Don Imus...

[TexKan]

Yeah you are right and he's makin as many appts as he can to "talk" about it. Everyone is forgetting there was white women on the court as well. This isn't about race - it's about sexism to the team. Course what woman in her right mind doesn't know that men are basically sexist beings? This is dumb but necessary I guess. He, Sharpton, and Jackson is ride this horse till it dies in the arena........................ hoe hum...........

[BroncoFan]

Anyone wanna bet that a "Nappy-Headed Ho" working as Imus' producing staff may have coined this phrase, first? Like spun in previous posts, the black culture is the most racist to itself. I used to coach female atheletes, and some of them were black and said stuff like that ALL the time.

Nonetheless, this should not have been said, and we all need to be more sensitive to eachother's feelings!

[Made in the USA]

90+ percent of the population would have never heard anything about it, until they had to "blow and go" with it on all the news stations!! I never knew who the guy was, or what he even said, until I heard it on all the news shows!!
About as bad as all the rappers spouting crap in their "songs" about "whities"!!
WGAS!! WWJD!! DILLIGAF!!

[lurker]

I $en$e that a need for a proper apology i$ nece$$ary at thi$ time.

[TigerEyes]

Dear Lurker, once again you hit the proverbial nail on the head in a perfectly succinct, concise posting.

I applaud you...

[wordsmythe]

Awwww

[TigerEyes]

Doesn't the tail get in the way?

[jeezeweeze]

Hymie Town


THE DON IMUS AFFAIR

First of all ... I don't listen to the show. I've tried. I just don't get it. Apparently Imus called the Rutgers woman's basketball team a bunch of "nappy headed hos." Not good. Stupid even. But correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Stevie Wonder have some song in which he referred to himself as a "nappy headed little boy"? And is it not true that you can hear black women referred to as "hos" on virtually any urban hip hop station on any given day? Stevie Wonder is black, as are the rappers who denigrate black women with abandon. They're allowed. The real issue here is that the words were spoken by someone-not-black.

Was it a stupid thing to say? Absolutely. Do virtually all talk show host say something stupid once in a while? You bet. They don't have the advantages that a columnist might have. They don't have an editor to ask "are you sure you really want to say that?" They can't put there extemporaneous comments down on paper and then kick back with a gin martini to read them to see how they'll play out on the air. If they want to have a modicum of entertainment value to there shows they are going to have to tiptoe through a rhetorical pasture every day. Every once in a while they stray off the path and step in something.

This whole Imus thing, though, quickly got out of hand. Two of the nation's preeminent race warlords have become involved. Time to stir the pot of black victimization a bit. Imus has apologized. He asked forgiveness. These two so-called "preachers " aren't really down with that forgiveness thing.

The idea that Imus should be brought before those two race warlords, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson is disgusting. These two professional race baiters do nothing but scan the news day after day looking for some comment or action taken by someone-not-black that they can feign outrage over and get a little face time on the news. The idea that Al Sharpton is even considered to be a serious spokesman on issues such as this is an absurdity of a previously unimaginable magnitude.

Michael Harrison, the Editor of Talker's Magazine, made what I think was a brilliant observation, that being that Imus would survive this so long as he cut back on the apologies.

The real mistake for Imus was making an appearance on Sharpton's show. [video] He should have just gone on the show, apologized, said that he crossed the line, and be done with it. Let Jesse and Al snort and paw the ground all they want ... an apology would have been sufficient. I suspect, though, that his pilgrimage to the Shrine of Sharpton this wasn't Imus' idea. My guess is that either the MSNBC crowd or CBS that told Imus that he must go kneel before the Sharpton altar.

Al Sharpton is a liar and a bigot. He falsely accused Steven Pagones of rape and mutilation in the Tawana Brawley matter. He's never apologized. He incited murder at Freddie's Fashion Mart in Harlem while loudly denouncing white interlopers. No apology. Do you remember the Crown Heights Riot in New York? That's where Al Sharpton whipped a crowd into a four-day riot on rumors that a Jewish ambulance had failed to treat a young black at the scene of a disturbance after a car accident. There was Sharpton referring to "diamond merchants" shedding the "blood of innocent babies." Diamond merchants? Code word for Jews. Apology? None. And this is the man that that fool John Kerry calls the moral compass of the Democrat Party? And now what? Imus goes to Sharpton to apologize? And excuse me, but didn't I hear the words "Hymie Town" from Jesse Jackson?

Sharpton is really enjoying this. He has the limelight back from Barack Obama for a time. You'll soon see him posing for the cameras with the Rutgers team. He'll also be demanding meetings with CBS and MSNBC. Ride the wave.

The Southern Christian Leadership Conference is getting into the act also. Why let Sharpton and Jackson get all of the attention here? The SCLC wants a hearing before the FCC.

Now the word is out that Imus will be suspended for two weeks. Still the media pushes the story. This morning I heard news anchors asking "Is two weeks enough?" There's blood in the water. The sharks are circling. A great white is wounded, and its time to move in for the kill. Sharpton has a chance to pull down a radio icon. It's a chance he doesn't want to miss.

Soledad O'Brien called his remarks "racist." Racism is the belief in the inherent genetic superiority of one race over another. There was nothing racist -- not by definition -- in Imus' remarks. Par for the course, though. I doubt O'Brien has ever bothered to look into the history of the word "racist."

The end result of all this? Sharpton and Jackson get their face time. Others, like the SCLC, will try to glom on. Imus relaxes for two weeks, and then probably comes back to a larger radio audience. He'll be bowed, though, by this episode. The edge will be gone. Time will tell.

by Jim Hoff

[MissKitty]

The rape charges were dropped against the Duke Lacrosse players. Will there be a huge outcry for an apology from Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson? I won't hold my breath.

[wordsmythe]

Originally Posted by MissKitty

The rape charges were dropped against the Duke Lacrosse players. Will there be a huge outcry for an apology from Al Sharpton & Jesse Jackson? I won't hold my breath.

I didn't pay any attention to that case either but I can't find anything about them raising hell about anything in that particular situation.

"There was also a lesson for black leaders. To their credit, Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson didn’t stampede to the barricades and demand conviction and severe punishment for the accused assailants, as they have in the past in other hot ticket racially tinged cases. Who can forget 15-year-old Tawana Brawley? She accused six white men of raping her but there were no indictments for lack of evidence. Sharpton instantly screamed racism. Every time he did, he hopelessly muddled the case, and inflamed racial tensions. Eventually, he was successfully sued by one of the accused. "

Tough Lessons From The Duke Rape Case - NAM