Hey Reverend Jackson.....Don Imus Related

[irul&ublo]

Reverend:

With respect to any further pronouncements you may have on the Don Imus matter; will you be issuing those by way of press conferences held in hymie town?

And WTF is with Al Sharpton's hair?

[Obstruction]

Reverend:

With respect to any further pronouncements you may have on the Don Imus matter; will you be issuing those by way of press conferences held in hymie town?

And WTF is with Al Sharpton's hair?

Nappy it ain't.

[The Dad]

The Rev. Al's hair is a tribute to the Godfather of Soul. Or so he says.

[BLOOD SWEAT STEEL]

I'm still waiting for Vince McMahon to announce the PPV steel cage match:

Sharpton vs. Imus - Meeting Of The Mindless v.1

ding!

[irul&ublo]

The Rev. Al's hair is a tribute to the Godfather of Soul. Or so he says.

Well that's good to know....I was afraid he was pulling a "Single White Female" on Charlie Rangel.

[Tippster]

Hey Al - "Tawana Brawley."

Now STFU.

[H-man]

Exactly. Don't get me started.

Wow my first political post. Something I said I would never do...

[Benny Profane]

So....what's the point? Auditioning for Imus's upcoming vacant slot? Be a little more unfunny.

[Tippster]

They'll never get rid of Imus on MSNBC - they only pay $4.5M/year for broadcast rights to Westwood One Radio. Any show you'd put in its place would cost $500k PER WEEK.

Ultimately it'll come down to General Electric (NBC's Parent company) and the board will say they're in it to make money, not to moralize.

[Benny Profane]

Procter and Gamble pulled their ads. Now that is big time ad money.

That was a very nasty, bitter thing to say, and I fail to see one ounce of humor in it.

[Tippster]

Yet had any non-white radio personality/comedian said it it would have been written off as either risque or funny.

[Crud's Uncle]

Y'all a bunch of racists. The Rutgers team is a bunch of hot babes. Where are the naked pics?

No wonder you love a sport played on a field of white.

[Benny Profane]

Yet had any non-white radio personality/comedian said it it would have been written off as either risque or funny.

Well, yeah, there's a lot of them with a national reach outside of sports. Let's see, there's.........uh........wasn't there ...a....guy........

[Stu Gotz]

Yet had any non-white radio personality/comedian said it it would have been written off as either risque or funny.

I don't know Tipp. If an African American commentator watched the men's lacrosse finals and commented "It was a good game, but that team from Johns Hopkins are a bunch of cracker rapists", I think he would lose his job.

[irul&ublo]

So....what's the point? Auditioning for Imus's upcoming vacant slot? Be a little more unfunny.

The point????? Imus is a wrinkled douchenozzle no doubt, and he deserves the ridicule he gets.....but there is a bit of pot calling the kettle....errr...charred going on w/ Rev. JJ.

[BigAirSkier1580]

I fail to understand the firestorm surrounding it.

Imus is a moron no doubt, but I don't see what was such a big deal.

He is a former shock jock.

As for the "hoe" part. So it's okay for nearly every successful rap artist to refer to woman as "bitchez n'hoes" but the second a non-urban person does, it's racist?

Puhhhhhhhhhhhlease.

[BigAirSkier1580]

I don't know Tipp. If an African American commentator watched the men's lacrosse finals and commented "It was a good game, but that team from Johns Hopkins are a bunch of cracker rapists", I think he would lose his job.

I'd laugh and proceed to not care.

[Tippster]

He's a Shock Jock, not a commentator. Just because he's on MSNBC doesn't make him any different from Howard Stern, just more "palatable." I guess they were wrong.

Imus apologised. Profusely.

Al Sharpton has yet to do the same for calling the NY State's Atty. a bigoted rapist.

Jesse Jackson apologised once for "Hymietown" in a written statement.

What really galls the fuck outta me regarding Al Sharpton is he's the guy who keeps scratching off a scab to show people a wound.

[Benny Profane]

Don't you get it about Sharpton? He's the man to go to when the shit flies for a average black person. When they get a broomstick stuck up their butt or have a son who was shot 50 or 60 times by the cops, you get on your cell and find him, because he's the ONLY dude who knows how to get things done. What, some white lawyer or politician is going to really help that person? No way. He's going to keep it in the public eye until some sort of justice is at least attempted.
I know he's not perfect, but, Christ, what politician is? And trust me, even though he doesn't hold an office, he's a powerful politician.

[dk_alaskan]

what is the fuss all about? Imus is a dipshit shock jock who made a comment that has been blown WAY out of proportion. All the jokes made about the stupid NASA chick were close to being on par w/what he said. if he had called them bimbos instead of hoes, do you think there would be as much of an uproar? if he was a minority shockjock, say, Carlos Mencia, would we be having this converstation still? Al Sharpton needs to get rid of that fucking chip he has on his shoulder and try to UNITE ALL people, NOT drive a wedge between the races as he almost always does? Why is he not for the betterment of ALL people, not just blacks?

[BigAirSkier1580]

Don't you know that the only way to equality is thru racism?

[road trip]

Op-Ed Contributor

By GWEN IFILL
Washington

LET’S say a word about the girls. The young women with the musical names. Kia and Epiphanny and Matee and Essence. Katie and Dee Dee and Rashidat and Myia and Brittany and Heather.

The Scarlet Knights of Rutgers University had an improbable season, dropping four of their first seven games, yet ending up in the N.C.A.A. women’s basketball championship game. None of them were seniors. Five were freshmen.

In the end, they were stopped only by Tennessee’s Lady Vols, who clinched their seventh national championship by ending Rutgers’ Cinderella run last week, 59-46. That’s the kind of story we love, right? A bunch of teenagers from Newark, Cincinnati, Brooklyn and, yes, Ogden, Utah, defying expectations. It’s what explodes so many March Madness office pools.

But not, apparently, for the girls. For all their grit, hard work and courage, the Rutgers girls got branded “nappy-headed ho’s” — a shockingly concise sexual and racial insult, tossed out in a volley of male camaraderie by a group of amused, middle-aged white men. The “joke” — as delivered and later recanted — by the radio and television personality Don Imus failed one big test: it was not funny.

The serial apologies of Mr. Imus, who was suspended yesterday by both NBC News and CBS Radio for his remarks, have failed another test. The sincerity seems forced and suspect because he’s done some version of this several times before.

I know, because he apparently did it to me.

I was covering the White House for this newspaper in 1993, when Mr. Imus’s producer began calling to invite me on his radio program. I didn’t return his calls. I had my hands plenty full covering Bill Clinton.

Soon enough, the phone calls stopped. Then quizzical colleagues began asking me why Don Imus seemed to have a problem with me. I had no idea what they were talking about because I never listened to the program.

It was not until five years later, when Mr. Imus and I were both working under the NBC News umbrella — his show was being simulcast on MSNBC; I was a Capitol Hill correspondent for the network — that I discovered why people were asking those questions. It took Lars-Erik Nelson, a columnist for The New York Daily News, to finally explain what no one else had wanted to repeat.

“Isn’t The Times wonderful,” Mr. Nelson quoted Mr. Imus as saying on the radio. “It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.”

I was taken aback but not outraged. I’d certainly been called worse and indeed jumped at the chance to use the old insult to explain to my NBC bosses why I did not want to appear on the Imus show.

I haven’t talked about this much. I’m a big girl. I have a platform. I have a voice. I’ve been working in journalism long enough that there is little danger that a radio D.J.’s juvenile slap will define or scar me. Yesterday, he began telling people he never actually called me a cleaning lady. Whatever. This is not about me.

It is about the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. That game had to be the biggest moment of their lives, and the outcome the biggest disappointment. They are not old enough, or established enough, to have built up the sort of carapace many women I know — black women in particular — develop to guard themselves against casual insult.

Why do my journalistic colleagues appear on Mr. Imus’s program? That’s for them to defend, and others to argue about. I certainly don’t know any black journalists who will. To his credit, Mr. Imus told the Rev. Al Sharpton yesterday he realizes that, this time, he went way too far.

Yes, he did. Every time a young black girl shyly approaches me for an autograph or writes or calls or stops me on the street to ask how she can become a journalist, I feel an enormous responsibility. It’s more than simply being a role model. I know I have to be a voice for them as well.

So here’s what this voice has to say for people who cannot grasp the notion of picking on people their own size: This country will only flourish once we consistently learn to applaud and encourage the young people who have to work harder just to achieve balance on the unequal playing field.

Let’s see if we can manage to build them up and reward them, rather than opting for the cheapest, easiest, most despicable shots.

Gwen Ifill is a senior correspondent for “The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer” and the moderator of “Washington Week.”

[dk_alaskan]

Don't you know that the only way to equality is thru racism?

DOH, i had forgotten about the whole reverse racism thing

[Brock Landers]

Don't you get it about Sharpton? He's the man to go to when the shit flies for a average black person. When they get a broomstick stuck up their butt or have a son who was shot 50 or 60 times by the cops, you get on your cell and find him, because he's the ONLY dude who knows how to get things done. What, some white lawyer or politician is going to really help that person? No way. He's going to keep it in the public eye until some sort of justice is at least attempted.
I know he's not perfect, but, Christ, what politician is? And trust me, even though he doesn't hold an office, he's a powerful politician.

Last time I checked noone on the Rutgers womens team got shot 50 or 60 times. And the last time I checked Rutgers University isnt "an average black person"-its more of a multimillion dollar university with supporters and credibility all on its own.
So then what the fuck is he doing?

[WWCD]

Well, yeah, there's a lot of them with a national reach outside of sports. Let's see, there's.........uh........wasn't there ...a....guy........

I heard of this guy Chris Rock who is supposed to do racial humor. There is also some guy named Dave Chapel or Chappelle...I don't know. Now, I haven't seen either one of these guys because the don't reach a very big audience, but both are rumored to use race in a lot of their comedy.

Don't you get it about Sharpton? He's the man to go to when the shit flies for a average black person. When they get a broomstick stuck up their butt or have a son who was shot 50 or 60 times by the cops, you get on your cell and find him, because he's the ONLY dude who knows how to get things done. What, some white lawyer or politician is going to really help that person? No way. He's going to keep it in the public eye until some sort of justice is at least attempted.
I know he's not perfect, but, Christ, what politician is? And trust me, even though he doesn't hold an office, he's a powerful politician.

What is it that has Sharpton done for these girls, except for make everyone aware that Imus called them ugly?



Got this from O&A this morning, Whoopi's production company is call One Ho Productions. It is not just rappers using this all the time.