Did Imus talk about the Rutgers women's team?

I think it did bother them Shot. It certainly bothered Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer. But I think Imus would've been suspended or worse regardless.

 

I'm sure it did.

I'm just picturing the sputtering of the feminists and Sharptons of the world IF the Rutgers women said, "Worry about yourselves; we're fine."

 

I see your point very well. But I-man fucked up too royally to be ignored. Something had to happen.

 

Imus a journalist?

You must be a rapper.

 

no but I like rap music.

 

Do you like gansta rap?

 

certain songs.

 

I like certain songs, too.

None of them happen to be gangsta rap...

 

CBS and its sister company- Viacom are in an interesting situation. Viacom happens to be the owner of MTV and BET. I wonder in light of the issues that Imus raised with Sharpton on gansta rap will Viacom take steps to insure that it does not appear anymore on their programing.

If they don't it would them seem highly hypocritical.

 

from Jeff Jacoby, Boston Globe columnist 022603:
1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.


Jesse Jackson...

Calls an area of NYC "Himeytown"
Preaches responsibility, yet we find out he secretly has an illegitimate child.
Immediately declares the Duke lacrosse team guilty of rape, says he'll pay for her college tuition.


Why have these shakedown artists never been suspended for racist activity?

Just askin'.

 

Cause we dont have anyone willing to start two threads on him...

And he's a universal asshole...

 

Imus made a terrible decision to go sit down with the rev al. Nothing good was going to come of it.