Did Imus talk about the Rutgers women's team?

Don't call me a bigot, asswipe.

The guy is a fraud. The fact that he's black and I am calling him a fraud does not make me a bigot. I call lots of people frauds. My motivation isn't race.

With regard to Toyota, let's see. He used the typical scam (it rarely varies, because he sticks with what works)... Threatened a boycott over an ad he objected to. Toyota got on its knees and groveled. But with the opportunity there, he blew the molehill into a mountain and put the extortion plan into action. He knows racism claims freak businesses out and they will pay to make them go away. So he expanded it into a diversity issue, which Toyota could have actually countered succesfully. But who is going to take on the "civil rights" leader calling them racists? So Toyota ponied up $7.8 billion dollars, which largely went into the pockets of minority suppliers greasing Operation Rainbow Push (which is why the IRS is all up in his business!), and of course Jackson personally, was the biggest beneficiary of all.

Would be one thing if he pulled off the scam once and had anything else he does of good consequence. But his whole existence is to extort money from people. Call me a bigot again, and I'll document at least a dozen instances. It was particularly interesting that when he was running the scam against Annheiser-Busch, he also demanded $500 each from local BLACK businessmen to support his boycott. Bettering the African-American race may or may not be a priority for this guy. For him, money talks, just about anything else walks.

Oh, and if I am a bigot, so are dozens of editorial pages that have written about this and called him a fraud too. But thanks for labeling me with such a negative term, dickwad.

And I don't need to talk about the community work I do (because I get a thrill out of it), which really isn't designed to "help a minority" as it is to help kids, who are by circumstance nearly all minorities. I actually think the thing that says more about me is that my black friends know I don't look at them as black guys. I judge them individually. They are my friends because they are fun and they are good guys and they aren't morons. I'm sure they' read your posts on here and ask who the idiot is.

 

boots, The name calling began with you. How disingenuous, but typical. My calling Jesse Jackson a fraud is a legitimate argument made by many others--do I really have to hit Nexis to find the op-ed pieces?--without racist motives. You might personally disagree. But I never once mentioned race or made it into an issue about the color of his skin. And I think my posting history on here demonstrates that I will call ANYONE I think is dishonest what they are--black, white or martian. So I have hopefully earned credibility with people, unlike you, who matter.

You called me a bigot. I take allegations like that more seriously than people who use it as a throwaway, because it strikes at the heart of what I stand for. Call me a bigot without justification, and I will call you an asshole, because only an asshole looking to start a fight with me, would construe anything I said to be bigotry.

And you really need to gather some reading comprehension skills. That wasn't the typical, "I have lots of black friends." It was a statement about how I judge people individually... That kind of person is actually capable of judging a person on his merits, and when someone has a beef with a person of color, they listen to the beef, rather than shouting, "BIGOT." You're the one with the problem (well, lots of problems, as demonstrated by your behavior on the board).

Now feel free to barrage me with unanswered condescending PMs in which you call me "son." You haven't earned my respect and I am not your son, you blowhard, condescending moron.

 

PHINJ, Fair point. I wasn't aware that Jackson was doing anything... yet. I thought it was Al Sharpton's show right now. No doubt, given his history, Jackson is pouring over the possible angles, though. Yes, I am cynical when it comes to the man. It's with good reason. Hit google and read about some of his better shake downs.

Let me be clear, though, that none of it excuses or should be a side show that takes the onus off of Imus. He's an unfunny idiot who unapologetically (until his ass was against the wall) did and said something that made a lot people feel reflexively ill. He deserves any fallout, and more, that he gets from this. Those Rutgers basketball players didn't deserve that kind of disrespect and he single-handedly brought back to life detestable words used to demean black people that should have long ago disappeared from the language. The fact that him and his team used those words, and thought it was humurous, says a great deal about him.