Re: Keep Imus on - sign up

[Milhouse Van Houten <none@xxxxxxxxx>]

Jim wrote:

>On Apr 13, 11:42?am, J.           <jsloud2001<removeme>@netscape.net>
>wrote:
>> On Fri, 13 Apr 2007 02:40:48 -0500, Milhouse Van Houten
>>
>> <n...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> >http://www.petitiononline.com/KeepImus/petition.html
>>
>> Way too late for this. he advertisers have spoken.
BS and MSNBC
>> are driven by profits and nothing else. hey couldn't care less what
>> Don Imus said.
>>
>> On a slightly different subject, I'm still waiting on a apology from
>> Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and the rest of the race-card playing
>> hypocrites about the lying nappy-headed-ho who falsely accused three
>> Duke students of rape and ruined any chance for them to live normal
>> lives.
>
>During all of this, ( which I don't really care if Imus is fired or
>not but do think that if it's all right for blacks to denigrate their
>race, then theres no reason why anyone else should be restricted from
>doing it) it did cause me to wonder if  calling Sharpton a straight
>haired Ho, would cause any controversy. But then I thought probably
>not, because it's an accurate description.
>
>Then I thought that this whole thing with Imus is really only about
>the fact that he called them Ho's. Because they do, in fact, have
>nappy hair. I presume that had he called them nappy haired women or
>wimps or whatever, he'd still have his job. So it was all about the
>word ...... Ho. Which is a word made up by blacks refering black
>women.
>
>So then this whole thing is really kind of strange considering that it
>all stems from what blacks have propagated or have allowed to be
>propagated by people of the black race ( mostly the Rap music group)
>about their own race. Which you don't hear much objection to from the
>black community. But they object to a white person who makes an off
>hand reference using their words and references that would have been
>overlooked had it been said by a black person. I think thats called
>bigotry and prejudice ..... isn't it?


Exactly.

Someone posted this article on another NG, and it is right on.  It's
authored by Pat Buchanan, whom I hardly ever agree with.

"The Imus lynch party"
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article55179.html

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The Imus lynch party
Posted: April 13, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the end, it was not about Imus. It was about us.

Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped
for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person
could associate, he was thrown off the air?

Cards on the table.

This writer works for MSNBC, has been on the Imus show scores of
times, watches Imus every morning, and likes the show, the music and
the guys: the I-Man, Bernie, Charles and Tom Bowman.

And Imus is among the best interviewers in our business. Not only does
he read and follow the news closely, he listens and probes as well as
any interviewer in America. Because he is a comic, people mistake how
good a questioner he is.

Is "Imus in the Morning" outrageous? Over the top at times? Are things
said every week, if not every day, where you say, "He's going too
far"? Yeah. But outrageousness is part of the show, whether the skits
are of "Teddy Kennedy," "Reverend Falwell," "Mayor Nagin" or "The
Cardinal."

And when Imus called the Rutgers women's basketball team "tattooed ...
nappy-headed hos," he went over the top. The women deserved an
apology. There was no cause, no call to use those terms. As Ann
Coulter said, they were not fair game.

But Imus did apologize, again and again and again.

And lest we forget, these are athletes in their prime, the same age as
young women in Iraq. They are not 5-year-old girls, and they are
capable of brushing off an ignorant comment by a talk-show host who
does not know them, or anything about them.

Who, after all, believed the slur was true? No one.

Compare, if you will, what was done to them ? a single nasty insult ?
to the savage slanders for weeks on end of the Duke lacrosse team and
the three players accused by a lying stripper of having gang-raped her
at a frat party.

Duke faculty and talking heads took that occasion to vent their venom
toward all white "jocks" on college campuses. Where are the demands
for apologies from the talk-show hosts, guests, Duke faculty members
and smear artists, all of whom bought into the lies about those Duke
kids ? because the lies comported with their hateful view of America?

And hate is what this is all about.

While the remarks of Imus and Bernie about the Rutgers women were
indefensible, they were more unthinking and stupid than vicious and
malicious. But malice is the right word to describe the howls for
their show to be canceled and them to be driven from the airwaves ? by
phonies who endlessly prattle about the First Amendment.

The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw.

What was the term the I-Man used? It was "hos," slang for whores, a
term employed ad infinitum et ad nauseam by rap and hip-hop "artists."
It is a term out of the African-American community. Yet, if any of a
hundred rap singers has lost his contract or been driven from the
airwaves for using it, maybe someone can tell me about it.

If the word "hos" is a filthy insult to decent black women, and it is,
why are hip-hop artists and rap singers who use it incessantly not
pariahs in the black community? Why would black politicians hobnob
with them? Why are there no boycotts of the advertisers of the radio
stations that play their degrading music?

Answer: The issue here is not the word Imus used. The issue is who
Imus is ? a white man, who used a term about black women only black
folks are permitted to use with impunity and immunity.

Whatever Imus' sins, no one deserves to have Al Sharpton ? hero of the
Tawana Brawley hoax, resolute defender of the fake rape charge against
half a dozen innocent guys, which ruined lives ? sit in moral judgment
upon them.

"It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a
broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of
the airwaves," says Sharpton. It says something about America that
someone with Al's track record can claim the role of national censor.

Who is next? And why do we take it?

I did a bad thing, but I am not a bad person, says Imus. Indeed,
whoever used his microphone to do more good for more people ? be they
the cancer kids of Imus Ranch, the families of Iraq war dead now more
justly compensated because of the I-Man or the cause of a cure for
autism?

"We know of no spectacle so ridiculous as the British public in one of
its periodic fits of morality," said Lord Macaulay. Unfortunately,
Macaulay never saw the likes of the Revs. Sharpton and Jackson.

Imus threw himself on the mercy of the court of elite opinion ? and
that court, pandering to the mob, lynched him. Yet, for all his sins,
he was a better man than the lot of them rejoicing at the foot of the
cottonwood tree.

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