Don Imus Makes People Angry, Gets Fired

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Originally Posted by Cowdisease

Another casualty from the Imus incident.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-w.../corzine-crash

Ouch on the governor's injuries. The only silver lining is that the guy who's temporarily replacing Corzine is the same guy who ran New Jersey after the McGreevey brouhaha. People said that he did a good job during his interim run.

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He's at my mothers Hospital. Apparently, he has 6 broken ribs, an almost destroyed right knee, and numerous cuts and bruises.

The funny part?

He was NOT wearing his seat belt. Will he get a ticket?

"Click it or Ticket!"

If he gets a ticket, I'm so writing that report.

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Originally Posted by Advocate

He's at my mothers Hospital. Apparently, he has 6 broken ribs, an almost destroyed right knee, and numerous cuts and bruises.

The funny part?

He was NOT wearing his seat belt. Will he get a ticket?

"Click it or Ticket!"

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I'll bet he never does that again.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Sorry, but he was talking about two teams of primarily black women, so that really doesn't make sense, here.

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You know one is what Imus would consider 'inner city' and the other isn't. Which one did he call 'nappy headed hos'? You can make a great case that Imus shouldn't be fired, you can say he had every right to say what he did and people are making too much out of it, BUT you trying vainly to say that there was not a racial element to his comments is fucking moronic. You are denying reality. Stop playing the ignorant apologist just because he's a wannabe comedian.

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Originally Posted by Wildkat

Where are the Sharpton and Jackson rallies for record labels to drop the mysognistic, violent "artists" that fill the hip-hop music industry? Why are black kids harrased at school for trying to learn, while drug dealers who buy $20,000 rims are idolized?

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Uh, they've done that. Both of them. Did you even try to do any research before making this claim?

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Originally Posted by g0zen

You know one is what Imus would consider 'inner city' and the other isn't.[ Which one did he call 'nappy headed hos'?

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That's not racist, though. If race was the critreria they would have both been targeted. He was just trying to make some observational humor about which team looked "tougher" and it wasn't because they were "blacker" and if you say well tougher=blacker then you're the one being racist.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

That's not racist, though. If race was the critreria they would have both been targeted. He was just trying to make some observational humor about which team looked "tougher" and it wasn't because they were "blacker" and if you say well tougher=blacker then you're the one being racist.

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I can't believe you're fighting this hard to defend Don fucking Imus. No, it IS racist because he the only reason he made the comment at all was because they were black. And he wasn't talking about which team was 'tougher' he was talking about which was dirtier, more masculine, and indeed blacker.

In fact, the corollary he agreed to was 'jigaboos vs wannabes' from Do the Right Thing, which was about what? Light-skinned blacks vs dark-skinned blacks.

If I was commenting on the Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas fight and I said Mike Tyson looks like a hardcore gangsta-looking motherfucker, even though that description wouldn't be applied to a white guy, it's not racist, especially when you're talking about two black dudes.

Beyond that, a racist joke is not the same as being a racist. I don't enjoy Don Imus's show, but I do enjoy a lot of edgy humor and I know pretty much every good comic has said things that were offensive, and that if we're going to have humor on the radio, we can't be afraid to go there.

No, it is, because you're obviously talking about which is blacker and further from being acceptable to white culture. Is it the same as calling him a yardape or a nigger? No, but there is a racial element to the comment.

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Originally Posted by g0zen

Uh, they've done that. Both of them. Did you even try to do any research before making this claim?

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They have never, ONCE threated the livelyhood of ANY rapper. Having bullshit "summits" does not count here. The have never boycotted a record label due to an acts content, nor have they gone after advertisers tied into any acts.

You can condem things all day, but if you dont take any action, it means shit.

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Originally Posted by Frogacuda

Beyond that, a racist joke is not the same as being a racist. I don't enjoy Don Imus's show, but I do enjoy a lot of edgy humor and I know pretty much every good comic has said things that were offensive, and that if we're going to have humor on the radio, we can't be afraid to go there.

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And not just a single joke, it's a running theme that has gone through Imus's show for years and most of the time it isn't done in a remotely funny manner. Sure, we should allow comedians to say whatever they want, but on the flipside too many people say caustic things like this and then hide behind saying it was 'just a bad joke'. Ann Coulter comes to mind.

If it's not funny and he keeps doing it, he's either a racist or a terrible comedian. I say both.

Even then people, I still don't think he should have been censored, should be taken off the air, or suspended in any way. I'm completely with you, but I'm not going to deny the obvious and say he didn't make any kind of racial comment. He did.