I hear you, my friend. Some days, when you just get the feeling that conventional means just aren't getting the job done, extremism is in order.
Reece Jennings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I didn't read your whole post. Gotta go move my mom. I say kill him, and if he comes back in two weeks, he can have his show back... Extreme? Well, I'm gettin' a little tired...never mind. You know where this is going! Want a scholarship into the Millionaire Mind Intensive worth $2590? <http://www.secretsofthemillionairemind.com/a/?wid=399929> http://www.secretsofthemillionairemind.com/a/?wid=399929 _____ From: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 7:00 AM To: scifinoir2@yahoogroups.com Subject: [scifinoir2] OT: Imus Gets Two Week Suspension Basically, Imus gets to take a vacation. Big deal. I guarantee you the friendship, support, and possibly even future business deals he'll get from this will more than offset the loss of two weeks' pay. Glen Beck--another person whose existence in media I question--has already done the "Common, he's sorry, enough already" thing. Comments I've heard from others, like some of the the ignorant stalwarts at my job, show me the Limbaugh crowd feels Imus is being unfairly attacked for a bad (but funny, I'm sure) joke. The more people like Sharpton clamor for his firing, the more such people rally around him. But that's America in all its glorious diversity: you have the right to remain ignorant, so help you God. I think the real lesson to be learned here is that racism, ignorance, bigotry--call it what it is--is alive and well. As we struggle with issues of the new millennium such as gay rights, immigration, religion, American relations with Islamic countries, the shrinking dominan ce of the white man in culture, expect to hear more junk like this. Those used to being in power just can't handle the changes in our world. I am proud that Sharpton and others stayed on this, that they handled it with aplomb, and I'm *really* glad that Sharpton now has a radio show where he can respectfully but firmly take people like Imus to task. No longer just a guy who marches and protests to gain attention, Sharpton can in a small way use his radio and TV presence to combat the ultra-conservative/racist guys who've dominated for so long. We certainly aren't going to be able to get the Imus' and Limbaugh's fired anytime soon, but by taking them on from a position of confidence and savy, I think we can at least get some companies to think more about their blind support of the fools. Imus has said things as bad if not worse in the past, and nothing was done. So while I think his racist friends will ultimately help him out, I also think the protests force stations like MSNBC and halfway intelligent people to at least distance themselves, so that it's clear exactly what kind of people continue to support Imus and his ilk. ***************************** Imus Gets Two Week Suspension Don Imus gets paid a bundle for opening his big mouth on a daily basis. Now, he's desperately trying to extricate his foot from said orifice to save his job. So far it's working. Following a flurry of on-air apologies from the shock jock Monday, CBS Radio and MSNBC announced they were suspending Imus for two weeks effective Apr. 16 for his comments last week referring to Rutgers University's predominantly African-American women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos." The companies stopped short at terminating the popular host, whose Imus in the Morning radio show is syndicated nationally by CBS Radio and simulcast on MSNBC. "Our continued relationship with Imus is contingent on his ability to live up to his word," MSNBC said in a statement, citing Imus' mea culpa as the reason he was not terminated. CBS Radio declined comment beyond explaining that Imus' show will be allowed to continue for the rest of this week due to previously scheduled fundraisers for Thursday and Friday. For his part, Imus told listeners that the controversy taught him to measure his remarks more carefully. "Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of somebody, because some people don't deserve it," he said. "Because the climate on this program has been what it's been for 30 years doesn't mean it's going to be what it's been for the next five years or whatever because that has to change, and I understand that." Imus explained away his statements by saying he was only "trying to be funny" last Wednesday during a conversation with producer Bernard McGuirk about the women's college basketball finals, which Rutgers lost to the University of Tennessee the day before. "That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus quipped to McGuirk. "Man, they got tattoos." To which the producer added, "Some hard-core hos." "That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus replied. On Monday, Imus said he regretted his words. "I'm not a bad person, I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice," he said. The outspoken radio personality pointed to his charitable work founding the Imus Ranch for Sick Children on his cattle ranch in New Mexico, noting that he works with children of many races and ethnicities."I'm not a white man who doesn't know any African-Americans," he continued. Also on Monday, Imus appeared as a guest on the Reverend Al Sharpton's radio show hoping to do further damage control. Sharpton has been one of Imus' most vocal critics, calling on Imus' corporate bosses at CBS Radio to give him the boot for his "diabolical" and "racist" remarks. "Our agenda is to be funny and sometimes we go too far. And this time we went way too far," Imus told Sharpton. "This is not about whether you're a good man," Sharpton responded. "What you said was racist." After further questioning, a clearly aggravated Imus said he can't win with "you people," a remark that annoyed Sharpton, who suggested that the radio provocateur expected to "walk away from this unscathed." That prompted a tart response from Imus: "How am I unscathed by this? Don't you think I'm humiliated?" Taking a page from the Michael Richards playbook, Imus said he hoped to meet personally with the Rutgers basketball players, their parents and their coaches and make amends. Before the suspension was announced, the National Association of Black Journalists and the NAACP stepped up calls for a boycott of Imus' show, while the Reverend Jesse Jackson and 50 sign-wielding protesters gathered outside NBC's Chicago headquarters on Monday, demanding Imus' ouster. It remains to be seen whether CBS Radio and MSNBC's move will quell all the critics. In Los Angeles, community activists led by Project Islamic Hope are still scheduled a rally at noon Tuesday in front of the offices of CBS Radio, urging the company to "pull the plug" for good on Imus' program. "We have rejected his apology and are demanding he be fired," the group's head, Najee Ali, told E! Online. "We've heard racist comments from Mel Gibson, who's apologized, homophobic comments from Isaiah Washington, who's apologized, but in this circumstance...there has to be a line drawn in the sand. "If shock jocks continue to say outlandish comments, we'll start sliding down that slippery slope, which is why we're taking such a firm position demanding he be fired." -------------- Original message -------------- From: keithbjohnson@ <mailto:keithbjohnson%40comcast.net> comcast.net (Keith Johnson) The response--or lack thereof--from the media overall is telling, isn't it? If Imus had said "shi$" or "fuc&", he'd be fined. CBS gets fined out the butt for Janet Jackson's little wardrobe slip. Yet people like Glen Beck can call Hillary Clinton a "bit**", and Imus can call Black women "nappy headed ho's" and stay on the air with no fines. There is something seriously wrong with our nation when the likes of Imus, Beck, Limbaugh, and Hanity are celebrated, yet people who embrace diversity villified as somehow wrong. and deserve great credit." 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