FeedImus and those nappy headed hos
April 12, 2007 in The Wire
Does anyone need to be told that morning radio personality
I’m not crying for Imus. He’s jerk and a racist and he’s been one for a long time. I stopped thinking that these sorts of comments were funny way in the fourth grade. Imus, his cohorts in the booth and his fans apparently are retarded socially in that they still find it amusing. Whatever.it
Think it’s unfair that black people use that language and “get away with it?” Get over yourself. I swear to God, as much as I support the right of people to say whatever they want, I have no burning desire to call hurl racial insults at anyone. I think it’s stupid for black people to use language that degrades each other. But who am I deny someone the right to make as ignorant ass out of themselves? I think it’s the height of stupidity for white people to stew over the fact that they don’t get to call black people n******s when black people do it all the time.
So what should happen to Imus? He’s been suspended. MSNBC isn’t carrying his stow anymore. Of course, these actions could have been taken at any of the other dozens of times he’s said some thing similar (he once called black reporter a cleaning lady). No, Imus is in trouble now because critics like
Radio personalities are hired to be fired. Stations made decisions every day about the quality of the content they broadcast. What shouldn’t happen are demands that someone must be fired because of their comments, however stupid they are. Instead, just turn the dial and let the market decide. And the very last thing we need is for race-baiters like “Hymietown” Jackson and “
April 12th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
It wasn’t just Sharpton and Jackson.
Here is the problem as I see it: had Imus had any empathy at all, he would have thought “hey, those might be MY daughters or my buddy’s daughters out there” and he never would have called them “ho’s”.
Instead, he just saw “them”; souless, feelingless ailens.
Those of you who have kids think about this: how would you like it if someone called your college student daughter a “ho” on national TV?
By the way, you might look up what Barack Obama said.
April 12th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
“This wasn’t an insult to all mankind, and certainly not an insult to Al Sharpton. Now, if Imus had called the basketball players “fat, race-baiting black men with clownish hairstyles,” well, then perhaps Sharpton would be owed an apology.”
April 12th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
Obama called for Imus’ firing a day after he met privately with a guy who calls negro women bitches and hos all the time. nice.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I guess Imus got fired from CBS today, too.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/200.....imus_dc_29
Hell, I thought morning radio people were supposed to be assholes. I don’t like him, but he fit the bill for those who wanted to listen to someone like him.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:46 pm
I just got an email from a radio website I subscribe to that says Imus has been fired by WFAN.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
Never mind, didn’t see Floyd’s comment. Sorry.
April 12th, 2007 at 4:50 pm
I signed three petitions calling for Imus to be fired, and not a one of them was from Sharpton’s or Jackson’s groups. I signed one for the National Organization for Women (NOW) because as a woman, what he said was repulsive. I signed one for an organization called MomsRising, because as a mother, I abhor the kind of hate language that Imus continues to peddle on public radio (I equated him with Rush Limbaugh, another idiot who does nothing but insult people for a living.)
Jackson and Sharpton managed all the attention because they have really, really good PR folks. Plenty of others of us in the US called for his firing. Did you know Al Roker of the Today Show posted online calling for Imus to be fired. You just aren’t paying attention to all the other groups.
And could it be that this last comment is simply the straw that broke the camel’s back for everyone? I grew up in the NYC area, and I’ve thought Imus was an ass since I was capable of comprehending what he had to say. This time enough people were paying attention, and instead of insulting one particular person - he insulted a whole group of highly accomplished young women - insulting all female athletes, college students, women in general, mothers and parents all in one fell swoop - oh yeah, and the black community.
I listened to a longer clip from the infamous broadcast, and they all used the word ho multiple times. It is about damn time that groups in this country get together and get rid of hate speech, like ho and bitches and nigger. I understand the desire to take back the word in order to achieve some level of empowerment and ownership over the term - the argument used by the black community often. But I think that those espousing this view are becoming a smaller and smaller minority, no pun intended.
Negative hate speech like this is everywhere in the US now, and it is culturally problematic in a large way. Shock jocks on the whole tend to speak very negatively on a wide range of issues. Politics, anymore, seems to devolve into “mudslinging” more often than not. Hell, you could include the absurd popularity of “reality television” where people just bitch at each other all the time, and crappy gossip mags, shows and websites in this mix.
Imus is but one piece of a HUGE ASS issue in our popular culture, IMHO, and I for one am damn sick of it, and of fighting it. I am glad it has been on top of the news for three days - it think that itself says something about people and culture, a lot of us are sick of it and want a change.
April 12th, 2007 at 5:06 pm
He is a jerk, always has been and I was amazed when he gave his “apology” the other day he stated that he “wasn’t a racist”. B.S.
He ranks right along with Howard Stern.
April 12th, 2007 at 8:28 pm
Billy,
There definitely is a double standard. Since there was no Coca-Cola or Budweiser franchise to pay off the PC Police from Chicago (Jesse) and New York (Al), Imus had to pay with his job.
April 13th, 2007 at 9:49 am
http://froogle.google.com/froogle?q=‘nappy-headed+ho%22+t-shirt&hl=en&safe=off&rls=GGLD,GGLD:2004-37,GGLD:en&um=1&sa=X&oi=froogle&ct=title
April 13th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Why aren’t Chris Rock, Dave Chappelle, or Carlos Mencia being fired as well? Why, because they are not white. It seems that it is alright to make racial jokes as an entertainer as long as you are not white. Then it is completely absurd and horrible, and you deserve to lose your 30 year career for it.
One in which he has raised over 40 million dollars for childrens charities. But I am sure that is irrelevant now that he used a phrase that is nothing compared to what other minority entertainers are using. This is a complete mockery of our society. Big deal people, get over it. You don’t see me calling for Chappelles immediate resignation because I am offended at his humor about white people. You have a right not to watch or listen to Don Imus if you are offended. You don’t like it, change the channel you freakin puke. This absolutely drives me crazy.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:09 pm
The man called a bunch of female college students “whores” on national TV.
An appropriate punishment, IMHO, would be to lock Imus up with the friends and loved ones of those young women for a couple of hours.
I say again: how would you like it if it was YOUR daughter that was being called a whore?
April 13th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Can Jeb get locked up with you when you call his brother all the nasty shit you’ve said?
April 13th, 2007 at 2:21 pm
If it was my daughter, i would simply ignore him Ollie. Big deal, some jerk on a radio show that I don’t listen to made fun of some people. I don’t know maybe my reaction would be that he doesn’t know anything about these people, and like entertainers do everyday, said something stupid. Maybe if I was a fan I wouldn’t listen to him anymore. And if not, who freakin cares what Don Imus thinks or says.
Would your poor little feelings be hurt Ollie? Grow a pair my friend. Life is not fair, and everyone in the world is not going to like you.
Should all of these George Bush impersonators/comedians be fired for their poking fun at the presidents vocabulary and intellect? Should all of these rappers be fired for glorifying violence, prostitution, and drug dealing, and being responsible for coining these phrases? Should all the black comedians be fired who are making racial jokes much worse than this about blacks as well as whites?
This man is a victim of the media. And I don’t even like him or his show.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Exactly.
April 13th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
Bill: Did you notice replies aren’t nesting?
April 13th, 2007 at 5:51 pm
Imus’ comments were ill advised and inappropriate. Can we allow the “journalism” sponsored by two major networks to degenerate to the point that it is okay to use such comments? It seems to me that Imus was suspended for what he said and fired because the sponsors/advertisers dropped him.
April 13th, 2007 at 8:55 pm
Well, Ollie kind of hit the nail on the head. What if it was your daughter he was calling a “nappy-headed ho”? It’s not much of a reach for me. If it was my kid on that team, I’d want to slap the shit* out of him.
*I apologize for the language but it was the correct word to use