[Rhodes22-list] Don Imus

[Rik Sandberg]

Slim,

Ya just gotta laugh ......

Seems like we should have been seeing picket lines outside of all the 
rappers offices for a while now, if they're going to make such a stink 
about this. Don't recall any of them being even much noticed let alone 
fired. But wait ..... could there be a (gasp) double standard here???

People been calling me a dumb Swede for years. Maybe I am ..... just too 
dumb to care???

I expect Imus will be able to thank all these fools for the free 
publicity later ..... after his book comes out.

Rik

Slim wrote:
> What's the deal here?  Don Imus is a shock jock and he's hired to be
> shocking and now has been fired for being... um... shocking.  He referred to
> the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" which is certainly
> racist and offensive to be sure, and I'm in no way defending that rhetoric,
> but he's supposed to be shocking, right?  No less than CBS CEO Les Moonves
> personally caved in to public outrage and fired him for doing his job.
> Isn't this just a sticks and stones thing?  Freedom of speech?  Do shock
> jocks now have to be PC?  Howard Stern (I'm no fan of his either) has done
> much worse.  I really don't like either Stern or Imus and I'm not sure why
> I'm writing this but it seems like a stab at freedom of speech and I feel
> bad that Imus was fired--he shouldn't have been.  I've been known to use
> some very un-PC songs and jokes myself and it's all in the context of humor
> and entertainment.  If you don't like it, there's a Chucky Cheese right down
> the road--go there and have fun!
>
> Slim
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