Radio Script for 4/13 (Don Imus)

Bob Parks: Black & Right ^ | 4/11/07 | Bob Parks

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I am woman, hear me roar

In numbers too big too ignore…

(Record scratch)

(Start bed of Ludacris’ “You's A Ho” instrumental)

So what the hell happened?

I’m sure many of you have heard about the whole Don Imus insulting the Rutgers Women’s basketball team thing. In case some of you are waking up from under the rock, here’s what went down last a week ago Wednesday on his radio show between Imus and his sidekicks Sid Rosenberg and Bernard McGiurk who really set the tone….

DON IMUS: So I watched the basketball game last night between a little bit of Rutgers and Tennessee, the women’s final.

SID ROSENBERG: Yeah, Tennessee won last night, seventh championship for Pat Summitt, I-Man. They beat Rutgers by thirteen points.

DON IMUS: Some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they’ve got tattoos and –

BERNARD McGUIRK: Some hardcore hos.

DON IMUS: That’s some nappy-headed hos there, I’m going to tell you that. Man, that’s some — ooh! And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so — like kind of like a — I don’t know.

BERNARD McGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing.

DON IMUS: Yeah.

BERNARD McGUIRK: The Jigaboos versus the Wannabes –

DON IMUS: Yeah.

BERNARD McGUIRK: That movie that he had?

DON IMUS: Yeah, it was a tough –

CHARLES McCORD: Do the Right Thing.

BERNARD McGUIRK: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

DON IMUS: I don’t know if I’d have wanted to beat Rutgers or not. But they did, right?

SID ROSENBERG: It was a tough watch. The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors.

DON IMUS: Well, I guess, yeah.

LOU RUFFINO: Only tougher.

So, of course this gave Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, and the National Organization of Women an opportunity to portray the Rutgers Basketball women as victims of an old man who effectively dusted off the word “jigaboo” and sent the world into a tizzy.

Now while I’d consider this a “sticks and stones” moment, the whole issue seems to be about a stranger saying something bad that hurt someone else’s feelings. What ever happened to…?

I am strong, I am invincible, I am woman!

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If these Rutgers basketball players can’t take the ravings of an old fool nobody listens to, what’s gonna happen should any one of them go pro and they have to hear the critiques and taunts of the press and fans after a bad game? Sure, it should never get racial, but if you don’t like it, change the First Amendment.

The big complaint is that an evil corporation let Imus work in the first place. With that, I’d love to get a chance to hear what music is on any one of these women’s iPods, or what kind of music plays at their parties.

Where’s Jesse and Al complaining about so-called rap artists like 50-Cent, Akon, or Ludacris, whose song “You’s A Ho” is the instrumental music bed you’re listening to right now?

Should Imus be fired? That’s not for me to say as Al and Jesse have said a lot worse and are still working. But part of growing up is that not everyone is going to love you. People will say bad things but part of being strong… is not acting helpless.

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“70 million listeners are nobody?”

Does it count when channel surfing, your car radio stops on Imus for three seconds before moving on? How many of those accidents count towards the 70 million?

[truth_seeker]

“Ok, if you say so. Good to know someone keeps track of insignificant points.”

It wasn’t “insignificant” to me, whe he signed with them.

I was stuck with Sirius in a leased car. Sirius announced the signing of Stern, then dropped Fox news.

I was pissed. That is why I remember this “insignificant” item.

They resigned Fox news, after a delay.

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