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- harlequino0
If what you say is true, PonyBoy, isn't that an even better justification for removing him from commercial airwaves? It means no one is allowed to get away with that. I don;'t listen to him, never have, no interest. But i listened to this conversation, in context, and i'm sorry, but there is nothing justifiable in what any of those guys are saying. It's MSNBC, part of NBC. We're not talking about a small, private radio station here.
Again, IMHO.
- mrdobolina0
pony, do you listen to paul harvey too? hahaha
- PonyBoy0
Harlequino... I'm bummed he said what he said... I'm bummed he's being bumped from MsNbc...
... but what's happening to him is his own freakin' fault. :) I'm not backing up his stupid... yes, racist... comment...
... I am however, pointing out that he isn't a verbally racist/abusive person... rather he's very sarcastic and satirical in his view of the world.
Again... he fucked up... he thought it would be funny to pop off some hip-hoppish terminology - and he was very wrong.
He's not Dave Chapelle or Chris Rock or Snoop...
... but he's also not racist.
- mrdobolina0
His reponse on Sharpton's show was ridiculous though. Blaming rap music? Just take yer lumps.
- harlequino0
I do see your point. Racism comes in many shades (no pun intended). I don't think anyone should be throwing a white hood over the codger's head, but there really needs to be some accountability for this kind of thing. Time for the old boy club mentality to get washed away.
- PonyBoy0
pony, do you listen to paul harvey too? hahaha
mrdobolina
(Apr 11 07, 15:28)
---ayyyup.
Dude... I listen to all forms of talk radio 24/7. I'll break up my dad w/mainly radio or news talk tv (all background noise for the most part)... but I need to have 'live people' around me while I sit here for hours by myself (i'm sure that sounds 'funny')...
... as far as my 'tastes', dobly... :D
... blame it on my Dad I guess. The big geek seemed to instill his right-brained nerdist activities in me.
- mrdobolina0
I listen to talk most days too, we have this local right wing guy that hangs out at this weird pickup bar across from my place. He sits at the bar by himself like every night. He's a creep.
- studderine0
I don't know...the way they are talking...
- TheBlueOne0
Imus isn't leftist - but he is far from Right. I remember listening to his anti-Nixon rants back in the late 70's from the back seat of my moms car on the ride to school. Yeah I'm that old..
I have a warm spot in my heart for the guy and his schtick is old and probably in bad taste, but he's being scapegoated cause he's a low hanging fruit here..
- mrdobolina0
definitely low hanging-fruit.
- PonyBoy0
He's leftish blueOne given his past though... wouldn't you say? I mean - he likes country...
... yeah okay...
... I don't know what to call him either.
... btw... blueOne...
... you ARE old! :D
grandPaBlue!!!
YER MA BOI BLEW!!!
- harlequino0
*cups low hanging fruit
- TheBlueOne0
Yeah, but Imus didn't help himself with that Sharpton appearance...when he was talking with that Congresswoman on the phone and he said "You people.." I cringed.
I feel bad for the guy, but I agree with PonyBoy in the sense that he brought it on himself..he has been in his own little bubble for too long..
- mrdobolina0
Obama's statement on it was pretty dope when they asked him if he should be fired.
"He wouldn't work for me"
- PonyBoy0
*coughs at the cupping of low hanging fruit
... dude... harlequino...
... yer handz are cold, Doc.
- TheBlueOne0
Oh c'mon - sure in Bush AMerica Imus IS Left..but so is Pat Buchanan at this point according to the Bush supporters...so hey take that for what it is...but Imus is far more centrist than left or right...And no way would Fox give him a show..he actually you know has some integrity for the truth that would seem out of place on Fox..
- CockDiesel0
There is a sense of comedy in IMUS's show. Almost every comedian out there is pulling race jokes these days. This is a 70 yr old man acting like hes using street lingo in discription. Thats funny. This is a big over drawn publicity pull before elections. Sharptin and his gang of dummies are throwing a mans career away for their own benefit.
And when was the last time a white guy got pissed over the word "redneck"? Is that not a good equivalent?
Why does every other race band together to attack issues, and when white people do it they become "extremists".
Answer: These nappy ho's be hatin on us.
- DUKIE08220
Also, I don't ever remember Imus being on the bad end of a firehose. But again, that's just my opinion.
mrdobolina
(Apr 11 07, 14:44)ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I don't remember Imus's face in any of those pictures holding hoses...you are grasping at straws here with this comment...
to say that black people are powerless is completely ignorant, and is an insult to the progress made by black people since the days of slavery...
A RACIST COMMENT IS A RACIST COMMENT
I am a white kid who grew up in both the south and north, and in largely black areas. I remember being called a cracker ass white boy and milky throughout my schooling, just because I dressed a little differently. I am pretty sure that had some effect on me...
rap music is not to blame for Imus's comment, but it plays a large part in the way that black peoople are viewed in our society...and I have never seen video or audio of the REVEREND jesse jackson and REVEREND al sharpton marching in front of DMX concerts...a guy who has repetedly used religon on his albums to condone his own acts of violence, and the verbal assaults against the women in his life
- DUKIE08220
Also, I don't ever remember Imus being on the bad end of a firehose. But again, that's just my opinion.
mrdobolina
(Apr 11 07, 14:44)ARE YOU KIDDING ME??? I don't remember Imus's face in any of those pictures holding hoses...you are grasping at straws here with this comment...
to say that black people are powerless is completely ignorant, and is an insult to the progress made by black people since the days of slavery...
A RACIST COMMENT IS A RACIST COMMENT
I am a white kid who grew up in both the south and north, and in largely black areas. I remember being called a cracker ass white boy and milky throughout my schooling, just because I dressed a little differently. I am pretty sure that had some effect on me...
rap music is not to blame for Imus's comment, but it plays a large part in the way that black peoople are viewed in our society...and I have never seen video or audio of the REVEREND jesse jackson and REVEREND al sharpton marching in front of DMX concerts...a guy who has repetedly used religon on his albums to condone his own acts of violence, and the verbal assaults against the women in his life