Is hypocrisy the biggest theme of the Don Imus controversy?

Question

That is, the hypocrisy of:

- Don Imus apologizing for the kind of stupid remark that he's been making for years.
- Morally questionable characters like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton sitting in moral judgment of Imus.
- The black community for acting like Don Imus is the biggest problem facing them.
- NBC and CBS, for letting profits guide their programming decisions, and not morality, ethics or taste.
- Our society and culture, for acting offended by Imus's remark, but giving the highest approval to violent and profane entertainment like the movie The Departed and the TV show the Sopranos.

Answer 1

What hypocrisy? Each of the examples you give are easily explainable without the slightest hint of hypocrisy. -An apology for his remark is not hypocritical just because he's committed similar idiosies in the past. He's just doing as he's told, as an employee. He's followed corporate directives before. The fact that he said he would apologize in private only to those specifically described in his comment shows that he was not otherwise caving to outside pressure, -When have Jackson and Sharpton NOT stuck their noses into controversies that otherwise have nothing to do with them? For them to keep silent (for a change ) would be hypocritical.-The black community is not acting like he's their BIGGEST problem, just their LATEST one.-The netwoks have never let morality, ethics and certainly not taste guide their programming decisions, especially if any of those things might interfere with profit. Why would they start now?-Our society and culture (for the most part) recognize the difference between entertainment fiction and reality, entertaining or not. To approve of (be entertained by) something fictional should have no bearing on what you may find offensive in real life. Kind of like enjoying apples but finding oranges offensive. As to the perspective that Judaism is playing a part in this, I'd like remind you that there are also black Jews. No, this was a foolish deed by an ignorant man. His color and religion are irrelevant in this case. If there was any more to it than that, Imus himself would be continuing to stir the pot, rather than escaping the spotlight. Although I do agree, there are a great many in this country capable of just such insidious behavior.

Answer 2

ok you actually made some good points unlike the rest of these a--h----yeah he has been making those remarks for years but maybe him & mindless gangsta rappers should have BEEN gone from the mainstream, better yet the companies that sign & promote the both of them should have.

No he isn't the biggest problem facing the black community, Neither is gangsta rap. Gangsta rap is just a product of it, although eventually life also imitates art-I believe.

Our culture is definitely full of hypocrisy, & mainstream America is not all of a sudden SOO concerned about black women. What about the rappers that talk about murdering each other, why isn't that discussed more often...the drug dealing...
what about creating better education, more accessible decent paying jobs & preventing drugs from entering the community in the 1st place (obviously locking up dealers only creates a jail/drug culture-what do rappers talk about?)

Black people complain about "gangsta rap" ALL THE TIME why do people pretend this is not the case. Obviously they're not AROUND us, or else they would know. (Why is suburbia feeding the gangsta rap frenzy. You ever've seen a gangsta rap concert-full of white people) They even complain about comedians & the use of the N-word. So of course Imus doesn't get a pass.

Not all black people are fans of Sharpton & Jackson, if people paid attention to all the different black people news tv all of a sudden were able to find, you would have seen this is obvious. But that doesn't mean if they're fighting for a good cause, we won't stand with them. Wheter they should so-call "lead" is another debate. But should we pick our leader based on majority Our approval or Mainstream America?

Answer 3

Blacks have not acted like Don Imus is the biggest problem facing them. Furthermore, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are not the only ones who sat in judgment of Imus. Imus is a stupid old man who targeted a team of female basktball players, for no other reason except that they are Black Americans. If you want to know who else sat in judgment of him, ask Proctor and Gamble, General Motors, Staples, and the rest of the advertisers that refused to tolerate such behavior.

Answer 4

Hypocrisy is when the editor lets anything being said to go out over the air and yet CBS fires Imus instead of the editor or censor instead!

Answer 5

for the reason that I watched Imus each morning ,i think of he grow to be in basic terms attempting to be cool yet he, forgot that he's in basic terms too previous to speak like most of the childrens right this moment. No i do no longer think of he might desire to have been fired, he reported he grow to be sorry... Al Sharpton might desire to declare he's sorry for stirring up all this crap! Then there is FREEDOM OF SPEECH which we as individuals might desire to die to up carry. No i'm no longer offended through fact it grow to be meant as a shaggy dog tale.Now we enable Imus do what he reported he wanted to do, communicate approximately it. you may on no account determine something by using in basic terms making somebody pass away.

Answer 6

There's something else involved here.
The slander against black women was made to look as if it were coming from a white. But Imus is a Jew in disguise. Putting Blacks against Whites, maybe?
The Duke University boys look Whites, but they are rich Jews' kids, appearing to be the falsely accused whites.
Putting whites against Blacks, maybe?

Of course it's all hypocrisy, but let's not be fooled. It is all been thought and perpetrated by the most wicked people, in order to put white against black and black against white.

Answer 7

There's always hypocricy involved when Jackson and Sharpton are finger pointing. They point right over the main issues with their crooked little fingers to whatever issue suits their agenda of the moment.

Answer 8

No, the biggest issue is sexism and how everyone managed to get way off base of the real issue.

Answer 9

I agree with you
Hypocrisy is the common denominator