Don Imus and Rutgers Women's basketball

[El Blanco]

Not like this. The thing that has always made Imus funny but topical is that he often went after people who were seemingly "deserving" of his assaults. This of course hasn't always been the case, but there's a HUGE difference between, for example, Tawana Brawley and the Rutgers Women's basketball team. I've listened to him a lot the past few days, and I think he has been very sincere on this whole matter. I think he means it when he admits that not everyone should be fair game, and just because you have the free speech to say it, it doesn't make it right.

So, it was not a big deal when Rosenberg compared the Williams sisters to gorillas?

And my issue with MSNBC isn't that they fired him or that they are reporting it. Its that they are still pimping him out after that whole sob fest speech the news director gave.

Yes, if he is going to cost MSNBC more than he will bring in, they should cut him loose. But call it a financial desiscion. Don't say it was some kind of moral one. That press conference was total bullshit.

And, yes, they pretend to be a news network, so they should report it. But, don't hold a special during his timeslot the day you canceled his show to field calls about it.

[kahljorn]

i wasn't talking about racists who live by me, i was talking about other racists/sexist/jerks who broadcast on the air and are in magazines and newspapers who people dont make big deals over
i think at some point people re just going to have to shut the fuck up about stuff like this because it serves no good purpose to label someone a racist who's not really a racist.

[KevinTheOmnivore]

Originally Posted by El Blanco

So, it was not a big deal when Rosenberg compared the Williams sisters to gorillas?

Um, and Sid ultimately got shit canned for his comments about Kylie minogue, along with his drug problems. But whenever Sid said those things, EVERYBODY would attack him for it. Imus, Bernard, Charles...they all played straight man to Sid's controversial character. It wasn't Don himself, the namesake of the show, saying these things.

And my issue with MSNBC isn't that they fired him or that they are reporting it. Its that they are still pimping him out after that whole sob fest speech the news director gave.

But MSNBC is the scandal network. They know that virtually no one takes them seriously, so they can't do all serious news like CNN, or even FOX. It would be weird if MSNBC DIDN'T talk about the Imus scandal.