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Dismissal Caps Week Of Uproar Over Radio Host's Comments About Rutgers Women's Basketball Team
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- Come on CBS - don't show the same cowardice as MSNBC - have the backbone not to bow to the pressures of Bruce, Sharpton and Jackson. These are people who have supported child molesters and libelous accusations of rape, only because the defendant or accuser was black.
You know Don Imus is not a racist - you hired a "shock jock" - if you wanted an a** kisser, you picked the wrong guy. - Reply to this comment
- Imus does step over the line...and some might feel a bit too often. Although I personally feel he is not a racist or misogynist, having him speak in such a manner just helps to fuel the acceptability of the true racists and bigots in our country.
Firing him, however, would be inappropriate --- and I disagree with MSNBC's position in this matter.
A dismissal by CBS RADIO throws away the platform for both IMUS and the media to show that there has been a true change in attitudes in this country.
We have little hope of attaining true racial harmony if the only solution implemented is to " throw away" the offender---there are just too many of them for this to be a viable choice.
Throwing away the problem DOES NOT FIX IT --- "FIXING IT" fixes it !
The true opportunity is to retain IMUS (after suspension) and let a revised show format be demonstration of a correction of attitudes.
I find that every adversity faced in life, whether it is created by chance or our own making, sets the stage for us to come out a better person at the other end. Whether or not Don's job is been lost over this situation, he has been given a great chance to rise to greater heights in his personal life and career.
Regards,
Pat LaRocca (Charlotte, NC) - Reply to this comment
- The bottom line is CBS will fire him. He'll either go on to bigger and better things or retire will all his money. Jackson & Sharpton will continue to incite racial wars.
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- It is a critical time to think of how one's actions in the media can affect so many lives. How much longer are we going to allow people to degrade women and other races, cultures, and ethnicities. People will always judge others and have their own beliefs as to others, but seriously, do we need to blast it all over the media? I understand that we as Americans have 'free speech'; however, do we not need to lash out (physically or verbally) at others just because they are different. Different how? Color, age, ***, race, culture, socio-economic, mental capabilities; does the list need to go on. We are born looking darker or lighter, skinner, fatter, prettier, uglier, wealthier, poorer than others. However, this does not give someone the right to call names. He says he is sorry, but is he really sorry. Or is he just sorry that he got caught and is in trouble. No one knows his heart. We live in a society where there are reprocussions to certain actions. He must face his. He has abused his priviledges in the media to hurt others. This can not go unpunished. If it does, what are we telling our children? It is OK to hurt others. NO! "RACISM IS STILL ALIVE. THEY JUST BE CONCEILING IT."
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- Sharpton and Jackson are idiots also...but this is about Imus...FIRE HIM !
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- Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.
Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be big enough men to apologize to these innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.
I won't be holding my breath.
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- Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.
Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be big enough men to apologize to these innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.
I won't be holding my breath.
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- Hey Sharpton, check out the top 10 urban hits of the radio waves this week. Ban Imus? Give me a break! These hoodlum heroes speak ever so eloquently about smacking woman, pimping this and that, and dropping the 'N' word ever other second. You probably look past that when you were in the sympathy line this morning at Rutgers University. You might want to review their IPODS for the same track I just spoke about...remember the urban top 10! But hey, I'm just going off on a limb here.
Only in America folks...Only in America! - Reply to this comment
- I watched the major news feeds early this morning and think it's amusing how the media frames this non-event as headline news. What about the war on the ________ (fill in the blank)
Imus needs to stop kissing *** and get on with his life. I don't agree with what he said and think it will kill his relationship with the networks.
These people, the media, have no soul.
Power to the Watch Dogs, down with the lap dogs. - Reply to this comment
- This is not a Jackson and/or Sharpton issue. This is an Imus issue. If this an issue of being "such" a man for his apology. Then let him be a man and take his punishment.
Posted by pkwilliams4 at 10:13 AM : Apr 12, 2007
Are you for real? Of course it's a Sharpton/Jackson issue...they made this issue. - Reply to this comment
- Will Jesse Jackson apologize to the Duke lacrosse players?
Will Sharpton and Jackson now go after the makers of almost every video by a black male artist who depict women as "ho"s on a daily basis to the youth of this country?
My parents taught me that old saying about sticks and stones. This country has gotten too PC and too thin skinned. Be nice to everyone, apologize when you aren't, and get over it. - Reply to this comment
- This is not a Jackson and/or Sharpton issue. This is an Imus issue. If this an issue of being "such" a man for his apology. Then let him be a man and take his punishment.
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- To be perfectly honest, the fact that the major instigators of this mess are Sharpton and Jackson leave me with exasperation beyond belief. While white folks are rolling their eyes - yes, they are, these two bigots are literally depriving poor black (and sick) children of a devoted humanitarian. There is no other single human being who has done more charity work for the ill without regard to the color of their skin. This is absolutely ridiculous. At the same time I'm hearing the bashing of Imus on all major networks, I scanned both Comedy Central and BET, and lo and behold, I get a dose of hos and *** simulating s&m on one channel and Carlos Mencia and Dave Chappelle spewing hate and bigotry on the other. ***?!!!
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- Of course Jackson won't back down from supporting the Duke accuser. He proved that last night. He's a media Ho as is Sharpton.
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- Don Imus was a big enough man to apologize.
Will Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton will be big enough men to apologize to these innocent Duke boys for the false accusations and presumptions they stirred up in Durham, NC.
I won't be holding my breath.
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- I can't wait til Southpark jumps on this. THAT will be quality tv.
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- Please, there is such a double standard here. If anyone else of a different race other than white had said something like this there would be no such uproar as there is with Imus. I am NOT a fan of Imus and never will be but he apologized and has been suspended not to mention he met with that sharpton guy and will be meeting with the womans basketball team that he offended. It should be enough with all he has done and will soon do. Besides, who is Jesse jackson to hold someone to a moral standard when he cheated on his wife and got another woman pregnant and that sharpton guy just creeps me out. I can't explain it but he just does.
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- DO NOT FIRE IMUS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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