The hypocritical fallout continues. On NPR this morning they said that Barak Obama made a show of giving back a few thousand donated by a source connected to Imus while keeping David Geffin's 1.5 million despite the fact that he produces some of the rappers like Snoop who write stuff that is way more offensive to black women.
I always thought Imus was a dick, but I am pretty brainwashed by Howard Stern's stories about him, I didn't listen to his show. His use of his ranch as a non profit institution may be the next scandal that awaits him. Judy made the distinction about his target of specific young women and I agree that this was in a different category of scum than calling all women "hos" Imus called his own wife a "Green Ho" for her environmental work. It was a feeble attempt for an old man to seem hip, adapting language that he couldn't pull off. But I heard the basketball stars speak and I was struck by how far out of line he was. These payers are role models and they didn't deserve to have their triumph get tarnished by this whole mess. They sounded like they will overcome this nonsense handily. The weird thing is that Imus had already pulled off an impressive switch from Shock Jock to interviewer of significant people in society. If he hadn't let his frat boy roots show he could have had a fantastic and significant career in his twilight. Now he will never be able to resurrect that part of his gig, anything he does will be the boisterous braying of a kegger party. I want to see how long it takes for his young wife to abandon ship since he f'ed up her book gig. With black slang terms saturating our culture, and a very strong knee jerk chain reaction in place, I don't think much good is going to come of this mess. It just ensures that no politician can have any serious dialog in the minefield of race, just as has been the fate of legalizing drugs and other social issues that have gone under the no talk rule. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "authfriend" <jstein@> wrote: > > > > --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > <snip> > > > They get to act like > > > "good guys" for dumping Imus, but they started look- > > > ing for another Big Mouth With An Attitude to replace > > > him even before they made the announcement that he > > > was fired. > > > > And your evidence for this is...? > > Actually, as it turns out, they're seriously > considering a sports show to replace Imus in > that time slot. They've already put one in > temporarily that's normally on in the afternoon > and are looking to put together another one to > fill the morning slot permanently. > > So much for looking at the situation from France... > > All this is on the Web, BTW, if you really wanted > to know what you were talking about. >
