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Don Imus and the Gang of 500 Wankers | 32 comments (32 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)

Re: Don Imus and the Gang of 500 Wankers (none / 0)

Fineman comes off sounding almost worse than Imus...I don't care what he 'thought' he was trying to tell Imus he just sounds ignorant and stupid himself.(nothing particularly new for him anyway) Can't say this kind of stuff now but maybe a few years ago you could..bullshit, bullshit and more bullshit...I seem to recall something from the 60's oh yeah the Civil Rights movement and racist language and words were supposed to be taboo then how is it we're still putting up with all these sick and stupid words still...one step forward two steps back...it gets damn depressing sometimes to see just little progress has been made in our human evolution.

And I'd be willing to bet that the chances of Imus getting canned is absolutely zero.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 03:56:44 PM EST

Re: Don Imus and the Gang of 500 Wankers (none / 1)

It's not just racist, it's sexist, too. AG is right; Imus has long been an asshole, so this shouldn't be news. What is news is that it's being dealt with, and more important how it's being dealt with. Post-Kramer, there's a circuit you have to run when you say in public what you think in private. But this isn't enough. The Rutgers basketball team has some of the best athletes in the country on it; how much of Meredith Viera's time has been spent on them being called hos? And where are our professional moral scolds? Where's Holy Joe? And where's $500-slots Bill Bennett? And, lest we forget our friends in the DLC, where's Harold "I like Playboy, and I like girls" Ford?

AP's lurker spouse contributed to this post ;-)

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 04:38:32 PM EST
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hey there AP's lurker spouse. Long time no see.

I agree it is a joke that the women on the team have to spend two seconds responding to this garbage.

by BooMan on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 05:12:20 PM EST
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I agree completely...don't know why I didn't include the rampant sexism-that can get me almost more riled up than racism-sexism is all around us daily, in the language and images of women..how women are still supposed to act or not act, say or not say, how we're supposed to look or not look even how our voices are supposed to sound for petes sake-women face a daily minefield every day when they step out their doors to go to work, go to the store go anywhere for that matter of being criticized for 'something' relating to their simply being women and not fitting societies unrealistic image of what we are supposed to be.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

by chocolate ink on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 05:31:52 PM EST
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That's what frustrates me, too. He called these young women whores. Anytime a woman needs to be "cut down to size" we are called whores and sluts and worse. It's the sexualized degradation that's so grating. It's the worst cut of all.

(And what is it about Black women's hair that sets these people off? I mean, look at Imus--his hair looks like fried poodle hair.)

The silence is deafening. This sexist asshat has issues, and he needs to be fired. We've all seen folks fired for less.

Can't hear ya, Peach!

by AP on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 10:54:44 PM EST
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Re: Don Imus and the Gang of 500 Wankers (none / 0)

The more I watch all the fallout - the more I get frustrated at the lack of comment on the sexism of what he said. I know it was absolutely ugly racism - but the sexism was just as ugly.

For example, I think Imus owes an apology to the Tennessee players too. What was his comment about them after winning the NCAA Final Four Basketball championship? It was to call them "cute." Can you imagine his one and only comment about the Florida Gators basketball team after winning the men's final four being that they are cute???

All of the women from both teams are amazing athletes that just accomplished something very few people ever could. And to demean all of them by laughing while you comment on how they look was a slap in the face to them, their families and their coaching staff.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 07:53:58 PM EST
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I'm with you on that one, NL. It seems like whenever women achieve something notable the misogynists and sexists ratchet up the ho and bitch talk to put them in their rightful place.

by Second Nature (denn1214 at gmail) on Mon Apr 9th, 2007 at 08:21:22 PM EST
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I was flipping through news channels this evening trying to find someone talking about something else. I did notice one thing about the Imus coverage. Lou Dobbs had a NOW spokeswoman on. I didn't see any other women. I saw a few black men interviewed, but I didn't see any black women interviewed. Condi Rice would have been a good pick. I might even watch that one.

Land of the watched, because of the cowed.

by hens teeth on Tue Apr 10th, 2007 at 01:19:11 AM EST
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God forbid they interview a black woman athlete about what its like to have your life's achievments degraded by this kind of racist/sexist garbage. It happens all the time, so there would be plenty of possible candidates.

Doesn't information itself have a liberal bias? Steven Colbert

by NLinStPaul on Tue Apr 10th, 2007 at 08:50:20 AM EST
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