He needs to be sincere in his effort to apoligize.
2007-04-11 04:52:18 · 14 answers · asked by Sugar 7 in News & Events ➔ Media & Journalism
It's like feeding a baby with one hand and slapping him with the other hand. I know he does good works with his money but messes it up with his mouth.
2007-04-11 05:04:23 · update #1
The guy has been coasting for decades. He has a job that only requires two things of him: 1) Show up early and 2) talk. Only these and nothing more. And yet he fumbled even this dream vocation. I mean, how CAN you be so stupid?
At this juncture, I can only smile and nod as I utter a sem-sincere "Poor Imus". Couldn't happen to a nicer guy...
2007-04-11 05:02:07 · answer #1 · answered by Winston Smith 3 · 2⤊ 1⤋
That old guy just repeated some words that he had heard in order to sound cool and young. Black people wrote those words for rap and hip hop, for movies, for comedy. "Yo yo yo, slap the biitch, beat the ho" wasn't written by old white men.
Imus should have known better, but like I said. He is out of touch with the culture because of wealth and age, and anyway, he was just saying what is played on black radio stations all around the country every hour.
If apologies are owed.. perhaps the young men who created this disrespectful way of talking and thinking, and the radio stations and music companies that pump it out daily should be the ones to apologize to Imus and the rest of the world.
2007-04-11 12:05:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
I just watched it. There were two teams, both predominantly black. He said he liked one and not the other.
The tattoo and ho and nappy was about the team he didn't like. He said something about the other team being pretty.
Not racist, but old man fixation stuff. A pretty team? wtf?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RF9BjB7Bzr0
It upsets me more that young psyches are at risk, and rather than dropping it, they continue to maul those girls. I hope Imus brings the whole team onto his show, which is more than sharpton has offered.
That's the real shame of it. Young kids who work their hearts out, being ripped off by both sides.
Imus is a mean sob for having said that. Period.
I hope somehow that something good happens to the rutgers team. Life sometimes really sucks for the innocent. What did they do?
Would he have said that about a male team? Dumb, stupid, mean. It had nothing to do with their ability to play. Cute?
How would / could people help the kids at rutgers?
2007-04-11 12:27:42 · answer #3 · answered by Wonka 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Imus is caught in something that we all fear. That is being called to account in front of the world for what we might have said in an offhand way.
I see so much hypocracy in this incident that I can hardly sleep at night. He made a joke....a very bad joke. He did not consider how his words might hurt someone else or how it would be blown into the issue it has become. No one can excuse what he said, but who among us has not said something stupid at least once in our lives.
2007-04-11 12:00:12 · answer #4 · answered by united9198 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Imus is out to lunch along with the other "nice" white males like Rush Limbaugh, Pat Buchanan, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell. If they apologize for what they say, it's just a ploy so they can keep spewing their garbage.
2007-04-11 12:08:28 · answer #5 · answered by edith clarke 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I think I forgot to care, it's how many days old I'm sure theres something more important going on than Imus, now that rosie o'donald has said here buck 50 worth of garbage again putting her foot in her mouth i'm done hearing about it.
2007-04-11 12:04:14 · answer #6 · answered by livewire_usa 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
He has as much right to free speech as you do to ask this question.
Although he did something stupid, what is the point of bashing him into the ground.
I am not a fan of his, but enough already.
Lets face it, go after the entire music industry if you have a problem with the terms he used. Those words are much more prevalent there.
I don't see you taking up that cause, and i suppose you will never do it either.
So for all the people who think that Imus needs more punishment, show how fair you are and clean up the language in Rap Music first!!!
If you don't agree, you must be a hypocrite. The language and disrespect in rap is far worse.
2007-04-11 11:57:16 · answer #7 · answered by Jim Justice 4 · 3⤊ 5⤋
I think this will be a life-changing event for him.
The irony is that he takes care of sick black children at The Imus Ranch.
2007-04-11 11:55:47 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Imus is such a loser, you should have heard him on Al Sharpeton's radio show. He sounded like a pathetic wus when he talked about holding a little black boys hand that was struggling with sickle cell anemia. Sharpeton took him to school.
2007-04-11 11:56:42 · answer #9 · answered by mad6176 2 · 3⤊ 4⤋
Out to lunch.
He seems to be basically a nice guy with a potty mouth. Not always pleasant, but how about concentrating on the bad guys with potty mouths?
2007-04-11 12:03:04 · answer #10 · answered by The First Dragon 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋