deepens to my thinkin
don’t cover up the nappy, be happy witcha kinkin!
dwellin, yes, you’re dwellin as the norm is itty-bitty
figure eighty-fitty for a smidgen of the city
in the serengetti, be ready for a box
but beware of the shanks and the pistols and the glocks
if your peoples don’t getcha, you still ain’t off clean
the politicians’ mask is worse than Hallowe’en
I write the funky scripts so you know I got to kick ‘em
now tell me who’s the vics and tell me who’s the victim”
To me it looks like deys da vics, but dey still ain’t kickin wit da english - yo! So, maybe deys da victins?
While Imus gets nailed to a cross, compare and contrast to this “author” interviewed on C-Span:
http://www.break.com/index/double_standard.html
If a white person said that, he’d be in prison.
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