DEAR REV. SHARPTON ET AL: WHY THE HELL AREN'T YOU ATTACKING,...

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

,...THE PERPETUAL MONGERING MOUTH-PIECES OF HATE LIKE LIMBAUGH AND SAVAGE AND COULTER AND ROBERTSON AND ISSA AND MOVEFORWARD AND GOP AND ET AL.?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Why? Why?

Imus is small fish compared to these assholes.

*sigh* it's sad, to me,...(I'm sure the REAL OFFENDERS are just lovin' this shit) :cry:

If we fail to identify the enemies to our freedom, our enemies win. The enemies to social and economic justice,...are winning, clearly winning.

[smoogatz]

1. Gotta start somewhere.

Imus is a talentless racist prick who ought to be cleaning toilets in a Greyhound bus station in Topeka. The sooner he's off the air, the better.

[MadMaddie]

3. We should beware of what we wish for....for every nut like Imus

they kick off they will try to kick off a liberal radio personality. Sometimes it's better to have your enemy where you can see and hear them.


It's free speech...but people should realize that with free speech comes responsibility and accountability.

[madokie]

11. nothing wrong with having a pet snake as long as you know where it is all the time

this here 'Sometimes it's better to have your enemy where you can see and hear them.'

[smoogatz]

12. Well, if a liberal radio personality said what Imus said

I'd hope their bosses would pull the plug, too. He has the right to say it, of course, but that doesn't mean that a major radio/television network is required to broadcast his bullshit, anymore than they're required to broadcast the rantings of any other mumbling racist nutjob.

[MadMaddie]

2. Because the reality is Sharpton lost his focus long ago...

He is an opportunist....

The real question is why doesn't the Black Community have strong leaders like we did in the 60's? There is a huge void of leadership in the Black Community. The NAACP is fighting within itself trying to deceide whether to stay with the 60's or become more progressive.

Al Sharpton picked Imus because it was easy picking.

As an African American I am sad to say that.

[NNN0LHI]

7. Many of the strong black leaders we had in the 60's were murdered

I would say that has something to do with the shortage we have today. Chances are MLK would still be alive now if a bullet had not killed him. May have even been president by now with the diverse following he had accumulated? Never know?

Don

[MadMaddie]

8. Don you are absolutely correct...

They were murdered, they died or they are in their 70's and 80's.

I would include John and Robert Kennedy with Martin.

You are right we will never know.

[walldude]

9. Actually Maddie, while I'm no big fan of Sharpton there was a reason

he "picked" Imus. Imus has been doing this for quite awhile now, and at one point in the past Sharpton had him on his show and Imus promised him he would stop with the racist "jokes" . So this was an ongoing thing with him...


edited for stupidity.

[MadMaddie]

13. Thanks for the history...I didn't realize they had a prior agreement...

[sandnsea]

18. The others are unreachable

Imus tries to present himself as a caring person who responds to the society around him and not a partisan hack. It's worth objecting to him, as we've seen. The rest? They'll never admit their wrong and it would just end in a distracting fight not worth the time.

[sicksicksick_N_tired]

10. I guess,...power attacks the pitiful rather than the powerful to get glory.

Exacts nothing material for anyone.

I just don't get the,...mob mentality. It's like a stoning that achieves no justice, only hard hearts.

[BuyingThyme]

4. Who's to say he's not. It's just that the only way he gets

airtime is when there's a hot "story."

[sandnsea]

5. Imus is decent enough to admit error

The others just bull doze their way right through it. Some ARE starting to make the leap though, I hope they keep going. He's got consequences to maybe we can make this contagious and run some others off the air, permanently.

[Mike Daniels]

6. Imus is a better man than Sharpton in one way

At least Imus apologized for what he said.

Has Sharpton apologized to any of the men he slandered during the Brawley incident?

I noticed good old Al was pretty quick on the gun with the Duke case as well.

[sandnsea]

17. I didn't and wouldn't say that

And 400 years of experience indicates they're usually right about racism and women are usually telling the truth about rape. This is about Imus saying a horrible thing. Honestly, one whitey to another, if you find yourself needing to justify him in any way - you've got some serious soul searching to do.

[magellan]

14. Exactly

Imus = bigoted jerk, yes. But Coulter, Hannity, Limbaugh, Robertson, the GOP, et al make him Imus look as offensive as a pre-schooler saying 'pee-pee' for the first time. I'm really disgusted by the hate speech RWers get away with on the public airwaves day in and out. It was ugly to move back from the UK and be greeted by it -- this was never the American way, to accept this mean-spiritedness. I want to know why it's allowed to continue, why everybody in government (Dems especially) puts up with it in silence. It's bullshit.

[antiimperialist]

15. Sharpton, among others, helped ESPN get rid of Limbaugh

You people need to learn how to do research before attacking our leaders:

Limbaugh resigns from NFL show

Negative reaction did not come immediately. But on Tuesday, McNabb told the Philadelphia Daily News: "It's sad that you've got to go to skin color. I thought we were through with that whole deal."

From there, the firestorm spread quickly. Democratic presidential candidates Wesley Clark, Howard Dean and Rev. Al Sharpton called for ESPN to fire Limbaugh. Others in both political and athletic circles also lashed out at Limbaugh's comments.

link

[Change has come]

16. Thanks for that link.

I still refuse to watch countdown.