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Don Imus fired by CBS over "racist/sexist" comments **Updated**
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Ya know what I'm getting a chuckle out of? We have so much sh!t, way more serious, going on in the world, but yet, we basically took the week to get all the black and white folks all worked up over this. This is making a mountain out of a mo hair.
Don, Al, Jesse...you guys have changed the month of April forever. The Easter Bunny has no chance! :laugh:
Don, Al, Jesse...you guys have changed the month of April forever. The Easter Bunny has no chance! :laugh:
Unfortunately Larry Elders and other black leaders that dont agree with Sharpton and Jackson are seen as Uncle Toms and Sellouts.
I'm a black male and quite frankly I could careless what Imus said, didnt offend me at all no worst than what any other rap artist or black comedian have said in the past about their own people.
what do you think what Imus said was okay? you think this is being blow out of proportion?
I don't. Imus should be canned and should never have another radio show. His comments were ugly and racist. How can so many ppl here defend what he said and try to justify his comments? He was wrong and a two week suspension is a slap on the wrist.
waggy
No Lifer
cnn link
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Critics of radio host Don Imus aren't swayed by the shock jock's apology or MSNBC and CBS Radio's decisions to suspend him after he referred to a women's college basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
They want Imus canned, plain and simple -- not only because the remark was deemed racist, but also because it smacked of misogyny.
Imus tried to stem the backlash from his comments by appearing on the Rev. Al. Sharpton's syndicated radio show Monday, where he said there was no excuse for his remark and "I wish I hadn't said it. I'm sorry I said it." (Watch CNN's Jeanne Moos on the Apology Hall of Fame )
Imus made the offensive barb Wednesday, the day after the Rutgers University women lost their national championship bid to the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
Sharpton was not placated by Imus' apology and told CNN's Paula Zahn later Monday that the radio host's two-week suspension was merely "a baby step in the right direction."
"I think to say that his statements were racist, as they've said, then that means they should not allow him to come back," he
seems they want blood. they want him fired.
NEW YORK (CNN) -- Critics of radio host Don Imus aren't swayed by the shock jock's apology or MSNBC and CBS Radio's decisions to suspend him after he referred to a women's college basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
They want Imus canned, plain and simple -- not only because the remark was deemed racist, but also because it smacked of misogyny.
Imus tried to stem the backlash from his comments by appearing on the Rev. Al. Sharpton's syndicated radio show Monday, where he said there was no excuse for his remark and "I wish I hadn't said it. I'm sorry I said it." (Watch CNN's Jeanne Moos on the Apology Hall of Fame )
Imus made the offensive barb Wednesday, the day after the Rutgers University women lost their national championship bid to the University of Tennessee Lady Volunteers.
Sharpton was not placated by Imus' apology and told CNN's Paula Zahn later Monday that the radio host's two-week suspension was merely "a baby step in the right direction."
"I think to say that his statements were racist, as they've said, then that means they should not allow him to come back," he
seems they want blood. they want him fired.
ultimatebob
Lifer
I think that it's time for Imus to move to satellite and get out of that cesspool that they call terrestrial radio.
jlbenedict
Banned
looks like a huge publicity stunt being pulled on ESPN right now.. (press conference, rutgers team and coach)
it could easily be ignored, but no.. gotta make sure to prolong it and try to get someone in trouble..
*Edit*
On CNN, i mean
it could easily be ignored, but no.. gotta make sure to prolong it and try to get someone in trouble..
*Edit*
On CNN, i mean
That was Imus' arguement yesterday at the Sharpton interview. That position is weak and he looks as if he is grasping at straws. Desperate times call for desperate agruements, I guess. There is no corelation, imho between what a black comic can get away with onstage and what a white man can say on the radio. Black folks can polk fun at their own culture, but whites can't throw around the same epithets. The words take on new (hatefull) meaning when they come out of a white mouth. Call it a double standard, but that is how I see it.
Stick a fork in Imus. He is done and rightfully so.
moshquerade
No Lifer
i would not watch any of this televised groveling even if they paid me.
So black comedians can poke fun at everybody and there not be any fallback...because for years black comedians and music artists have used racially biased words in their joking of other races. Too many double standards in this country espeically when it comes to Black Americans.
I'm sorry but Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson dont represent me nor do I need them to. If Imus had said something offensive in my opinion then I would have spoken out about it but right now this just seems like a bunch of crap being spewed out by 2 race baiters that need to make themselves look important.
So yeah, when Chris Rock calls white people "cracker ass crackers" in his skit, he's poking fun at his own culture?
http://youtube.com/watch?v=OeEwFhZWO_c
Double standards FTW!
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