Tuesday - April 10, 2007

Imus On Defense Against Full Court Press

Blah-blah-blah-blah-blah. So what can you say on talk radio and what can you not say? Hmmm? For the record let me state that (a) I don’t listen to Don Imus’ radio show except for an occasional interview, and (b) anybody who gets Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson this mad at them gets my vote.

Me ...  racist? Not on your life, sweetie. I judge people by their character, not by their color. Neither do I think Imus is racist. So what is all this kerfuffle about? It’s about playing the race card to blackmail a media personality and further stifle free speech. Only liberals are allowed to talk like this (and much worse).

Do I think Imus’ remarks were inappropriate? Probably so ... but is that cause for a public lynching? His radio show is known for being pretty raw at times (which is why I’m not a regular listener) but not nearly as raw as Howard Stern, Al Franken and others who get away with much worse every day.

I’m still waiting for Al Sharpton to apologize for Tawana Brawley and Jesse Jackson to apologize for Karin Stanford. Let he who is without sin cast the first ... you-know-what. Is it just possible that Sharpton and Jackson, two Christian “reverends”, have forgotten that part about “forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us”?

NBC and CBS are gutless wusses as far as I can see. Suspending Imus for two weeks and groveling before the Race Warlords Jackson and Sharpton is somewhat disingenuous considering some of the trash those networks let through on the airwaves (Reference: Dan Rather, Kinkos).

Imus has apologized repeatedly for his remarks and they still want his head. Why? Sound off, people. What say you about this mess ... ?

Don Imus Suspended Over Racial Remarks
(NY TIMES) - April 9, 2007

The radio talk show host Don Imus was suspended for two weeks yesterday after the outcry over his racially disparaging remarks about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team.

NBC News, which does a simulcast broadcast of Mr. Imus’s radio program on its cable news channel MSNBC, was the first to act, suspending Mr. Imus and calling his comments “racist and abhorrent.” A short time later, CBS Radio, which is his chief employer, followed, saying it, too, would take Mr. Imus, 66, off the air for two weeks.

NBC also served notice yesterday that it would not tolerate insensitive remarks in the future. Mr. Imus had promised to change the tenor of the show, NBC said in a statement, and had agreed that the suspension was appropriate.

“Our future relationship with Imus is contingent on his ability to live up to his word,” NBC said. CBS made no statement other than that it was suspending Mr. Imus, who has been the host of “Imus in the Morning” for more than 30 years. MSNBC will replace Mr. Imus’s program with news coverage. CBS was undecided about how it would fill the time.

The actions came at the end of a day of intensifying pressure on Mr. Imus from black leaders, who expressed outrage at his description last Wednesday of the Rutgers team as “nappy-headed ho’s.”

Mr. Imus tried to stave off calls for his resignation by appearing yesterday on a syndicated radio program that has the Rev. Al Sharpton as its host and making a more complete apology for what he said were “repugnant, repulsive, and horrible” comments.

But his job still appeared to be in jeopardy, with Mr. Sharpton and other black leaders calling for Mr. Imus to be fired, threatening to initiate a boycott of sponsors and demanding that the Federal Communications Commission take action against him and radio stations that carry his program.

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