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    Imus Gets Sacked...

    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.
    This is the worst pain EVER!

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    I can't believe that shit!

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    lame....

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    They've prob wanted to sack him for a long time, but needed something like this to get out of the contract. He sucks.

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    They must have waited until now because they needed the extra time to brew up a batch of weak sauce that big.
    "They don't think it be like it is, but it do."

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    Maybe we can get Rush to say something stupid too.
    Battle lines being drawn, nobody’s right if everybody’s wrong, old people speaking their minds, getting so much resistance from behind.

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    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.

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    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.

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    For a guy that sucks, he sure gets a lot of threads around here.

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    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.

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    Snoop chimes in, Says Don Imus "Betta Recognize"

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    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.


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    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.

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    Poll on CNN.com: Did Imus do enough to apologize?

    87% Yes
    13% No

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    Last edited by Lonnie; 04-12-2007 at 04:04 PM.
    This is the worst pain EVER!

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    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?
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    What's 800 hrs of community service? Who imposed that?

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    And somehow Rosie is still on...

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    Quote Originally Posted by MakersTeleMark View Post
    800 hours of community service, jeez, that's a lot. Care to speculate on how he will fulfill them?
    I dunno, maybe teach kids how to properly roll a blunt. Seems to be a lost art these days.

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    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???

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    Quote Originally Posted by BRUTAH View Post
    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.

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    LAME........America is dying!
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    Imus sucked, but still...it ain't right

    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.....
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    Maybe he could just go to rehab.
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    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.



    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.

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