*Update : Undenaibly one of my favorite sports writers and also the last honset writer in America Jason Whitlock
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It was a joke. GET OVER IT!
This national media firestorm is so ridiculous. Don Imus is a national treasure for christ sake.
He's funny, and he's been doing this job for 30 years. All the while giving back to the community in the form of cancer reasearch and SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome).
America has failed another guy making a joke. PC has gone too far. It's disgusting.
If a black host said "a couple of white stiffs" it wouldnt even catch a smoke let alone fire.
Oh and if we want to talk about calling women "ho's" let's start with the rap industry. Yeah I said it, and I'm a tremndous rap fan. You know why? Because I never take ne thing literal or to heart. It's all entertainment and as far as I'm concerned you can say or do anything you want within the state and local law of the land in the name of entertainment.
Stern's take
NY post story
Roker's take
Rutgers to speak
apologizes and accepts punishment
FTW
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you're right ep, too much pc....
but the stern quotes in the article were false (at least that's what stern said that this am on his show)... stern, who hates imus has been making fun of the way imus has handled the whole thing... he says that imus is trurly a bigot (not for what he recently said) but from knowing and working with him years ago... he really got on imus this morning for going on the al sharpton show...
he may really be a racist
i dont know him like stern does but he is a radio legend
and this comment shouldnt be career ending
fuck sharpton
i agree imus is handling this like a vagina
imus should be fighting more... he should have called out sharpton for all of the shady stuff in al's past.... the tawana brawley stuff was ridiculous... fat al should have gone to jail for that
I said this on lov, Al Sharpton must die. He's stealing precious air from the rest of us. As its been said here before, Al doesn't deserve earth.
I'm still floored at the reaction. Who knew nappy headed ho's = the new n word.
Are people upset at "nappy headed" or "ho's"? I don't get it.
Good thing free speech is alive and well, as long as it doesn't piss off Al Sharpton or Al Roker or whoopie goldberg.
Wasn't Whoopie Goldberg dating Ted Danson when Danson painted his face up like a black person?
You're telling me if Imus said "wow that Carrot Top is an ugly haired cracker" it would get ANY play? WTF.
double standard
it's gross
fat sissies
a blackie will never be in power
homo
fag
german sauasage face
boner nose jew
i could go on
all these words he's used before with no firestorm
why now?
because people are assholes ElP and they are just looking for a reason to get their panties in a wad...fuckers.
Not to mention every media outlet on the planet is only playing a snippet of the clip, taking it out of the context in which the statment was made. Many things, taken out of context sound evil and wacked like "I did it with my daddy when I was kid.:
Ya feel me?
yes get what your saying, it's true
Nice work, ElP. I don't like Imus at all, but seriously - he's been punished ... let it go. If you go to any hip hop station, you'll hear slurs agains whitey all day long.
I must admit, I didn't grow up listening to Imus, so I probably can't appreciate the dude's greatness, but to hold it down for that long (30 yrs) he must have been funny at some point. I just think his time has past. It happens that way some times.
crass but it shouldnt come to end like this
for a joke he made, pretty much the same type of joke he's made since the disco era
the country is too pc, that's the point and the double standard is the elephant in the room
it's sickening
El Pad...
You are a Nappy Headed Ho!
j/k homefries...
Freedom of speech is only for minorities...95% of the garbage that is said by minorities is written off and anything we say is looked at with a fine tooth comb.
30 years torn down by 30 seconds. What he said was bad but I've heard a lot worse here locally with no consequences at all.
true crass
very true
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