<p>Imus is a bad boy racist who personally hurt people’s feelings and he should be fired–or worse.</p>
<p>Fine. We’ll leave it at that.</p>
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Imus is a washed up old coot. </p>
<p>Now Obama is demanding that Imus be fired, even though he’s been a guest on his show in the past. Nothing like riding the media wave when it will take you in the right direction! I guess the past Imus history of racist, anti-Catholic, and assorted hate filled, humorless rants was O.K.</p>
<p>SS - actually rappers didn’t invent the word or make it originally popular. Everything I’m pulling up on the origin of the word states it came from a popular Southern pronunciation of the word wh*re.</p>
<p>You and hh are begin disingenuous about my point. Don Imus didn’t call the Rutger’s team ‘hos’ because he is a habitual listener of rap music…rap music didn’t MAKE him do anything. He chose to use the word because he thought it was funny to demean them with racially charged slurs. And people who think racially charged slurs are funny…are…racist.</p>
<p>Amiri Baraka, NJ’s former poet laureate, has had his “poetry” set to music. Rather specific insults here:</p>
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<p>^ where’s the profanity and name calling? That’s more of a political commentary …and I daresay politicians are fair game.</p>
<p>Last night my husband asked me what “ho” meant. Cross my heart. Of course, he’s not from the South. :)</p>
<p>Oh some on, Idmom. I’m almost 50 years old, I went to school in Newark, NJ, and never heard the word “ho” before it was introduced by the rap world. It was popularized by rappers. </p>
<p>The issue at hand is very much tied into the outlandish disrespect shown toward women in the rap world. Imus is a racist jerk, but he would not have come up with the word “ho” to insult the girls if it was not an accepted, widely used term in the rap lexicon. And maybe the painful experience the team has had to endure will actually bring some serious, thoughtful discussion about why our culture has become so coarsened that this is the world in which young women are forced to navigate.</p>
<p>$12.7 million in advertising revenue for the New York station alone.</p>
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Peanuts. He’s been on the way out for a long time. I already thought he’d been shown the door.</p>
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Well, ask the ex-wife and mother of Marshall Mathers, aka Eminem, about harsh lyrics aimed at private citizens. Being called a “ho” would have been tame when compared to the graphic references on The Marshall Mathers LP in songs such as “Kill You” and “Kim.” They portrayed extremely violent abuse against women in general and contained a line about him raping his own mother and another about slitting his ex-wife’s throat as he shouts, “Bleed, B***h, Bleed.”</p>
<p>FIRED:
According to NBC news, Don Imus has just been fired by MSNBC.</p>
<p>Don Imus has been an equal opportunity sophmoric offender for 40 some years. Making fun of personal appearance is a staple of the show’s humor and primary amongst the targets for ridicule by the participants on the show are himself (wrinkled up old prune, embalmed years ago but just doesn’t realize it, how does your wife react when the two of you go out and people tell her how nice she is to spend quality time with her grandfather, etc.) and his producer, Bernard (bald headed stooge). </p>
<p>His shtick really hasn’t changed much in all that time - maybe less sexual references. He has always been unPC in the extreme.</p>
<p>NOBODY who goes on that show can claim ignorance of its content. For example any mention of Ted Kennedy has for decades it seems been accompanied by a screaming women, the sound of a car crash, and glub, glub, glub. While I don’t think Ted himself has gone on the show, other Kennedy’s do.</p>
<p>Rev. AL is no stranger to the show. Neither is Obama, or Hillary, or Bill, or Kerry, or Bush Sr., or Chis Mathews, or Anna Quindlen, or Frank Rich, or Jeff Greenfield, Kinky Friedman, Guiliani, Chris Dodd, McCain, James Carville, Trump, Lupica, Pat O’brien, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Mike Barnacle, Dan Rather, etc. etc. etc. Anyone who has been a repeat guest on that show who NOW says they will no longer do so is a disingenuous hypocrite at best.</p>
<p>He has offended anyone and everyone for years. Never have I ever seen him back down. What is different this time? But…</p>
<p>1) Usually, there is some “voice of reason” on the show who redirects the insults AT Imus when a line is crossed or almost crossed, calls Imus a hypocrite, and labels the statements uncalled for and over the line of acceptable humor. Imus or whomever then backtracks and apologizes on the spot and is savaged by the others for the next part of the show. It does not appear that happened this time.
2) It appears that Imus did not distinguish between local college female athletes in an NCAA championship game and pseudo-professional non student male football and basketball players on their national stage. The latter probably would have been considered fair game while the former clearly wasn’t.
3) I don’t really think his intent was any different than those who when looking at the Eastern block female Olympic athletes referred to them them by the masculine of their given names, etc. He turned on the game - God knows why - and what he noticed was that he thought the Tennessee players were a lot prettier than the Rutgers ones. Therein lies the problem.
Because while I do not think he was being racist at all, was I think he was being is little better. </p>
<p>If you were one of the Rutgers players, even if you believed him, how would this fly with you: </p>
<p>“I didn’t viciously ridicule you personally on national airwaves because you are black women. No, No, No. I viciously ridiculed you personally on national airwaves because I think you are ugly women.”</p>
<p>Not very far I would think.</p>
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Hillary has a statement out that says, among other things, she has never appeared on the show. Which makes me wonder what else in this list is in error. </p>
<p>I’ve never listened to Imus and I’ve only listened to Limbaugh and Stern as little as possible when I was “trapped” someplace it was on. I admit to having listened–very seldom–to Ann Coulter and Bill O’Reilley, mainly with morbid fascination until I can’t take it any more, usually less than five minutes.</p>
<p>^^Another liberal poster who gets his news from only unbiased sources.</p>
<p>I listened to Imus in the car on the way to work six years ago–at the height of his “political power.” Not sure about Hillary or Bill, but sure about Rich and ALL- -ALL the others. These people have major egg on their faces.</p>
<p>Watch them squirm to get out of their embarrassment. Very amusing.</p>
<p>It seems that Hillary has been on the show, at least in “spirit”. :)</p>
<p><a href=“http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250001[/url]”>http://mediamatters.org/items/200605250001</a></p>
<p>As I recall, Bill Clinton has been on Imus, then Imus spoke at the Washington Correspondent’s Dinner and flamed Clinton for his sexual escapades and Imus became personal non grata with the Clinton crowd</p>
<p>Other pols who frequent Imus have included: Harold Ford Jr, John MacCain.
John Kerry, Chris Dodd, John Edwards, Mitt Romney to name a few</p>
<p>Yes, Imus brought up Harold Ford, Jr. in his latest "some of my best friends are…’ defense.</p>
<p>I think this blew up more than other things because we’re all pretty sick and tired of all this stuff - sexist language, racist remarks, even nasty remarks if one is not a conservative or liberal. (hint hint)
ok, maybe I’m dreaming but ya never know.</p>
<p>lots of personal insults, if not names used, in ealier rap music. the whole east-west thing at one time, Biggy and Tupac, 50 cent and Ja Rule, Oprah and Trump.</p>
<p>Just bought Rutgers sweatshirt online - and, will proudly wear it!</p>