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- Tours732, on 10/12/2007, -46/+414Michelle Malkin nails the point home here, Imus is an inconsequential old shock jock on the way to oblivion and all the race hustlers are on him like...well you know. In the meantime, this vast river of misogynistic and racist lyric just flows to the hip hop ocean. What a travesty.
- nicpedersen, on 10/12/2007, -16/+2872 words: Double Standard.
- jbarnes1234, on 10/12/2007, -13/+214There is something terribly wrong this week. I've found myself applauding Geraldo, defending Imus and agreeing with Michelle Malkin.
I can't even describe how much that agitates me. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -15/+144I can't believe people listen to this crap.
- Liam76, on 10/12/2007, -36/+150@ look4alec
How is she a racist? Where in there does she say that all, most or even a significant percent of muslims are terrorists? She is simply saying that people can and should stand up for themselves when people begin acting strangely on planes and not to ignore or excuse their actions simply because they are muslims. She is saying that people should not excuse hate speech because it is spread by a muslim. - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -12/+107White suburban kids eat this rap shyt up they're the ones keeping rappers rich
- FilteringCraig, on 10/12/2007, -16/+109The fact remains that Imus failed miserably with his joke, but it was just a joke. It was enveloped in a quote from Spike Lee's movie School Daze. The joke is the juxtaposition of an old white man using hip-hop lingo. In this case some innocent young girls were smashed as the brunt of the joke. That was unfortunate and Imus should be sorry for it. The fact is, though, that this was just a failed joke. He didn't speak it from anger like Michael Richards.
This isn't a big deal. How is it that this can get such a media blitz, but real problems with real actions and real people getting hurt like riots in MSG get visited and forgotten so quickly? Where are the marches, vigils, talks and focus on these types of events by Sharpton and Jessie Jackson? - hurricane567, on 10/12/2007, -15/+100Every time a car rolls past mine blasting rap, i turn Motorhead's Ace of Spades up louder lol
- mlvassallo, on 10/12/2007, -8/+91I don't like Malkin, I've never seen eye to eye with her- but today I do. After watching the young ladies from the Rutgers Basketball team repeatedly say it "hurt" to have somebody call them "hos" I seriously wondered if the same rules apply in the clubs on Friday night.
- ClassicJBC, on 10/12/2007, -86/+165Malkin's an idiot, but she has a point here.
- akira185, on 10/12/2007, -28/+107What gets me is the same people claiming Imus is a racist, then turn on this kind of music, then turn around and say Malkin is a racist because she tells the truth about islamofascism.
The hypocrisy parade goes on and on. - kylesellers, on 10/12/2007, -24/+92@look4alec
Who cares what Michelle Malkin has said before, does that invalidate her point here? Or do you think that everything Thomas Jefferson is invalidated because he owned slaves? No!
Guess what, Ted Kennedy makes some good points (rarely though), and he killed a woman, George Washington spoke truth often, and he was a gold-digger, and Michelle Malkin is right (here at least) even though she is guilty of being criminally conservative.
So much for liberals being open-minded... - AaronTyler, on 10/12/2007, -2/+69You may be the nicest person in the world. You may be Don Imus. It doesn't matter. If you've something wrong, you have to apologize.You have to say you're sorry........To Al Sharpton
http://www.imsorryalsharpton.com/ - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -71/+128@look4alec
Don't read her because she tells the truth? You can only hide from it for so long. Eventually, you grow up. - tsf5000, on 10/12/2007, -5/+61I can't believe I'm saying this but I actually agree with Michelle Malkin. I guess there's a first for everything.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -8/+63This whole story is a joke. It's a witch hunt, a pitty party. Watching the media run with this is just another reminder of how pathetic the state of humanity is.
I've stopped blaming the media, except in matters of political news. They are obviously spinning the hell out of that. The rest of the disgusting garbage shown on the news is the stuff people ask for. The ratings go sky high when a story like Anna Nicole or Imus hits the news, and for several weeks or even months, everyone forgets there is a war in Iraq.
What a gross position we find ourselves in as humans these days. We salivate like hungry beasts when we hear the cable news dinner bell ring. Another freak-show train-wreck coming to you live and in high-definition 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Pass the popcorn, then shoot me in the ***** head. - caution, on 10/12/2007, -14/+66Good story from Malkin here -- go read it even if you dislike her.
More people need to be calling attention to the lyrical brainwashing. I'm *not* calling for the government to look into music again. I'm hoping parents will show up and do their job. - paradox4190, on 10/12/2007, -2/+52@elamr
There are 300,000,000 people in the US. 12% of that is over 30,000,000. That is definitely enough to get 1,000,000 sales. - Bridgetown, on 10/12/2007, -11/+60Sure, there are hypocrites out there.
Sure, the music is bad.
But, I say....it's called free speech.
And people need to get some confidence within and stop letting everything 'offend' them.
Who cares if people sing bad songs?
Who cares what Imus says?
Why is everyone so sensitive? - DET45, on 10/12/2007, -13/+59The real deal is that sharpton and jackson are nothing but hypocritical race antagonist looking for a buck and fame. Both of them over the years have said racial comments and they need to shut up and go away. When will black Americans realize that these two hypocrites could care less about them and care more about lining their pockets. Who put them in charge and how dare they speak up.
- NITM, on 10/12/2007, -20/+65You're right - she nailed it.
- haloguy628, on 10/12/2007, -8/+50Well welcome to the modern day America. Slowly turning into third world ghetto of hipocrats and moral morass where everybody demands their "rights" and where the concept of responsibility is a foreign word.
- ScornForSega, on 10/12/2007, -4/+44You're all missing the point.
Imus wasn't offensive because of what he said, it was offensive because it wasn't set to ***** music! You can say whatever you want if you've got ***** music playing.
Quick, someone make a YTMND to bail Imus out! - reiner15, on 10/12/2007, -0/+39I got a headache trying to read those lyrics... no wonder kids these days can't spell.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -9/+40Question:
Is it "racist" to copy and paste lyrics from a song a rapper made MILLIONS of dollars saying (notice I didn't say "sing")?
like snoops song "bitches ain't ***** but hoes and tricks" Or the famous actor "Ice Cube" who said in NWA "to a kid looking up to me, life ain't nothing but bitches and money".
I really think Chuck D was right when he denounced the whole fiddy cent gangstarr bs, sadly it ruined his rap career. - vvelox, on 10/12/2007, -4/+32Actually I've noticed just as many black people listening to this crap as well here in OH.
- KauaiBoy1960, on 10/12/2007, -9/+36Whatever happened to the old saying:
"Sticks and stones may break my bones
but words will never harm me"
Toughen up world and don't fall for the has beens trying to get back into the center of attention. Remember its sweeps week or month or whatever---both Imus and Sharpton will gain share as a result----most didn't even know Sharpton has a radio show or that Imus was still alive!!!!! - MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -7/+32furi0us1,
I couldn't disagree with you more. Black people shouldn't use the word '*****' either. Either the word and words like it are negative and derogatory or they are not. You don't get to say "when black people say '*****', it's neutral". All you are doing is creating an environment where people are constantly confused about what can and can't be said. Let me ask you this, if Imus or some other person in the media was pretending (acting perhaps) that he was a black man, would it still be ok to use the word '*****' freely?
I've been sitting here trying to think if there is a word that is ok if a white person says it, but a derogatory expletive if someone of another race says it. I'm drawing a blank here. In fact, I don't know of any popular words from any other race that fits the same profile/usage rules as "*****" does. Anyone help me out? - member57, on 10/12/2007, -9/+31@elamr
Just because a person is poor doesn't mean they have to act like animals. The rampant crime, drug abuse, etc. in these urban areas is not the government's fault. People need to take responsibility for their actions, and stop blaming someone or something else. These lyrics are foul no matter who sings them, poor people in these urban areas are being exploited to line the pockets of music execs that have probably never even seen one of these areas. - acex23, on 10/12/2007, -0/+22In a weird way his comment may inspire some change. Racism is racism, there can't be a double standard.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+24as an RU student...this whole thing is BS...no one cared until Sharpton decided it was going to be his political podium. Theres hundreds of guys doing the same thing...doesn't make it right but him being called out is crap.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+26"In the end Don Imus will be forgotten, but the voices of the artists of today will not."
Actually, I'm willing to bet that 99.9% of today's rap "artists" will be as forgotten as Imus will be. For the most part, people aren't remembered for putting out substandard crap.
Sadly, people putting out quality hip hop (DJ Shadow, et al) will only be remembered by a select few. - mobbo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+27I wonder when Sharpton is going to have Bow Wow, R. Kelly, etc on his show to appologize to the nation about their JUST AS TERRIBLE words.
The TRUE racists are people like Sharpton. - drjekelmrhyde, on 10/12/2007, -4/+25Dude not all blacks follow them in fact I dont know of any that follow them Al and Jesse are ATTENTION WHORES now they still have some thier flock of sheep willing to follow the morans
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+22Sharpton is a closet racist himself, I wonder where he gets off callin Imus out.
- displacedtexan, on 10/12/2007, -1/+21Would there be the same outrage if the Rutgers Basketball team was all white and Imus had said, "What a team of redneck white trash...".
I think not. There is a stronger similarity between redneck and nappy then might be readily apparent. Both are acceptable within their social groups but have a negative connotation outside their groups.
This is being blown out of proportion by people like Sharpton who are living in the past and looking for something to bitch about. - appetite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+20go search 'Imus' on Google news and read through the headlines. the media has the complete opposite opinion as Digg. the media is so sensationalistic on these 'racism' charges.
the guy has been on the radio for 20 years. one phrase is enough to qualify him as racist? if he were racist, wouldn't the world know it by now? would it have really taken 20 years to figure it out? this is so ***** stupid. - Grimace421, on 10/12/2007, -2/+21It's free speech until somebody cries to big brother...
...then its crucifiction time... - sxtxixtxcxh, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27elamr: are you saying there isn't one million blacks in america? what's next? you gonna tell me the holocaust didn't happen?
- MissMargo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24She's not really talking about imus but rather all the attention he's getting when the mainstream culture says far worse things everyday. Gosh you are stupid.
- Nougat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+19@joaob (#6103121)
Wrong. I'm as white as they get, and not opposed to rap in the slightest. Now, just like there's ***** pop music, there's ***** rap music. But there's also great rap music.
The point is that if you're going to hold a white celebrity accountable for a single remark about a specific group of people, you should be holding black celebrities accountable for innumerable remarks about a more general group of people. Failing to do so is absolutely hypocritical. - DanThePainter, on 10/12/2007, -12/+29>>....Seriously, the right wing talk show host like O'Lielly and Glen Beck spout racist hate all day and the "Liberal Media" says nothing.....>> chase001
It is obvious that you have not listened to any of those men's shows. - joaob, on 10/12/2007, -7/+24Chuck D's rap career was long gone way before he criticized 50 cent.
And I wouldn't exactly call it 50 cent's gangsta rap...NWA started Gangsta Rap wayyyy back in the early 90's. - Bridgetown, on 10/12/2007, -3/+20yeahdoz...
If those words really hurt people. Those people have personal problems MUCH bigger than words.
sheesh - FutueTeIpsum, on 10/12/2007, -4/+21"Double Standard"
Indeed.. The only people "permitted" to utter the word ***** or refer to blacks as nappy ho's are blacks themselves... Black rappers, to be exact...
They use this speak in their music and then wonder why they receive no respect. Then, they defend themselves for their use of said language and reference by saying, "yo man.. i be tryin to keep dit real and show peeps hows its like in da hood.."
whatever...
I think Bill Cosby said it best:
"I can't even talk the way these people talk, 'Why you ain't,' 'Where you is' ... and I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk," Cosby said in Washington, D.C. on May 17, at an event marking the anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education desegregation ruling." - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+17Mike Savage is insane. Real conservatives know this.
- saintdesy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+18Can you people stop referring to Imus as a shock jock?! If he is a shock jock, my racist, senile, old grandpa is Howard ***** Stern.
- alarion, on 10/12/2007, -2/+17@MindTrigger
"I couldn't disagree with you more. Black people shouldn't use the word '*****' either. Either the word and words like it are negative and derogatory or they are not. You don't get to say "when black people say '*****', it's neutral". All you are doing is creating an environment where people are constantly confused about what can and can't be said. Let me ask you this, if Imus or some other person in the media was pretending (acting perhaps) that he was a black man, would it still be ok to use the word '*****' freely?"
I agree, this double standard (and many others like it) are absolutely ridiculous. How many times do we hear the african american community defend the use of this word, stating it is a term of endearment.
Here is a nice little snippet of a song from Yukmouth:
"(Yukmouth)
(Breathe!)
Round 2, ***** I won the first round *****.
Go back to the drawin' board *****.
(Breathe!)
I'm built for dis baby.
Oh yeah and thanks for the promotion on the radio station.
I loved that *****.
Yamean.
(Breathe!)
Keep sayin' my name, keep sayin' my name baby.
Keep blowin' me up ***** and I' ma cut your *****' throat you bitch!(Breathe!)
The Game play games *****.
You a lyin' ass toungue ring ***** *****.(***** the Game you bitch)"
Yep yep, sounds like he really wants to go hang with his ***** Game. Go sit on the porch, drink a couple brews and shoot the *****.
Whatever. - mekongcola, on 10/12/2007, -4/+18It's clear that the reason they've singled out Imus is along racial lines. The black community tolerates and even encourages this type of language from other blacks yet can't stand to hear a white person utter "their' language.
It seems crystal clear that the Sharpten’s and King's of today are fighting for freedom of speech for blacks only. It point out just how racist and prejudice the black community truly is towards the white people. - deathsquadx, on 10/12/2007, -15/+29Ummm...Digg is a liberal haven, didn't you get the memo? Your rants won't work here.
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