The Don Imus Story

[BaltBird 24]

"How can we win the war against Al-Qaeda, when we can't even win the war against Al Shaprton?!" - Clayton Bigsby

[66-70-83-??]

I've vented at length about this on another board I post on, so I'm not going to get into it here. But basically, I'd like to see Al and Jesse devote more of their energies to promoting education to inner-city kids, stopping gun violence on the streets, etc. There are so many problems facing "Black America" (if such a thing exists) today, that making a federal case about Don Imus strikes me as completely ridiculous. Also, AS and JJ are probably not the most morally pure people to be crusading against racism.
Overreacting about something as dumb as this, IMO, sets back the cause of racial harmony. Lots of whites look at this and figure "Hell, if this is the biggest thing they have to complain about, racism must really be over, huh?!" when that is far from the truth.

It's like the boy who cried wolf, y'know? Save the moral outrage for things like that poor man who got dragged to death behind a truck by a bunch of racist Texans. THAT'S racism. What Imus said was a stupid, tasteless joke. Don't get it twisted!

They (Al, Jesse) don't care about racial harmony or racism- that is just the cover they use. All they care about is lining their pockets. It's their business- hijacking some event, going into town to hold rallies and shakedown whoever they can.

The irony is that the majority of African-American people have these guys pegged as frauds. It's only the lazy (and biased) mainstream media that either hasn't figured it out or doesn't care.

[McLovin]

Imus should have lost his job a long, long time ago for being a sexist racist. He says he is 'a good person who did a bad thing'. No, he is a bad person who did a bad thing. No amount of charity can make up for the fact that he is a documented sexist and racist.

Did anyone hear Keith Olberman talk about this on his show? He works for MSNBC, the same company. He said that Imus was absolutely unbearable to work with, and that if you took a show of hands on who wanted him to be fired at MSNBC, it would have been unanimous to vote for firing him. Olberman personally witnessed Imus doing things like calling assistants 'whores' to their faces. Think about that - how many times have you called someone you work with a 'whore' - to their face, in front of famous people at that? That's just someone who doesn't give a crap about anyone, period.

Howard Stern has been touting all sorts of stories about how much of a crap person Imus is - giving examples that he witnessed of him calling people the N word to their face. You might not like Stern or believe him, but people like Olberman are backing up his story.

[The Wedge]

Howard Stern bashed Imus in Private Parts, too, painting him as an arrogant ass.

Part of me wonders if Imus didn't use this once it snowballed as a way to "go out with a bang." But with the whole sponsors pulling out thing, it was probably about the money for his outlets.

[rolliefingers]

They (Al, Jesse) don't care about racial harmony or racism- that is just the cover they use. All they care about is lining their pockets. It's their business- hijacking some event, going into town to hold rallies and shakedown whoever they can.

The irony is that the majority of African-American people have these guys pegged as frauds. It's only the lazy (and biased) mainstream media that either hasn't figured it out or doesn't care.

You know this for a fact? Did you poll every black person in America for that post?

[Mad Mark]

Howard Stern bashed Imus in Private Parts, too, painting him as an arrogant ass.

Part of me wonders if Imus didn't use this once it snowballed as a way to "go out with a bang." But with the whole sponsors pulling out thing, it was probably about the money for his outlets.

You know, it would be interesting to see how much time was left on Imus' CBS contract. Perhaps he's just as cynical as Jackson and Sharpton, and planned all this as a way to get:
1) a six-month vacation, and
2) a jump to satellite radio.
It wouldn't surprise me in the slightest.

[The Wedge]

I don't think he planned it all, or else he would have said something much worse. Something just makes me think, just a little bit, that once it got made in to a really huge scandal that he used it as such.

[McLovin]

a jump to satellite radio

This won't happen, not if Sirius does buy XM. Stern hates him so much he would use his influence to block him.

[MCL1021]

And if Imus does make the jump to satellite, Stern says he'll quit.

[Mark Carver]

And if Imus does make the jump to satellite, Stern says he'll quit.

Rightttttt, what's $350m to lose (about the amount left on his salary).

[BaltimoreTerp]

You know this for a fact? Did you poll every black person in America for that post?

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/71084.html

[blueberryale77]

http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/71084.html

Was there a poll of a representative sample of the roughly 35 million African Americans living in this country attached to this op-ed piece? If so I seem to be missing it.

[BaltimoreTerp]

Was there a poll of a representative sample of the roughly 35 million African Americans living in this country attached to this op-ed piece? If so I seem to be missing it.

No, but I was pointing out that others get it as well.

[scOtt]

Without reading thru two pages... I saw a commentator* saying last night, Imus has been doing this exact same thing for 30 years. He could fill his whole hour with clips of Imus slighting someone. You tune into Imus.... you EXPECT this sort of thing. So people are shocked... SHOCKED!!!!!11!!!!... that he has done it again? His whole point... Why now? Why this?

Y'all need to gear back your outrage meter! Step. Back. And see the larger picture! 1000's dying needlessly in Iraq and you're worried about some guy on the radio?



*talking head

[blueberryale77]

Without reading thru two pages... I saw a commentator* saying last night, Imus has been doing this exact same thing for 30 years. He could fill his whole hour with clips of Imus slighting someone. You tune into Imus.... you EXPECT this sort of thing. So people are shocked... SHOCKED!!!!!11!!!!... that he has done it again? His whole point... Why now? Why this?

Y'all need to gear back your outrage meter! Step. Back. And see the larger picture! 1000's dying needlessly in Iraq and you're worried about some guy on the radio?



*talking head

Perhaps you should have read the whole thread because almost everyone on here has been talking about how the whole thing was blown way out of proportion.