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joesmoe25 - 12 April 2007 08:21 PM

When will the market speak about Rosie O’Donnell?  Personally, I find her rantings MUCH more offensive and dangerous for our country than what Imus said.  Apparently you only get crucified by the liberal media if you attack specific minority groups.  Catholics, military members, and white men are open season.

Eh, “Catholics”? I think all Christians are open season. You have any idea how many anti-christian statements and actions I see a day?

Add Jews to that list.

Hey, add everybody but lefties and Islamists…

postBot - 12 April 2007 08:06 PM

Don Imus has been fired from his radio show in the aftermath of his offensive comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I haven’t

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I seriously do not care. It was a rude, nasty comment. The lady you quote also uses the “f” word. Sure, we all do that, but I think that you do not do that in polite society.

Imus is a lefty and has been a lefty, from what I recall. He was trying to be black. What he thought “black” is.

It is a typical lefty trait. They are deep seated racists, who like to change the topic by calling Christians and conservatives “racist”.

He got busted for the kind of guy he really is. He deserves it.

Now, Rosie, let’s get her canned.

I am sick of hearing the talking heads on TV suggest that this is a free speech issue. Imus is perfectly free to stand on a street corner yelling offsensive things about female basketball players - he just won’t get paid millions of dollars a year for it. Declining to pay for, and publish something, is not the same thing as censorship.

postBot - 12 April 2007 08:06 PM

Don Imus has been fired from his radio show in the aftermath of his offensive comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. I haven’t

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I couldn’t care less what happens to a millionaire twit who was too clever by half. Imus has always been a ticking self-inflicted wound. He will probably land up on satellite radio, like Opie and Anthony did, after a decent interval.

I did care what happened to the victims of Nifong’s political ambitions. That was a tragedy for which there is no justice.

Another skeptic - 12 April 2007 08:15 PM

The markets have spoken.

No, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton and the Thought Police have spoken. And the liberal media execs who loved Imus the day before have peed in their pants.

They are all inviting closer scrutiny of the Black music industry.  How many times has it been asked in the last 2 days, “Who is allowed to say what??”

If Imus is considered to have violated the national airwaves, are the airwaves now subject to policing of racist comments?  If so, which airwaves?

For what it’s worth, I agree that the girls should have told Imus to stick it and stood up for themselves instead of allowing themselves to be portrayed as hurt young girls.  This was a crash course in both victimization and empowerment.  They did not have to let Imus steal their thunder.  They’re impressive and they should act it.

Something’s wrong with this whole episode.

cedarbend - 12 April 2007 10:48 PM

Charles Calthrop:  I thought the same thing (re Buchanan).  What makes her say such a thing-the fact that he’s “ultra-conservative” automatically makes him a bigot?

Shmuels Friend:  Great comments-hear, hear!

Does anyone remember Charles Calthrop in Day of the Jackal?

Cha--Cal = Chacal = “Jackal” in French?

A brilliant movie.

Now ...

Even Powerline has fallen into the leftist victimhood claptrap trap.  The front page states, ”Let the healing end”.  “healing”?  WHAT healing? 

The Rutgers b-ball “players have been scarred for life!” Oh Nooooooo ... .  Everyone wants to be a victim. It’s an adored, and usually ascribed as opposed to an achieved, status in America these days.  Those poor, poor women.  Paraphrasing their coach, “they were damaged and these are tomorrow’s leaders!” Well, if those hyper-sensitive young women are tomorrow’s leaders, America is in worse shape than I thought.

Tomorrow’s leaders of what ... the ACLU?

All those women had to say was, “Don who?  And why should we care?  We’re too strong and self-assured to allow some guy we never heard of to define us.”

This culture allows Race Pimps like Sharpton and Jackson to define the debate because:

NO ONE has the guts to tell them to shove it.

The government doesn’t have the guts to have the IRS audit Jackson and his alleged non-profit organizations.

The government doesn’t have the guts to force Sharpton to pay the civil judgment against him for the lives he ruined with his Tawana Brawley scam.

The government doesn’t have the guts to shut down all of the churches that preach politics from the pulpit every single Sunday all across America.

Corporate America doesn’t have the guts to tell the Race Pimps that they won’t give in to extortion.

Meanwhile, news organizations, including FOX News, keep giving these pimps a forum to spew their hate whitey you-owe-us agenda.

Good Lord!

The world is in turmoil and dominating the news for days is an irrelevant grouchy old man who said on the radio “nappy-headed hos”?

Beam me up, Scotty.  The Twilight Zone is too bizarre for me!

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NO ONE has the guts to tell them to shove it.

Maybe once all the healing has taken place, Imus will tell them exactly how to do this.

Andrea in NY - 13 April 2007 07:55 AM

If Imus is considered to have violated the national airwaves, are the airwaves now subject to policing of racist comments?  If so, which airwaves?

According to York’s column on Realclearpolitics.com, the Dems, being devoid of ideas for something like 70 years now, are trying to use L’affaire Imus to support their call for a return to the fairness doctrine that was eliminated 20 years ago. That gave birth to conservative talk radio. The latter has consistently out-pulled liberal imitators and energized the entire conservative movement in a way that once stripped the Dems of their power in Congress. The Dems understand the role that the repeal of the fairness doctrine played in their demise, so they would like nothing better than to return to status quo ante-Limbaugh. I have no doubt that they will set their sights on controlling internet opinion sites as part of the same package deal. They have been wanting to do that for at least 10 years. The Imus case gives them the requisite moral dudgeon to denounce their favorite bete-noire, racism, and attack media in which racism can be expressed. So in the name of etiquette, they will unleash upon us the PC gestapo armed with federal law. The thing is, since the media are so overwhelmingly liberal, the Dem legislators will be eating their own with such proposals.

Nobody - 12 April 2007 11:51 PM

Imus is a lefty and has been a lefty, from what I recall. He was trying to be black. What he thought “black” is.

I agree. I don’t think Imus has a racist bone in his body. He was just using black slang the way a black would. Thing is, white boys can’t do that and get away with it. Reverend Al could call the team the same thing that Imus did and nobody would care. And what that says about the state of black inner city culture is really pathetic.