Don Imus Fired from CBS Radio
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Not an Imus fan, but I am not sure I agree with such measures. It's a topic that could pinball in any direction.
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<< <i>What's the over/under on how long it will be before Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton apologize to those three guys on the Duke lacrosse team? >>
<< <i>What's the over/under on how long it will be before Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton apologize to those three guys on the Duke lacrosse team? >>
NEVER
<< <i>What's the over/under on how long it will be before Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton apologize to those three guys on the Duke lacrosse team? >>
Nothing to see here. Move along, move along...
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Basically in every culture, you don't insult the women in that culture in any type of way, especially the young women...again unless it's an adult public figure or something like that. Doesn't matter to me how Imus intended the comment. Imus is a punk and he got what was coming to him.
Must say I agree with Mr Whitlock, entire column is a good read.
Excerpt from a column in the Kansas City Star
Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK - Columnist
I haven’t weighed in on the Imus conflagration, but a reader has sent to me the best piece of commentary I’ve seen so far. Excerpt:
While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.
I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.
It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.
Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.
It’s embarrassing.
45% complete.
Unreal ..... If Don Imus is racist then he is a racist to EVERY ethnic group and religion on the PLANET including is OWN ethnic group and religion.
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<< <i>So, Don Imus uses language that is WIDELY accepted in the hip hop community on widely dispersed musical albums with self proclaimed "nig$as" calling their woman bi$thes and ho's, and everything else. These are items available to the public just as easily as tuning in to the radio and Don Imus gets $hitcanned DURING ...... that is right .... DURING his 18th annual telethon for SIDS and children with cancer taking untold amount of money donated away from these causes all because he uttered language that is accepted in the hip hop culture? WHAT A DISGRACE If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want to do ONE OUNCE of good for the African American it would serve them IMMENSLEY to go after the root of the problem and it is NOT Don Imus. How is it that Don Imus can be shoved out the door for language that is ACCEPTABLE and WIDELY USED in music (which IS media fellas) EVERY DAY?
Unreal ..... If Don Imus is racist then he is a racist to EVERY ethnic group and religion on the PLANET including is OWN ethnic group and religion.
Imus is a total idiot. With that being said, what he said was likely much worse in his head that what he actually said. Inappropriate to some degree, but no different than the stuff Chris Rock might say about Laura Bush. To me, it's all kinda funny but I guess some need thicker skin. Words really don't mean anything unless you place value in them. If one buys stock in what Imus says, then chances are they were already a racist to begin with
BTW, my point was this... If Imus were considered a comedian, it would have been ignored. Some are dumb enough to consider him a journalist of some sort which is why this became an issue.
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<< <i>If Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton want to do ONE OUNCE of good for the African American it would serve them IMMENSLEY to go after the root of the problem and it is NOT Don Imus.
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If Jesse Jackson wanted to do good for the black community he would have stepped in front of Martin Luther King.
That guy does absoultely nothing but further broaden racial tension across this country.
I am sorry to see him go, but I can't defend what he did nor blame others such as rappers. We all have to be responsible for our own actions. Its too bad he had to fired, I was hoping he would survive with the suspensions.
Had Imus not opened his mouth, Sharpton might have had his feet held to the fire for egging on a renegade DA in trying to send three innocent young men to prison for a long time.
No, Imus' big mouth is the best thing that could have happened to Sharpton.
Should every member of Film Academy be let go when they gave an Oscar for this song and these lyrics? Did Al Sharpton apologize for the Tawana Brawley fiasco in the late 1980's and the wasting of tax payer dollars?
Imus has apologized and met with the Rutgers basketball team after he was fired and I think he is truly sorry. Yes, he should have been suspend for a few weeks but in my opinion he should not have lost his job.
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At work, my co-workers are predominantly women & black or hispanic. They were pretty pissed at his statements and this was before the rabble rousing by Sharpton and Jam Master Jesse; for the most part they consider those guys big mouths too. They all thought he should have been fired.
<< <i>they didnt fire him because of the comments, they fired him because they lost their sponsors and Ad money. >>
It isn't the government you need to fear any more in terms of freedom of speech -- it's corporations. As we become more and more corporate, corporations -- not the government -- will be the entities the people most need to fear.
That seems pretty touch-and-go if you ask me, I mean why would you let what Don Imus said bother you to the point you react like that.
True it made for better tv, but c'mon.
<< <i>Did you hear Oprah asked the team if his comments took anything away from their accomplishments and they said it pretty much ruined their entire tournament and what they did. >>
Forget the color of their skin -- if this really bothered them THAT much -- a comment which, IMO, despite being in really bad taste was clearly not something to personally take to heart -- then it's more about the (lack of) thickness of their skin, not the color of it.
oh yes, they got rid of the beast. kill the beast!!!! this is such bs. the media is not a check and balance for the government. it's all about money, lobbyists and advertisers. it's redlines not headlines. it's brittany not bagdad. your better off watching jon stewart, bill maher or steven colbert. they make me sick. he said a bad thing. so you take him off for 2 weeks and let's grow. i thought we had freedom of speech. tawana brawley and the duke girl doesn't matter. sharpton and jackson shouldn't decide who goes or stays. they have so many skeletons in their closet that we could start a cemetery. why is jackson going to pay for the duke girl's college education? imus is a shock jock. he apologized to the rutgers girls, coaches and their families. let them decide!!!!! it makes me sick.
Whether he should have been suspended vs canned, well, I don’t have a clue....tough call.
Dave
<< <i>Good points by everyone. Let us continue to heal. >>
You realize that by firing him, CBS has actually made this situation worse - and they have polarized both sides even further. Not to mention, they fired the guy right in the middle of his radio telethon that helps sick children, and children with cancer. Nice going, CBS.
Excellent point, and it's shame that the networks are now so beholden to corporations and the advertising dollars they bring in that they will bow to media hysteria like this. The irony here, too, is that Al Sharpton and Jesse ("Hymietown") Jackson are just as racist, maybe even more so than Imus, too, especially Sharpton whose only motivation is getting his face in front of a camera. He also continues to hide and illegally funnel his assets to his bogus nonprofit "organization" The National Action Network (or something like that) to avoid paying the damages that a jury declared that he was responsible for when he ruined Officer Pagoda's reputation during that Tawanna Brawley hoax.
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<< <i>Good news that the girls accepted his apoligy, best to both parties involved. >>
The best news would be if the team admitted they'd never heard of Don Imus, and didn't give a damn for him either way, and moreover could care less what a cantankerous 66 year old radio personality thought of them and their haircuts.
Mark
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Actually it was the DA Stephen Pagones whom he claimed raped TB.
Can you imagine? lol the DA, If I remember correctly He/she claimed she was raped by the DA and the Police chief. LOL ok............
The other 2 nitwits maddox and some other guy also went along with the charade.
Sharpton lost all credibility as far as I am concerned.
Steve
Actually it was the DA Stephen Pagones whom he claimed raped TB.
Can you imagine? lol the DA, If I remember correctly He/she claimed she was raped by the DA and the Police chief. LOL ok............
The other 2 nitwits maddox and some other guy also went along with the charade.
Sharpton lost all credibility as far as I am concerned.
Steve
Pagones is correct, my bad. Thanks, Steve.
The other "lawyer" involved in that three-ring circus was Vernon Maxwell, I believe, who, if I'm not mistaken, was disbarred years later for ethical issues (how surprising!).
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<< <i>When you have a history of bigoted, racist and sexist remarks, you should be fired.
Mark
PS: Women's College sports have been really taking off the last few years. >>
Fired from what? From your position as a radio personality? A freaking RADIO PERSONALITY??
Can I get a show of hands from people who can't imagine anyone less relevant to a national discourse on race than Don Imus?
Don't you have to be injured in order to heal? I haven't been injured! I did throw BP to my baseball team yesterday and the shoulder's a little tight but how did you know that?
Actually, I'm still hurting from some of Jesse "Rent A Riot" Jackson's comments. I'm going on the 15-day DL!!
One more thing, since when did Stephen A. Smith become the "go to guy" for ESPN when they need a sound bite for what Don Imus says?
I think we all knew his take would be "Quite frankly bla bla bla fire Imus bla bla bla" My four year old has been trained to hit the mute button when Smith's mug appears on the TV.
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<< <i>Good news that the girls accepted his apoligy, best to both parties involved. >>
The best news would be if the team admitted they'd never heard of Don Imus, and didn't give a damn for him either way, and moreover could care less what a cantankerous 66 year old radio personality thought of them and their haircuts. >>
"...and Whitey's on the moon."
If he said they looked like shovels, or pitchforks, or rakes, or anything but a hoe, perhaps there would be no great outrage. I do believe the proper and only correct use for the noun hoe is that of a garden tool. I don't think punk gangster rappers are a widely accepted source for lexicon input.
<< <i>Imus picked the wrong garden tool to compare the ladies to.
If he said they looked like shovels, or pitchforks, or rakes, or anything but a hoe, perhaps there would be no great outrage. I do believe the proper and only correct use for the noun hoe is that of a garden tool. I don't think punk gangster rappers are a widely accepted source for lexicon input.
So he should have said "nappy headed spades?"
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<< <i>they didnt fire him because of the comments, they fired him because they lost their sponsors and Ad money. >>
It isn't the government you need to fear any more in terms of freedom of speech -- it's corporations. As we become more and more corporate, corporations -- not the government -- will be the entities the people most need to fear. >>
The government has the power of armed force to keep you in line. Something no corporation can do.