Don Imus, 2 week suspension too short or too long?
#1
04-11-2007, 07:16 AM
Don Imus, 2 week suspension too short or too long?
I know many drivers listen to the news and talk radio, so this has been the subject of many conversations. Do you think it was blown out of proportion? Two weeks suspension is about right? or Do you think he should be fired?
#2
04-11-2007, 08:52 AM
One thing to note on this subject is that you hear worse being said about women in Rap music. It troubles me that people like Al Sharpton pick and choose what is offensive to the black community or any community for that matter. Of course the problem was that a white guy uttered these words but it still seems like hypocrisy. I don't listen to Don imus and could really not give a monkeys' nuts what happens to him.
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#3
04-11-2007, 09:31 AM
I think it was blown way out of proportion. I hear kids of all color and race saying "Nappy Hair" all the time. It's the new hip phrase. The problem that Big Al has with it is because a white person used a phrase that was started by a black person. Had you or I said the same thing on the street, might have gotten us shot at worst and nothing else. Big Al is just using this as a way to get attention because it was a big time name that used it. I'm still confused as to why he and his buddy Jesse Jackson didn't string up Michael Richards. They claimed it was because he was a hack and not worth their time, yet Imus is??
#4
04-11-2007, 10:28 AM
Imus doesn't have the luxury of having Robin Quivers sitting next to him like some other talk radio host.
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#6
04-11-2007, 11:48 AM
dont listen to Imus but even as a black man myself i wasnt offended :? i thought it was kinda funny myself :lol:
#7
04-11-2007, 01:53 PM
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Don Imus is as irrelevant as Opie and Anthony.
Who cares? :roll:
#8
04-11-2007, 02:08 PM
How quickly people forget the past!!
October 2003:
"I think what we've had here is a little social concern in the NFL. The media has been very desirous that a black quarterback do well," [Rush] Limbaugh said. "There is a little hope invested in [Donovan] McNabb, and he got a lot of credit for the performance of this team that he didn't deserve. The defense carried this team."
Limbaugh did not back down during his syndicated radio talk show Wednesday. He reiterated that he does not think McNabb is a bad player, just that he isn't as good as some members of the media think he is. "This is such a mountain out of a molehill," he said. "There's no racism here, there's no racist intent whatsoever." "All this has become the tempest that it is because I must have been right about something," he said. "If I wasn't right there wouldn't be this cacophony of outrage that has sprung up in the sports writer community." Rush lost his post on ESPN NFL Countdown over the comment. It's history repeating itself! Al Sharpton needs to open a can of shut the hell up all over himself. This isn't news. This is reverse-racism.
#9
04-11-2007, 10:11 PM
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Don Imus is as irrelevant as Opie and Anthony.
Who cares? :roll: You can't compare Imus to O&A and this has nothing to do with O&A so why bring them into this? Imus was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989. In 2002, Talkers magazine ranked Imus as one of the greatest radio talk show hosts of all time. His show was simulcast on MSNBC from 1996 until it was canceled yesterday. I know you like to think Howard is the man but Imus was doing the radio thing when Howard, Rush, Hannity and O&A were in diapers. :roll:
#10
04-12-2007, 12:50 AM
Originally Posted by ben45750
Originally Posted by Rev.Vassago
Don Imus is as irrelevant as Opie and Anthony.
Who cares? :roll: You can't compare Imus to O&A and this has nothing to do with O&A so why bring them into this?
Imus was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame in 1989.
In 2002, Talkers magazine ranked Imus as one of the greatest radio talk show hosts of all time.
His show was simulcast on MSNBC from 1996 until it was canceled yesterday.
I know you like to think Howard is the man but Imus was doing the radio thing when Howard, Rush, Hannity and O&A were in diapers. :roll:
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