Read what Imus said 3 weeks ago

[kpete]

Read what Imus said 3 weeks ago
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/10/2007 11:20:00 AM ET
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In one single show over 4 minutes, Imus and his producer hit on the following topics:

- Beating up faggots.
- Knocking over Jewish tombstones.
- Setting homeless bums on fire.
- Anderson Cooper taking it in the poop chute.
- Obama as a colored man.
- Homos.
- Wishing that some "sissy" on American Idol be the victim of a vicious hate crime.
- Shaving Rosie O'Donnell's bush, you'd need a weed wacker.

more at:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/imus-3-weeks-ago-on.html
http://achorn.blogspot.com/2007/04/don-imus-jokes-about-beating-up-faots.html

[ThomCat]

1. I don't understand why people are defending this bigot.

It certainly can't come as a surprise to anyone that he's a total bigot. x(

[C_U_L8R]

13. Perhaps because he's a bigot with airtime

just look at the cast of characters who appear
as guests on his show - they are all flakking for something
whether it's for votes, customers or vanity.
But now that Donny is PR poison, only the die-hard asskissers
will be showing up on that show. I guess that leaves Bo Dietl.

[ThomCat]

24. For a short time.

And then once the media has decided that this has all blown over everyone will come back for more airtime and ass-kissing.
x(

[buff2]

74. And don't forget about Joe LIEberman

That Dino is a #1 Repuke ass kisser. :puke:

[AnnInLa]

15. He's worse than a mere bigot,

but I can't think of a more vile word for him. And, he spews all of this with such cynicism, such a self-absorbed certainty that he is above criticism. His narcissism is so evident, and people have been kissing his ass for so long. I watched him this morning to see what he would offer, and I found many instances that he is clueless, for example, he kept claiming that there is horrible racism in the African American community, with light-skinned Blacks hating dark-skinned Blacks. In other words, he was calling Blacks hypocritical. He also kept referring to the rappers lyrics denigrating females. You see, he isn't honestly contrite, because he can't accept his own faults without faulting others. "Everyone does it, so my behavior isn't as bad as you think it is."

[ThomCat]

26. I'm not sure there is anything worse than a bigot

unless you get into actual violence (not just the retorical violence). x(

[EFerrari]

37. A bigot with an audience?

:mad:

[AnnInLa]

54. It's the WORD I am having trouble with

"bigot" doesn't seem strong enough for what Imus is. I want to find a stronger word for him.

[WolverineDG]

19. Hi Thom!

:hi: :hug:

Anyway, I'm all for the First Amendment. Imus does have the right to be a bigot. However, I don't think he should be paid to spout his bigotry, use the public airways for free, & keep his job. I for one am upset that he didn't get canned & that his suspension doesn't start until NEXT week, all because of his ranch. Well, if it's THAT important to him, & he knows he's created some negative publicity, then he should step aside & let someone else handle the fund-raising they're doing for the ranch this week. And maybe have his name taken off of the ranch as well. I'm all for helping kids with cancer, but I'm not giving a dime to anything with his name on it.

dg

[ThomCat]

23. Hi DG!

He certainly has a right to his personal throughts, but nobody has a right to spew that hate to the public.

More importantly, he shouldn't be using our public airwaves to do it.

:hi:

[Morgana LaFey]

76. Not a First Amendment Issue

Not at all. The First Amendment guarantees that the GOVERNMENT will not censor your speech -- but everybody else has the right to do that if they own the property you're trying to speechify on. It's normally called editorial control.

[WindRavenX]

58. I should be suprised, but I'm not

DU isn't very progressive on some issues...and it seems like this is one of them :(

[lectrobyte]

2. Let me grab some popcorn... You are going to be hearing all about a "ranch"

and other alleged good deeds shortly.

[NNN0LHI]

8. And Tawana Brawley and Jesse Jackson, etc. n/t

[americanstranger]

10. He did good stuff! He does good stuff!!!!

Let the racism and sexism and all of that slide! He does good stuff!!!

He offends everybody equally! Especially blacks and women!

He does good stuff!!!!!!!!

Rappers make videos with girls in thongs!

Imus Ranch! Imus Ranch! Imus Ranch!

Gah.

- as

[mrreowwr_kittty]

22. Oh lawdy, we mustn't forget the rappers!!

I'm watching the press conference with the Rutgers team right now and some fuckwit reporter just HAD to pull the "but what about raaaap lyrics!!! :eyes: I didn't hear who it was or where he was from but I'm going to assume he's a right winger.

And reading that b.s. here on DU is just infuriating. Mike Malloy was much more cogent than I could ever be about it when he blasted white males who complain about not being able to use racist and misogynistic slurs because some rappers do it as part of their performance art.

I guarantee you there is/will be at least one "but what about the raaaaappers comment in this thread.

[earthside]

28. So, if Imus Was a Rapper ...

... everything he said would be just expressions of his 'urban culture' experience?

Frankly, I think the "what about rap lyrics" is a good counter argument.

Racist and misogynistic slurs are wrong no matter who uses them ... especially to make money.

[mrreowwr_kittty]

30. So if a rapper says something racist and misogynistic, you get to say it too.

But why, pray tell, should the Rutgers team have to answer a "what about the rappers" question at their press conference? What was the point of that? To let them know that they have no right to be offended at being called nappy haired hos by a famous white male because rappers say things like that?

[ThomCat]

52. You're right. Using "they do it too" as an excuse

is total deflection. He wasn't trading insults with rappers. He was making sexist, racist statements about the women on that Rutgers team.

[Infomaniac]

61. I'm tired of bigoted jerks like Imus

disparaging women who don't fit into their warped view about what women should be. I stopped listening to this jerk when he referred to Gwen Ifill as "a cleaning lady." She was covering the WH at the time. Asswad.

[ThomCat]

62. It's time for his words to catch up with him.

x(

[Morgana LaFey]

77. Yup -- and well said

:hi:

[Scriptor Ignotus]

46. Pepsi cancelled their contract with Ludicrious for this very reason

so it's not like rappers aren't affected too.

[americanstranger]

53. And who led that particular charge?

BillO.

Just pointing that out. :)

- as

[in_cog_ni_to]

12. Want some of mine?

:popcorn::popcorn::popcorn:

This should be good....BUT he helps children! Pay no attention to the fact he's a racist asshole! It matters not!:eyes:

:popcorn:

[qanda]

But, but, but...

He contributed to Sickle Cell!!!!!!!!!!

[Holly_Hobby]

66. I think his ranch and other good deeds are nothing more than

tax strategies n/t

[Bluebear]

71. Indeed.

:puke:

[Marie26]

75. ... the ranch & the rappers.

These are the two most important talking points for any Imus apologist. Craig Crawford actually hit both points on Hardball. Well done.

[stray cat]

3. He insults everyone - equal opportunity

he has always done it and people watch -

[mrreowwr_kittty]

32. Everyone except wealthy white males I've noticed.

He kisses their asses.

[The Count]

34. "equal opportunity insults" = "we fight them over there so we don't need to fight them here"

= media is objective"="he should win by a margin exceeding the margin of theft" = political correctness"
All RW idiocies that con decent people some times..

[The Count]

40. Equal? How come he missed the McCain joke? (has a link to his campaign site

instead)

[KoKo]

55. Way back when he was a druggie...he insulted everyone...but since he

"cleaned up" he started only attacking those he had a personal beef with and sucking up to the rich, famous and pundits in Media.

He probably had a good relationship with Jack Welch to get his MSNBC gig.

[tularetom]

4. One remark like these cancels out

100 kids with cancer that got treated at some ranch. Sorry Anus fans but that's the way the world is.

[The Count]

38. Surely you don't hate kids with cancer! Surely you don't side with cancer!

I can't believe these defenses!
"Surely you can walk in a market in Iraq! look at all the positive things going on there! - why should a bombing a day obliterate all the good news?"

[katsy]

5. Thanks kpete.

Imus was truthful in part. He's not a politician or pundit etc. He's just hateful and so is his type of twisted humor. This isn't funny. He's the corporate media's tool to promote division among us.

[Connie_Corleone]

6. But, but, but he's got that RANCH!!

How dare we condemn this racist, homophobic, bigot when he's done so much for the sick children.
:sarcasm:

[lectrobyte]

9. Call me way too cynical, but that ranch sounds more like a palace

with a very clever way to avoid paying taxes. I'm sure the 10 kids that go there every year have a great time, but I have to wonder if the millions raised couldn't have been spent more effectively.

[cyberpj]

16. Bingo! If there's one thing these idiots know it's how to avoid paying taxes. nt

[mrreowwr_kittty]

27. Yeah, like on chemo and medication for thousands of kids

I'm kind of ambivalent about things like that. Is it better to spread resources across a lot of people, so that they each get a little help, or to focus a lot on a lucky few? I feel the similarly about the girls' school that Oprah started in Africa. It's great for the few girls who are accepted, but what about the rest?

[bluedeminredstate]

7. Rosie was one of Imus's

defenders today on The View saying that we should weigh 40 years of his career against "four words" and not hold this against him. Since she admitted she never listened to him I wish she would have kept her trap shut. She obviously doesn't know that Imus does this stuff all the time while John McCain, David Gregory, Tim Russert, Howard Fineman or Andrea Mitchell chortles and acts like he sooooooooo frigging hilarious. She was blowing smoke out of her ass and it was misleading and incorrect to act as though Imus doesn't have a long history of this behavior. It sucked agreeing with Elizabeth Hasselback - for once that neocon bimbo was right: Imus should be fired.

:eyes:

[Cha]

17. But, the woman on Donald Trump

needed to be fired?..according to Rosie.

You might not know what I'm talking about and I barely do..just something that happened a couple of months ago on Trump's show.

I like Rosie mostly but she should know what she's talkin' about all the time..not just most of the time.

[The Count]

44. I wish she stuck to Hollywood gossip leaving any relevant issues to relevant people

[Cha]

49. I think Rosie can

put her $.02 in but I think she's WRONG WRONG WRONG on this.

imus' charity doesn't give him a license to foul up our airwaves with his "cutsey" bigoted slurs. The USA would be a much better country without the limpbaughs, coulter, hannitys, et al.

"Read what Imus said 3 weeks ago
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/10/2007 11:20:00 AM ET
Discuss this post here: Comments (4) · digg it · reddit · FARK · · Link


In one single show over 4 minutes, Imus and his producer hit on the following topics:

- Beating up faggots.
- Knocking over Jewish tombstones.
- Setting homeless bums on fire.
- Anderson Cooper taking it in the poop chute.
- Obama as a colored man.
- Homos.
- Wishing that some "sissy" on American Idol be the victim of a vicious hate crime.
- Shaving Rosie O'Donnell's bush, you'd need a weed wacker."

more at:
http://americablog.blogspot.com/2007/04/imus-3-weeks-ag...


http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x617289

Edit~ Ooops..I'm repeating the OP but it bears repeating!

[The Count]

56. I am more afraid when she agrees with me - because she drags down the debate

Anyone remembers the gun control fiasco with Tom Selleck? The mere demeanor difference of the two delivered NRA the high ground that day...

[Cha]

60. Yeah, "the gun control"

attack on Tom Sellack was perhaps not the best way to support your cause.

But, she's able to articulate the truth about bush on a national level whereas Meridith Viera is over there on the today show sucking up to the repukes and giving Dems a hard time(this is what I've read on DU..I don't watch).

[The Count]

41. And Rosie is "heroic" - so, that settles it, right?

She must still remember when she first refused to apologize for her racism slur against the Chinese - then she finally did it - on her blog.

[femrap]

42. I'm surprised by Rosie.....

by maybe she just couldn't stand to agree with that neocon Elizabeth????

[The Count]

47. "His ideological cannons were always loosely moored to the deck" - on Dennis Miller by

one of his early (good) writers. That applies to Rosie to a T. This is the woman who was swooning over W after 9,11, calling all democrats perverts all always doing a diservice to every cause she advocated.

[qanda]

45. She only defended him because she didn't know what she was talking about

And I hated agreeing with Elizabeth also, but she was exactly right about this one. When the issue is about how someone has offended gays, then Rosie is all over it. It makes me sad that Rosie excused Imus on this one. I wonder if she would feel the same if she heard some of the things Imus and his team have had to say about gays.

[The Count]

48. Which is the case with most of her statements nt

[butterfly77]

70. She was saying it because...

O'lielly was asking for her to be fired because of what she said...

[Cha]

11. Jesus H Christ...and bill maher

thinks it's a "cottage industry" when people want him FIRED?

imus kept getting more rope to hang himself.

[dweller]

73. maybe Bill Maher realizes there's enough rope for him too. N/T

:think:

dp

[cyberpj]

14. K&R - Many don't realize this behavior is SO typical of Imus' show. nt

[goclark]

50. I watch him many times when I can't go to sleep

I watch to hear how trashy they are and have wondered how he is allowed to get away with it.

I'm sure some would say, "Just turn him off" but I believe in keeping the enemy close and knowing exactly what the enemy is saying and doing.

Trust me, he is racist to the core and even called his own wife a "Green Ho"

Trust me, he says things like this ALL the TIME and NO Body in his group EVER tells him or any of the other "good old boys" to stop it!

I watched the Rutgers press event and loved every second of it.

They did more to raise the awareness of Women's Rights today than I could have ever imagined!

The tape of the Conference is a "must see!"

[UTUSN]

18. K&R #2 for quacks-like-a-duck, walks-like-a-duck, IS a duck!!1 n/t

[WiseButAngrySara]

20. Disgusting! I only view him by accident, and I dislike and

usually avoid him like I avoid Limpballs and Faux news, but now I wish I had paid more attention. I hope he is fired, after hearing the eloquence of the players, who were insulted instead of being honored and congratulated.

[WiseButAngrySara]

21. k(pete)nr and thanks for posting kpete! Some of the pro-Imus

posts have given me pause, but reading this disgusting example of this foul human being negates his charitable 'works' IMHO>

[AnnInLa]

25. Da Ranch! Da Ranch!

Imus and some people here seem to think that the good work done on Imus's ranch and other charities excuses his mysogenist/racist/homophobic show.

Just because one does good works, doesn't give license to do bad things!

Think of all of the worlds "bad" people....did their occasional good works erase the bad things they did?

Imus seems to think that he HAD A LICENSE TO BE homophobic/racist/mysogenist/hateful BECAUSE he did good works. His supporters in the punditocracy seem to think so too.

[IChing]

33. Da Plane! Da Plane!

He needs to go back to his fantasy ranch.

[KoKo]

59. And the way he talks about the kids on that ranch. It's like a "tough love" camp

where he describes he and Deidra making sick kids feel proud of themselves by forcing them to get on a horse that they are scared of riding. He takes pride in talking about how they get these kids into shape with their self esteem... That may work for some kids but what about the others?

The kids are probably very well screened as to those who can stand what they have to go through...but that makes the Imus Ranch more of a Boot Camp than an educational experience about how a ranch is run.
The way he talks about the kids always worried me as to what went on there.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

29. Thank you for pointing that out....

I have been shocked at the Imus defenders.

I often fall asleep with the 9:00pm Keith show on. I can't tell you how many times I have woken the next day to the Imus show and, more importantly, some completely bigoted remark either he or his cohorts are making. Every freakin' time!

I have tried to give the guy a chance over the years, but within ten minutes of waking I am crawling out of bed to turn the channel because I cannot tolerate his antiquated, white, he-man, bullshit. That kind of talk may have been exceptable 50 years ago in the locker room of the members' only golf club, but it does NOT fly today.

As for free speech, can can blather all he wants about "ho" and "homos" and "jiggaboos" -- that is his constitutionally guaranteed free speech -- but there is no guarantee that he get paid for such drivel.

[druidity33]

78. might i suggest

checking to see if your TV has a Timer Off or Time Delay off switch. It would most definitely be in the Menu section if you still have your remote. Or check your manual (if you still have that...)

it'll save on 'lectricity too!

:)

[The Count]

31. but, but he givs so much money to good causes - how can we not be grateful?

Of course this latest one is no exception to his usual hate mongering.
And seing the Rutgers press conference with the victims of his latest - just reminded me - this is not an abstract issue - but real flesh and blood people got attacked. To defend that is unthinkable to me!

[Tom Joad]

35. That number to call to make his departure from msnbc forever...

Allison Gollust, NBC News Communications
Phone: [phone]
Email: [email protected]

email might be best!

[EFerrari]

36. He says it's comedy but he's no "Archie Bunker".

*That* was satire. What Imus does is pass hate speech off as humor.

[The Count]

39. Bingo! They all become "entertainers" when caught...Limbaugh, Coulter et al

They are onlt propagandists when invited by RNC...
Anus has a McCain campaign link on his site, BTW. How can't a funny man like him see the humor in McCain's run? someone called him "equal opportunity insulter"

[blondeatlast]

63. Exactly--all too common nowadays. Rush is "entertainment"--HE says.

I call BS. They know perfectly well they are an influence.

[EFerrari]

67. The Count really got it right; In public, they mainstream hatred.

In wingnut venues, they aren't kidding.

[bbgrunt]

43. there is no defense for his offensive "sense of humor". Malloy said it

best last night when he essentially called him a juvenile arrogant prick who is fixated in a misogynist male teenage mentality. And I believe that anyone who thinks this is simply humor or enjoys this filth ought to examine their core values.

[Deb]

51. but, "I just wasn't thinking."

An allowance for multiple senior moments must be written into his contract. I hope he isn't the last bigot yanked off the air.

Thanks kpete

[The Count]

57. That settles it! To Betty Ford with you!

:shrug:

[NNN0LHI]

64. I don't get it. Don't the Imus defenders read this stuff?

I can't believe they do.

Don

[The Count]

65. Good question. I may be able to understand the pshycology of the Bushbots now...

There's a lot of fingers in the years and la-la-la-la. Someone had a graphic with Randi rose and a wingnut woman in split screen.

[AngryOldDem]

68. As bad as this is, what does this say for MSNBC?

Does it need ratings/money THAT badly that it's willing to ignore crap like this? Same goes for the syndicator of his show.

This is pure abuse of the airwaves, and I think the FCC should review what it considers to be actionable and what is not. If CBS was taken to the cleaners over a split-second shot of Janet Jackson's breast, then MSNBC, CBS, Westwood One, and whoever the hell else puts this stuff out ought to be held to the same standard.

[libnnc]

69. And sponsors buy airtime to pay for that crap

Sickening. :puke:

[Faux pas]

72. I accidentally saw about two minutes of his show once...

I wasn't impressed enough to keep listening. Now I know why, just another smirking, smart mouthed asshole. Suspension is too good for him, take him off the air for good. Charity begins in the heart, not the pocketbook.

[2bfree]

79. This guy is sick.

Ugh.