So They Pulled The Plug On The One Called "Imus"...

...But was it the right thing to do? Was it a case of "We're Mad as Hell & We're Not Gonna Take It anymore!"? Was it made to set an example for anyone who trys to say something over the edge? Or is this just another case of "If I say it, it's all good, but if you say it, you're offending me"? In case you're wondering what im talking about (or if you've been living under a rock for the past couple days)....



Yes those three words have finally marked the end of Don Imus and his radio show, because about an hour prior to typing this, News spread that CBS has ended the radio show. But you see, I have a problem with this. you see, ive been watching the news reports and i notice that all of them are talking about how his comments were Racist. while that is true, noone made light (other than the female Rutger students) that his comments were both racist and sexist. so, does racism conquer over all offenses? Secondly, (and this may go against my original point) Imus has been well known for his racist comments:

from wikipedia, although, these statements have been cited

[edit] African Americans
"Nappy-headed hos" April 4, 2007 (about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which had recently played in the national championship finals; the team has eight blacks and two whites)[1][2]
"Chest-thumping pimps." (Description of the New York Knicks.)[1]
"William Cohen, the Mandingo deal." (Former Defense Secretary Cohen's wife is African-American.)[3]
"Wasn't in a woodpile, was he?" (Responding to news that former black militant H. Rap Brown, later known as Abdullah Al-Amin, was found hiding in a shed after exchanging gunfire with police. Imus is alluding to the expression "nigger in the woodpile.")[4]
"We all have 12-inch penises." (When asked what he has in common with Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Louis Farrakhan, New York Knicks basketball player Latrell Sprewell, and Al Sharpton.)[5]
"A cleaning lady." (Reference to African American journalist Gwen Ifill. Imus has said he did not make that statement.)[6]
"Nigger jokes" (What Imus told a 60 Minutes employee that Imus' program producer, Bernard McGuirk had been tapped to do on the radio show, as Imus later admitted saying when confronted by Mike Wallace in a 1997 interview)[7]



From a tape of the 60 Minutes program as it appeared in a transcript of "On the Media", a program on National Public Radio:[8]



MIKE WALLACE: You told Tom ANDERSON, the producer, in your car coming home that Bernard McGuirk is there to do "nigger" jokes.
DON IMUS: Well I've n-- I never use that word.
MIKE WALLACE: Tom?
TOM ANDERSON: I'm right here.
DON IMUS: Did I use that word?
TOM ANDERSON: I recall you using that word.
DON IMUS: Oh, okay, well then I used that word, but I mean-- of course that was an off the record conversation-- [LAUGHTER]
MIKE WALLACE: The hell it was!

[edit] Handicapped people
"Janet Reno's having a press conference. Ms. Reno, of course, has Parkinson's disease, has a noticeable tremor. [...] I don't know how she gets that lipstick on [laughter] looking like a rodeo clown." [9] Reno was U.S. Attorney General in the Clinton administration.

[edit] Homosexuals
"I didn't know that Allan Bloom was coming in from the back end."[9] (The homosexuality of Bloom, author of The Closing of the American Mind, became widely known after Bloom died.)
"The enormously attractive [NBC political correspondent] Chip Reid, I can say without being accused of being some limp-wristed 'mo [homosexual]."[10]

[edit] Japanese
"Old Kabuki's in a coma and the market's going up. [...] How old is the boy? The battery's running down on that boy." (Referring to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi, who died the next week.) [11]

[edit] Jews
"I remember when I first had [the Blind Boys of Alabama] on a few years ago, how the Jewish management at whatever, whoever we work for, CBS, or whatever it is, were bitching at me about it. [...] I tried to put it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could understand."[12]
"Boner-nosed … beanie-wearing Jewboy." (Describing Washington Post columnist Howard Kurtz, a frequent guest on Imus in the Morning.)[1]

[edit] Native Americans
"The guy from F-Troop, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell."[13]

so should it be a surprise that he's been fired after so long?

Most interesting, it seems that everyones forgotten about another shock jock who came under fire for her racist comments. i wake up to Miss Jones In The Morning on Hot 97 every morning. and while she has been berating Don Imus for his comments, two years ago, She almost lost her Job for a song about the Tsunami that killed many in Sri Lanka & Thailand:

And I WARN YOU, this song was and still is offensive, i didnt want to put it here but its to prove a point...


The end result of that? the show's producer and one co-host were fired, the show was suspended for over 2 months, Miss Jones and The rest of her co-hosts donated 2 weeks pay to the victims of the tsunami along with emmis communications (the Big Boss), before getting suspended themselves until further notice. Even her fans had called and clamed she was going too far. And how did she respond? She played the song over and over, until all hell broke loose. sponsors not only pulling from the show, but some pulled from the station as well. Jin, an asian rapper created a diss record towards the song claiming she should be fired.and before she could make an apology, the show gets suspended until further notice. so if that segment was not only racist, but making fun of well over thousands of people who died, why the hell is she still on the air? i would assume that both her and Imus have a large amount of Listeners, both apologized on end (although Miss Jones' own sounded more dramatic, both had listeners saying she had to go, and on top of that, Hot 97 Has been one of the Kings of radio conversations, as (and i kid you not) there have been a number of shootings near the radio stations building in the course of the past 7 years (Lil Kim, 50 Cent, Game, Etc.)

Now im not saying that Imus didnt deserve the negativity he faced, but i dont feel that he should have been made an example of from his firing. There are many radio shows that make derrogtory comments about other races, and in my opinion the firing of Don Imus was meant to be a Message to them. While It may be "free speech" over the radio, there is no reason for anyone to make such commments regardless of its magnitude. so the next time you listen to Howard Stern, Miss Jones, Opie & Anthony, Or any morning radio show, begin to take notes of how many offensive comments that were made. then make another list of those comments that YOU TRULY found offensive and tell me if their show makes it to the end of the week.

-One More Thing...

The year was 2081, and everyone was finally equal.
-Kurt Vonnegut (1922-2007)