"Nappy headed ho"? Sorry Imus, you gotta go...

[Devastatin Dave]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102007...avid_k__li.htm
I don't know how many of you are following this story, but I've been hearing a lot of "Well, he has the right to say what he wants, first ammendment, blah, blah, blah". Well, its time people start paying for their actions. Sorry, a 2 week suspension and a weak apology is not enough. Now the guy is trying to sound like the victim. I actually agree with the poverty pimp himself, Al Sharpton, that Imus needs to be canned. Whats your opinion?

[Odin]

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04102007...avid_k__li.htm
I don't know how many of you are following this story, but I've been hearing a lot of "Well, he has the right to say what he wants, first ammendment, blah, blah, blah". Well, its time people start paying for their actions. Sorry, a 2 week suspension and a weak apology is not enough. Now the guy is trying to sound like the victim. I actually agree with the poverty pimp himself, Al Sharpton, that Imus needs to be canned. Whats your opinion?

If the logic were applied equally I would agree but thats hardly the case. Imus shouldnt be fired, just like 50cents shouldnt be sued/penalized everytime he calls someone a ho either.

[Vladimir]

If the logic were applied equally I would agree but thats hardly the case. Imus shouldnt be fired, just like 50cents shouldnt be sued/penalized everytime he calls someone a ho either.

When will white people ever learn?

[Odin]

When will white people ever learn?

Why dont you enlighten us Vladimir

[Adrian II]

My offer to come over and shoot Al Sharpton still stands.

[Vladimir]

Why dont you enlighten us Vladimir

Well my good deity I thought it was self-evident. You wouldn't have a race baiter like Sharpton going after Dave Chapell for the same thing. Of course, Dave is actually funny and worth watching.

[Odin]

Well my good deity I thought it was self-evident. You wouldn't have a race baiter like Sharpton going after Dave Chapell for the same thing. Of course, Dave is actually funny and worth watching.

I made an assumption of what you meant, but as I spend more and more time in the backroom assumptions are never safe here.

[Lemur]

It really is a strange bit of business. I don't think Imus should be insulting black women, but it's hard to get angry at him and him alone; the rap business was partially built on insulting and degrading black women, and you don't hear them apologizing. Nor do you hear anyone calling upon them to do so.

As for Sharpton, if you ever catch yourself agreeing with him, just dunk your head in cold water. He never apologized for the race-baiting Tawana Brawley episode, in which he was deeply involved. That was a heck of a lot more hateful than doddering old Imus grumbling about "hos."

If he gets fired the world will keep on turning, and free speech will still be free. It's not really a big deal.

[English assassin]

Is it just me or are these shock jocks not shocking? "Nappy headed ho" isn't shocking, its just insulting. There is a difference.

Even as an insult its not exactly Shakespeare.

[KukriKhan]

Looks like the show's advertisers are starting to bail out, and local radio & TV stations are dropping their presentations of the show.

Maybe he'll be able to get a job doing voice-overs for Home Depot gardening equipment (hoes, for example), or a carpeting company - where knap is an issue.

[Gregoshi]

Maybe he'll be able to get a job doing voice-overs for...a carpeting company - where knap is an issue.

That would be appropriate since many want to see him called to the carpet.

[Lemur]

Colbert has a good riff on the controversy. Clicky the linkie before Viacom sues the source out of existence. Anybody else notice how Colbert and Daily Show stuff is vanishing off the net? Anybody else notice how godawful Comedy Central's video service is?

[Devastatin Dave]

Looks like the show's advertisers are starting to bail out, and local radio & TV stations are dropping their presentations of the show.

Maybe he'll be able to get a job doing voice-overs for Home Depot gardening equipment (hoes, for example), or a carpeting company - where knap is an issue.

Maybe voice overs for Napster as well...

[KukriKhan]

Woo-Hoo, Dave joining in the pun fun.

Now MSNBC is dropping Mr Imus from its TV simulcast. Things are turning kinda grim for Donnie.

I wonder if SIRIUS will offer him a job, maybe as an opening act for Howard Stern. They both stimulate my involuntary yuck reflex.

I dimly remember his radio show on (then) "underground" FM radio from Cleveland - we could get it on clear days in Detroit. He was sort of funny back then, and played good music - the stuff you didn't hear on Top 40 AM radio.

[TevashSzat]

I was watching comedy central show today and the daily show as well as the colvert report did some wonderful parodies on this situation.

[Devastatin Dave]

Hahaha!!! One less Liberal on the radio!!! No Air America, no Imus, now its time to wait for Rosie to open her mouth and say something to get canned.

[Lemur]

I was watching comedy central show today and the daily show as well as the colvert report did some wonderful parodies on this situation.

Yah, I posted a link to the video in post #39. Comedy Central's video interface is so nasty, I felt I had to do something for those who might want to see it.

DevDave, was Imus considered a liberal? I never got into his show, so I'm sort of in the dark.