Apr 12
CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur:
“It’s not about taking Imus down,” (Reverend Al) Sharpton said. “It’s about lifting decency up.”Bullshit, Reverend. If that were the case, you would’ve left the offices of CBS, walked into the offices of Viacom (which owns MTV) and demanded they pulled off the air all the videos of African-American “rappers” which is indecent. I’m referring to the videos of the “rappers” sexually exploiting women and calling themselves by these same racial slurs.
Sheila Johnson, owner of the WNBA’s Washington Mystics and, with her ex-husband Robert, co-founder of BET, called Imus’ comments reprehensible in an interview with The Associated Press. She said she had called Moonves to urge that CBS cut all ties with the veteran radio star, and was worried that what he said could hurt women’s sports.“Co-founded of BET”? Are you shitting me? She needs to take a look at what BET is airing as well.
I’m not racist, but this is bullshit (and a huge double standard). Now, off to figure out how to make a donation to Imus’ Radiothon.
April 12th, 2007 at 6:57 pm
Eh. It’s a double standard. Welcome to America.
FWIW, I met the BET guy mentioned in the article many times. One helluva nice guy. Very easy going. I’m a little surprised to read that he was all that fired up about this.
I’m sure he knows the score. And the score goes something like this:
“Imus who?”