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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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