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Kerry: Imus Shouldn't Have Been Kicked Off The Air
WPRI12 ^ | 4/17/07 | Rhonda Erskine

Posted on 04/17/2007 5:26:11 PM PDT by LdSentinal

BOSTON Senator John Kerry gets behind radio and T-V personality Don Imus, saying he should NOT have been fired for making racially insensitive remarks.

Kerry also says he'd be willing to go on Imus' show again as long as it wasn't (quote) "the same-old, same-old."

In an interview with New York television station New-York-1, the Democrat says the punishment has to fit the crime, and that Imus should have instead faced a long suspension.

Imus was fired last week for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on his radio and T-V program.

Kerry pointed to the decision by members of the team to accept an apology from the shock jock.

The 2004 Democratic nominee for president was a frequent guest on Imus' show.


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts
KEYWORDS: botchedjoke; imus; kerry; traitor
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To: LdSentinal

This is a mutilation of the Bill of rights. Imus, as racist as the comment might have been has the right to say whatever, within reason, he wants to say. Since when is it okay for blacks to call whites “crackers”, yet we get all worked up over “nappy-headed hos”. What happened to the blacks during the slave labor era in America was horrible, yes, but it blacks need to stop using it as an excuse to say whatever they want against whites.


21 posted on 04/17/2007 5:49:40 PM PDT by kitkatcat
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To: kinoxi

Geez, that’s funny!


22 posted on 04/17/2007 5:51:38 PM PDT by fishergirl (My warrior, my soldier, my hero - my son. God bless our troops!)
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To: LdSentinal

Is this the same John Kerry that served in Viet Nam?


23 posted on 04/17/2007 5:51:45 PM PDT by Comus (There is no honor in dying with your sword sheathed)
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To: Comus
He was in Viet Nam? No kidding?

Kerry probably is thinking that Imus might make a comeback and with the media focus finally off the guy, he is safe in saying this.

24 posted on 04/17/2007 5:55:40 PM PDT by Dante3
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To: potlatch

LOL! Perfect for this thread!


25 posted on 04/17/2007 5:55:51 PM PDT by devolve ( ........upload images free & fast at tinypic.com or Photobucket or Imagecave)
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To: Comus
Last I heard they were issuing band-aids in his honor.
26 posted on 04/17/2007 5:58:02 PM PDT by kinoxi
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To: devolve

I win again huh? Guess I get a big WOO HOO!


27 posted on 04/17/2007 5:59:24 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: LdSentinal

Have noticed that global warming has reversed course....now that Imus is HISTORY....


28 posted on 04/17/2007 6:00:35 PM PDT by pointsal (q)
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To: LdSentinal

Mighty nappy of Kerry. A day late and a dollar short.


29 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:17 PM PDT by FormerACLUmember
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To: LdSentinal

Hmm.. Conveniently late for Kerry to chime in now long after Imus was attacked by Sharpton et al and then fired. Where was JohnBoy when Sharton and Jackson were on a frontal assault (maybe once again picking rice grains out of his posterior?).


30 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:17 PM PDT by rod1 (uake)
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To: LdSentinal
I read some where that the Dem’s really did not like the idea Imus being out.they seemed to think that he was one of the few people in that white male radio market that they could get to “fairly” (meaning suck up) to the Dem candidates in interviews. This is probably confirmation of that.
31 posted on 04/17/2007 6:03:32 PM PDT by bilhosty (Rudy in '08, Jindal in '16)
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To: Comus
“Is this the same John Kerry that served in Viet Nam?”

No, you have the wrong John Kerry. The one I am aware of didn’t “serve”. He just “dropped in” to Viet Nam thinking it would be like John Wayne in the movies but quickly found that real bad, serious and deadly dangerous stuff was going on. So, he faked and falsified a heroic record in a magnificent 7 weeks and departed. He is total garbage. Phonies are always high profile scorekeepers and not low profile true grit players. BTW, where the hell is this phoney’s Form 180? He has a lot to hide....piece of garbage

32 posted on 04/17/2007 6:06:28 PM PDT by AlphaOneAlpha
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To: LdSentinal

Notice he makes a public statement a week after its all gone down?

Nice one Lurch. I’m sure Imus actually believed politicians like Kerry would come to his rescue.


33 posted on 04/17/2007 6:09:26 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: LdSentinal

Libs shoot themselves in the foot again. They just lost one of their biggest propaganda outlets.


34 posted on 04/17/2007 6:21:21 PM PDT by tobyhill (only wimps believe in retreat in defeat)
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To: LdSentinal

the democraps shot themselves in the foot.

imess had more liberals on than rino’s.


35 posted on 04/17/2007 6:24:23 PM PDT by ken21 (it takes a village to brainwash your child + to steal your property! /s)
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To: potlatch
Nope....I've seen this pic before.

Just never saw the fickle finger of fate...pushing Johan F. Carry out of the frame before.....

Thx!!

36 posted on 04/17/2007 6:26:18 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock. - Will Rodgers)
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To: LdSentinal

Well he was againt Imus before he was for Imus so it somehow makes sense -— in leftyland.


37 posted on 04/17/2007 6:27:27 PM PDT by Ditto (Global Warming: The 21st Century's Snake Oil)
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To: Osage Orange

Lol, mine is pretty old too. I especially like the final “E.T.” moment.

Thanks.


38 posted on 04/17/2007 6:31:36 PM PDT by potlatch
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To: LdSentinal

Kerry misses the only person nutty enough to want his company.


39 posted on 04/17/2007 6:36:14 PM PDT by P-40 (Al Qaeda was working in Iraq. They were just undocumented.)
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To: potlatch
Here's what happened after Kerry tucked his tail between his legs and ran outside...
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Buh BYE John F'in Traitor! LOL
40 posted on 04/17/2007 6:54:21 PM PDT by mkjessup (Jan 20, 2009 - "We don't know where Rudy went, but we're glad he's not the President. Burma Shave.")
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