Can we talk about Imus like adults?

And if it has not, then the reaction to that has been to what THEY said, not what IMUS said.

See the difference?

 

Shottie, I know you well enoguh to know that you don't throw things out there without giving them some thought.
I just don't think the "they should be above this" idea holds water. Truth is, they are above it. But that doesn't mean a measured, intelligent response -- which is what I saw in yesterday's press conference -- isn't appropriate.

 

I just don't see how making an example of Don Imus is going to fix the problems you mentioned in the black community. Seems to me that going after the hip-hop moguls and raising awareness to their own offensive language makes more sense, the 2 Live Crew example notwithstanding.

 

Understood, sp, but I have to disagree. I think stony silence would have held just as much weight rather than having a formal news conference to "announce" that they would hold court themselves and determine whether Imus is sincere in his apology (which, incidentally, he's not).

 

Washington Post on the dilemna of the Imus Guest Corps...


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/10/AR2007041001861.html

 

And your point would be what?
The reaction to the press conference has been wholly based on the opinion of outsiders as to how these women "should" act in response to what the wrinkle farm said, which implies a value judgment as to the seriousness of the original comments. Therefore, the topic at hand is still the original statement. In this case, I believe that many of the reactions to the press conference are based in a misapprehension (at best) of the seriousness of the precipitating event. I'm sorry that this doesn't meet your high standards of how people should behave when they're slandered in front of millions of people. But those standards are larded so thickly with condescension that it's hard to see what they are.

 

This is why I don't even go into the political threads.

Lard THIS thickly. :

 

Halfway down page 5, I asked the same in regards to the Whitlock column. I have yet to hear from the home office.

 

Not defending what Imus said at all, but turning this into the crime of the century and worthy of 24/7 news coverage is laughable. It was a throwaway line meant to be funny. It wasn't. He apologized.

He didn't kill anybody.

Now he has scarred these girls for life, as their coach claimed during that press conference? Come on. They didn't know who Imus was five days ago.

 

I don't think Grant went through Richmond very quickly at all -- to be honest with you.

 

Another precinct heard from:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Imus-Protests.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

Yeah it took nearly the entire war for Richmond to fall.