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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4075
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 02:37 pm: | 
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Besides the sure ratings bonanza he would get and the rallying of the racist hedgehogs to him, he was in some trouble.
He had been quietly taken off the radio airwaves here in St. Louis because he had been calling Dick Cheney and Bush war criminals.
Oh yes. Apparently sometimes he has a conscience. He had to get the racists--who are not just the trailer trash but a substantial part of the ruling class in the country--back on his side.
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Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4077
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 02:40 pm: |
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Spreading sickness
Until radio host Don Imus opened his big mouth, the biggest news on the Rutgers University campus last week was when Gwen Ifill, moderator and managing editor of PBS' "Washington Week," postponed her visiting lecture because of laryngitis.
Now, Mr. Imus is wishing he'd had laryngitis, too.
He spoke all too loud and clear, and as a result he now stands to lose his popular radio and TV show after uttering a racially derogatory remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team.
NCAA President Myles Brand and Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick issued a joint statement saying it "is unconscionable that anyone would use the airways to utter such disregard for the dignity of human beings who have accomplished much and deserve great credit."
Meanwhile, in a telephone interview yesterday, former CBS newsman and author Bernard Goldberg told Inside the Beltway he writes about Mr. Imus' racial ignorance and pandering in his forthcoming book, due out next week, "Crazies to the Left of Me, Wimps to the Right."
Besides calling the radio host a "weenie," Mr. Goldberg says, like many other white men Mr. Imus thinks that by saying "absurd" things about race he's showing racial sensitivity and manners.
"Three quick observations," Mr. Goldberg told us. "One, it was an immensely stupid comment about, of all things, my alma mater's women's basketball team. Two, his groveling today for hours and hours was way beyond pathetic -- schoolgirls in the third grade have more courage than he does.
"Third, and most interesting, as dumb as his comment was, it's not nearly as dumb as the comment he made in January 2006 while interviewing basketball legend Charles Barkley, when Imus said he didn't think much has changed in America since the 'Selma March' in 1965.
"That is far dumber and far more harmful. It shows the typical liberal reaction and paternalism when it comes to race. Here everything has changed, and he said nothing has changed. We're no longer siccing dogs on blacks; we're not water-hosing them; blacks are being elected mayors and police chiefs throughout the South -- in small towns and big cities everywhere. And he said nothing has changed?"
In a separate interview yesterday, Washington Democratic strategist Brent Budowsky, a former aide to the now-deceased Sen. Lloyd Bentsen of Texas, told Inside the Beltway of Mr. Imus' remark: "It's hard to find words how sick it was."
In a column posted earlier on the HiIl's "Pundit Blog," Mr. Budowsky opined there's "too much hatred, derision, disrespect, smearing, slander, polarization, division and bigotry that has infected American politics and American media ... ."
"We can't keep having these endless cycles of sickness in the major media, followed by the contrite apology, followed by business as usual, followed by the next example, which follows the same pattern."
As for Miss Ifill, who is black and who moderated the 2004 vice presidential debate between Vice President Dick Cheney and Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, she has rescheduled her Rutgers lecture, her producer told us yesterday. Last week's topic, now subject to change: "Politics, Policy and Reality: What's Really Going on in Washington."
Oh, and did we mention that Mr. Imus once referred to Miss Ifill as a "cleaning lady"?
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Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 8211
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 03:25 pm: |
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This thing is blowing up so big that a backash may be brewing. Imus is being crucified by too many self-serving blacks and it's possible this whipped dog is starting to turn into a sympathetic figure among white people who despise Al Sharpton and Jesse Jasckson and who think Imus should be forgiven since he apologized. I'd be interested in seeing what polls broken down by race will reveal. I am also waiting for Hillary and Obama to weight in on this controversy. |
Viqi_french
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Username: Viqi_french
Post Number: 73
Registered: 07-2005
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 04:05 pm: |
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I've held my silence as long as I can: I'm a closet Don Imus fan. His biggest, female African American fan. Seriously!
At least, I was until about a year ago, when two of his side-kicks lost their minds discussing on air the alleged "body odor" that black men possess. They were initially discussing the show's African American director, "Big Foot."
I wrote and threatened to contact Rev. Sharpton back then. I imagine they laughed at my suggestion that Rev. Sharpton could become a problem for them.
Tell me: Who do you think is laughing now?
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Doberman23
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Username: Doberman23
Post Number: 943
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, April 10, 2007 - 05:14 pm: |
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viqi he has always been saying that kind of stuff, each time he got ballsier and ballsier about it and finally his recent remarks are considered a problem? it is not just him, there is this show called opie & anthony and that show is just like imus (infact they call him uncle imus)where they are quick to make their racists remarks and make uncalled for statements.
some people don't get where this is damn near becoming a gateway for these people to eventually start calling us niggers on regular tv and radio. the demeaning of black people is nothing new by any stretch of the imagination but it appeared to be weakened a bit. everyone knows wars have been started over words and that's why this should have been taken care of a lot better than how it has been. |
Chrishayden
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Username: Chrishayden
Post Number: 4087
Registered: 03-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 02:58 pm: |
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I am also waiting for Hillary and Obama to weight in on this controversy.
(They are running scared. They want to be able to go on there and troll for votes. This is going to become a litmus test.
I wonder where Oprah and Bill Cosby are now? |
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