Defending the Truth

I disagree with you on this. Imus may have said some stupid stuff during his show, but it's all comedy. He is truely a good man who has helped communities in the past.

Listen to what Armstrong Williams says in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=http:...?v=tkKG7Nmic1g

Imus is not the only "racist" around here. Rap artists have been insulting women, race, sexuality, gays...the list goes on! The Market hold the key to power, and that is the reason people will not go after the music industry because everytime they will lose. Imus was not even supose to get fired, he was originaly given a 2 week suspenstion but since Jackson and Sharpton hold the key to the media now and the media is the 'market' on talk radio shows.....Sponsors started pulling out left and right because of Sharpton and Jackson's racial tyrad on Imus that CBS and everyone had to can him to save their own ass from bankruptcy

100% accurate.

I agree with Pensacola Niceman. Both Sharpton and Jackson had too much influence in Imu's firing.

I have never liked both Sharpton and Jackson. I think they are just a couple of phonies: two peas in a pod. I think there are some in the African-American community who wish they would just hush up and not speak for them.

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was a better man than both Sharpton and Jackson.

I agree that the Dr. was far better then those two morons. And speeking of the two morons, they werent the only thing to deal with the downfall of Imus, they were paired up with the Media and Market of the airwaves. Cash is power and CBS was losing it bad with their sponsors droping out.

I knew what MLK was fighting for, and it was for the right reasons. We can look at Rosa Parks, for example.

But these two jerks went way overboard. They are fighting for nothing but for whatever floats their boat.

That's why they don't have my respect, period.

I thought H & C were all against Imus because he was on their opponents channel - MSNBC?

More likely they were trying to avoid comparisons with Anne Coulter, who I think is far more hideous than Imus, but has the advantages of being:

1. Blonde
2. Female (some people question this)
3. a Fox regular

yup i agree

I just want to share another take on Don Imus.
This came in my email, since I am on an email subscription list for a newsletter regarding different kinds of abuse.

I found this interesting because, to me, it seems to deal with the psychology of what Mr. Imus said. The why that perhaps Carl Jung would find.

OD

WHAT VERBAL ABUSERS DO

Is it any wonder we call bullies cowards? Bullies are mainly verbal abusers. While occupying positions of power, or influence or safety, they show themselves to be afraid to stand on their own two feet. Verbal abusers seem to reside in the people they target. Verbal abusers tell them what they are, what they think, know, intend, feel, etc., just as if they knew. It is as if the abuser says, I live within you and know what you are, I'm afraid to stay in my own space. I'm over there in you. When people indulge in verbal abuse they appear to try to take from others what they, themselves, lack. They disparage that which they have lost-Imus who was fired by MSNBC and NBC for his misogynistic, racist, verbal abuse, serves as an example. He defined the women on Rutgers's basketball team-a team that had advanced to the NCAA Division I, Women's Basketball National Championship game. He defined them as "nappy headed ho's (whores)." He didn't know them. He wasn't them. But, still, he defined them. Interestingly, he defined them when they were at their best, when, to get to where they were, they had consistently performed with integrity, determination, strength, and intelligence. Might these be the very qualities Imus lacked? It seems that this is sadly so. Instead of speaking honestly, thus showing integrity, Imus lied about the team. Instead of showing determination, Imus appeared purposeless. He seemed to have been in a fog about what he was doing, in fact he later expressed confusion about how he had said what he said. Instead of showing strength, he showed weakness, as if he was unable to stay in his own space, but had to be over in the team's space telling them what they were. Instead of expressing intelligence, he was irrational. He didn't live within these women and he did not know what they were. Imus's listeners were familiar with his long history of verbally abusing others. Most were not surprised that he verbally abused the team. After all, this is what verbal abusers do.
Just when young women might expect praise from an elder white male, Imus poured vile words on them. But he did not kill their spirit. At a press conference, their Coach, Vivian Stringer, and each of the team members spoke out with eloquence and passion about their outrage, shock and pain. I heard their televised press conference, but most of all, I heard two things: 1) that what Imus said was WRONG! WRONG! WRONG! 2) that a player said she would be scarred for life. Every battered woman I have talked to has said that verbal abuse was the worst. It leaves grievous scars and creates emotional pain and mental anguish. Verbal abusers become most virulent when they see "Others" as real people. For Example: Where are the simple, vacant, dependent, pliable, need-meeting feminine creatures the male abuser dreams women to be? Not here. Oh, No! The abuser's dream women are not on the courts. Instead real women emanating integrity, determination, strength, and intelligence are playing. At some level, Imus possibly couldn't stand it. It is like his feminine side had disappeared. How dare real women show up? Consequently, I am not surprised that Imus would say something scurrilous and disparaging of the team. Possibly, he acted to negate their very personhood, to turn them into the compliant, manipulatable creatures he wanted them to be. Or punish them for not being so.

- copyright©Patricia Evans 2007 You may send this article to others.

Yeah a lot of people indulged in a mountain of self-righteous homo-eroticism over Don Imus' lame joke.

Hopefully it made them feel better but was anything actually achieved?