How stupid is the IMUS firing?

Question

When a bunch of college students say their whole school year was tainted because of what one person made comment to -- and I bet none of them even listen to the IMUS show.

I want to see Sharpton and Jackson support every white, gay slur used now.
These are the real instigators.

All these girls went on about how smart they consider themselves, yet they let one comment from someone they never knew impact them so much.

How smart can they really be then?

Answer 1

very stupid, and totally overblown.

yeah, i guess the players self image is just ruined when they go into an opposing team's home court and hear all the jeers and stuff from the home crowd. their sense of self-worth, dignity, and self-esteem is just shot all to hell, don't you think? this is so stupid. and for that media hog coach to get up there and speak for 30 minutes over nothing was just retarded. nobody cares about her.

Answer 2

Imus has been on the radio since BEFORE those girls were twilkles in their fathers' eyes....I'd say they didn't even know WHAT an Imus was before this controversy.

Imus and Bernard McGuirk were out of line and were wrong in their comments. I'd say the public pressure for Imus' firing came from Greasehead Al Blasphemer.

I have a problem with Greasehead's hypocrisy and blasphemy. Imus apologized but instead of doing what a REVEREND should do and adhere to Christian values like forgiveness, his greasy head didn't stop until Imus was humiliated and destroyed. Yet Greasehead doesn't have to be liable for calling Jews 'diamond merchants', the riots in Crown Heights.

I want Greasehead to be fired from his radio show and thrown in jail for falsely being a reverend just for the tax-exempt status.

Yes. Al's whole career is proof of his fraud.

How's THAT for justice?

Answer 3

I am sorry to say that Sharpton and Jackson will always be able to side step any critizum given by anyone. They have proved that in the past. What I can't understand is that the media still cowtows to these two. There are so many great individuals who are better representatives than these two.
As for the girls. I cannot see that any one of them can be offended by the Imus remarks. They hear this kind of garbage everytime they listen to the rappers. This has been going on for years.

Answer 4

Anyone with any maturity would be able to look at what they did, who they are and bat away any comment for how ignorant it is.
And after hearing the IMUS comment in real time as he made it -- it was a little tasteless, but it was intended to be humourous.
He was trying to be cool or something.

But either way -- why arent people going after Limbaugh, whos said worse, Bill O' for his comments on that littleboy enjoying being molested, or the numerous other shock jocks out there who are paid to keep putting their foot in their mouths.

Any reasonably intelligent person would not let it get to them is all Im saying.

And the answerer who said, they worked hard, this and that..nothing anyone say should be able totake away that or their dignity. Because dignity and respect are something a person has within them, that try as people may, no one can take that away from you unless you allow them to.

Jackson sharpton every reported who fed this monster should be ashamed of themselves.
But especially that basketball team, who instead of going on stage and adding to the spectical about how impacted negatively they were, instead should have made one small comment
"we have more important things to worry about than comments from ignorantpeople"

That should have been their statement..enough said,
But since nothing really happened last week politically, every reporting agency needed something to report.

publicity wh*res....the lot of them

Answer 5

Actually, the firing was caused by us, the American public.

Yes, two activist civil leaders did blew it out of proportion, but that doesn't change the fact what Imus said was uncalled for, insensitive, and highly prejudicial.

When American people started to complain to the companies who sponsor the show, they realized they do not want their products and company associated with negative publicity. They pulled the ads. When that happened, the media organization had no reason to keep the talent on the show. So they fired him.

This is how our society work. Capitalism at work! The freedom of speech only states, you will not be criminalized for your speech. It says nothing about other consequences. At minimum, he wasn't nice. He didn't do what would please his sponsors. So, he got fired.

Do not call the victims stupid. They worked hard to get into prestigious college and worked hard to be the sports player that they are. They have the right to be displeased with the comment they received.

Answer 6

Everybody seemed to have jumped ship on this situation. I think things like this bring out the racism in people. Some people may say that they dont consider themselves to be racist, however people seem to be pointing the finger at who is right and who is wrong. Imus was wrong to refer to these girls as hos or whores whatever. They didnt deserve that comment from him. These werent street girls. These were girls that were doing what they were good at b- balling. Imus as a reporter was suppose to be bias not making dumb comments or like some said that he was joking. I dont get the joke myself. Everyone seem to be upset about his firing except him because he knows that he will get another job from all of this publicity and not be scarred by none of this. However, these girls will have to live with the memory of this for the rest of their lives. I hope as black, beautiful and talented women that they are they can rise above this.

Answer 7

I get your point, but he made the comment about a specific group of girls, which happen to be some very smart girls, He shouldn't have said that and I'm glad he's off the air. Now what is getting really out off line is saying that this will mark their lives forever, they are becoming in the "I am a victim" which I just don't like, I guess they have talked to a good lawyer who's advising them very good!.

Answer 8

i think it is totally stupid, if you do not want to hear Imus or don;t agree with him, DO NOT LISTEN TO HIS SHOW,,also what pisses me off is the fact that if a Rap Star said the same thing, no one would even care, but because Imus is some old pollictlly incorrect WHITE guy, the ppl are up in arms....it is ok for rap music to call us bitches, hoes, whores, and worse but then some run of the mill white guy say it and BAM...we have to deal with jesse jackson..who once refer to NY as "Heimytown" a anti semitic slur, but yet we still see him every where...some one pls explain the double standard to me..and i do not buy the reasoning that if you are black you are allowed to say "certain word" that white ppl can't..becasue NO ONE should use those word, and you all know which ones i am refering to, to decribe anyone..they are moraly repugnet and should stop being used all together.

Answer 9

Not very..if they are going to worry about what one person says.
It's the "I am a victim" crap everyone is crying about.
I wonder how much Jackson and Sharpton got to keep quiet about it.

Answer 10

Imus have been given what he deserved. His assertion became into quite stupid and insensitive. it is not significant what one's race is while they make incendiary feedback and think of it incredibly is cool. There are good and undesirable rappers. enable's no longer categorize all of them as undesirable. One's music would desire to uplift human beings, cause them to think of. it won't play to baser instincts and place self belief in stereotypical adverse emotions. i think of rather of listening to soundbites of the two reverends, you will desire to be taught what they say. the two one in all them, yet fairly Rev. Sharpton, are asserting that the rappers who perpetuate the stereotypical disadvantages of black way of existence would desire to realign themselves with extra effective techniques of practising their artwork. I believe them wholeheartedly in this. If this firefighter is making divisions and bigotry his attitude to existence, i think of his psychological capacities would desire to be re-evaluated. He would desire to be terminated if he we could it influence how he does his job. we are loose to declare rather much something. It would not inevitably persist with that we would desire to continually be loose to ignore the sensibilities of others jointly as we spout rubbish. in ordinary terms while the marketplace for the adverse, stereotypical rubbish that some rappers sing approximately dries up, will it thoroughly go away.