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Title: The Sheer Hypocrisy Of CBS Firing Don Imus
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URL Source: http://www.rense.com/general76/nap.htm
Published: Apr 13, 2007
Author: Henry Makow PhD
Post Date: 2007-04-13 16:29:19 by robin
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Warning - Please be advised the following Commentary contains citations of sexually explicit profanity. -ed When Don Imus referred to a Black women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" he was using a description ("hos") that Black rappers have popularized on CBS sister stations. CBS is owned by Viacom, http://www.cjr.org/tools/owners/viacom.asp which also owns MTV and VHS. These stations are responsible for making this expression part of the national vocabulary. Viacom also owns "Famous Music," which publishes and markets the work of hip-hop and rap artists who portray Black women as "bitches" and "hoes." A cursory search yielded this couplet from Rapper "Cadillac Tah": Bitches come, bitches go But little do they know we don't love them ho's ("Come and Go") So, Imus is double victimized by CBS's owners. First they popularize a derogatory attitude and expression, and then they fire him for using it. The expression is so common that Imus' sidekick actually introduced it into the conversation: "Imus: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos and - McGuirk: Some hard-core hos. Imus: That's some nappy-headed hos there. I'm gonna tell you that now, man, that's some - woo. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so, like - kinda like - I don't know." Imus transgressed because Blacks can call their women "hos," but Whites have to treat them with kid gloves, as an endangered species.(They are a privileged subset of another endangered minority, women.) These Anti-White-Male prejudices were apparent when the CBS President, Leslie Moonves, one of the Original Endangered Minority (upon which all others are modeled,) announced he was firing Imus. "There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said... "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision." "Young women of color trying to make their way in this society." Does he mean women like the Black stripper who falsely accused the Duke Lacrosse players of rape? Does he mean language of the kind Viacom is broadcasting, publishing and selling!? You need a shoe shine job The way you polish a knob Backstage panties down eat dick Good-bye Biotch!! (Ya Rule "Extacy") "Young women of color trying to make their way in this society?" That's a laugh! Every corporation, university and government department has orders to rush them to the head of the line! This is confirmed by the next paragraph: "Imus had a long history of inflammatory remarks. But something struck a raw nerve when he targeted the Rutgers team - which includes a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy - after they lost in the NCAA championship game." Imus' Remarks spawned a feeding frenzy. All the usual sharks--Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey, Hilary Clinton, Jesse Jackson and Barack Obama-cashed in. Jackson called the firing "a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation." Like this from Viacom's "Famous Music" site? Look, Samantha, Loraine, Monica, Veronica Veronica, she treated my dick like a harmonica cock sucker How you think I learned how to twist it and turn Ya back until it's broke, make you feel it in your throat It was Pamela, Linda, Keisha, Nicole Had me fuckin while I was drivin on cruise control Can't wait to get it home and teach it all to you Look I'm just tryna be the best, I'm doin it all for you You know that thing with the peanut butter My Brooklyn bitch said fuck untyin the ropes, it's faster with a box cutter I know you love the way I'm diggin you out But always wanna fuckin argue so let's figure this out I'm just tryna make you happy bitch Who's there for you anytime you get in the mood for suckin a dick (Xzibit, "Fuckin You Right, Restless") Said Sharpton: "[Imus]says he wants to be forgiven. I hope he continues in that process. But we cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism." Who is he kidding? Does he listen to what Viacom is broadcasting? Cops gettin mad cause I paid 'em off, made 'em cough blood and shit That's what the hell you motherfuckers get, we runs this bitch? So hey, you ain't gotta be scared to fuck If you want head, then prepare to suck (do it) Even if the nigga don't care to nut For every stroke, it's a hundred bucks Respect the game, you just a slut So open your legs up and get my duck ("Pimp Like Me" D-12 Devil's Night) The principled men of CBS stand to lose revenues of $15 million a year from Imus' Show. But they make much more than that from promoting and selling this poison. It gets better! Imus has raised more than $40 million dollars to fight SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) and was in the middle of a fund raising marathon Thursday when the announcement was made! Corporate sponsors affirmed their political bona fides by canceling advertising. If you like Imus, boycott the following: American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and General Motors Corp. But buy Bigelow Tea. " Imus thanked one sponsor, Bigelow Tea, for sticking by him." Another Uncle Tom, Bryan Monroe, president of the National Association of Black Journalists and director of Ebony and Jet magazines, met with Moonves on Wednesday.He urged them ... to take a stand against the coarsening of culture. "Something happened in the last week around America," Monroe said. "It's not just what the radio host did. America said enough is enough. America said we don't want this kind of conversation, we don't want this kind of vitriol, especially with teenagers." Does this guy ever watch MTV? Does he live in the USA? *CONCLUSION* Don Imus is another victim of the Culture War, a ritual sacrifice to the God of political correctness. He is an object lesson for average Americans on when "prejudice and hate" is allowed and when it is not. (Come in Mel Gibson and Michael Richards.) It is allowed against White Christian heterosexuals. See "Imus Treatment Ignored for Catholic Bashers" It is not allowed against Blacks, Jews and homosexuals. I didn't listen to Imus but he also criticized powerful Jews. I don't think /anyone/ should get the Imus treatment. It smacks of the Orwellian thought control, Soviet show trials and Maoist rituals of public chastisement and contrition. It smacks of the New World Order. What is wrong with hatred and prejudice anyway? Do we fault the Holocaust survivor who hates Nazis? Do we blame the battered wife who hates the man who disfigured her? Do we begrudge the Black slave who hates the man who wields the whip? Wouldn't they be less than human not to hate them? I do not believe people hate for no reason. There is a justified hatred that is natural, necessary and human, and we are being conditioned to be impassive. Similarly isn't "prejudice" another term for learning from experience? Often it's really "postjudice." I think most people will change their views when they see that the facts have changed. Then why should we blame people who resent being relegated to second-class citizens in their own country? Who resent that a foreign central banking cartel has taken control of politics and the media? Who resent it flooding the country with aliens in order to change its character? Who resent that marriages and families have been destroyed by Feminism, introduced by those Communist and Media Jews who serve this cartel? Who resent that their young are dying and their nation is being bled dry by the banker's foreign wars? Who resent they are losing their freedom under the guise of a phony war on terror? Who resent that the fearless media doesn't expose the scoundrels who are really responsible for 9-11 and the death of 3000 Americans? The real endangered minority is Don Imus' audience: the average white Christian American. The foreign elites are using minorities to dis-empower the majority. Don Imus may have expressed the majority's resentment. He had to go. Let's make the bastards pay. ---- Henry Makow Ph.D. is the inventor of the game Scruples and author of "A Long Way to go for a Date." His articles exposing fe-manism and the New World Order can be found at his web site www.savethemales.ca He enjoys receiving comments, some of which he posts on his site using first names only. hmakow@gmail.com
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Ann Coulter has permanent free speech pass for observing the 'Ones not to spoken of above a whisper' protocol... Don Imus, Trash-Talk and the Decline of Civility in America But the fact that there are bigots among other races in no way diminishes the offense against the Rutgers team. Imus should know better; with his prominent position comes responsibility. And let's be real. Any black talk-show host who called a sports team comprised of Judaic girls "shikses" or "zonah," would be out of a job faster than you can spell A-D-L.
Imus' lawyers are probably licking their chops.
This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
I wondered about that.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Victimized? Please. They were begging for a chance to fire this no ratings turd of a host for years - but he and his miserable show have been protected from up on high in the Beltway for years. The man had some powerful friends in DC. CBS and MSNBC were carrying his sad ass as a favor. And Imus spouted beltway BS to the letter every singel day and laid out his show to be so used for all the most boring members of the MSM media and mainstream political bigwigs. And let's not play dumb. If a black man calls a white woman a "white bitch"- it has far differenct conotations than when he calls a black woman a bitch. Whites would rightly be offended. Basically- there is an unwritten rule that ethnic groups can make fun of themselves- use derogatory terms for each other among themselves (Jews calling each others "hebs" when they act in a strereoypical fashion). Imus broke that rule. He isn't a rapper. He isn't a black man. He is about as white as they come. Now- granted- blacks are the most sensitive of all groups in this country and things do go to extremes and get out of hand with all this sensitivity crap. But Imus got his due. I'm annoyed that his bosses had to wait to concoct this setup reason to fire his worthless ass because they fear his DC power elite friends- but there it is. CBS and MSNBC are free one albatross.
I think the racial remark is a cover just to get rid of him. So what's the real reason?
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
No wonder there's no progress for blacks. Their leaders focus all their attention on Imus.
PS- the party getting hurt by the worst by this whole thing? Blacks themselves. How crap like this elevates a series of shucksters as their "leaders"- to whom all that matters is little faux paux slips of the tounge. All the huge issues facing blacks in this country and what are their utterly failed- fully beltway owned and trained and bought "leaders" doing? Going around sniffing out "insensitive" speech. And somehow- they get paid doing this. Mystery abounds.
There are at least a couple of conspiracy theories on this: American Radio Icon Don Imus Disgraced, Fired After Threat To Reveal 9/11 Secrets The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston
That's my view...whip up the natives and we got a distraction from 911 and the war as well.
"First they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they fight you. Then you win." --Mahatma K. Gandhi
Dick Cheney? Since Rosie and Sheen have spoken out and joined the 9/11 truth movement, I wonder if Imus was considering it.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Paranoid and thin-skinned? I can believe it.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
CBS and MSNBC wanted to get rid of him- because he sucked and made no money for them. You think MSNBC wanted to simulcast his lame barely alive and kicking radio program that for some weird reason CBS continued to underwrite year after year (with the oddest of ads for radio- like Boeing- and Lockheed- and GE)? Imus had some very powerful friends. And these "friends" could help or hurt CBS and MSNBC in many many ways. The employment of Imus at CBS was like what Mob bosses do with unions- Make jobs for no shows and layabouts and take a kickback- paid the payrolls with uneeded workers. Well- Imus had no freaking audience. He just had powerful friends who were in positions to "Suggest" to CBS that they carry his radio program and "suggest" to MSNBC that they simulcast it. Neither wanted to. But they weren't about to say no. So this "Racial" thing- offers them the perfect out.
Second most sensitive.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Also possible, and diverts attention away from ME, and those that dwell there. Plus giving opportunity to teach the rubes another lesson.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Humongodittoes. I've listened to him or watched him about a dozen times, and he's Nyquil to the brain.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
I am no fan of Howard Stern- but my brother is and he has told me that Stern has been questioning for years why Imus even had a radio program given his ratings- and then- when it got syndicated based on those miserable ratings- he smelled a political rat and has suggested that he is a government mouthpiece who was being protected by his powerful DC buddies.
Thanks for the linkage - amazing stuff.
Howard busted on Imus in his books, too. Imus' show made about 20 million a year; compared to shows like Howard's, which made hundreds of millions, or at least that's what Alex Bennett said on his show. I just thought he was terribly boring. Of course, I feel the same way about that other ancient piece of leather who has his own show... bow tie, always hosts big celebs... Shit. I'm having a brain melt.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
I do not believe people hate for no reason. There is a justified hatred that is natural, necessary and human, and we are being conditioned to be impassive. Similarly isn't "prejudice" another term for learning from experience? Often it's really "postjudice." Truth! I think most people will change their views when they see that the facts have changed. Under some reinforcement schedules they may instead crash and burn, like a compulsive gambler.
In the depth of their sorrow, they shall know; That he who held back holds back no longer.
No- Jews can take a verbal punch and roll with it far better than blacks can. Maybe not about Israel or the holocaust (though I know some Jews who have told holocaust jokes) but about a lot of things they don't get all twisted up in a bunch over. They can take some needling. Living in close proximinty to Italians and Irish for decades toughened them up a bit when it came to the verbal abuse. They learned to dish it out as well. Of course- now- everyone is a "victim" and wants to jump on that train. It's getting comical. When the Jews got their Holocaust memorial in Boston (by the way- every city of 100,000 or more in this country has to have a holocaust memorial no matter what) some Irish Bostonians wanted in on the pity party bandwagon and forced through the creation of a memorial to the Potato Famine- of the freaking 1840's!. It's quite maudlin and sickening- Irish mother- dressed in dirty rags- arms stretched to the heavens in bathotic overdone agony - with her emaciated skeletal tots clutching the ripped hem of her frayed potato sack dress. Yep- Everyone needs to be the victim in this country. Who had it worse? Who can tell the biggest "oppression" story? Bleck. So demeaning.
The Potato Famine is worth remembering, not so that we Irishmen can luxuriate in self-pity, but so that it can serve as a cautionary example of how laissez- fairism pressed too far, like any ideology carried out without any moderation, can do untold harm.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
had nothing to do with the potato famine whatsoever.
Funny, then, how the famine turned from a serious problem into a catastrophe just after a British Tory government was succeeded by a Liberal government, and the Tories' half-hearted relief measures were terminated by the new government.
To reason, indeed, he was not in the habit of attending. His mode of arguing, if it is to be so called, was one not uncommon among dull and stubborn persons, who are accustomed to be surrounded by their inferiors. He asserted a proposition; and, as often as wiser people ventured respectfully to show that it was erroneous, he asserted it again, in exactly the same words, and conceived that, by doing so, he at once disposed of all objections. - Macaulay, "History of England," Vol. 1, Chapter 6, on James II.
And I have no problem remembering the potato famine. Except it seems idiotic for 21st century Irish Americans- 5 and 6 generations removed from that event to insist on the creation of a monument to that event when their ancestors didn't feel a burning need to do so- who were much closer to that event in both time and family. The Irish ruled boston by the 1890's- and they did not "melt" until the 1950's (and still haven't completely in Boston) but yet- oddly they didn't seem fit to wallow in self pity and blight the city with a god awful obscene memorial of a starving family on a main commenricial street. Of course- as classless and sickening as that memorial is- it doesn't approach the Holocaust memorial in bad taste and bathos- as that is six glass smoke stacks with simulated smoke bellowing out of them 24/7.
Don't be dissin' the Irish, there Burkee. That said, I agree that the "victim" mentality is just as odious as the "apology" mentality or the "acknowledgment" mentality. Obama should have to apologize to Hillary... Turkey has to acknowledge the Armenian genocide... Bleck is right. Toughen up folks. Get over it.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
No shit? That's just stupid.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
What is the statute of limitations on "apologies" for past "collective crimes" by ethnic groups? Of course ethnic groups don't committ collective crimes- indiviudals committ crimes- but that is beside the point. Let's assume that "collective crime" is a real thing. Where does one draw the line on apologies? When the genetic line gets blurry? For example- do today's Italians really have much DNA from ancient Romans in them at all? Do they have to apologize to the French who might have only a smidgeon of Gaul in them? Or to the British- who only have a tiny bit of Brit in them? Is 500 years about right? I don't see to many calls for Spain to apologize to the New World? The one exception to the 500 year rule being Israel- they get 1000 years. Hell- not only do they demand apologies from Arab Moslems (who were not moslems back then) but they demand the land as well- based on 1000 year old claims. Native American indians must wonder about that bullshit.
It's weird, tasteless, and innapropriate. Walking the area with kids- "what's dis daddy? Well tabby- these are smoke stacks where some bad people burned the bodies of people they killed some years ago! And we have this to remember them by sweetheart." Freaking weird. Hey- how about a simulated ditch with carved reliefs of bodies shot in the back of the head in it as a memorial to victims of Pol Pot! Yeah! Can't have a plaque in a groto with some flowers and park benches around it. Oh no- it needs to be seen by everyone for 5 blocks in every direction- so that kids will see the smoke and ask what the hell it is- want to run over to it and run around in the steam smoke (you can walk right through all the stacks).
And yet they offer no apologies for their biblical slaughters of conquest in places like Canaan, do they?
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
That's fucked up. Sorry, Bostonians. Gotta have a holocaust memorial, ya know. Not that Boston had any goddamn thing to do with it, but you know, if we're gonna keep hittin' you up for foreign aid, we gotta keep reminding you why...
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Jack Abramoff's "Trogdolytes"? They have no doubts.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Second most sensitive. No, they're the most sensitive. They just aren't as powerful as the group you're thinking of. Insult Jews on the air and your Jewish boss waddles down from his office to fire your ass that day. Insult blacks, and the black race-hustlers have to get a meeting with your Jewish boss so that he can waddle down from his office to fire you in a few days. The Jews just look more sensitive because they can mete out the punishment more swiftly.
Insult Jews on the air and your Jewish boss waddles down from his office to fire your ass that day. Insult blacks, and the black race-hustlers have to get a meeting with your Jewish boss so that he can waddle down from his office to fire you in a few days. The Jews just look more sensitive because they can mete out the punishment more swiftly. Smokin'. Lived up to your namesake there.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
The weirdest memorial - as it is just so random- is one to the Hungarian revolt against their Soviet backed communist government in 1954- just in the middle of a less traveled intersection in the financial district. It's quite bizzare. Boston never had a Hungarian neighborhood or influx either. And then there is a memorial to Vikings on Commonwealth Ave - sponsered by a blue blood 150 years ago who had it in his craw that these little stone piles found along the Charles river were Viking constructions (they weren't.)
Well, luckily a tornado wiped out most of Lubbock in the seventies. Hell, the whole town ain't more than a hundred years old. Not too many of the dang things (memorials) out here.
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
Imus: CBS Bosses Money-Grubbing Jews This happened last November. I think he's been skating on very thin ice since then and may not even have realized it.
The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government. - Sam Houston
Although I'd rather spend eternity locked in a room with Jesse Jackson instead of Abe Foxman. 'Cause with Jesse you can still atleast make fun of the Jews.
More stupidity than hypocrisy. Comparing someone with access to the airwaves 25 hours a week and with top politicians as guests to some thugs is a stretch. My complaint is that other radio types have said far worse, deadly serious. And Imus gets canned for a really bad, offensive joke. But Imus has been playing this game forever. Bernie McGuirk says something HORRIBLE and Imus tsk-tsks. But the message is delivered. Imus can't fall back on "I'm not a racist" when he allows Bernie to spew whatever he wants all the time. Still, the punishment did not fit the crime.
I don't remember any warnings. His outrageous remarks are part of his schtick. There's more to this, IMO.
"The line separating good and evil passes not through states, nor between classes nor between parties either — but right through the human heart." — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
badadup...
It is not a Justice System. It is just a system.
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Top • Page Up • Full Thread • Page Down • Bottom/LatestIt is not allowed against Blacks, Jews and homosexuals. I didn't listen to Imus but he also criticized powerful Jews.
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
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#3. To: Eoghan (#1)
It is not allowed against Blacks, Jews and homosexuals. I didn't listen to Imus but he also criticized powerful Jews.
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I've already said too much.
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Victimized? Please. They were begging for a chance to fire this no ratings turd of a host for years
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I think the racial remark is a cover just to get rid of him. So what's the real reason?
“Yes, but is this good for Jews?"
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Now- granted- blacks are the most sensitive of all groups in this country
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CBS and MSNBC wanted to get rid of him- because he sucked and made no money for them.
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I am no fan of Howard Stern- but my brother is and he has told me that Stern has been questioning for years why Imus even had a radio program given his ratings- and then- when it got syndicated based on those miserable ratings- he smelled a political rat and has suggested that he is a government mouthpiece who was being protected by his powerful DC buddies.
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laissez- fairism . . .
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as that is six glass smoke stacks with simulated smoke bellowing out of them 24/7.
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The one exception to the 500 year rule being Israel- they get 1000 years. Hell- not only do they demand apologies from Arab Moslems (who were not moslems back then) but they demand the land as well- based on 1000 year old claims. Native American indians must wonder about that bullshit.
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Oh no- it needs to be seen by everyone for 5 blocks in every direction- so that kids will see the smoke and ask what the hell it is- want to run over to it and run around in the steam smoke (you can walk right through all the stacks).
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Now- granted- blacks are the most sensitive of all groups in this country
#34. To: SmokinOPs (#33)
No, they're the most sensitive. They just aren't as powerful as the group you're thinking of.
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Still, the punishment did not fit the crime.
#41. To: SmokinOPs (#38)
'Cause with Jesse you can still atleast make fun of the Jews.
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