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re: Imus

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Jacqueline 03:19 pm UTC 04/13/07
In reply to: Imus - Vin 02:52 pm UTC 04/13/07

I agree - it's a farce.

And really...the girls on that basketball team were really "harmed" - "injured" and "had their dreams stolen" by what Imus said? Hard to imagine.

Don't mommies teach their kids the "Sticks & Stones" thing anymore??

> I'm no Imus fan, but this firing is a farce. If CBS
> wanted to fire him for violating some kind of policy, it
> should have happened immediately. Instead, they've just
> kow-towed to pressure. If no one complained, CBS wouldn't
> have batted an eyelash.
>
> I really hope Al Sharpton and his offended followers take
> their outrage down the street to Deathrow/Interscope and
> demand the firing of every musical act that uses the same
> kind of racial language that got Imus fired.
>
> Imus is an elderly white man who wears a cowboy hat and
> owns a ranch; he didn't invent the word "ho," somebody put
> it into his lexicon. Sharpton should go after those
> people, too, or he's a hypocrite. But then, I think he
> established that fact years ago, didn't he?


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