Imus calls the Rutger's Womens Basketball team "nappy-headed hos"

[LynneSin]

I can't believe this is the same exact channel that gives us Keith Olbermann

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704040011

Imus called women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos"


On the April 4 edition of MSNBC's Imus in the Morning, host Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which is comprised of eight African-American and two white players, as "nappy-headed hos" immediately after the show's executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team "hard-core hos." Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: "The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the Toronto Raptors."

McGuirk referred to the NCAA women's basketball championship game between Rutgers and Tennessee as a "Spike Lee thing," adding, "The Jigaboos vs. The Wannabees -- that movie that he had." McGuirk was presumably referring to Lee's 1988 film, School Daze (Sony Pictures), though co-host Charles McCord misidentified it as "Do the Right Thing" (Criterion, June 1989).

Check the above link if you have the stomach to read the entire conversation. Damnit, I thought this kinda of crap wasn't getting on Mainstream News. I'd expect these comments from Rush Limbaugh but who am I kidding

[monmouth]

1. Disgusting. I'm wondering the real reason Chris Carlin is out this week...n/t

[peacetalksforall]

2. Doesn't Imus call him fathead on the air?

[NNN0LHI]

3. Careful, Imus has one hell of a fan club around here

They won't attack you directly for posting this though. Backbiters.

Don

[LynneSin]

6. If they support this racist asswipe they can kiss my ass

And I hope they all read that too. It would be like me coming in here and saying that Ann Coulter isn't that bad and is simply misunderstood

[ellacott]

9. I agree with you

Those comments are truly disgusting. I wouldn't be surprised if someone does try to defend him.

[Vinnie From Indy]

32. I agree!

Imus and ALL his supporters and apologists can KISS MY ASS! Imus and his merry band of assholes were laughing the other day about a guy that had a healthy testicle removed by mistake instead of a diseased one. They thought it was unbelievably funny.

[donco6]

42. Me three. eom

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I don't listen to Imus. I think he is as bad as Limbaugh.

This is horrible. I am not sure that women athletes will ever get any respect.

[peacetalksforall]

5. This goes beyond FOX and makes CNN look aristocratic. Thanks GE and Microsoft.

[BeyondGeography]

7. As if Obama needed another reason not to pal around with Imus

like some of our other Dems.

[snappyturtle]

8. Imus is an elitist! and arrogant.....

I can't say I totally hate him but he's about as biased as they come. We turn him on in the mornings before WJ for something to watch and truthfully, to watch the crawler to see what's gone on in the world while we slept. I don't know why we do this really....I should just turn on my lap top instead and read what's REALLY happening.

I didn't happen to hear these remarks, but being an old P.E. teacher I am saddened.

[pscot]

10. Imus is such a neat guy

He certainly has a way with words. :sarcasm:

[donsu]

11. Imus and crew are low down racists

and so are his producers and owners.

[wicket]

12. Jigaboos????!!!

Jesus Christ! :grr: :grr: :grr:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

13. I totally agree.

I very seldom listen to Imus. He's just not my "cup of tea", but after this incident, his lousy show on MSNBC will be banned in my house.

[wicket]

18. That word is as offensive as the N word, if not worse

:grr: :grr: :wtf:

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

19. I completely agree, Wicket...n/t

[wicket]

26. It's sickening to see that word being used on a high profile show

:grr:

[Reverend_Smitty]

24. yeah that was the word that jumped out at me too

the other things he said were pretty bad but Jigaboo is just a few notches below the N-Bomb...how does this man still have a nationally syndicated radio program? Racist fuck! :puke:

[wicket]

25. It's pretty damn sickening

:grr: :grr:

[greyl]

29. "ooga booga smooga wooga"

Is it just me?

[dogday]

46. I miss her already

:cry:

[greyl]

48. Sorry, but that's not what I meant. nt

[dogday]

53. I know what you meant

but it reminds me of her..... Sorry if that bothers you...

[Oilwellian]

14. What a disgusting pig

MSNBC should issue an immediate apology. The Rutgers team worked hard to make it to a championship and deserve everyone's respect.

[otohara]

15. I'm An Ass in The Morning

and a racist, bigot, moron, ex-junkie drunk etc...

[SemperEadem]

16. The difference between Spike Lee's movie having that musical vignette

and Anus saying it is that it was used it in context of the whole movie.

Anus said it as a intentional derrogatory, racist comment meant to demean Rutgers' Women's Basketball team. There is no excuse for the word "ho" --even without qualifiers-- to go to air on any mainstream news/sports organization. The term is derrogatory, demeaning and sexist.

Perhaps his sponsors need to be targeted with an angry mail campaign.

[AlCzervik]

17. was the under and over on when Imus goes to rehab? Not much shocks me

but this, yeah this was shocking.

[blondeatlast]

20. Say it to their faces, Imanass. Disgusting. Worse yet is all the viewers who

loved it behind their closed doors--and you know there were lots of giggles in beyond the tubes.

[butterfly77]

27. Agreed, I'll bet they are angry that he apolgized...

what is the fat racist cop's name, he was at it last week on the phone with someone from the middle east. He was very angry and made fun of the callers accent and culture...

[tinfoilinfor2005]

21. Charles Gibson actually reported this last night on the ABC eve news.

However, as for NBC, I understand that Tim Russert was once again on Imus. No surprise there. You would think that Tim with his phoney baloney high falutin' credentials in washingtonworld would stay away from Imus like the plague now, but it appears that the msnbc tactic will be to ignore and sweep it under the rug. As long as Imus brings in the bucks, he can say and do whatever he pleases.

[Grandrose]

22. Beyond disgusting!!!

:argh: Speechless....

[Lars39]

23. He should be fired, and an immediate apology sent out very publicly.

There is absolutely no excuse for this.

[blondeatlast]

28. It should be broadcast, and full page ads in every paper at MSNBC's expense.

Every time we reach a new low, I can't imagine it getting any lower.

Well, I USED to not imagine it--now I'm shocked at how very rarely I'm shocked. And sadly, this didn't even shock me all that much.

[Lex]

30. Imus is as ignorant as Limbaugh.

What clowns.

[Swamp Rat]

31. Has America sunk so low that assholes like Imus and Glen Beck can call people racist epithets on TV?

and get away with it?

[Karenina]

43. Errraaaaa...

YES

[cascadiance]

44. The Corporate Media is just ASKING to get clamped down upon now!

By actually promoting folks like these, Coulter, Savage, etc. having air time with the spew of their venom to "distract" us.

These sorts of things will just be one more in the long laundry list of why we need to rewrite corporate law when it comes to corporate charters, laws MAKING sure that there can be no more judicial activism of "corporate free speech" and "corporate personhood" so that we can regulate crap like this.

The media at one time put forth their own standards association to rate movies, etc. to avoid the government doing it for them. They seem to be incapable of even that any more now. The only thing they and their paid for government partners seem to care about is how much skin porn their kids watch or hear about, not the actual hate, violence and other forms of pornography that fill our airwaves today.

[Morgana LaFey]

33. Sounds about like what I'd expect at DU, frankly

except PERHAPS the nappy-headed part.

Sometimes the really bad stuff gets deleted, sometimes not.

I'm surprised you're surprised.

[Vinnie From Indy]

34. Frankly, I think your post is bizarre

How about a few examples?

[pacalo]

35. Unbelievable -- & coming from a man whose hair looks like cotton candy gone amok.

[HowHasItComeToThis]

36. JUST ANOTHER OBSCENITY PARADING AS A JOURNALIST

:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[femrap]

37. I'd bet money and lots of it that

Imus the Ass wouldn't refer to the men's team in degrading terms.

He just likes to pick on women....I hope the team demands an apology from MSNBC. The NAACP should make a big stink over this.

[wicket]

38. I'm afraid you are right

:(

[femrap]

41. I was just thinking...

couldn't the team sue Imus for slander? Or is calling a woman a whore these days simply acceptable?

[cascadiance]

39. Vivian Stringer and her kids don't deserve that!

Vivian Stringer is such a class act! I just wish Iowa still had her as their coach! She's had to go through a lot of tough times when in the tournament, including her husband dying before one final four and her kid getting very sick for an earlier one. It's really sad that someone like Imus has to find a way to ruin yet another final four for her! What a jerk!

[DinahMoeHum]

40. Neither does Pat Summitt and her Tennessee Lady Vols team!

That "jig***** and wannabees" remark was an insult to BOTH teams directly, and to women's basketball in general.

:grr:

[sampsonblk]

45. I support Imus

Turn him off if you don't like it. That will get the attention of his sponsors.

Its past time that we stop punishing people for dumb things they say, especially since saying dumb things is one of the most important ways that people keep their careers going. Very unfortunate.

Had Al Sharpton made these comments about the Rutgers team, I would have fallen out of my seat laughing. But coming from Imus, well it seems very inappropriate. Just like the rest of his show. The difference is that the other dumb comments are often hilarious. But this is one of those areas where a lot of us are sensitive. That's the reason for the uproar.

Ask yourself this: if Carlos Mencia had said it, would you be upset or would you laugh?

[ecstatic]

47. OK... even if the "nappy headed" part is funny (which it's not), where does the "ho" slur

come into play? Why are they assumed to be whores? Why is OK to disrespect any woman like that? It would be just as disgustingly sexist if it was Sharpton or Mencia (who I don't find funny) making those comments.

[sampsonblk]

49. I didn't hear how Imus said this, but...

that's part of my problem. If I actually need to hear how he said "Hos" to decide if his comments were acceptable, then this whole mess has gone too far. How can we police someone's attempt at humor?

I don't find Mencia funny either. But there are a lot of hispanic people (who he makes a living making fun of) who swear by him. But he can say that stuff because he is one of them.

What's clear to me is that Imus, like Mencia, was trying to be funny.

[Dinger]

50. What He Said Is Disgusting, But I Wonder Who/What They'd Replace Him With?

Any suggestions?

[sampsonblk]

52. What about George Carlin?

Watch a George Carlin show and see if you think that stuff is okay.

[sampsonblk]

51. My all-time favorite Imus joke

In the days following the election of 2000, a very distressed Florida man called in to whine to Imus. It seems he had planned to use his van to ferry Bush supporters to the polls. But he heard on the radio that Gore had already won. So he gave up his efforts and went home. And wouldn't you know, if he had kept going, Bush would have won! Oh no!

So Imus tells him, in a calm voice:

"OK.. OK... That's just terrible. Just awful. OK here's what I want you to do, ok? I want you to set yourself...

And your trailer...

On fire."

That was the funniest shit I have ever heard in my life. Just friggin FUNNY. And let me tell you, that is a ridiculous sterotype and its a just plain awful thing to say. But it was funny as shit.

/rant