Don Imus Loses Job

I just wanted to vent. I'm not a fan of his show , in fact Ive only seen it once. But I'm disgusted with the fake emotions and outcries against this guy. He made a mistake when he said something stupid and apologized. Either way he has the right to free speech, or at least he should have. He even went on Al Sharptons show and made a public apology. To me that is more than enough. These women couldn't possibly be that offended and deeply hurt by an old white mans comments on a show that seldom young people watch. Yet the are on Oprah saying how scarred they are. The whole situation is bullsh@t and CBS MSNBC and all of the companies that pulled there ads on his show prior to his firing should hang their heads in shame. Its OK for rappers to degrade women and call them hoes every other word and flood the airwaves, but a white guy says it once apologizes and he loses everything he has worked for in his life and his livelihood. Again, I'm just venting so i apologize if Ive offended anyone. Especially any "nappy headed hoes" ;D But seriously, this p@ssed me off a lot and in 2007 this shouldn't happen, it should be resolved without people losing their careers. >:mad

ummmmmmm i think you just admitted you watch OPRAH :-[

but shiiiiiiit when i go to chicago im going to the oprah show, hopefully i can find a hot wifey or better yet it happens to be that day she gives away all that cool FREE shitt????

.....holy crap one guy on MSNBC just said "The 'h' word"........HO has been taken over by black people.....it's a racist word now.


Did you ever know that Right Reverend Al Sharpton has never appologized about Tawana Brawley....here's a link explaining that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley

But Sharpton asked for Imus' appology for some stupid bullshit like this.


I'm tired of this posturing and grandstanding.....I have the right to my opinion and I will fight people tooth and nail to keep it!

Yeah they are all double standards. Sharpton has slandered people who where being accused of awful crimes who are 100% innocent and not appologize but he still has credibility? People like him are builining a racial divide not breaking it down. He was on tv saying he doesnt want to take Imus the man down, but yet Imus apologizes during a meeting with him and Sharpton calls for CBS to fire his. It sickens me. Those Rutgers girls are being pressures to react with outrage but they werent hurt by Imuss comments and scarred by thim. The media has not done civil rights any justice....and BESTp4p ill be Oprahs new Stedman anyday if it will get me in her checking account..not so much her bed though

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Originally Posted by Lyle

.....holy crap one guy on MSNBC just said "The 'h' word"........HO has been taken over by black people.....it's a racist word now.


Did you ever know that Right Reverend Al Sharpton has never appologized about Tawana Brawley....here's a link explaining that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley

But Sharpton asked for Imus' appology for some stupid bullshit like this.


I'm tired of this posturing and grandstanding.....I have the right to my opinion and I will fight people tooth and nail to keep it!

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:coolclick: Lyle. You hit this one down perfectly. Imus has been talking trash about almost every ethnic on the globe for years. Albeit distasteful, it's part of his spiel.
Sharpton and Jackson are both shake-down artists with little or no credibility. Don't know what happened to Jackson along the way. I would have thought that he would have learned quite a bit from the late Dr. King.
The proverbial shit really didn't hit the fan until Obama was forced into making a public statement. The respective 'news' agencies took notice as the possible 44th President of the U.S. finally made a statement.
Although Imus made an outlandish and insensitive statement, it's par for the course in his business. He's said much worse about people of Asian, Mexican and Euro decent in the past. This country is going to shit in a handbag at light-speed velocity. It's almost as if we have entered a new era of Orwellian thought police dictating etiquette to a radio talk show jockey - fukin laughable and a bit scary to say the least. ::**

CC Shadow.....I'm still trying to figure out how Imus' remark was racist.....I mean he didn't use any racist termanology that I am aware of.

Tawana brawley is gonna have to take a back seat to this phase of the argument when you hear what some guy named (not sure if its spoelled right) Kamu Kambone said. He basically said that (again not his exact words but it was on national television so i'm sure i'll find a clip of it) White people are responsible for the hard times on the blacks and the only way this world can be fixed is to (and i quote) "exterminate white people". Nothing ever happened to this guy that i know of. Now what i'm hoping for is that Al and Jesse get up infront of a huge audience and say "Oh he was just kidding. He didn't mean it like that"

So saying "nappy headed hos" is a race crime and calling for the genocide of a specific race is ok ???
The last guy who said that a specific ethnic group was responsible for their hard times kinda did something about it. Some Adolph Hitler guy over in germany he killed like 8million people but he probably didn't mean it in a bad way. >:mad >:mad >:mad >:mad >:mad

http://carolinajournal.com/exclusive...e.html?id=2869

enjoy the double standard ;D

and for the record this isnt some homeless guy in new york that holds no clout in the world, he's a college professfor. Funny that i never saw anything about this on the news ???

we are losing our freedom's everyday.. Freedom of speech is just one of them, the man Imus wants to talk , hell he have the right to do so, if someone don't want to listen , simply turn the channel. political correctness is shit. I think what he said was in poor taste, but I have heard worse , just turn on some rap music and see if I’m wrong O0.. I feel that if your going to censorship. censorship everyone, not just old white folks with a loose tongue. !

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Originally Posted by Lords Gym

we are losing our freedom's everyday.. Freedom of speech is just one of them, the man Imus wants to talk , hell he have the right to do so, if someone don't want to listen , simply turn the channel. political correctness is S***. I think what he said was in poor taste, but I have heard worse , just turn on some rap music and see if I’m wrong O0.. I feel that if your going to censorship. censorship everyone, not just old white folks with a loose tongue. !

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Originally Posted by Lords Gym

we are losing our freedom's everyday.. Freedom of speech is just one of them, the man Imus wants to talk , hell he have the right to do so, if someone don't want to listen , simply turn the channel. political correctness is S***. I think what he said was in poor taste, but I have heard worse , just turn on some rap music and see if I’m wrong O0.. I feel that if your going to censorship. censorship everyone, not just old white folks with a loose tongue. !

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Exactly. Imus was an Easy target and these scumbags were just waiting for him to say something like that. He had his show for nearly 30 years and CBS never suspended him before for other similar things he has said but since the media wants to steer people away from the more important issues in the world they they go along for the ride. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson do not represent the majority of black people and this country needs to realize that. They have slandered more people than most of those that they go after. They should go after EVERYONE that uses racist and sexist words to hurt someone(and I dont think Imuss were either really) and not select people. Hip Hop is the biggest music industry in the country and it makes me sick to hear my little sisters singing along to some of this sh@t but I guess irrisponsible rappers are ok because reverend Al hasnt spoke up against them. This shouldnt have even made the news, Imus should stil be working, and Al would still be sitting in his recliner thinking of ways to get 2% of the presiential votes intead of a mere 1.

Also not to add more on the Al Sharpton/Jesse Jackson HATE TRAIN


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Anyone remember what those guys said about the Duke Lacrosse Players???? They were a national championship team, they were called RAPISTS and yet, an erie silence breaks across the lips of Sharpton and Jackson when questioned about that issue since the charges have since been dropped

....not to mention Don Imus was more liberal than republican and yet it was the people who supported him before his comments that ended up being the end of him.


While the REPUBLICANS clamor on about FREE SPEECH.....odd ain't it?

Your right. I had my kids in the car and they hit the radio ,was set to an R&B station that had some rap music going the lyrics were “ my nigga my niggan my nigga “ .. then I turned it off immediately ? See what I mean ? I don’t get how that can be on the air with no complaints from the community and then Imus says his peace and gets the AX ? . It don’t add up? Mixed signals cause accidents. I’m for freedom of speech. , say what you want, do what you want. Just don’t make me listen to any of it ! LMFAO ! :laugh:

who is he and what did he do;)?

Well, to be fair what he said was bad. I mean that is a pretty rough treatment of college girls but not a firable offense. I love how Imus has to answer to Sharpton before he did the girls, and even though they accepted his apology, Sharpton didn't and now Imus is gone.

I like Sharpton sometimes and sometimes I just think he's a publicity hound which is what he is here. Imus had no business saying what he did but it's obvious he regrets it and realizes he shouldn't have said it. Someone needs to knock Sharpton off his soapbox.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are like the only two people I wish slow and painful deaths on.......maybe Bin Laden and Ahminijad too but I don't have to listen to their bullcrap or play by their rules either!

If no one likes the word nigger, then NO ONE SHOULD USE IT....but if whites can use it the neither should blacks.

Words are not ownable.....just ask Paris Hilton about trying to copyright "That's hot"

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Originally Posted by Lyle

CC Shadow.....I'm still trying to figure out how Imus' remark was racist.....I mean he didn't use any racist termanology that I am aware of.

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Agreed. What he said was more demeaning than anything else. It was in poor taste, but Imus, Stern, Limbaugh, Bob Grant, Jay Diamond, etc. Have made much more outlandish remarks.
I'm sure Sirius and XM, depending on what the courts decide about their merger, are salivating from the mouth right now and will wait for this to settle down. Then they'll probably offer Imus a very lucrative offer in a different time slot to Howard Stern.

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Originally Posted by Lyle

.....holy crap one guy on MSNBC just said "The 'h' word"........HO has been taken over by black people.....it's a racist word now.


Did you ever know that Right Reverend Al Sharpton has never appologized about Tawana Brawley....here's a link explaining that http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tawana_Brawley

But Sharpton asked for Imus' appology for some stupid bullshit like this.


I'm tired of this posturing and grandstanding.....I have the right to my opinion and I will fight people tooth and nail to keep it!

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or when Jessie Jackson called New York "Hymie Town".....that wasn't racist....no....

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Originally Posted by amat

Well, to be fair what he said was bad. I mean that is a pretty rough treatment of college girls but not a firable offense. I love how Imus has to answer to Sharpton before he did the girls, and even though they accepted his apology, Sharpton didn't and now Imus is gone.

I like Sharpton sometimes and sometimes I just think he's a publicity hound which is what he is here. Imus had no business saying what he did but it's obvious he regrets it and realizes he shouldn't have said it. Someone needs to knock Sharpton off his soapbox.

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all this coming from a guy that just posted....I was hangging out with "Hicks"......hypocrite......

.....now BigRagu it's not racist to call someone a hick.....that's the whole problem I have with this.

PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN WHAT RACISM IS!!!!

It's not calling someone a nappy headed ho and it's not calling someone a hick. Name calling isn't racism.....it's BIGOTRY, there is a difference as subtle as it may be

Racism is injustice, double standards, and so on...it's denying people rights because of their race

CC Lyle. Honestly, I could call them rednecks? Or farmboys but that would just sound gay. It's not even namecalling really, it's not putting anyone down. Hoes on the other hand is. But it's not racist and that's what I agree with you on Lyle, actually I agree with most everything you're saying. Nappy headed I guess could be interpreted as racist if you're reaching but plenty of white girls have nappy hair.

The issue isn't about race.

Rednecks....hillbillies whatever.....just no "peckerwoods" or "ophay" or "crackers".....it's not that I am personally offended by such stupid names but if you're going to be fair then be fair to everyone



There can be black rednecks (IMO).....and northern rednecks as well. It connotates a country lifestyle, lower economic status, and an overall lack of knowledge

If Martin Luther King wasn't killed the country would be much better off right now. He did things because he felt they were just not to gain something politically. If he wouldn't of been assassinated jesse jackson and al sharpeton would have absolutely no power today. He distanced himself from malcolm x and even muhammad ali because he felt they wanted to obtain freedom thru shady means. He wanted equality for all people regardless of race. The problem today is that everyone thinks jj and Al are on the same level as king when it comes to integrity and motive and thats a joke because honestly Jackson and Sharpeton combined don't even equal half the man that king was.

On another note i want that Kamou Kambone relieved of his teaching responsibilities. You can change the channel for a radio but if you take a class you have to listen to the guy in order to pass.

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Originally Posted by Lyle

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are like the only two people I wish slow and painful deaths on.......maybe Bin Laden and Ahminijad too but I don't have to listen to their bullcrap or play by their rules either!

If no one likes the word **BEEP**, then NO ONE SHOULD USE IT....but if whites can use it the neither should blacks.

Words are not ownable.....just ask Paris Hilton about trying to copyright "That's hot"

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Those two guys are for the black power movement, They ain't worth a piss in the bucket for me. I consider myself an unracist person, I usually try to judge by the contents rather than the cover. I wish our elders never tried to reach the heavens in babylon and maybe all this shat would not be going on. Love everybody!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Bitches!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!or as Wacko would say Biaaoooothhhhheeess!!!!