IMUS at it again

[Redz]

He basically tried using the "out" I referred to earlier in this thread.

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/I/IMUS_COLOR_COMMENT?SITE=MAHYC&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

I didn't hear the actual audio, and I doubt this was the context, but if all he said in response the answer to his question was "Well, there you go. Now we know.", it could be construed that he was expressing "Now we know he's African-American."  Not necessarily "Well, there you go, he's black and that explains his crime record."

[nickagneta]

So Imus goes with the defense that the reason he said what he did was because he was implying that Jones was a victim of racial profiling?! That Jones was arrested 6 times because when there's a problem cops always arrest the black guy?!

What a complete and utter idiot!! WABC should fire him for simple lack of intelligence never mind the fact that he's a bigot. Being arrested outside nightclubs and strip clubs at 4 in the morning under a myriad of charges is not racial profiling. For Imus to take this stand is moronic.

[Champzilla]

IMUS blows, STERN rules.

[Dart_Adams]

So...does he have to make ANOTHER apology? Does he get suspended? Or will he finally lose his [dang] job and it will be a wrap for him on the airwaves? What does he have to do for it to be the end of the line? SMH.

One.

[Amonkey]

What kind of station is WABC anyways?  ESPN and ABC Disney are making sure that everyone knows theyre not affiliated with them.  It seems (like I said, I dont know what kind of station this is, this purely an assumption) that he's going from a highly regarded national radio (and TV) to a much less publicized national radio.  I think pretty soon, he'll find himself all the way to some no name local radio station.  I think he should be fired, but if this is his ultimate fate, then at least the free market has spoken.

[Eja117]

There are two wars going on and people starving to death. If IMUS is our biggest problem we should be so lucky. Just change the channel and let the free market decide. It'll work itself out.

While I do share your perspective that there are more important issues than Imus' comments, I respect both those who 'change the channel' and those who choose to speak out.  One of the great societal changes in my lifetime is that there are now social consequences for making racially or ethnically biased statements.  It was not that long ago that baltant slurs were used without folks thinking for a minute that someone might call them out on it.  People can still choose to make comments that may offend (the right to free speech), but they should be aware that nowadays someone may call them out on it.  Sometimes reactions to questionable comments go too far in terms of sensitivity, but I personally believe that going too far for the time being is how society eventually adjusts the balance.  I generally like political correctness since I much prefer it to the world where no one questioned stereotypic comments or the biases (and at times oppressive conditions) that were perpetuated by such sentiments. 

 

But what's the point of "calling someone out on it"? Either someone get's fired or they don't. Plus I have my suspicions that the same people "calling out IMUS" and the ones laughing when they go home and see the guy saying "Red Stripe and reggae. Helping our white friends dance for over 50 years!"  They laughed cause it was funny..to them and to a lot of other people too. And IMUS makes a joke on Wednesday about whoever is politically incorrect at the moment, maybe Catholics or Republicans or gays or something, and then on Thursday makes a joke about the Rutgers basketball team and now he has to be "called out." Too little, too late. Too disingenuous. Too many people laugh at IMUS while it's convenient and then call him out to advance their careers or make themselves feel better about themselves.

[Eja117]

So...does he have to make ANOTHER apology? Does he get suspended? Or will he finally lose his [dang] job and it will be a wrap for him on the airwaves? What does he have to do for it to be the end of the line? SMH.

One.

This is like that episode of The Critic when Jay Sherman won the Pulitzer for his essay "If the movie stinks just don't go." If you stop going to bad movies they'll stop making bad movies. Then a movie exec sees it and says "The gig is up" and jumps out the window.

I apologize. IMUS is my fault. I listened to him and laughed for a while. He got better ratings cause of me. After the Super Bowl that Paul McCartney did the half time he called Paul a phony and I stopped listening to him.

If you listen to him and complain about him you're a hypocrite. If you don't listen to him, then it doesn't affect you almost at all and you can go on with your life

[Redz]

There are two wars going on and people starving to death. If IMUS is our biggest problem we should be so lucky. Just change the channel and let the free market decide. It'll work itself out.

Sorry, just saw this remark and had to say something.  Using this logic, why should we waste our energy talking about the Celtics either?

[slamdunk]

Imus is ignorant. According to him, Pacman was an innocent bystander that was only arrested because of his race. Six times. It's a myth. On the whole, blacks get arrested because they committed a crime and not because the cop is racist.

[Eja117]

There are two wars going on and people starving to death. If IMUS is our biggest problem we should be so lucky. Just change the channel and let the free market decide. It'll work itself out.

Sorry, just saw this remark and had to say something.  Using this logic, why should we waste our energy talking about the Celtics either?

Well, like I said. Let the free market decide.

[iowa plowboy]

EGA has it exactly right.

There are idiots and racists all over the dial.  While I wish there wasn't, we're fortunate as a nation that we have the choice to mute or tune away from them.  But when we start screaming for their firing, we only help them and the otherwise lazy, harmful people who benefit from racism.

The more people scream and protest Imus the bigger his audience gets.  The only people who benefit are Imus himself, his sponsors, the stations who broadcast him, and the professional poverty pimps without real jobs like Jackson and Sharpton, who can come in and blackmail and fleece the TV/radio stations to line their own pockets.  But ultimately, if the sponsors aren't getting revenues from the listeners,  the stations can't absorb the blackmail money from the poverty pimps and stay profitable.  Then, Imus will cease to exist.....Unless, of course, he slides over to NPR.

[Fastbreak]

Wow...guess nobody actually has listened to Imus over the last few months..for if you had..none of you would be jumping on a snipet of sound the was carefully chosen for you to base your opinions..as the great philosopher Ashton said "you've been punked".