Actually, I get that, or something akin to it, about every other week. I work in Memphis and our corporate office is in New York. At least twice a month, we have these "Yankees" come down and imply as much, all in jest, of course. My reaction? I laugh right along with them, and even make a few funny Southern observations myself...Like how when the zoo here put on a live-action dinosaur exhibit with robotics, some Memphians wanted refunds because they thought the dinosaurs would be REAL! (True story!)

Yeah, Imus should've known in this PC-world-gone-mad that some moron somewhere would find offense (Sharpton and Jackson live for that). But unless someone's physically attacking me, my family, or my friends, I couldn't care less what spews out of their pie-hole. I got out of being offended by words in grade school.

I am not an Imus fan, but I say that he has done enough. He did the best that he could to right this thing.
Still Sharpton's and Jackson's need to keep this thing going to stay in the spot light. He is now their whipping boy. This months poster child.

I was so glad to see Imus go back at that piece of shit Sharpton on the Today show. Enough already,
Imus got beat up for over two hours on Sharpton's one sided radio show yesterday. This must be the new punishment for anyone they can blackmail once you do something wrong. Sharpton is a thug, and after what Sharpton did with Tawana Brawley, 20 years ago, he shouldn't be so quick to talk.
In fact the people should be ashamed of their community for letting Sharpton take the lead. In fact they should be ashamed for all their own people who use these same words and expressions. Clean up your own house first with these Rap Stars using words I wouldn't dare to say in public, after all didn't Jackson call New York "heimeytown" and I didn't see or hear them condemn the Mayor of New Orleans from things he said either. No Imus is to easy a target to pass up.


Folks, the world will never be pure and problem free, but lets face it this crap is getting out of hand

This is not about Sharpton who needs absolutely nothing to become "outraged" and get his face on television, nor about Jesse "Shakedown Artist" Jackson. It is about Imus.

While his initial comments were offensive, the real problem is a pattern of racist commentary by him and his crew for decades.
Worse, in two of his miserable self pitying rants he has LIED.

Yesterday he denied flat out that he ever called Gwen Eiffel a "cleaning lady." I actually heard him when he said it.

Today he said he had made the comment, but that it was back in the Reagan Administration. Wrong again it was in the Clinton administration in the 90's.

Like so many things his cover up and excuse making is going to turn out worse than his initial mistake.

We're turning into a nation of wimps. Poor me...I'm a victim... have pity on me...he looked at me cross-eyed...make me feel better. Christ, it's disgusting.

Couldn't have said it better.

I agree Don T.

I detest Sharpton because I think he's a hate mongering opportunist, but that aside, this has been a pattern with Imus and his crew that's been going on for years.

Don't forget Sid Rosenberg, who did mornings with Imus, was fired for saying that Kylie Minogue wouldn't get any work with a "bald head and one titty", on the day she was to start breast cancer treatments! Ironically, he's in Miami now, your home state, Don T.

I know that morning radio is all about shock and flaunting one's freedom of speech but sometimes they just cross the line.

What Imus said is WRONG. It's that simple. He degraded both blacks AND women, and he should be punished. And his "apology" seemed rather insincere to me. How is his apology and suspension pandering to a PC world? He has made racist remarks for years, or permitted them on his show. If it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck...

Imus is an asshole.

I support his right to be an asshole.

I will exercise my right not to listen to his asshole show.

The whole point of freedom of speech makes it easier for me to know who the assholes are and avoid those assholes accordingly.

Yes, you are right, let's take him out and hang the son of a bitch! Strip him down naked, hang him from a tree and let the whole team whip his old tired ass. Then put him in the stocks and let everyone who would like have a wack at him!

Now where did I put that can of tar?

Good post salad.

Here, in a nutshell, is my opinion on freedom of speech:

Just because you can say something, doesn't mean you should.

That's it.

Yes, Yes Yes.....now here is something I can stand up and cheer about!

The general feeling that I'm getting from this thread is Don Imus is an asshole. No argument from me there.

The second feeling I'm getting from this thread is Al Sharpton is an asshole. No argument from me there.

I say we should put the two of them in a steel cage and give them socks full of bull shit and let them beat each other's brains out. Put it on Pay-Per-View, sell tickets.

Ah, gee. Degraded? Poor things. How about a stuffed animal? Would that make you feel better? Does someone need to kiss your boo-boos? "He's a mean man, mommy."

That, or let them settle it by way of a beauty contest.

Actually, the only purpose Sharpton's over the top reaction serves is that it may make Imus a little more hesitant to make such racist comments over the air in the future. That, coupled with his suspension, might curtail the pattern of comments, to which don tomasso alluded.

Yes, with Geraldo Douchebag Rivera as Special Guest Referee!

On the contrary, the women, who were the subject of Imus' vulgar sketch, have exhibited more class and maturity than Imus ever has. They represented their university and advanced against the odds to reach a championship game, after which a jerk with an audience demeans them by calling them "nappy headed hos."
Just as Imus enjoys freedom of speech, so to those offended are free to express their outrage. I haven't followed the aftermath of this story closely, but I don't believe any of them stooped to his level.

You have more patience. I would be giving one of those damn Yankees a Jerry Lawler*-patented piledriver by the end of that conversation.

*=King of Memphis!

BTW there is no freedom of speech on terrestrial radio. Speech is governed by the FCC.

So, people should make public statements that are racist, mean-spirited and degrading? And the people who those remarks are aimed at are just big, whiny babies for being offended? I don't understand what you're saying. And who said that the women that he belittled have acted like children, which your post seems to have implied? I think that SC, in his usual pithy and succinct manner, has summed it up the best.

Looks like Imus will have to meet the Rutgers women's basketball team privately.

I watched their press conference this morning and I'll say this, these young women displayed alot of class, more than any of the shock jocks ever have.

Good for them.

Female athletes are true student-athletes, very, very few of them ever make millions in sports. They are students in the truest sense of the word and some of the finest ppl I've ever met, class and debonair abound.

He's going to feel like an old weed surrounded by roses when he has to look those women in the eye.

Good post Ice, I couldn't agree more.

Yeah Right., Private! How much do you want to bet that Sharpton and Jackson will get they noses into this meeting?

This is horse shit. For two reasons.

#1 Al Sharpton the asshole is nothing more then a black/man version of Gloria Allred.

#2 If Imus said white trash or something else, no one would hear about it in the news or even be pissed.

I read this and it says it all.

SB you are right, and from some of the posts here you can see who the not so closeted bigots are (AND I MEAN YOU FATHERSON). Imus said a disgraceful thing, and these idiots want to put on their white sheets and use it as an excuse to condemn Sharpton and Jackson. In other words rather than addresss the real issue they want to change the subject and use it as a way to advance their own agendas.

I always knew you were a bigot, fathersson. ;-)

Sharpton and Jackson don't need anyone's condemnation...they do that well enough on their own. All I'm saying is you people harpin' on "hurt feelings" obviously haven't been through anything really harsh in life. Trust me, there are far worse things which would make someone calling you a "bad name" seem like a picnic with strippers. Jeez, I wish I had a crayon to write with...

And clearly there's the ol' double standard....AGAIN. If I don't approve of certain programming on TV, I'm told to not make a fuss and try to censor the networks, but rather just change the channel. Fine. Then don't get up in arms over Imus or similar idiots. Just change the channel, don't buy their stuff, etc., etc. That's what folks did with the Dixie Chicks incident and those boycotters were still ostracized for doing so! Talk about damned if you do and damned if you don't...It must be a real talent to be able to talk out of both sides of the mouth.

Hurt feelings...sheesh. I wish all I'd ever had to deal with in life was hurt feelings...

Because I'm offended by what Imus said and think that he got his just desserts, that means that I've had sunshine and rainbows and puppies and daffodils my entire life? Snake, you are not naive enough to believe that. Nobody in this world gets a free pass, and everyone has had their fair share of heavy loads that they must carry. That's life.

Does this mean that I think that anyone is right to hop on this bandwagon? No. I think that anyone who uses this incident to forward their own agenda is loathsome. But what it does mean to me is that Imus did a wrong thing, and he should pay a price.

That's what I try to teach my children. Nobody can truly stop you from doing things in life, but there are consequences. If more people today understood that simple lesson, I believe that the world would be a better place.