[Post Toasties]

You know, if Don Imus had referred to the female Rutgers athletes as ‘sleepy-headed hos’ instead of ‘nappy-headed hos’, he’d probably still be employed.

[beaversmom]

I think you’re right—it was the “nappy” that did him in.

[Non-Sequitur]

And when Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "tattooed ... nappy-headed ho's," he went over the top. The women deserved an apology. There was no cause, no call to use those terms. As Ann Coulter said, they were not fair game.

I suspect Coulter's just jealous that Imus got off the line first.

Regardless, Buchanan is right in at least one respect. The comment was over the top. The women of Rutgers did absolutely nothing to be insulted in that manner. And words should have consequences. I'm not losing sleep over Imus because I truly feel he got what he deserved. I freely admit that there are others out there who have said and done worse, who have taken a position of moral high ground in this that they in no way deserve, and who in a completely fair world would be canned themselves for things they've done. I'm not holding my breath waiting for that to happen, but that doesn't change the fact that Imus was wrong. His apologies were lame and insincere, and were only offered after everything blew up and were a attempt to keep his job. He dug his own grave and then jumped into it. He has nobody to blame for this but himself. And the airwaves are a little better off this morning because he isn't on them anymore.

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Pat is spot on in this column.
It is amazing to see how all the liberals threw Imus under the bus .

[dfwgator]

You know, if Don Imus had referred to the female Rutgers athletes as ‘sleepy-headed hos’ instead of ‘nappy-headed hos’, he’d probably still be employed.

If he had called Condi Rice a "nappy-headed ho" he would have been universally praised by the left, and offered a raise by his employers.