should imus be fired?

#1

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent ... 7cbf3.html

my own opinion....he should be canned.

#2

Not just Ya.... HELL YA!!

CAN that SOBs sorry white ass....
He's given the rest of us a bad rap!

#3

Um, I wouldn't pay that slurring dullard to be on the mic, but if someone else wants to, I won't stop them from wasting money.

He didn't do anything wrong, ya know.

I swear people act like they are so sensitive they would break in half if they had to sit through half an episode of the Jeffersons.

weakness is a poor disguise for the human soul.

#4

should I take that personally? lmao

btw - loved all in the family and the jefferson's both.

the old saying comes to mind... something to the effect that you should love the sinner but hate the sin... In this case, it's not so much that he sinned... I just don't care much for him as a person... I'm not personally offended by what he said - hell it wasn't directed towards me so how could I be.... but I think he is a dumb ass for saying it...and I don't like stupid people.

#5

QUOTEHe didn't do anything wrong, ya know.

He didn't do anything wrong? He was racist and called them ho's. I think there is something definitely wrong with that.

He should be canned

#6

QUOTE(trashtalkr @ Apr 10 2007, 03:02 PM) He didn't do anything wrong? He was racist and called them ho's. I think there is something definitely wrong with that.

He should be canned

Ok, for one, I usually listen to talk radio, and I had him on in the car when he first said it (cause there was a temple game, and I was away from philly talk radio.)

I heard how he said, and I heard what he said around it.

what he conveyed was there was two girl teams, and what he said was in deferrence to Spike Lee's movie School Daze, something which is clear from the FULL context of the conversation.

In particular, School Daze features:
Throughout the film, hair weave-wearing African American women of the Gamma Rays (a women's auxiliary to the Gamma Phi Gamma fraternity) battle it out with their, Afro-headed fellow co-eds. The students at Mission College also battle with the local unemployed and uneducated people living around the campus, who resent the Mission students for taking all of the good jobs. (synopsis direct from wikipedia)

this is what he was talking about. How the Rutgers girls were not just not as "Gamma" but how they got tattoos and and they were a tougher group of girls.

He might as well said "wooo- they got some bad b!tches on the rutgers line-up, them girls got war wounds and battle cries."

That being said, Imus is not a racist. Nappy is not racist. Ho is not racist. Imus is not a racist, he's an outdated jive talker. He has been, and he will be, a marblemouthed dullard.

#7

why would you fire someone for making you money.... I'm sure the rating will go up after this.... At worst his comment were demeaning to women but they weren't racial.... And I noticed that alot of people are voicing their opinions but havent even heard the broadcast.... Have you listened to it? If so, you would know that all the racial slurs came out of his producers chitty mouth, Imus just had bad timing.... 'Shock Jock'

Lost Ghost · #8

But the fact of the matter is....when it comes to instances like this....people don't listen to the whole story....and if you need the whole story to justify what you were talking about....then you should have thought about it before you said it.

Shit I could walk into a crowded street and talk about how I love niggers and they're the best thing in the world.....is anyone gonna care that I was singing their praises? or just beat my ass for using the word?

As Stalker said....out of context or not....he should be fired for saying something of the sort on the radio....

shit like that...whether from a movie or not...needs to be kept in private thought and personal conversation.

Fire him.

#9

Two Sides to Imus Story?

Monday, April 09, 2007

By Mike Straka

Radio jock Don Imus' comments last week regarding the Rutgers women's basketball team were deplorable, there's no arguing that.

However, the notion that he should quit or be fired over those remarks is questionable.

While I'm not defending Imus for comments ” not worth repeating here ” during a segment on his radio show, I am a little confused over the outrage coming from the likes of the Rev. Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and several more who want the man fired, including The National Association of Black Journalists.

Sure, the above-mentioned individuals and groups have spoken out against gangsta-rap stars and the record labels that profit from such "art" ” where rap stars refer to women as much worse on a regular basis in music marketed to impressionable young consumers ” they never persist to the point where they say Snoop Dog or Diddy or Jay-Z or Russell Simmons should be fired.

Never. And why is that?

And notice how most of the ire about the Imus incident is directed at Imus himself, and not his longtime radio producer Bernard McGuirk. Is that because McGuirk ” when he went on to call the game "jigaboos versus the wannabes" ” was quoting from Spike Lee's "School Daze," and any uproar directed at McGuirk would be an indictment on one of the country's leading black directors?

Imus might be a loud-mouthed jerk ” and he most certainly should be punished with either a fine or a suspension, or both ” but to be fired would be such a double standard as to only be described as reverse racism.

Sharpton, on his radio show Monday, commented in his opening monologue that what makes Imus' remarks even more deplorable is the fact that he said them on a "mainstream" radio program that features the likes of senators, presidential candidates and evening news anchors.

Is that to suggest that Don Imus should be more responsible than a rap artist or the people who profit from rap music that prominently features mysogynistic lyrics?

For Imus' part, he appeared on Sharpton's radio show Monday, and did not try to defend his remarks. He admitted that what he said was not funny and was wrong.

Sharpton told him to his face that he should be fired. Maybe he should be, but let's face the real facts here. The only thing that will get Imus fired is a decline in ratings, and thus a decline in advertiser revenue for both MSNBC and WFAN radio, the CBS-owned station that produces his daily program.

And until the marketing and proliferation of hate ceases to be profitable, its purveyors will stay employed and in the lap of financial luxury for many more years to come.

It's only a matter of time before Howard Stern's porn stars and lipstick lesbians make their way back to terrestrial radio, as the raucous duo of Opie and Anthony have done after they were banished to unregulated satellite radio airwaves only to make a triumphant (read: profitable) return recently.

To wit, some of the funniest moments in both of the above-mentioned shows are the ones that push the envelope right up to that tipping point, where you can't believe your ears.

The irony is hate is entertaining. It's funny, and Imus has made a long, successful career from it. It's been a long time since the world of big media was Mr. Roger's neighborhood.

And I'm not talking about Eddie Murphy's racy (and racist) "Saturday Night Live" take on that neighborhood either. Then again, his was much funnier, wasn't it?

#10

All I wanna know is who the fuck made Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson the official spokespersons for black folk..? How come everytime some racial shit go down, kids is running to these men for some kinda validation..?

I didn't hear the broadcast, but I really doubt he said it in an racially charged way...He he said it to be insulting, that's one thing...Simply saying it though, please get this man off the cross before I puke...

At any rate...He called them nappy headed hoez, when really they are nappy headed dykes...So yeah, for fucking it up like that, he should be canned...