Great Article from Jason Whitlock on the Imus situation- check it out...
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
http://www.kansascity.com/182/story/66339.html
Great article on Imus situation
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Could not have said it better. Yet when a white guy comes off saying these things. he is a bigot, racist. I am glad that someone in the black community has said it perfectly.
BTW why in the hell does this get so much attention. I mean come on guys, look at how many threads have been dedicated to this.
U would think that 9-11 had happened all over again. I could care less what people say.
I care more about what they DO.
BTW why in the hell does this get so much attention. I mean come on guys, look at how many threads have been dedicated to this.
U would think that 9-11 had happened all over again. I could care less what people say.
I care more about what they DO.
The strange thing about this whole fiasco is that i have heard Bernard (from the show) say ten times worse stuff then what everyone is crying about now.
Thanks for posting this Dr.Fade. When Jason was on The Sports Reporters, I did not agree with anything he said. He hit a home run with this article.
close to 1000 posts on his column at their paper, 95% seem positive ... loved the article, sending it to some of my players and many pals
MSNBC drops Imus simulcast By DAVID CRARY, AP National Writer
7 minutes ago
NEW YORK - MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning" radio program, responding to growing outrage about the radio host's racial slur against the Rutgers women's basketball team.
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"This decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process, which initially included the announcement of a suspension. It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees," NBC news said in a statement.
Talk-show host Don Imus triggered the uproar on his April 4 show, when he referred to the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." His comments have been widely denounced by civil rights and women's groups.
The decision does not affect Imus' nationally syndicated radio show, and the ultimate decision on the fate of that program will rest with executives at CBS Corp. In a statement, CBS reiterated that Imus will be suspended without pay for two weeks beginning on Monday, and that CBS Radio "will continue to speak with all concerned parties and monitor the situation closely."
MSNBC's action came after a growing list of sponsors ? including American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp. ? said they were pulling ads from Imus' show for the indefinite future.
NBC News President Steve Capus said he made the decision after reading thousands of e-mails and having countless discussions with NBC workers and the public, but he denied the potential loss of advertising dollars had anything to do with it.
"I take no joy in this. It's not a particularly happy moment, but it needed to happen," he said. "I can't ignore the fact that there is a very long list of inappropriate comments, of inappropriate banter, and it has to stop."
NBC's decision came at a time when Imus' program on MSNBC was doing better competitively than it ever has been. For the first three months of the year, its audience was nearly identical to CNN's, leading CNN to replace its morning news team last week.
Calls for Imus' firing from the radio portion of the program have intensified during the past week, and remained strong even after MSNBC's announcment. The show originates from WFAN-AM in New York City and is syndicated nationally by Westwood One, both of which are managed by CBS Corp. MSNBC, which had been simulcasting the show, is a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
Bruce Gordon, former head of the NAACP and a director of CBS Corp., said before MSNBC's decision Wednesday he hoped the broadcasting company would "make the smart decision" by firing Imus.
"He's crossed the line, he's violated our community," Gordon said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He needs to face the consequence of that violation."
Gordon, a longtime telecommunications executive, stepped down in March after 19 months as head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the foremost U.S. civil rights organizations.
He said he had spoken with CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves and hoped the company, after reviewing the situation, would fire Imus rather than let him return to the air at the end of his suspension.
"We should have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to what I see as irresponsible, racist behavior," Gordon said. "The Imus comments go beyond humor. Maybe he thought it was funny, but that's not what occurred."
A CBS spokesman, Dana McClintock, declined comment on the remarks by Gordon, who is one of at least two minorities on the 13-member board.
The 10 members of the Rutgers team spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about the on-air comments, made the day after the team lost the NCAA championship game to Tennessee. Some of them wiped away tears as their coach, C. Vivian Stringer, criticized Imus for "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, abominable and unconscionable."
The women, eight of whom are black, agreed to meet with Imus privately and hear his explanation. They held back from saying whether they'd accept Imus' apologies or passing judgment on whether a two-week suspension imposed by CBS Radio and MSNBC was sufficient.
Stringer said late Wednesday that she did not call for Imus' firing, but was pleased with the decision by NBC executives.
She said the meeting with Imus was never designed to call for his removal but to give the women on the team the opportunity to meet with him and for him to see the people he had so publicly hurt.
"The young ladies and I needed to put a face behind the remarks... He needs to know who these young ladies were that he hurt," Stringer said.
Imus has apologized repeatedly for his comments. He said Tuesday he hadn't been thinking when making a joke that went "way too far." He also said that those who called for his firing without knowing him, his philanthropic work or what his show was about would be making an "ill-informed" choice.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said in New York that he would put pressure on CBS but that the issue was larger than Imus.
"I think we also have to have now a broad discussion on how the music industry allows this to be used," Sharpton said. "I don't think that we should stop at NBC, and I don't think we should stop at Imus."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he planned to meet with CBS and NBC executives on Thursday with a delegation of other civil rights activists and lawmakers to discuss the Imus situation and diversity in broadcasting.
"Imus is on 1,040 hours a week and yet they have virtually no black show hosts. That is true for other networks as well," Jackson said. "We must raise the ethical standard for all of them."
At the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J., about 300 students and faculty rallied earlier in the day to cheer for their team, which lost in the national championship game, and add their voices to the crescendo of calls for Imus' ouster. One of the speakers was Chidimma Acholonu, president of the campus chapter of the NAACP.
"This is not a battle against one man. This is a battle against a way of thought," she said. "Don Imus does not understand the power of his words, so it is our responsibility to remind him."
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Associated Press writers David Bauder, Samantha Gross and Seth Sutel in New York and Rebecca Santana in New Brunswick, N.J., contributed to this report.
(A previous version of this story had the word 'are' in a quote from Rutgers' basketball coach. It should have been 'were.')
7 minutes ago
NEW YORK - MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning" radio program, responding to growing outrage about the radio host's racial slur against the Rutgers women's basketball team.
ADVERTISEMENT
"This decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process, which initially included the announcement of a suspension. It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees," NBC news said in a statement.
Talk-show host Don Imus triggered the uproar on his April 4 show, when he referred to the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." His comments have been widely denounced by civil rights and women's groups.
The decision does not affect Imus' nationally syndicated radio show, and the ultimate decision on the fate of that program will rest with executives at CBS Corp. In a statement, CBS reiterated that Imus will be suspended without pay for two weeks beginning on Monday, and that CBS Radio "will continue to speak with all concerned parties and monitor the situation closely."
MSNBC's action came after a growing list of sponsors ? including American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp. ? said they were pulling ads from Imus' show for the indefinite future.
NBC News President Steve Capus said he made the decision after reading thousands of e-mails and having countless discussions with NBC workers and the public, but he denied the potential loss of advertising dollars had anything to do with it.
"I take no joy in this. It's not a particularly happy moment, but it needed to happen," he said. "I can't ignore the fact that there is a very long list of inappropriate comments, of inappropriate banter, and it has to stop."
NBC's decision came at a time when Imus' program on MSNBC was doing better competitively than it ever has been. For the first three months of the year, its audience was nearly identical to CNN's, leading CNN to replace its morning news team last week.
Calls for Imus' firing from the radio portion of the program have intensified during the past week, and remained strong even after MSNBC's announcment. The show originates from WFAN-AM in New York City and is syndicated nationally by Westwood One, both of which are managed by CBS Corp. MSNBC, which had been simulcasting the show, is a unit of General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.
Bruce Gordon, former head of the NAACP and a director of CBS Corp., said before MSNBC's decision Wednesday he hoped the broadcasting company would "make the smart decision" by firing Imus.
"He's crossed the line, he's violated our community," Gordon said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press. "He needs to face the consequence of that violation."
Gordon, a longtime telecommunications executive, stepped down in March after 19 months as head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, one of the foremost U.S. civil rights organizations.
He said he had spoken with CBS chief executive Leslie Moonves and hoped the company, after reviewing the situation, would fire Imus rather than let him return to the air at the end of his suspension.
"We should have a zero tolerance policy when it comes to what I see as irresponsible, racist behavior," Gordon said. "The Imus comments go beyond humor. Maybe he thought it was funny, but that's not what occurred."
A CBS spokesman, Dana McClintock, declined comment on the remarks by Gordon, who is one of at least two minorities on the 13-member board.
The 10 members of the Rutgers team spoke publicly for the first time Tuesday about the on-air comments, made the day after the team lost the NCAA championship game to Tennessee. Some of them wiped away tears as their coach, C. Vivian Stringer, criticized Imus for "racist and sexist remarks that are deplorable, despicable, abominable and unconscionable."
The women, eight of whom are black, agreed to meet with Imus privately and hear his explanation. They held back from saying whether they'd accept Imus' apologies or passing judgment on whether a two-week suspension imposed by CBS Radio and MSNBC was sufficient.
Stringer said late Wednesday that she did not call for Imus' firing, but was pleased with the decision by NBC executives.
She said the meeting with Imus was never designed to call for his removal but to give the women on the team the opportunity to meet with him and for him to see the people he had so publicly hurt.
"The young ladies and I needed to put a face behind the remarks... He needs to know who these young ladies were that he hurt," Stringer said.
Imus has apologized repeatedly for his comments. He said Tuesday he hadn't been thinking when making a joke that went "way too far." He also said that those who called for his firing without knowing him, his philanthropic work or what his show was about would be making an "ill-informed" choice.
The Rev. Al Sharpton said in New York that he would put pressure on CBS but that the issue was larger than Imus.
"I think we also have to have now a broad discussion on how the music industry allows this to be used," Sharpton said. "I don't think that we should stop at NBC, and I don't think we should stop at Imus."
The Rev. Jesse Jackson said he planned to meet with CBS and NBC executives on Thursday with a delegation of other civil rights activists and lawmakers to discuss the Imus situation and diversity in broadcasting.
"Imus is on 1,040 hours a week and yet they have virtually no black show hosts. That is true for other networks as well," Jackson said. "We must raise the ethical standard for all of them."
At the Rutgers campus in New Brunswick, N.J., about 300 students and faculty rallied earlier in the day to cheer for their team, which lost in the national championship game, and add their voices to the crescendo of calls for Imus' ouster. One of the speakers was Chidimma Acholonu, president of the campus chapter of the NAACP.
"This is not a battle against one man. This is a battle against a way of thought," she said. "Don Imus does not understand the power of his words, so it is our responsibility to remind him."
___
Associated Press writers David Bauder, Samantha Gross and Seth Sutel in New York and Rebecca Santana in New Brunswick, N.J., contributed to this report.
(A previous version of this story had the word 'are' in a quote from Rutgers' basketball coach. It should have been 'were.')
Well, at least it kept Iraq out of the news for a day or two. Great article by Whitlock.
Now he gets canned by MSNBC- what a joke.
Now he gets canned by MSNBC- what a joke.
Ever heard of this warning?
"You have the right to remain silent. Anything you say can and will be used against you in a court of law. You have the right to an attorney. If you cannot afford an attorney, one will be provided for you."
2:34 min clip of Whitlock on "Today Show" today
5 min video of Whitlock discussing this with Sharpton on CNN this morning. Sharpton pretty much tries to ignore him.
Whitlock appears next on ?Oprah? Monday.
getting some exposure from this article!
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Two cheers for Don Imus
by Roger Kimball at the New Criterion:
La Rochefoucauld famously said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. There is something to that, not least because a little hypocrisy, judiciously applied, can do wonders to lubricate the machinery of our social--which of course is also the stage of our moral--life. I wrote a brief "defense of hypocrisy" a few years back for The Wall Street Journal in which I noted that
hypocrisy, among all the vices, is regarded with particular disdain and horror by egalitarians. A hypocrite publicly upholds noble values and standards of behavior even though he knows he may sometimes fall short of the conduct they require. He does this because he recognizes that those values are worthy of support and commendation even if he cannot always embody them.
Even a good thing can be over done, however, and the cataract of fetid, self-righteous hypocrisy that has engulfed talk radio host Don Imus has been particularly nauseating. Imus, as all the world knows, was raked over the coals and then fired from his show at CBS because he referred to the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
Now, your mother probably would not approve of your calling anyone a "nappy-headed ho," and your mother would of course be right. Gentlemen and ladies do not use such language. But radio talk show hosts do, all the time. Nevertheless Leslie Moonves of CBS is on record as saying
"I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air about the young women who represented Rutgers University . . . with such class, energy and talent."
I don't believe for one minute that Moonves was "deeply upset" by Imus's comments (though he should be at least a little upset by using pseudo-words like "revulsed") any more than I believe that the Rutger's team captain when she told Oprah Winfrey that Imus's comment "stole our moment of joy." That's mere politically correct pretense--hypocrisy in one of its less attractive allotropes.
Now I have to admit that I cannot claim deep acquaintance with Imus's show. But on information and belief I am willing to assert that he said things at least that rude on the average of 87 times per day. "For years," a Reuters news story reports,
Imus has insulted blacks, Jews, Arabs, gays, Catholics and women. In December 2004, he referred to publishers of the book "The Christmas Thief" as "thieving Jews." He later said the phrase "thieving Jews" was redundant.
In other words, irreverence is Imus stock in trade. So why pick on him now? Because his comment this time was racially tinged? If so, what was really offensive? I suspect it was less "hos"--rap- or gutter-speak for "whore"--than "nappy-headed." But if so, what does that tell us? After all, every self-respecting rap "artist" uses far more objectionable language on every mind-numbing cacophonous track he records. The invaluable Michelle Malkin went through the top six rap "songs" reprinting their lyrics and posting links to their accompanying videoes on her web site: it's enough, if I may so put it, to curl your hair.
But where, Malkin asks, is the outrage over this agglomeration of sub-literate misogynistic garbage?
Al Sharpton, I am sure, is ready to call a press conference with the National Organization for Women to jointly protest this garbage and protest the radio stations and big pimpin' music companies behind it.
Well, no. But Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are ready to call a hundred press conferences and accuse everybody in sight of racism whenever they think they can get away with it. And apparently they can always get away with it. Remember the Tawana Brawley case? A fifteen-year-old black girl claimed to have been raped by six white men. It turned out to have been a total fabrication--shades of the Duke lacrosse scandal--but Sharpton, who championed Brawley, somehow emerged from the circus as a serious politician, or at least a politician whom other politicians take seriously. Sharpton and Jackson are masters of the racial shakedown, and corporations big and small live in fear that they will find themselves on the wrong side of their traveling minstrel show of recrimination and politically correct blackmail.
I don't have much time for vulgarians like Don Imus. But I am ready to give him if not three then at least two cheers. His brand of irreverence is not everyone's cup of tea. But the idea that he should be pilloried and hounded out of his job because Sharpton and Jackson managed to whip up a frenzied, racially-inspired campaign against him is nothing less than disgusting.
5 min video of Whitlock discussing this with Sharpton on CNN this morning. Sharpton pretty much tries to ignore him.
Whitlock appears next on ?Oprah? Monday.
getting some exposure from this article!
................
Two cheers for Don Imus
by Roger Kimball at the New Criterion:
La Rochefoucauld famously said that hypocrisy is the tribute that vice pays to virtue. There is something to that, not least because a little hypocrisy, judiciously applied, can do wonders to lubricate the machinery of our social--which of course is also the stage of our moral--life. I wrote a brief "defense of hypocrisy" a few years back for The Wall Street Journal in which I noted that
hypocrisy, among all the vices, is regarded with particular disdain and horror by egalitarians. A hypocrite publicly upholds noble values and standards of behavior even though he knows he may sometimes fall short of the conduct they require. He does this because he recognizes that those values are worthy of support and commendation even if he cannot always embody them.
Even a good thing can be over done, however, and the cataract of fetid, self-righteous hypocrisy that has engulfed talk radio host Don Imus has been particularly nauseating. Imus, as all the world knows, was raked over the coals and then fired from his show at CBS because he referred to the mostly black Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos."
Now, your mother probably would not approve of your calling anyone a "nappy-headed ho," and your mother would of course be right. Gentlemen and ladies do not use such language. But radio talk show hosts do, all the time. Nevertheless Leslie Moonves of CBS is on record as saying
"I believe all of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air about the young women who represented Rutgers University . . . with such class, energy and talent."
I don't believe for one minute that Moonves was "deeply upset" by Imus's comments (though he should be at least a little upset by using pseudo-words like "revulsed") any more than I believe that the Rutger's team captain when she told Oprah Winfrey that Imus's comment "stole our moment of joy." That's mere politically correct pretense--hypocrisy in one of its less attractive allotropes.
Now I have to admit that I cannot claim deep acquaintance with Imus's show. But on information and belief I am willing to assert that he said things at least that rude on the average of 87 times per day. "For years," a Reuters news story reports,
Imus has insulted blacks, Jews, Arabs, gays, Catholics and women. In December 2004, he referred to publishers of the book "The Christmas Thief" as "thieving Jews." He later said the phrase "thieving Jews" was redundant.
In other words, irreverence is Imus stock in trade. So why pick on him now? Because his comment this time was racially tinged? If so, what was really offensive? I suspect it was less "hos"--rap- or gutter-speak for "whore"--than "nappy-headed." But if so, what does that tell us? After all, every self-respecting rap "artist" uses far more objectionable language on every mind-numbing cacophonous track he records. The invaluable Michelle Malkin went through the top six rap "songs" reprinting their lyrics and posting links to their accompanying videoes on her web site: it's enough, if I may so put it, to curl your hair.
But where, Malkin asks, is the outrage over this agglomeration of sub-literate misogynistic garbage?
Al Sharpton, I am sure, is ready to call a press conference with the National Organization for Women to jointly protest this garbage and protest the radio stations and big pimpin' music companies behind it.
Well, no. But Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are ready to call a hundred press conferences and accuse everybody in sight of racism whenever they think they can get away with it. And apparently they can always get away with it. Remember the Tawana Brawley case? A fifteen-year-old black girl claimed to have been raped by six white men. It turned out to have been a total fabrication--shades of the Duke lacrosse scandal--but Sharpton, who championed Brawley, somehow emerged from the circus as a serious politician, or at least a politician whom other politicians take seriously. Sharpton and Jackson are masters of the racial shakedown, and corporations big and small live in fear that they will find themselves on the wrong side of their traveling minstrel show of recrimination and politically correct blackmail.
I don't have much time for vulgarians like Don Imus. But I am ready to give him if not three then at least two cheers. His brand of irreverence is not everyone's cup of tea. But the idea that he should be pilloried and hounded out of his job because Sharpton and Jackson managed to whip up a frenzied, racially-inspired campaign against him is nothing less than disgusting.
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