Should Don Imus be strung up by the balls?

Jackson and sharpton would shrivel and die if the cameras didn't run like their hair was on fire everytime one of them says "boo". The Imus issue was driven by much more substantial things than those two, and to focus on them fans a hungry fire and misses the point entirely...

Jackson and sharpton would shrivel and die if the cameras didn't run like their hair was on fire everytime one of them says "boo". The Imus issue was driven by much more substantial things than those two, and to focus on them fans a hungry fire and misses the point entirely...

patiodog wrote:

As to the "victim" status of the Rutgers women's basketball team...

Was the comment cruel? Yes. And possibly not as much for the racist and misogynist overtones as for the intimation that they were ugly. If you look at the extended quote, you see that Imus was drawing a direct comparison to the Tennessee team, whom he referred to as "cute," and who are predominantly black (pic below). Whatever choice of words, the underlying feeling was, "These women are fugly." That he chose to express this sentiment in the way that he did may reveal a lot about Imus's attitude toward race and gender, naturally...

At any rate, Coach Stringer at Rutgers has garnered an enormous amount of positive publicity for herself and for her program from the incident.

Look at those pale white girls smelling like milk and all.

snookered wrote:

Look at those pale white girls smelling like milk and all.

You're almost as funny as the conflict in Darfur, maybe even cancer.

snood wrote:

Jackson and sharpton would shrivel and die if the cameras didn't run like their hair was on fire everytime one of them says "boo". The Imus issue was driven by much more substantial things than those two, and to focus on them fans a hungry fire and misses the point entirely...

This media sideshow act happens to be about a critical social issue. And in the realm of the media, only a huge fire attracts the slightest attention. I mean, look at the personalities involved. If it were Alan Keyes on a soapbox, we would all be fast asleep, or posting about gardening techniques.

Gargamel wrote:

snookered wrote:

As to the "victim" status of the Rutgers women's basketball team...

Look at those pale white girls smelling like milk and all.

You're almost as funny as the conflict in Darfur, maybe even cancer.

Funny? Did you just wake up. That went so far over your little head is what's funny.

Yeah, I didn't get it either. Must've been some real Ivy-league ****. Care to break it down for the rest of us?

snood wrote:

Yeah, I didn't get it either. Must've been some real Ivy-league ****. Care to break it down for the rest of us?

Gargamel think he got it. As a black man you know damn well what it means.
Yeah, real IVY League...I thought you guys were playing, but you are actually real ignorant about the simplist of things.

snookered wrote:

snood wrote:

Yeah, I didn't get it either. Must've been some real Ivy-league ****. Care to break it down for the rest of us?

Gargamel think he got it. As a black man you know damn well what it means.
Yeah, real IVY League...I thought you guys were playing, but you are actually real ignorant about the simplist of things.

Like spelling?

Oh, as a BLACK MAN I should understand your lame-ass humor? That's lame-ass in itself, BROTHA.

As to the "victim" status of the Rutgers women's basketball team...

Look at those pale white girls smelling like milk and all.

Yeah, you the only one in de light, oh wise and humorous sage.

snookered wrote:

As to the "victim" status of the Rutgers women's basketball team...

Look at those pale white girls smelling like milk and all.

Can anyone make any sense of this; or is it uniformly being written off as the rambling of an idiot?