Imus on WILD-AM Today

[rapking]

Imus is on THE SORRY ROUTE, LIKE MR KRAMMER . http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMUS_PROTESTS?SITE=7219&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2007-04-08-21-43-24

[Infidel]

How long before Jesse Jackson and Al Not-so-sharpton are on the scene?  Oh wait, they're already there 

[Infidel]

I didn't hear anyone complain when Imus was talking about different methods of capital punishment that could be used on Rumsfeld, Bush, Cheney et al.

[lilburncommunityradio]

You wont hear any static over anything to do with bush.. But when you make a comment that was in humor only about anything to do with someone's hair, (Knappy Head) then the world will end then.

[Finn]

Making fun of those in power is often funny and sometimes a public service if they are misbehaving. 

Making fun of those at the bottom of the food chain is bullying.  A lot of bullies think what they are doing is funny.  A lot of wannabe-bullies think bullies are funny, especially if the target is one rung down from where the wannabe is.  Which is usually the way it plays out.

Can't you see the difference? 

For example, I (and many other liberals) were appalled by Clinton's behavior and were glad when he got publically spanked.  Did I think it should have been turned into an impeachment hearing and suck up millions of tax dollars and divert our attention away from Al Quada?  No.  But, I was glad that he got spanked.

Making fun of women basketball players who have tight curly hair comes off as mean to anyone who isn't trying to claw their way up the food chain.  And, those who engage in that behavior should get backhanded by society just like Clinton was backhanded for his bad behavior.

Have we no standards?

An apology isn't enough, by the way.  Imus should actually do something to show he's serious - go spend some time with nappy-headed teenage boys who don't have fathers.  Maybe they'll all learn how to be men together (instead of bullies).  And stop calling nappy-headed women basketball players vile and disgusting names and learn to respect themselves enough not to stoop to that level.

It's not about censorship.  It's about right and wrong.

[rapking]

You wont hear any static over anything to do with bush.. But when you make a comment that was in humor only about anything to do with someone's hair, (Knappy Head) then the world will end then.

It not the Nappy head comment , It the Ho thing got me P off . Look at that Pic of Imus, He is part of the Nappy Head Crew ( Or Wannabee Nappy Head ) . These Young ladies are in College , Playing Basketball, and Living The American Dream . Why would anyone want to rip these ladies apart for what they are doing ? If anyone of these ladies was your daughter , How would you feel about" Old Imus "Comments ?

[Johnster]

From watching the replay on TV of him first making the comment I think what he was trying to do was imitate the way he thought   "the brothers" might be describing the team as if he was one of them... I don't think he was trying to put them down I think it was just the opposite. He was trying to make them sound Badd Ass!
What I think he did was make the fatal mistake that many white performers seem to make over and over again (radio, comedian, TV etc.). And that is to forget that they are not black! Trying to use the same kind of talk (n-word, bitches, hoe's etc.) without that being the fact changes the whole context by removing the obvious sarcasm to the racism. These are completely prejudicial and racist statements to begin with. But when a black person is using this language it obviously sarcastic and therefore can be funny. There is no presumption of this when it is used by anyone other race. He's not the first idiot to make this mistake but the facts are still the same. I don't think he was trying to be a racist but by not seeing the problem in the first place still shows that he is insensitive to what he did. He is at-least immediately apologizing which is all he can really do at this point.

Lesson for White people (myself included..) we are not black. Don't pretend all wounds are healed or that we have any idea of how it feels to be black. We don't. Racism hurts... The fact that black people have gotten to the point that they can joke about by using these terms doesn't mean that it implies the same thing at all when we use them. It doesn't.

[KWUM]

I am not at all shocked that "talk fossil" imus , would denigrate the courageous Black female athletes of Rutgers with his blatant racist remarks along with his producer bernard mcGuirk... BOTH, without question, need to be fired...
Anything less sends a message that racist hate speech is promoted and accepted.. This is NOT the first time imus was sited for racist remarks on his program...I doubt both of these vermin would be fired because talk radio is infested with disgruntled white (mostly irish) bigots from Oreilly, Hannity, to Imus, McGiurk,Callahan, on and on.
Its the good ole white boy sanctuary..WTKK is in fact a nest of racist white vipers from
eg Jay severin going unchallenged repeated referring to mexcians as "--------",  now the lame Imus show refering to Black Female college althletes as "jigaboos".. Where is the outrage?
 The silent condenmation only emboldens these vermin.
These bigots follow the same "mea culpa" patterns:
They spew racist hate speech and sputter the  familiar " I made a mistake I was "insensitive"....
followed by the ooh so familiar "some of my best friends as black" excuse.. Witnessed today,as the pathetic imus cowardly  tried to defend his outrageous racism by declaring "I supported Harold Ford" and I have black kids with sickle cell anemia at my ranch"//.... Oh how mighty white of ya imus ... *pukes*
The fact that these racist vermin are nonetheless supported by advertisers and listeners and allowed to continue to pollute the amerikkkan radio stations is only further proof of how much america needs to progress..

[Neanderpaul]

This is the most press Imus has had since he wrote "God's Other Son"...and it's working.

The more attention paid, the longer the career. The comments were no worse than what's said on Sunday night primetime TV on Fox. If it were to be ignored, it would go away. Apologies won't retract the statement. Firing him won't make it go away. What's done is done. Now it's a matter of keeping his name in the press.

When was the last time anyone talked about Don Imus?

[SonicAl]

true.. when WAS the last time? Thing is they've been doing this schtick for years. I have soundbites from the show in the 90s that could be construed as just as offensive, including the original version of "The First Lady Is A Tramp," sung by "Rush Limbaugh"... And Imus refers to Bernie as a "bald headed nazi" all the time--and Bernie's character certainly fits that role (by character, I mean the on-air character he's portraying... I mean, it IS a character, correct? 

it'll bring out the standard response... African-American groups and activists will speak out against it, others will say people are too "PC" and take potshots at Jackson and Sharpton.. and on and on it goes

that shouldn't be taken to mean I find it acceptable... just laying out the typical cycle.