Don Imus fired
#1
Posted 15 April 2007 - 06:14 PM
#2
Posted 15 April 2007 - 06:35 PM
Yeah, GG America, GG. Now please, lets form up a mob to lynch Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton.
#3
Posted 15 April 2007 - 06:40 PM
#4
Posted 15 April 2007 - 06:58 PM
#5
Posted 15 April 2007 - 07:00 PM
Niggers say shit about white people all the time. You don't see them getting fired for it.
Not to mention that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, two of the people who pushed to punish Imus and Michael Richards, regularly make racial remarks about other races.
#6
Posted 15 April 2007 - 07:26 PM
God damn NAPPY-HEADED HOES!!!
#7
Posted 15 April 2007 - 07:27 PM
Edited by King_Dude, 15 April 2007 - 07:29 PM.
#8
Posted 15 April 2007 - 09:02 PM
Edited by Ahkmed, 15 April 2007 - 09:02 PM.
#9
Posted 15 April 2007 - 10:25 PM
Oh well with as much money he made a year I don't think he has to worry about it.
What happened is that normally Imus makes racial/stereotype/etc charged jokes...but they are actually funny. That's how he can get away with it. But this time he made a racially charged joke...and it wasn't funny...at all. If it was in a comedy club it would have fallen flat. So it came off as in poor taste. And being that it was directed at a high profile group of women that the media was already spinning around, word got out fast. Then it got blown out of proportion.
#10
Posted 15 April 2007 - 10:51 PM
That being said, the real problem with broadcasting is the f*ckin FCC..they control anything and everything on public radio and are the sole reason he was removed from the air.
#11
Posted 15 April 2007 - 11:09 PM
#12
Posted 16 April 2007 - 09:35 AM
That being said, the real problem with broadcasting is the f*ckin FCC..they control anything and everything on public radio and are the sole reason he was removed from the air.
+1......^^^^^^^^
#13
Posted 16 April 2007 - 10:52 AM
+1......^^^^^^^^
Uh, no. More like -10. He wasn't fired because of FCC Violations. What he did was _not_ against any FCC regulations. They had _nothing_ to do with his firing. He was fired because of a very small, yet very vocal minority having an issue with what he said.
The reason this is so big to radio guys is because now you're treading into a territory that violates the first ammendment. The first ammendment gives you the right to offend a person and not have it be illegal. Imus being fired over this sets a new, dangerous precendent for radio and TV personalities of his style. Him being fired now brings this to entirely different level.
One of the worst hypocrisies I saw on this whole issue came from that stupid bimbo Elizabeth Hasselbeck. She was on Hannity & Colmes talking about how Imus should have been fired, yet she defended her co-host Rosie O'Donnell when people said she should have resigned over her "ching chong" Chinese stereotype comment a few months back. It's the same damn issue, but she backed one and not the other.
The whole black people can say one thing, but whites can't has been done to death at various places but Jim Norton, the 3rd mic on Opie and Anthony, brought up an interesting side note this morning on the show. He made the point that being afraid to say things around black people is more harmful than being able to rip on them, like we can everybody else. It shows fear of them as other human beings and creates even more racial tension than it supposedly helps.
#14
Posted 16 April 2007 - 12:47 PM
#15
Posted 16 April 2007 - 01:39 PM
Nonetheless I do believe this whole Nappy-Headed Hoes thing was blown way out of proportion, however, I'm not ever going to go as far as joke about how lynching "n^%$#@*" (I never even use that word, sorry to dissapoint you all) would solve our problems.
My 2 cents.
#16
Posted 16 April 2007 - 04:00 PM
Uh, no. More like -10. He wasn't fired because of FCC Violations. What he did was _not_ against any FCC regulations. They had _nothing_ to do with his firing. He was fired because of a very small, yet very vocal minority having an issue with what he said...
dude the FCC basically runs CBS..whether it broke violations or not is besides the point, CBS is so far up the ass of the FCC and the dumb f*ck conservatives running the broadcasting industry that they will do anything to avoid any controversy in the business. It wouldn't be an issue if the FCC wasn't the way it is.
#17
Posted 16 April 2007 - 08:47 PM
dude the FCC basically runs CBS..whether it broke violations or not is besides the point, CBS is so far up the ass of the FCC and the dumb f*ck conservatives running the broadcasting industry that they will do anything to avoid any controversy in the business. It wouldn't be an issue if the FCC wasn't the way it is.
You're clearly talking out of your ass. The FCC has has nothing to do with. They haven't started an "investigation", they haven't fined CBS, they haven't even issued a f*cking press release.
In other words
THE FCC HAS NOTHING TO f*ckING DO WITH THIS
#18
Posted 17 April 2007 - 06:03 PM
Then he could say whatever the f*ck he wants!
I'd listen.
#19
Posted 17 April 2007 - 08:35 PM
Sirius should capitalize on this and hire him for a talk show.
Then he could say whatever the f*ck he wants!
I'd listen.
Wouldn't happen. That idiot Howard Stern hates him and Sirius bows to whatever Hoo-hoo-Howie wants.
#20
Posted 17 April 2007 - 09:32 PM
You're clearly talking out of your ass. The FCC has has nothing to do with. They haven't started an "investigation", they haven't fined CBS, they haven't even issued a f*cking press release.
In other words
THE FCC HAS NOTHING TO f*ckING DO WITH THIS
I SAID THE PROBLEM WITH BROADCASTING IS THE FCC, NOT THIS SITUATION.
They obviously aren't directly related, but the broadcasting industry AS A WHOLE has been shaped by the standards of the FCC, leading to bullsh*t such as this.
And of course Sirius would rather support Stern..Stern advertises them out the ass and brings in more money for them than any other station/radio host could ever bring in.
Edited by IWantWhiteCastle, 17 April 2007 - 09:38 PM.
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