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| Mel Belli |
I focus on work for a couple of hours, and the thread disappears. Who said what? |
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| gimmekeef |
Heres the story.....Now he's got all the usual d-gooders on his tail.....
By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer
Mon Apr 9, 6:25 AM ET
NEW YORK - Even as he scheduled an on-air meeting with radio host Don Imus, the Rev. Al Sharpton said he still wants Imus fired for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
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Sharpton said Sunday he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.
"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," he said. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
Sharpton and MSNBC announced that Imus would appear Monday on Sharpton's nationally syndicated program. Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for Imus' resignation or firing.
The broadcaster said Wednesday during his nationally syndicated program that members of the mostly black Rutgers team were "nappy-headed hos."
The team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and the MSNBC television network.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ... ."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus has since apologized, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.
Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. He said Sunday that protests were being planned across the country.
"If he has a right to use that platform to insult and degrade, then we have a moral obligation to picket NBC and to protest," Jackson said. "If he can violate us in that platform in the name of free speech, we'll be picketing NBC in the name of free speech."
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio — Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM — said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."
Imus, who has not been publicly disciplined, apologized on the air Friday.
"It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry," Imus said, according to a transcript on MSNBC's Web site.
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| CraigP |
I mentioned how your point of how all the media hype over this issue makes it far worse that what was actually said.
I'm not gonna re-type most of what I said.
He shouldn't be fired because he said nothing "hateful". He makes fun of everybody, including himself but , oh no he said someting relating to the African-American race- burn him to hell.
I don't listen to his show, but have read up on him and how he and his wife care for sick children and raise millions for his own charities.
He made a sincere apology.
Let him go on.
That, there, is my 2 cents.
Freedom of Speech is BIAS and disappearing, at least if you are white. |
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| gimmekeef |
What is so "Rainbow" about Jacksons coalition?... |
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| Saint Sway |
quote:
Mel Belli wrote:
I focus on work for a couple of hours, and the thread disappears.
Weak move by jb.
Dr King would not approve |
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| Mel Belli |
quote:
Saint Sway wrote:
Weak move by jb.
Dr King would not approve
So he deleted it? Didn't know you could do that. |
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| MrPleasant |
quote:
Mel Belli wrote:
So he deleted it? Didn't know you could do that.
Yes. If you start a thread you can delete it by erasing the initial post. |
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| Mel Belli |
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MrPleasant wrote:
Yes. If you start a thread you can delete it by erasing the initial post.
Good to know. |
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| kath |
IMUS is the biggest asshole on earth, and the guy who worked with him that day and orginally used the word "ho's" should be fired too.
this is the 21st century..."nappy headed hos" should not even exist in the vocabulary.
what a dickweed. |
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| creepin death |
call a spade a spade if you will. sharpton and jackson are nothing more than racist niggers. fuck them nappy headed porch monkeys. |
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| gimmekeef |
quote:
creepin death wrote:
call a spade a spade if you will. sharpton and jackson are nothing more than racist niggers. fuck them nappy headed porch monkeys.
Ummmm..ya might wanna see Mels post above....... |
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| BONOISLOVE |
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Mel Belli wrote:
So he deleted it? Didn't know you could do that.
That thread didn't reach 500 |
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| CraigP |
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creepin death wrote:
call a spade a spade if you will. sharpton and jackson are nothing more than racist niggers. fuck them nappy headed porch monkeys.
Umm... Sharpton and Jackson may be racist, but calling them names is hypocritical and isn't going to help you get any point across. |
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| Saint Sway |
I'm glad that Rev Al & Jesse are sticking up for the "nappy heads"
and that Donald is sticking up for the "ho's"
only in America! |
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| Mel Belli |
All right, I tried to post a picture, to no avail. |
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| texile |
as much as i hate jackson and sharpton and other though-police authorities 'demanding' someone losing a job based on 'offensive' remarks, and as much as i have enjoyed imus' politically incorrect humor,
his comments this timewere nasty, demeaning and - yes - offensive.
i don't know about pulling the plug, but imus should be ashamed.
politically incorrect in one thing, but making insulting references in a public forum should be rightly called out. |
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| creepin death |
if it was some nappy headed monkey on the radio calling white
people names nobody would give a flying fuck about what was said. the minute someone talks against the monkeys there is an outrage. im surprized spike lee hasn't opened his big racist
mouth.with all the shit going on in the world , this is pretty stupid. |
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| glencar |
When I read the original story last week, I read his slur as "happy-headed ho's" & I wondered what the big to-do was. Imus is way past his prime & this is just further evidence. He should either tough it out or quit. This sissy apology act is quite tired. |
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| Riffhard |
Imus is an asshole to be sure but I find it more than a little bit disingenuous that the two biggest voices calling for his termination are two of this nation's most profane race baiters in history. Here's an idea. Fuck Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson! Fuck him with a sharp stick! He's nothing but a race baiter and an anti-semite! Then you got Al "White thugs raped poor Twanna Brawley" Sharpton! That these two even have the gall to try and get Imus fired is disgusting to me. They should both be in prison for the way they have shucked and jived their way into the national spotlight for so many years by doing nothing more than fanning the flames of racism. That many in the black community still embrace these two assclowns is laughable. They don't even know that they are being played.
Imus should be fired the day that Jacson and Sharpton are both called on the carpet by the media(DLM) for their blatant racism. I'm not holding my breath.
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| BONOISLOVE |
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creepin death wrote:
im surprized spike lee hasn't opened his big racist
mouth.with all the shit going on in the world , this is pretty stupid.
I agree! This whole thing that the little people are making tantrums about is getting out of control! Somebody, please, close the gates of mental hate, open the doors of salvation and go to the store so we can buy very cool things (we need those things to live in a friendly environment).
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| texile |
[quote]creepin death wrote:
if it was some nappy headed monkey on the radio calling white
people names nobody would give a flying fuck about what was said. the minute someone talks against the monkeys there is an outrage. [/quote
monkeys?
that's so weird...
so.....archaic and OLD.
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| Mahatma Kane Jeeves |
Yet they still have Rosie on the View. |
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| mac_daddy |
CBS News) LOS ANGELES Despite his on-air apologies, the calls continued Monday for radio host Don Imus to be fired from his syndicated morning program, which is also broadcast on a cable channel, for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Late Monday, both MSNBC and CBS Radio announced they were suspending Imus for two weeks for the controversial comments he made.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and the head of the New Jersey chapter of the NAACP want Imus thrown off the air. The Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago for Monday.
A contrite Don Imus described himself Monday as "a good person" who made a bad mistake.
Speaking on his radio show Monday morning, Imus said he was not trying to downplay what he called "the repulsiveness" of the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos" — "hos" is slang for "whores." But he said it was important to understand the context of his comments.
"We were kidding around, but that doesn't change it. That doesn't make it any less repugnant," he said Monday.
"I wasn't drunk. I'm not some angry raving nut on a nightclub stage, and I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing," he said on his radio show (audio). "But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice."
Imus said he hoped to meet the players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.
"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.
Sharpton has said he wants Imus fired and that he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.
"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
With Rutgers womens basketball coach Vivien Stringer in attendance at Easter Services, Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ, called for Imus' firing.
"It's time for Mr. Imus to leave that job and take off that cowboy hat and be unemployed," he said in his sermon.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.
Imus made the now infamous remark Wednesday during his radio show, which is nationally syndicated by CBS Radio.
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ..."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus also apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.
Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."
It's not the first time Don Imus has pushed the limits of free speech, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller. It's why many of his listeners tune in, and why his bosses have kept him on the air.
He discusses current issues and plays country-and-western music on WFAN-AM, a CBS-owned station that is otherwise all-sports. He was "inherited" when WNBC-AM changed formats and owners.
He could survive to insult another day.
"People do outrageous things all the time and they're not fired, they're fired if they're not successful, if they don't bring in money for the company," said media analyst Ken Auletta.
Sharpton is calling for a nationwide boycott of Imus' sponsors, hoping hitting companies' bottom lines will finally silence the shock jock.
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| Steel Wheels |
And a Bababooey to you all! |
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| _Boomy_ |
quote:
Riffhard wrote:
Imus is an asshole to be sure but I find it more than a little bit disingenuous that the two biggest voices calling for his termination are two of this nation's most profane race baiters in history. Here's an idea. Fuck Jesse "Hymietown" Jackson! Fuck him with a sharp stick! He's nothing but a race baiter and an anti-semite! Then you got Al "White thugs raped poor Twanna Brawley" Sharpton! That these two even have the gall to try and get Imus fired is disgusting to me. They should both be in prison for the way they have shucked and jived their way into the national spotlight for so many years by doing nothing more than fanning the flames of racism. That many in the black community still embrace these two assclowns is laughable. They don't even know that they are being played.
Imus should be fired the day that Jacson and Sharpton are both called on the carpet by the media(DLM) for their blatant racism. I'm not holding my breath.
Riffy
I thought it was Jesse "High" Jackson and Al "Not So" Sharpton??? |
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| Snappy McJack |
quote:
mac_daddy wrote:
CBS News) LOS ANGELES Despite his on-air apologies, the calls continued Monday for radio host Don Imus to be fired from his syndicated morning program, which is also broadcast on a cable channel, for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
Late Monday, both MSNBC and CBS Radio announced they were suspending Imus for two weeks for the controversial comments he made.
The Rev. Al Sharpton and the head of the New Jersey chapter of the NAACP want Imus thrown off the air. The Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago for Monday.
A contrite Don Imus described himself Monday as "a good person" who made a bad mistake.
Speaking on his radio show Monday morning, Imus said he was not trying to downplay what he called "the repulsiveness" of the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos" — "hos" is slang for "whores." But he said it was important to understand the context of his comments.
"We were kidding around, but that doesn't change it. That doesn't make it any less repugnant," he said Monday.
"I wasn't drunk. I'm not some angry raving nut on a nightclub stage, and I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing," he said on his radio show (audio). "But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice."
Imus said he hoped to meet the players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.
"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.
Sharpton has said he wants Imus fired and that he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.
"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
With Rutgers womens basketball coach Vivien Stringer in attendance at Easter Services, Rev. DeForest B. Soaries, Jr. of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, NJ, called for Imus' firing.
"It's time for Mr. Imus to leave that job and take off that cowboy hat and be unemployed," he said in his sermon.
Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.
Imus made the now infamous remark Wednesday during his radio show, which is nationally syndicated by CBS Radio.
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ..."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus also apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.
Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."
It's not the first time Don Imus has pushed the limits of free speech, reports CBS News correspondent Michelle Miller. It's why many of his listeners tune in, and why his bosses have kept him on the air.
He discusses current issues and plays country-and-western music on WFAN-AM, a CBS-owned station that is otherwise all-sports. He was "inherited" when WNBC-AM changed formats and owners.
He could survive to insult another day.
"People do outrageous things all the time and they're not fired, they're fired if they're not successful, if they don't bring in money for the company," said media analyst Ken Auletta.
Sharpton is calling for a nationwide boycott of Imus' sponsors, hoping hitting companies' bottom lines will finally silence the shock jock.
Quite the turn of events. This baiting situation I saw on another site is disturbing. The "you people" bit. All of the people involved in this ordeal need to grow up. |
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| rocker |
I'm politcally conservative, dont always agree with Imus, but i love to listen to him.
Im so sick of this poiltically correct bullshit.
Liberals are the language police. If you say anything that is "offensive," which really means if you say anything about a minority group they will fry your ass. You could trash white males all you want and thats fine, but say something thats "offensive" about a minority group (homosexuals and blacks) and they will fry you. This is bullshit to the max.
I hope MSNBC tells Jackson and Shparton to fuck themsleves. Those two old civil rights guys are tired and have served their purpose. They ought to knock the fucking log out of their own eyes. I dont see them boycotting "def jam records" or telling the CEO that he must fire their rapppers. They trash black women more than Imus ever dreamed about. Plus they they have short memories because they themsleves have both made "offensive rmarks about Jews. Fuck Jackson and fuck Sharpton.
Lighte up people. |
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| texile |
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rocker wrote:
Im so sick of this poiltically correct bullshit.
Lighte up people.
political correctness had nothing to do with this,
im all for provocative humor and commentary -
but imus' statements were just stupid and denigrating.
don't elevate it to anything beyond that.
people throw the 'political correctness' argument anytime anyone says something stupid and dismiss as some kind of conspiracy by the though police or whatever.....
this was just dumb and insulting to a group of young women who didn't ask for it.
yeah, free speech is a sacrament, but if you say something idiotic, don't while when you're called on it. . |
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| texile |
correction:
don't WHINE when you're called on it... |
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