Don Imus - Suspended, Now Fired!

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Sirius or XM might pick him up then he can say anything

[ex-commish 490]

The world is still turning. Lets move on..

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I agree. He is worth 12 million a year...who's feeling sorry for who???

[scopino 0]

I wonder how many times the words bitches and ho are used in rap songs bought by millions of young kids throughout the world is ?????????????

Wonder if Al or Jesse know

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I wonder how many times the words bitches and ho are used in rap songs bought by millions of young kids throughout the world is ?????????????

Wonder if Al or Jesse know

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That’s different. They can use those words in rap music, just like the president of Rutgers (or whatever her titled is) can say during the press conference her nappy hair is turning straight from all this controversy.

Besides I am not an Imus fan, but he is no loss to the radio in fact I bet radio stations will get better ratings know. I do wish I could hear Howard Sterns response to all this. He must be in his glory.

Edited April 12, 2007 by nutty1

[subband 0]

Well its over for the I-man at least on CBS...CBS gave him the boot

[JetPhoto 626]

Well its over for the I-man at least on CBS...CBS gave him the boot

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And now our right to free speech has been thrown out the window!

[xfirefighter484x 234]

I must say though, Imus is not just a guy who blabs on and on, on the radio. Every year, he holds a benefit/benefits for several charities, and has a ranch out in New Mexico for children battling cancer.

He makes and sells non-toxic cleaning products, and sells foods to, that:

And remember -

100% of all profits go to The Imus Cattle Ranch for Kids with Cancer in Ribera, New Mexico.

He is a true humanitarian, who made a stupid, stupid, stupid comment.

God forbid some famous black comedian, or talk show host, the "Reverend Al", Jesse Jackson, or someone to that effect calls a white guy a "crusty balding cracka", he won't be called a racist, but a white guy says something to that effect, now he is a racist.

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Sharpton, Jackson and their cohorts are all reverse racists. They have don't want equality because that would render them unemployed. Sharpton made a "Freudian" slip when he said the 5 cops involved in the Sean Bell case should have been shot - it goes unnoticed. Anyone remember the lady from Wappingers who claimed she was raped by six men? Sharpton ran up here and called the DA a racist rapist or something along those lines...turns out she made the whole thing up. Then the whole Crown Heights Riots thing... What Imus did was ignorant, no doubt about it. I'm not sure if i would say it was racist. The guy is human, he made a mistake and apologized about it (i cant recall Sharpton EVER apologizing for anything) - evidently thats not good enough. Not to mention, hes a shock jock and over the past 40 years i don't think anyone has been exempt from his line of fire. And, like 484x said he does a hell of a lot of charity.

Edited April 13, 2007 by 66Alpha1

[RWC130 594]

Shock Jock's Radio Show Dumped by CBS

By DAVID BAUDER, AP

PRINCETON, N.J. (April 13) - Don Imus  ' racist remarks got him fired by CBS on Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.

Imus was initially suspended for two weeks after he called the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week. But outrage kept growing and advertisers kept bolting from his CBS radio show and its MSNBC simulcast, which was canceled Wednesday.

"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision."

Imus , 66, had a long history of inflammatory remarks. But something struck a raw nerve when he targeted the Rutgers team - which includes a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy - after they lost in the NCAA championship game.

The team met with Imus for about three hours at the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J. Thursday night. Imus left without commenting to reporters, but C. Vivian Stringer, the team's coach, spoke briefly on the mansion's steps.

"We had a very productive meeting," she said. "We were able to really dialogue. ... Hopefully, we can put all of this behind us."

She did not say if the team forgave him for the remarks.

Imus was fired in the middle of a two-day radio fundraiser for children's charities. CBS announced that Imus ' wife, Deirdre, and his longtime newsman, Charles McCord, will host Friday's show.

[xfirefighter484x 234]

Anyone remember the lady from Wappingers who claimed she was raped by six men? Sharpton ran up here and called the DA a  racist rapist or something along those lines...turns out she made the whole thing up. Then the whole Crown Heights Riots thing...

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Yea, Tawana Brawley. Wasn't she from Poughkeepsie, or it just happened in Pk? Something like that.

[trauma74 111]

I think the whole Tawana thing was in Sullivan County. Sharpton was all over that "incident" like stink on sh*t. He made this big production in the media and it ended up being all BS. She lied about the whole thing!

[trauma74 111]

Here is some dirt on Sharpton regarding the Tawana Brawley case!

http://archive.recordonline.com/archive/20...16/kwpagone.htm

[Remember585 815]

I just noticed in the article RWC posted that it says, "nappy headed hos." At least have the respect to spell it right...."hoes."

I don't feel what he said was racist, although it can be misconstrued that way. Nappy haired is a way to descibe a bird's nest of a head, agree? I know plenty of girls/women and in a few rare cases, guys, with hair that I would consider nappy. I found this definition of nappy:

nappy

adjective

1.  (of hair) in small tight curls

Furthermore, I think all guys and most women would agree too that the term "hoe" doesn't always describe a woman of any particular race. Personally every girl I recall being referred to as a "hoe" has been white. If I am not mistaken it usually is short for "whore," but whenever someone says that I have a mental picture of snobbish people banishing a woman for having a baby out of wedlock in the 18th or 19th century.

And lastly, one thing that had me thinking this week was the comments made about the New Rochelle riots and in another forum I read about the hasidic community where the people involved were acting unrulely and unlawfully. In neither case do I feel that the term "animals" was derrogatory of race but a statement of the barbaric behavior of people challenging order and law. I would think people on the other side of our War on Terror more then likely think of our troops as "animals" (among other things) even though we look at them as heroes, which I feel they are.

The double standard has to stop. I always like to think that my generation and the ones coming up would see things for what they are regardless of race, religion or any other beliefs. We're all people and people should be allowed to express themselves openly and verbally without recourse.

Make sense? Or is my 5am dribble confusing and way off base?

Edited April 13, 2007 by Remember585

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I think the whole Tawana thing was in Sullivan County. Sharpton was all over that "incident" like stink on sh*t. He made this big production in the media and it ended up being all BS. She lied about the whole thing!

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The whole nightmare was in Wappingers Falls and the Dutchess County court system. The Assistant DA successfully sued Sharpton, Maddox, and the other stooge whose name escapes me now for defamation and libel/slander.

There was a whole bunch of bumper stickers out at the time that said "I live in Wappingers Falls and I didn't do it".

The entire case was a scam but ever since we've had to deal with the rhetoric and racism of Al Sharpton.

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While I am not an Imus fan I am definitly not a Sharpton fan either. Imus has said a lot worse in his career. Sharpton will do anythin he can to get publicity. That is the bottom line. No one is more racist than he is. Do we all forget the "HIMITOWN" comments he made several years ago? He never appologised for that!!!

The presss keeps on putting that moron on page one.

[efd184 59]

Whats the matter with" YOU PEOPLE",if you start firing everybody for saying stupid S***,we'd all be out of work.

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VERY TRUE

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I think the whole Tawana thing was in Sullivan County. Sharpton was all over that "incident" like stink on sh*t. He made this big production in the media and it ended up being all BS. She lied about the whole thing!

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Since Saturday, November 28, 1987 when she was found covered in feces in a garbage bag, people knew it was bullS**t. This happend at a apartment complex off Mac Farlane Rd in the town of Wappinger (Dutchess County not Sullivan). She wrongfully accused several people, one of them is a good friend of mine. He was forced to move out of this area because of the alligations for several years. He has since returned to this area.

Sharpton is nothing but a piece of $h*T who is out there to help himself and to hurt others. Jackson is also garbage. These self elected "icons" are nothing but Racist, lying, cheating "nappy headed ho's" themselves!

Bring Back Imus or say good bye to our rights of free speech! Right or wrong, he admitted he was wrong and faced it. I am not an Imus fan but I am standing up for his cause.

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Excellent commentary from Jason Whitlock's perspective (who is black.)

Posted on Wed, Apr. 11, 2007

COMMENTARY, 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

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

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. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.

I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.

Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.

But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

To reach Jason Whitlock, call (816) 234-4869 or send e-mail to jwhitlock@kcstar.com. For previous columns, go to KansasCity.com

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.BY THE WAY  OPIE AND ANTHONY HAVE REPLACED HOWARD STERN IN MOST FREE FM MARKETS INCLUDING NY THEY ARE ON DAILY FROM 6-9 AM IN NY  AND THEN CONTINUE ON XM202

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Didn't David lee Roth replace Howard Stern in the East coast markets. Opie and Anthony then replaced David lee Roth. Roth was horrible. O & A arent much better.

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Actually, Jesse Jackson, not Sharpton, referred to Jews as "Hymies" and to New York City as "Hymietown" in a 1984 interview.

[eike1701 1]

All that needs to be said is bring back the Iman