How can anyone defend that jackass Imus?

[ayabe]

This is crap.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: ayabe
This is crap.

I'm trying to find out what I can and cannot say with the Mods on this now that we are in this new American era against whites.

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ayabe
This is crap.

I'm trying to find out what I can and cannot say with the Mods on this now that we are in this new American era against whites.

I don't know why the people on liberal blogs are dancing with glee like this is some sort of victory. All these people on TV proclaiming this as a 'victory for the people' or 'the people have spoken'.

WTF-ever. Since when did Al Sharpton come to represent We the People.

Here's something on HuffPo that I think describes this situation exactly:

"
Did I really have to just see Paula Zahn interviewing the author of Nappily Ever After about the degree of offensiveness of the word "nappy"? Did I really need Ms. Zahn's Upper East Side lockjaw pronunciation of the word "ho'" forever seared into the deepest recesses of my brain? Isn't there a war going on out there someplace?
Isn't there a medium-slow-motion genocide of Africans happening somewhere that starts with a D?

I haven't written earlier because I was praying that the news sharks would have long since had their fill feasting on this story. It was the story of my life and a very boring one so I had absolutely no desire to revisit it. I imagine Obama feels the same way. Those that chastise him for not jumping out early and hard on this incident don't know what the hell they're talking about. Folks like Sharpton and other African-Americans who rarely left their all-black enclaves can be outraged and shocked. For those of us blacks who grew up in white neighborhoods condemning Imus is like condemning a wife beater, a child molester. We don't stop to consider the motivation, the level of gravity, the anything. He's just another of the countless racist pricks we've met in our lives and may he rot in hell. Move on. Next. We've got real work to do.

As a kid growing up in all-white neighborhoods in the Northeast in the 1970s I know a little something about name-calling. I will never forget when I was in middle school frantically sprinting through the backyards of Italian East Haven, Connecticut, with a half-dozen beefy Italian stallion high schoolers chasing me and shouting, "Go back to the Congo!" I wanted to stop and correct them, informing them that I in fact hailed from nearby Hamden, Connecticut, but they didn't seem in the mood for a geography lesson.

The last time I was called "******" I was a junior at boarding school (we were called "Uppers" there and it's the same school the Bush boys attended). I was crossing the street after having just aced a Latin exam when a public school bus drove by and a tiny little boy, he couldn't have been more than ten, yelled that to me out his window.

He ruined my day and a few days after. I was sixteen and that's the last time I allowed the knuckle-dragging ignorance of somebody else to so alter my mood.

--Trey Ellis"

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These self-righteous over PC liberal pukes make me sick and ashamed to be a liberal.

 

[tomywishbone]

I'm quite sure the 60 year old multimillionaire, Imus, is distraught by his firing. He'll most likely get a job as a greeter @Walmart. I can see it now:


Imus: Good afternoon jigaboo, welcome to Walmart.
Patron: Here hold this, POW!

 

[JD50]

This is absolutely ridiculous, this PC crap has gotten way out of hand. Did anyone see the press conference with the Rutgers basketball team? Talk about drama queens.....Yea, what Imus said was offensive, but damn get over it. If you are gonna let one comment from some jackass "scar you for life" then you are gonna have a pretty rough life. I'd bet money on the fact that not one of those women even listened to his show when he made that comment. This is BS.

 

[chowderhead]

I'll defend his right to say what he said. I think it is ridiculous he just got fired for this. PC crap run amok. Jesse Jackson must be relieved that they are talking about this instead of his cheerleader role in the Duke rape case.

 

[dmcowen674]

I never would've thought old Imus would be the white man's Rosa Parks.

 

[imported_Gimli]

I don't like Don Imus, but by firing him CBS (and MSNBC yesterday) shown how chicken they were in standing up too Jackson and Sharpton's little tirades. I wonder if roles were reverse where a black person said something racist against a white person over the air would these too knuckleheads (Jackson/Sharpton) demand that person's firing? My guess is they would keep their mouths shut or say very little about it and if the person apologized for the remarks they would probably give him/her a parade. One word comes to mind - hypocrites.

 

[Drift3r]

Originally posted by: Darkstar757

Originally posted by: Shivetya

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
OK, I'm not going to debate about what got said so much, as at this point it's been done ad nauseum in OT. However I hear so many people trying to defend this guy behind free speech or something like that. He called a group of black women nappy headed ho's...I mean are the people defending him just waaaay too old to know what the terms he used imply? Try walking up to some random lady on the street and see what happens if you say that to them. Now take that and broadcast it all over the world about a group of young women who were just trying to play basketball. i just don't see how you can defend this moron

I will defend him.

It is his right to say whatever he wants.

It is his responsibility to accept the consequences of his actions.

Should he be fired, NO. Let his audience decide if he is worth listening too.

I look at it this way, if he was black and said it no one would care. If he were black and said something about white girls no one would care. However the press needs racial strife as much as the race warlords.

The whole situation turned into absolute silliness when Sharpton and Jackson became involved. Sorry, those two are lower than dirt and for either of them to claim offense at anyone's actions is repulsive.

You racist fool.


Tool BAG.

Why is he a fool ? He basically pointed out facts. If you are black you can get away with saying what you like and only barely suffer any consequences if any at all.

Where was Al and Jessie and the outrage with Tim Hardaway when he stated that he hated gays?

Where was the outrage in the black community when Jessie Jackson made his "Himey Town" comment when talking about Jews and New York city?

What about Al Sharpton with his "Tawana Brawley" scandal or the recent Duke lacrosse team scandal where he went out of his way to convict these guys. Then he tried to paint the stripper as some angel when the facts were wrong and this stripper was proven to be a lair?

Where is the outrage with the rap lyrics and albums who say a ton more things which are way more outrageous and offensive then what was said by Imus. Where are the daily calls to boycott rap albums and demands being made by black leaders in the community to put pressure on music execs to drop rap artists who say offensive things on their albums?

The fact is there is no outrage and nothing will be done because there is now a double standard in our society.

 

[dmcowen674]

Originally posted by: Drift3r

Originally posted by: Darkstar757

Originally posted by: Shivetya

Originally posted by: Accipiter22
OK, I'm not going to debate about what got said so much, as at this point it's been done ad nauseum in OT. However I hear so many people trying to defend this guy behind free speech or something like that. He called a group of black women nappy headed ho's...I mean are the people defending him just waaaay too old to know what the terms he used imply? Try walking up to some random lady on the street and see what happens if you say that to them. Now take that and broadcast it all over the world about a group of young women who were just trying to play basketball. i just don't see how you can defend this moron

I will defend him.

It is his right to say whatever he wants.

It is his responsibility to accept the consequences of his actions.

Should he be fired, NO. Let his audience decide if he is worth listening too.

I look at it this way, if he was black and said it no one would care. If he were black and said something about white girls no one would care. However the press needs racial strife as much as the race warlords.

The whole situation turned into absolute silliness when Sharpton and Jackson became involved. Sorry, those two are lower than dirt and for either of them to claim offense at anyone's actions is repulsive.

You racist fool.


Tool BAG.

Why is he a fool ? He basically pointed out facts. If you are black you can get away with saying what you like and only barely suffer any consequences if any at all.

Where was Al and Jessie and the outrage with Tim Hardaway when he stated that he hated gays?

Where was the outrage in the black community when Jessie Jackson made his "Himey Town" comment when talking about Jews and New York city?

What about Al Sharpton with his "Tawana Brawley" scandal or the recent Duke lacrosse team scandal where he went out of his way to convict these guys. Then he tried to paint the stripper as some angel when the facts were wrong and this stripper was proven to be a lair?

Where is the outrage with the rap lyrics and albums who say a ton more things which are way more outrageous and offensive then what was said by Imus.

Where are the daily calls to boycott rap albums and demands being made by black leaders in the community to put pressure on music execs to drop rap artists who say offensive things on their albums?

The fact is there is no outrage and nothing will be done because there is now a double standard in our society.

It's not a double standard. It is a reversal, whites are now the minorities.

 

[sweetpea70512]

When is this country and it's citizens going to realize that we are being manipulated by the media and the press? They are the ones that put the spin on issues that get everyone all fired up and outraged. There sensationalist style of reporting makes every story a drama. They are pulling your strings people...wake up and realize what is happening and think for yourself...Do you really care what Imus said? Did it really offend you personally? Would you have even heard about it if it wern't for the media???

 

[extra]

I honestly don't understand how some loud mouth on the radio can actually be offensive to anyone. Who cares. Who cares if he called some people names. It doesn't friggin matter. Just ignore the guy or don't listen to him.

He's gotten much un-deserved fame for his rude comments. If people woudl stop the "ZOMG OUTRAGE!!1" people like him would just wither away and die.

If some guy on the radio went on and said "that guy extra on anandtech is a nappy headed ho".. i'd be like cool, i got mentioned on the radio lol.. and be like "whatever".

 

[CKent]

Originally posted by: dmcowen674

Originally posted by: ayabe
This is crap.

I'm trying to find out what I can and cannot say with the Mods on this now that we are in this new American era against whites.

The mods are on David Duke's side on this one, just FYI. I PM'd them about this thread in OT and was told it was fine

 

[Moba]

The only bit I ever enjoyed on Imus as the 'Imus in the morn' that the bald headed guy used to do. I don't even know if I'm citing the bit accurately. Nice cowboy hat, Imus.