Bye Bye Don

[plexibass]

Yeah, that's exactly what I'm saying.



This is America, you have a right to say what you want, liberals do, conservatives do, non political ones, KKK members, everyone.



Liberty doesn't just mean allowing the stuff you agree with or like, that's the easy part. The hard part is defending liberty when you disagree with it.

agree 100%. i hate don imus, i'm a stern fan. but i will support him 100% in his free speech. all this has done is give jackson and sharpton a platform to stand on and be on the news. everyone in this country is a racist to some extent. with those 2 idiots cackling their bs it is just going to make mateers a whole lot worse. mark my words.

 

[Diggler]

Remember, if race relations become just peachy, Al and Jesse are out of a job.

They don't want everyone to get along. The more wedges they can drive, the better.

 

[Joe Nerve]

Sharpton is starting to really boil my blood. He is the biggest racist I've ever seen, and he only fuels hatred. These guys preach love (or whatever the hell they preach) and practice hate. Imus said something really stupid and innapropriate. Sharpton gets on his rabble rousing podium, all hell breaks lose, the guy loses his jobs, the radio and TV station take a huge hit. All because Sharpton wants to HELP the african american community.

Why isn't he all over gangsta rap then, why isn't he all over the hip-hop magazines with craploads of gun advertisements that I see kids in my highschool reading, why isn't he going after any of the black DJs that pound out tons of racist black and white hating sexist masogonistic abusive evil crap. Nope, go after IMUS's one dumbass goof that he even apologized for. IMUS is what causes all the problems. Give ma a break. I'm surprised so many people are with these guys on their decisions.

 

[Vandelay]

They were within their rights, true.

We just have to be careful to not criminalize thought or speech, no matter how repugnant.

I that it's very important to protect freedom of speech. But no one's suggested that Imus be charged with a crime. And if they did, I'd be right there (with the ACLU, probably) supporting him. He has an absolute right to say whatever he wants on a public street corner, but he doesn't have an absolute right to get paid for speaking on a commercial radio station.

 

[burk48237]

What are the six people who were regularly listeners going to do now?

The utter hypocrisy of the MSNBC folks who waited in line to be on his show and give analysis is certainly worth a giggle.

He won't be missed but I agree with digglers comments about free speech. As long as we can hear gangsta rap on MTV and Sharpton and Jackson are still given podiums despite their far more offensive ACTIONStheir will still exist a huge double standard between free speech and the "protected classes" Imus should have been fired ages ago for being irrelevant.

I really do hope the Duke three sue the paints off of Jackson and Sharpton, their statements were despicable and they were commenting about non public figures too.

 

[Diggler]

THIS guy has the racism thing down!

 

[Joe Nerve]

Diggler, your avatar disturbs me.

 

[gkbass13]

this thread got a little out of line IMO.

sure, Imus has the right to feel or say whatever he wants, but to say somethign like that on the radio and on television is rediculous. and his show did very well actualy, if it didnt he wouldnt have had monster sponsors like GM, Sprint, etc..

and in regards to hsi statement about a good person doing a bad thing, hsi charity is such a hoax...he works the hell out of sick kids in order to maintain a multi million dollar estate that happens to be his home but is recognized as a charitable thing...must be convenient for him.

 

[Embryodead]

Anyone who defends blatant racism as free speech is a fool. The Bill of Rights is over 200 years old. We need to complete the "1984" movement that George Bush started (sarcasm)

 

[rushfan73]

Has everyone forgotten all TV's/radios have a kick ass new feature on them called an on/off switch, and a dial. If you don't like what you are seeing/hearing you CAN change it...try it some time.

 

[Lesfunk]

In England "Nappy Headed" would mean wearing a diaper on one's head.

 

[Vandelay]

More quotes from Imus:
http://www.slate.com/id/2163872/

On blacks:
"William Cohen, the Mandingo deal." (Former Defense Secretary Cohen's wife is African-American.)

"Wasn't in a woodpile, was he?" (Responding to news that former black militant H. Rap Brown, subsequently known as Abdullah Al-Amin, was found hiding in a shed in Alabama after exchanging gunfire with police. Imus is here alluding to the expression "n----- in the woodpile.")

"Knuckle-dragging moron." (Description of basketball player Patrick Ewing.)

"We all have 12-inch penises." (After being asked what he has in common with Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Latrell Sprewell from the New York Knicks, and Al Sharpton.)

"Chest-thumping pimps." (Description of the New York Knicks.)

"Isn’t the (New York) Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” (Reference to journalist Gwen Ifill, possibly out of pique that she wouldn't appear on his show.


On Jews:
"I tried to put it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could understand."

"Boner-nosed … beanie-wearing Jewboy." (Description of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a frequent guest.)

On Native Americans:
"The guy from F-Troop, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell." (This is a reference to the zany Indian characters on the 1960s TV sitcom F-Troop. They had names like "Roaring Chicken," "Crazy Cat," and "Chief Wild Eagle.")

On Japanese:
"Old Kabuki's in a coma and the market's going up. […] How old is the boy? The battery's running down on that boy." (Reference to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who died the following week.)

On gays:
"I didn't know that Allan Bloom was coming in from the back end." (The homosexuality of the author of The Closing of the American Mind)

On the handicapped:
"Janet Reno's having a press conference. Ms. Reno, of course, has Parkinson's disease, has a noticeable tremor. […] I don't know how she gets that lipstick on (laughter) looking like a rodeo clown."

Yeah, I think it was past time for him to go.

 

[Diggler]

Anyone who defends blatant racism as free speech is a fool. The Bill of Rights is over 200 years old. We need to complete the "1984" movement that George Bush started (sarcasm)

That should be sarcasm.

Liberties have been under attack long, LONG before this administration.

Google "project eschelon" and carnivore. And there were many more even before that.

 

[Gard]

What are the six people who were regularly listeners going to do now?

The utter hypocrisy of the MSNBC folks who waited in line to be on his show and give analysis is certainly worth a giggle.

He won't be missed but I agree with digglers comments about free speech. As long as we can hear gangsta rap on MTV and Sharpton and Jackson are still given podiums despite their far more offensive ACTIONStheir will still exist a huge double standard between free speech and the "protected classes" Imus should have been fired ages ago for being irrelevant.

I really do hope the Duke three sue the paints off of Jackson and Sharpton, their statements were despicable and they were commenting about non public figures too.

...I'm stunned...I'm agreeing with BOTH Diggler and Burk?!?!?!?







I think Imus is a tool, just like Stern, and getting paid to be a jack@$$ on the radio is just insane...neither would be missed in my universe.

...however, people like Sharpton and Jackson actually CAUSE racisim with their rhetoric.

I hope, like Burk says above, that not only do the Duke students sue the pants off both of these morons that are doing more to hurt "Black America" than any "KKK/Aryan Nation" moron, but that they nail Duke for essentially labeling them "guilty until proven innocent", get that jack@$$ Nifong for every penny he has, and what about having the woman that falsely accused them charged with filing a false police report (and why didn't Tawana Brawley get that charge? )....

I really get boiling over people that take advantage of the system, because they end up harming those the system is supposed to protect! I'm not a fan of the kids in question, anymore than I am of Imus, they're jerks, but I AM a HUGE fan of the Constitution of The United States of America, and when it is so flagrantly ignored and disrespected, particularly by those that are given the job of upholding and protecting it (Nifong).

Now, instead of the "downtrodden" being given the benefit of the doubt in a situation like this, everyone will look at the next person, who quite likely will have a genuine issue (like actually being raped), and remember what has happened in this and the Brawley case, and immedately find them to be lying.

This kind of stuff really hurts those that need to be protected by the law, and all to stuff the pockets of people like Sharpton & Jackson (anyone think they live in the same neighborhood as those they are "defending"? HYPOCRITES!).

I won't even start talking about the whole "gangsta culture" garbage and how it is OK for a rapper to call a black woman a "nappy ho"....racisim runs in both directions...whoops, I just did...

 

[Diggler]

...I'm stunned...I'm agreeing with BOTH Diggler and Burk?!?!?!?

See? There's hope for you yet!

 

[IotaNet]

I case nobody knows, the word "Ho" means "Whore."

"Nappy headed whores"
"Stringy Headed whores"
"Bald headed whores"

No matter how you preface it, calling those young women Whores was way out of line.

As someone pointed out, the First Amendment guarantees him the right to say whatever he wants to say. It doesn't however, guaranteee him that advertisers will continue to support his show or that networks will continue to employ him.

No different than most of us -- I'm sure that we all have jobs from which we will get fired for saying things that are allowed by the First Amendment.

 

[RWP]

Nifong keeps his job and Imus looses his? Strange world we live in.

 

[Vandelay]

Nifong keeps his job and Imus looses his? Strange world we live in.

Actually, the odds are good that Nifong's going to be disbarred and charged with prosecutorial misconduct.

 

[jkritchey]

More quotes from Imus:
http://www.slate.com/id/2163872/

On blacks:
"William Cohen, the Mandingo deal." (Former Defense Secretary Cohen's wife is African-American.)

"Wasn't in a woodpile, was he?" (Responding to news that former black militant H. Rap Brown, subsequently known as Abdullah Al-Amin, was found hiding in a shed in Alabama after exchanging gunfire with police. Imus is here alluding to the expression "n----- in the woodpile.")

"Knuckle-dragging moron." (Description of basketball player Patrick Ewing.)

"We all have 12-inch penises." (After being asked what he has in common with Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Minister Louis Farrakhan, Latrell Sprewell from the New York Knicks, and Al Sharpton.)

"Chest-thumping pimps." (Description of the New York Knicks.)

"Isn’t the (New York) Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” (Reference to journalist Gwen Ifill, possibly out of pique that she wouldn't appear on his show.


On Jews:
"I tried to put it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could understand."

"Boner-nosed … beanie-wearing Jewboy." (Description of Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a frequent guest.)

On Native Americans:
"The guy from F-Troop, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell." (This is a reference to the zany Indian characters on the 1960s TV sitcom F-Troop. They had names like "Roaring Chicken," "Crazy Cat," and "Chief Wild Eagle.")

On Japanese:
"Old Kabuki's in a coma and the market's going up. […] How old is the boy? The battery's running down on that boy." (Reference to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who died the following week.)

On gays:
"I didn't know that Allan Bloom was coming in from the back end." (The homosexuality of the author of The Closing of the American Mind)

On the handicapped:
"Janet Reno's having a press conference. Ms. Reno, of course, has Parkinson's disease, has a noticeable tremor. […] I don't know how she gets that lipstick on (laughter) looking like a rodeo clown."

Yeah, I think it was past time for him to go.

<snort> Sorry, I laughed, I'm going to hell....

 

[bassturtle]

Sharpton is starting to really boil my blood. He is the biggest racist I've ever seen, and he only fuels hatred. These guys preach love (or whatever the hell they preach) and practice hate. Imus said something really stupid and innapropriate. Sharpton gets on his rabble rousing podium, all hell breaks lose, the guy loses his jobs, the radio and TV station take a huge hit. All because Sharpton wants to HELP the african american community.

Why isn't he all over gangsta rap then, why isn't he all over the hip-hop magazines with craploads of gun advertisements that I see kids in my highschool reading, why isn't he going after any of the black DJs that pound out tons of racist black and white hating sexist masogonistic abusive evil crap. Nope, go after IMUS's one dumbass goof that he even apologized for. IMUS is what causes all the problems. Give ma a break. I'm surprised so many people are with these guys on their decisions.

You and I have never seen eye to eye, but I couldn't agree with you more. Great post.