Comments on: Buh-bye, Imus. http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/ Firedoglake weblog Thu, 26 Nov 2009 07:09:33 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: gloria throckmorton http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621780 gloria throckmorton Fri, 13 Apr 2007 21:49:02 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621780 <p>By way of underscoring what I mean, Imus’ wife wants his fans’ hate mail to the Rutgers Womens Basketball team directed to her:</p> <p>“Mrs. Imus, sounding drained, asks that people stop directing hate mail to the members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. “Send the hate mail to my husband,” she insists.” </p> <p>From Raw Story.</p> By way of underscoring what I mean, Imus’ wife wants his fans’ hate mail to the Rutgers Womens Basketball team directed to her:

“Mrs. Imus, sounding drained, asks that people stop directing hate mail to the members of the Rutgers women’s basketball team. “Send the hate mail to my husband,” she insists.”

From Raw Story.

]]> By: gloria throckmorton http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621370 gloria throckmorton Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:26:17 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621370 <p>Perris @ 65: “I just think this should have been left up to the women he insulted, not sharpton, not us…the women he hurt.”</p> <p>The result of such a scenario would be that the young women who had already been insulted would then endure the hateful spew of his disappointed listeners (I’m not including you in that category, Perris), who would probably blame the players for getting their favorite radio personality fired. The responsibility for his firing rests with the corporate entity who puts him on the airwaves. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine!!!</p> Perris @ 65: “I just think this should have been left up to the women he insulted, not sharpton, not us…the women he hurt.”

The result of such a scenario would be that the young women who had already been insulted would then endure the hateful spew of his disappointed listeners (I’m not including you in that category, Perris), who would probably blame the players for getting their favorite radio personality fired. The responsibility for his firing rests with the corporate entity who puts him on the airwaves. Bring back the Fairness Doctrine!!!

]]> By: legaleze http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621187 legaleze Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:52:54 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621187 <p><a href="#comment-620372"><em>Gunga Djinn @ 309 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>As far as I know, Imus has still not offered an apology to the girls he smacked. Lots of excuses in his own defense, but no apologies to the girls (I call them girls, because they are…peoples daughters).</p> <p>He crapped his bed. Now he gets to sleep in it.</p> <p>So it goes.</p></blockquote> <p>He absolutely did apologize. He actually met with them and their coach and apologized in person.</p> Gunga Djinn @ 309

As far as I know, Imus has still not offered an apology to the girls he smacked. Lots of excuses in his own defense, but no apologies to the girls (I call them girls, because they are…peoples daughters).

He crapped his bed. Now he gets to sleep in it.

So it goes.

He absolutely did apologize. He actually met with them and their coach and apologized in person.

]]> By: deandra http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621157 deandra Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:39:10 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-621157 <p><b>Now let’s see how the networks handle their other albatrosses</b>. </p> <p>That’s the skunk at the garden party! What <em>will</em> the networks do?</p> Now let’s see how the networks handle their other albatrosses.

That’s the skunk at the garden party! What will the networks do?

]]> By: Suzanne http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620624 Suzanne Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:41:45 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620624 <p><a href="#comment-620619"><em>marshen @<br /> 317 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Does anyone even read any of these comments? Ha.</p></blockquote> <p>Yes.</p> marshen @
317

Does anyone even read any of these comments? Ha.

Yes.

]]> By: marshen http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620619 marshen Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:39:09 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620619 <p>Does anyone even read any of these comments? Ha.</p> Does anyone even read any of these comments? Ha.

]]> By: cynic http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620605 cynic Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:26:52 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620605 <p>Woodhall at 313:</p> <p>Take this hammer, carry it to the captain<br /> Take this hammer, carry it to the captain<br /> Take this hammer, carry it to the captain, tell him I’m gone, you tell him I’m gone.</p> <p>An if he ask you was I runnin<br /> An if he as you, was I runnin<br /> An if he ask you was I runnin, you tell him I was flyin, tell him I was flyin.</p> <p>Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,<br /> Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,<br /> Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,<br /> Hurts my pride, yeah, hurts my pride.</p> <p>If anyone remembers where that’s from, you also remember that those days are gone!</p> Woodhall at 313:

Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
Take this hammer, carry it to the captain, tell him I’m gone, you tell him I’m gone.

An if he ask you was I runnin
An if he as you, was I runnin
An if he ask you was I runnin, you tell him I was flyin, tell him I was flyin.

Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,
Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,
Captain call me, a nappy-headed devil,
Hurts my pride, yeah, hurts my pride.

If anyone remembers where that’s from, you also remember that those days are gone!

]]> By: tbsa http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620595 tbsa Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:21:44 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620595 <p>I’m no Imus fan but good lord they threw that fucker under the bus when the likes of Flush Limpballs, Ohshanity, and Bleck are allowed to spew hate every damn day.</p> I’m no Imus fan but good lord they threw that fucker under the bus when the likes of Flush Limpballs, Ohshanity, and Bleck are allowed to spew hate every damn day.

]]> By: cynic http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620593 cynic Fri, 13 Apr 2007 05:19:43 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620593 <p>Civility, like trust, has to be earned. It is almost as if the “in group” is saying to us dirty insignificant unwashed ‘and who do you think you are.’ Well, they’re gonna find that they don’t speak for even a small portion of America. So let them go to their parties, and father their out-of-wedlock children, and tell the rest of us that we should be following their rules to make them rich. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.</p> Civility, like trust, has to be earned. It is almost as if the “in group” is saying to us dirty insignificant unwashed ‘and who do you think you are.’ Well, they’re gonna find that they don’t speak for even a small portion of America. So let them go to their parties, and father their out-of-wedlock children, and tell the rest of us that we should be following their rules to make them rich. Doesn’t mean it’s going to happen.

]]> By: Woodhall Hollow http://firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620475 Woodhall Hollow Fri, 13 Apr 2007 04:06:55 +0000 http://www.firedoglake.com/2007/04/12/buh-bye-imus/#comment-620475 <p><a href="#comment-620151"><em>youkillednoodle @<br /> 130 </em></a></p> <blockquote><p>Stevie Wonder’s caught using the N-word</p> <p>Lyrics<br /> Looking back on when I<br /> Was a little <b>nappy headed </b>boy<br /> Then my only worry<br /> Was for Christmas what would be my toy<br /> Even though we sometimes<br /> Would not get a thing<br /> We were happy with the<br /> Joy the day would bring</p></blockquote> <p>Context is everything. Read these lyrics. Or better yet, listen to the music behind them. Then listen to what Imus said. See the difference?</p> youkillednoodle @
130

Stevie Wonder’s caught using the N-word

Lyrics
Looking back on when I
Was a little nappy headed boy
Then my only worry
Was for Christmas what would be my toy
Even though we sometimes
Would not get a thing
We were happy with the
Joy the day would bring

Context is everything. Read these lyrics. Or better yet, listen to the music behind them. Then listen to what Imus said. See the difference?

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