Comments on: FIRING IMUS FOR ALL THE WRONG REASONS

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Mon, 16 Apr 2007 10:31:49 +0000

Ron, you misunderstand me. What Imus said was horrible and I did not agree with what he said about these young women.
I’m not saying “rappers made him do it” — I don’t know the man or what is in his heart so I don’t really know whay he said it other than to mention he has been insulting all walks of people for years in his shock jock career.
All I was trying to say is I would like to see someone go after the vile rappers who demean women on a daily basis.
Why is that O.K.?

By: RonEdwards

RonEdwards — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 10:20:23 +0000

You’re right, Don Imus just needs to jump on the bandwagon and pile on verbal abuse directed at black women. After all this “rappers made me do it” defense seems to be working out pretty good. Author, Zora Neale Hurston called the black women the “mules of the world.” I guess they were just born to be abused. Thank you for your insight.

By: Drewsmom

Drewsmom — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 01:56:36 +0000

God, can we pleeeeze stop talking about this.
Imus is gone and we can all sit back with baited breath and wait for the rev. sharpton to take the hip hop culture to task … yeah, like he’s really going to do that.

By: The Anchoress » Imus’ wiry grey scalp is no prize

The Anchoress » Imus’ wiry grey scalp is no prize — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 19:31:57 +0000

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By: John

John — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 11:29:35 +0000

Poster #1 is right about Imus getting himself really in trouble by lacking any hard-core group for political support - Rick stated the case for getting rid of him from a social conservative viewpoint; political conservatives were angered by his support of Kerry in 2004 and his continued attacks on Bush and his administration, while those on the far left have never, ever forgiven him for either his attacks on the Clinton administration during the 1990s or his attacks on Al Gore during the 2000 election.

To a site like Media Matters, there was barely a difference between Imus, Rush or Hannity, at the same time people on the right at places like the Media Research Center didn’t see much difference between what Imus and his (manily liberal) guests were saying, and what was being spouted over at Air America. If Imus just had strong enemies on the right, well, there are lots of folks who’ve survived those types of protests and kept their media/entertainment jobs; but he had never mended his bridges from the Clinton years with the folks on the left, and within the special interest groups on the left that glut media organizations like CBS and NBC, that was fatal, since it meant inside pressure on both his guests and his bosses to can him.

But ironically, it’s those same guests, and Imus’ higher-profile causes such as his children’s ranch and other cancer-related charities, that killed him this time. Howard Stern can say stuff just as bad, but Stern doesn’t have to try and raise corporate funds for his pet causes, because he is his only pet cause. So Stern could (can) remain defiant when controversies come up, while the corporate sponsors and the folks who enabled him to attract those corporations as donors via MSNBC were the ones who forced him to go cowboy-hat-in-hand to apologize on Al Sharpton’s radio show.

The old Imus, for good or bad, would have brushed off Sharpton and allowed his bosses to defend him because of his ad billing revenues. But the old Imus wouldn’t have been on TV; wouldn’t have had big national sponsors backing his causes, but who dread any controversy; and wouldn’t have had high-profile politicians and media pundits, who for the most part aren’t going to take a chance that the wake of the sinking SS Imus was going to take them down with him, if they continued to show their support.

By: Doug Ross @ Journal

Doug Ross @ Journal — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 10:18:19 +0000

O’Reilly and Rivera Square Off Over Imus Firing…

A calm debate over the fate of the shock jock……

By: ming666

ming666 — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 09:42:07 +0000

are you serious? at the end of the day Imus was fired because of his low ratings and all the nervous advertisers who pulled off the show. the comment gave les moonves the predicate he needed to fire a guy who was a star (for whatever reason) but over the last 5-10 years had seen his star fade (what’s that neil young song?) Stern - love him or hate him - used the market to solve his problem - he went to private pay service where he can say anything he wants. btw please point out when he has derided gays or minorities. that is the greatness of the western world - we are free to choose junk or classics.

Rosie o’donnell spews the most egregious conspiracy fantasies on the View. she stays because she gets ratings - not because her 1st amendment rights are any better or worse off than Imus. the right to free speech is the right to turn on or turn off or pay for content that i desire.

By: Mescalero

Mescalero — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:23:21 +0000

I for one have never placed a lot of faith in the likes of Imus. He’s the exact opposite of what I think is decent and worthwhile.

That being said, what about the black racist hypocrites Al Sharpton (Tawana Bradley and “diamond merchants” as well as other murdered innocent Jews) and Jessie (”Hymietown”) Jackson? There are many others, as the ugly “Scottsboro in reverse” recent Duke La Crosse situation has shown. The bigotted MSM, especially CBS, needs to be shown in the most brutal light that hypocrisy is not acceptable. Remember Dan Rather, well Mr. Moonves, how long did it take you to get rid of Rather? Far longer that it took your hypocritical ass to get rid of Imus. What a piece of hypocritical CRAP!

By: j

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 01:54:34 +0000

This is hysterical. Imus is a liberal,giving hours and hours of free time to the empty suits you probably support…and he was getting decent ratings,much more so than talentless “air america”staff. Do you think msnbc/democrat party will benefit from this?
The only one benefiting here is Al Sharpton…a real vote getter for you dems……and all you had to do for this is stiffel free speech
btw,whats worse..uttering 3 offensive words or the tawana brawley affair…or drug dealers,violence,school dropouts,broken families,you know all the things that really affect minorities….