http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...ers/index.html
Damn, I didn't think CBS would have the balls to do it...
Personally, I'm happy. That old geezer sucks.
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http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/TV/0...ers/index.html
Damn, I didn't think CBS would have the balls to do it...
Personally, I'm happy. That old geezer sucks.
I can't believe that shit! :mad:
lame....
They've prob wanted to sack him for a long time, but needed something like this to get out of the contract. He sucks.
They must have waited until now because they needed the extra time to brew up a batch of weak sauce that big.
Maybe we can get Rush to say something stupid too.
Not that I care anyways, but that guy sucked ass. How he ever got a contract just to mumble to himself for three hours straight is beyond me.
like him or hate him, the outcome of this sucks.
The thought police have struck again and the resultant actions by CBS and MSNBC have driven a larger wedge between the races than anything this guy ever said.
For a guy that sucks, he sure gets a lot of threads around here. :fm:
What a shame. Not about Imus specifically, but that someone would get fired over saying something like this- yet NFL players can get arrested 11 times and still have a job. Or a baseball manager can get a DUI and the owner doesn't discipline him at all. The list goes on.
Snoop chimes in, Says Don Imus "Betta Recognize"
Times Herald-Record
April 12, 2007
According to Snoop Dogg, Don Imus doesn't have the street cred to talk the talk.
Imus, a syndicated radio host, recently referred to the black women on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed ho’s” and caused a media-frenzy comparable to the coverage given after Anna Nicole Smith’s death. As a result of his comments, he was fired today.
Snoop, who refers to women as “bi---es” and “ho’s” in some of his songs, spoke with MTV News reporter Shaheem Reid via phone from his hotel room in L.A. on Tuesday and pointed out the differences between his brethren spouting profanities about women and the radio host.
“It’s a completely different scenario. “(Rappers) are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing sh--, that’s trying to get a n---a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain’t no old-ass white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha----as say we in the same league as him.”
“Kick him off the air forever. Ban him like they did (Adam) ‘Pacman’ Jones. They kicked him out the (National Football) League for the whole season (for numerous violations of the NFL’s personal-conduct policy, including multiple arrests), but this punk gets to get on the air and call black women ‘nappy-headed ho’s.’ “
The “Imus in the Morning” program has about a half million listeners in New York on radio station WFAN, as well as listeners throughout the country. NBC News does a simulcast broadcast on its cable news channel MSNBC. MSNBC announced yesterday it would drop the show.
Also yesterday, the Dogg pleaded no contest to “possession of a firearm and sale or transportation of marijuana” and was given five years probation and 800 hours of community service. This is the result of his arrest in October at the Bob Hope Airport in Burbank, California.
http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbc...RTAIN/70412010
I have to agree that the general sensitivity of the media and the public over things said is approaching ludicrous. Even though I'm not an Imus fan I don't like to see examples like this. He is a talkshow personality who is paid to be inflammatory. Before long we'll have nothing but corporate figureheads speaking safe, innocuous scripted dialog with zero honest opinion. I want a media where name calling is allowed.
I'm sure it's already been discussed ad nauseum in the other thread.
Poll on CNN.com: Did Imus do enough to apologize?
87% Yes
13% No
In the words of Ice-T, "Freedom of speech.....Just watch what you say"
I heard that Imus rides a snowboard
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800 hours of community service, jeez, that's a lot. Care to speculate on how he will fulfill them?
What's 800 hrs of community service? Who imposed that?
And somehow Rosie is still on...
I dunno, maybe teach kids how to properly roll a blunt. Seems to be a lost art these days.Quote:
Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark
Never listened to Imus and don't really care, but does anyone else find it hypocritical of Al Sharpton to criticize Imus and not all rappers???
No, because rappers speak from their souls. HUGE difference.Quote:
Originally Posted by BRUTAH
LAME........America is dying!
Anyone rememeber when Stern used to call up Daniel Carver from the KKK to goof on him ? was it offensive ? of course, but Howard is jewish so maybe the FCC thinks it's OK and he's making a parody of this idiot.
Dave Chappelle is about as racist as it gets but it's a positive message.
anna nicole, american idol, danny bonaduce...who freakin' cares ?
At the daily show and the colbert report they're keepin' it real
I never liked Imus but I don't think railroading him is right.....
http://www.jibjab.com/what_we_call_t...jeid=wwctn-sub
Maybe he could just go to rehab.
I am from DC (chocolate city is awesome sauce). The lady who works across from me spent $200 on her hair last week, she is african amaerican. This is the Do she got.
http://i.imdb.com/Photos/Ss/0110912/fcstil_0089.jpg
I have noticed that most or at least very many middle class black women do take a hell of a lot of time and investment into their hair, even more than white girls. Just as a cultural note.
There was more political dialog on that show (and not just PC bullshit like this shitshow has become) than there was on the rest of radio combined. Imus has a mean streak but he's always had his heart and his wallet in the right place.
He's raised millions of dollars for vets, for kids with autism, for kids with cancer.
Which YOU have NOT done.
The most common critique of the guy is that he's "old". Well, fuck you, you'll be old too one day . If you're lucky. They didn't pay him 8 million a year because he's senile.
The whole fucking thing is ridiculous, people worried about one fucking comment while our kids continue to die in Iraq for no fucking purpose.
Get your priorities straight, you stupid motherfuckers: A radio guy said something mean, stop the fucking presses.
Meanwhile we are in a war we can't win no matter what we do. Hmmm. Pick your battles.
The whole thing stinks of the press: the interviewers who couldn't get the same people Imus diud, the Washington press corps still offended by Imus' handling of Clinton 10 years ago, the sad sorry bitches who are now trying to make a career commenting on the debacle now.
Imus is funny and mean, charitable and hateful and, ultimately, a human being with flaws. Just like you.
So shut the fuck up.
OK. Well then they should fire Al Sharpton and the Rev Jesse for being complete morons and insulting anyone with half a brain.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lonnie
Did they fire those two when they said the things they did about those white players at Duke. NO
What about rap music. I think they should fire every single radio station manager that plays rap because it talks about violence towards white people.
Now I think you see my point about how PC biased this entire ordeal is. Frankly Imus is a cock. Never liked the guy, but he is a shock jock.
Cool it iceman. He will be on XM next month. Right?
Isn’t he is paid to get a reaction out of people? Granted he has said some shit in the past that leads me to believe he has a little racism (old dog/new tricks), etc….in him, but that is his personality and the reason he was/is on the radio to begin with. If you don’t like it, don’t listen. When people stop listening his rating will fall and the show will be off the air. Pulling the plug was retarded, and I agree, overall he means well.
Isn’t Rush Limbaugh still on the air after all the crap that came out of his mouth about Donovan Mcnab?
Yes he is. Also after it became clear that he was a drug addict while railing against drugs and saying that dealers should get life without parole.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pow4Brains
While he was buying prescription drugs. Illegally. From a dealer (errrr, "doctor"). Pure fucking hypocrisy, distiled to a level that Grey Goose could never hope to match.
Imus had the best show in the whole of American media, the one show that didn't pander, the one show that tried to tell it like it is.
Mixed in with some non-pc bullshit that I often wished he would stop doing, because it didn't add anything and it was embarassing.
But still, a radio show. And they went over the line one day.
Big fucking deal.
So it's okay to judge one talk radio host as a drug addict and a hypocrite, and not another as a racist? Please. This doesn't even touch on the "Jigaboo" casually thrown into the conversation - for those who have listened.
While I don't think he should have been fired, I wonder how many of you would be wielding pitchforks and torches if it were Hannity, Coulter, O'Reilly or Ingraham spewing the same words as Imus? Yeah. We all already know the answer to that one. Freedom of speech, but only as long as the speaker's views are somewhat in line with your own. I could give a shit less about any of them, I just wouldn't be so quick to paint the evil-doers with such a narrow brush.
Bill Maher had his show canceled when he endorsed Al Queda / criticized US troops after 911. He was back on HBO by 2003.
I support everyone's freedom of speech, but be ready to deal with the repercussions of WHAT you say. That dumb@$$ Imus couldn't even figure out why what he said was so offensive....Quote:
Originally Posted by BLOOD SWEAT STEEL
And hence the reason he shouldn’t have been fired.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lonnie
Who cares anymore.... Bush is the president and wasn't even elected as so. We are in an un-winnable war (in Iraq and against imaginary terrorists) that is kept alive to keep our military industrial complex strong and healthy. We can't exercise our freedom of speech. We have leaders who DO NOT keep church and state separate. etc.etc.etc.. I'd be all for revolution but I'm heavily outnumbered so I say...fuck it!
My politics might be 180 degrees from Maher's but I really liked him and thought it was one of the dumbest things I had ever seen when he got canned. That is proof that the Left doesn't have a lock on the PC stupidity that is having it's way with our society. Everyone is way, way, way too sensitive now a days.Quote:
Originally Posted by tromano
This can't continue. Something has got to reach a breaking point. If not, life will begin to imitate art and we will find ourselves living in the world of Demolition Man.
Money talks. His show was cheap to produce and brought in big bucks. As soon as advertisers began pulling out, he's canned.Quote:
Originally Posted by bio-smear
Personally I'm glad that dinosaur is gone. He was funny in the 70s but went downhill ever since.
The FAN is one of my fave stations but I never listened to it in the morning because he was on. I'm now looking forward to some decent sports talk in the morning instead of having to switch to ESPN 1050.
Sorry, but you lost me...Quote:
Originally Posted by Pow4Brains
As I said in the other thread...
Could care less that he won't be on the air anymore, but he was canned for the wrong reason.