I'm calling on Frank's resignation because he alluded to the idea of a Fred Thompson comprimise. I'm scarred for life and need Oprah money.

that was an excellent rant, Sarah.

The stupidest part of this whole mess, is that the Lefties at DU (may they be covered in bleach whenever they leave there) are now accusing Imus of being a Right-Winger and claiming his words are typical of the Right.
They are eating their own now, to place the blame on others.

Thanks for the rant SarahK. Because you did such a thorough one, I now don't have to. You saved me a lot of work and time. Many thanks! Well done!

Darn right!

I wasn't expecting the reaction to Imus to be this big, but I still can't work up much sympathy for the guy.

For starters, if this we're another talk show host who did this, a rightwinger, it's up for grabs whether Imus would be defending them or piling on.

He's also done so much stuff in the past that, while this isn't proportional and I'm willing to believe he's not a racist, he is a class A dick. Sorry, he can be an entertaining jackass, I'll admit there was a time I listened to the guy - but he is a jackass.

Sharpton is in no position to lecture anybody about anything regarding racial sensitivity, but what the hell are people like Imus and Michael Richards doing going to him for redemption in the first place? No one put a gun to their head and forced them to do it and a lot of people wouldn't have cared what Sharpton thought if he had just to the guy to get lost.

The one good thing about this is watch journalists and politicians that sucked up to the guy trying to turn around and hide that fact or suddenly seeing the light - I'd like someone to chronicle all the stuff Imus said while he was actually on the air talking to those people.

Wow, per RI, you covered everything for me, and with links yet. My dream was stolen when I didn't get to meet Dean Cain. Can I have money for that?

Damn, Sarah!

I think I need a cigarette now.

Reall, that was one of the most beautiful rants I've seen anywhere, from anybody in a long time, my not-so-humble self included.

Linked, and I think that a standing ovation is in order.

I don't understand one thing. They obviously don't like the guy... so why are they giving him THAT much power? Wouldn't it be better for them to just say, "Oh hey, it's that Imus guy" instead of GIVING him the power to 'ruin their lives?'

Agreed. He apologized, get over it. Move on. ... oh and they suck.

Wow sarahk. I was reading that and about a third of the way through thought to myself "This is the best thing I've read anywhere about this whole Imus deal." Then I got about two-thirds of the way through and thought "This is probably the best thing I've ever read on IMAO."

Excellent job. Cudos.

Normally the "apology tour" approach is a little bit more successful.

Oh well. I wonder how long it will be before he apologizes for Gov. Corzine's accident?

I say, no more than 3 days.

That's what I say all right.

sarahk steps up to the plate and hit the ball so far out of the park it came with a stewardess and drinks. Good Rant.

Right On Sarah! I'm standing with Misha on this one, (cue applause track). Nothing left to say after that one.

Difference between Nifong and Imus?

I'm happy Imus got fired. He was a jerk. There's something in Proverbs I think about what happens when the wicked are cast down...its good for everyone.

As for Nifong, I'd like to see him in jail. So, I'm not happy about that. But I don't want Imus in jail.

And sure Ludacris and all the other rappers are out saying worse---but saying we shouldn't slam Imus is like saying we shouldn't kill Saddam because Mugabe is still operating. Give us time, Ludacris is hopefully next.

Great rant Sarah. And you typed a lot of words too.

Speaking as a White, Middle Age, Married Family Man of 25 years...
"O, no you din't... You go gurl... *snap* *snap* *snap* "

Is that supposed to be 3 or 4 *snaps*

It's all just another example of unflattering remarks made by a white person is obviously racist, but hate speech from a black or hispanic blowhard is just self expression.

Seriously; it's not like Imus pulled a "Kramer" or anything. He merely made an unflattering remark. In fact, this whole media circus surrounding it reminds me of that 'Simpsons' episode where Homer gets accused of sexual harassment & the whole nation goes absolutely f**king hysterical about it.

I think that even if Imus was a loudmouth, CBS should not have fired him just to appease the black racists, and anyone who feels the same ought to boycott CBS, which apparantly stands for "Cowering to Black Special-interests".

Thanks for being sane. Y'all might want to check out Jason Whitlock's column about Imus. I don't have the link so just google it.

How far we have fallen! We are turning into a nation of whining pussies. What ever happened to "Just Consider the source"? Some crotchety old fart says something lame, and we all weep, and wring our hands. Here many of us sit and listen to a few rever-ends divide the hell outta us citizens. I wonder just what the above mentioned rever-ends have done for kids with cancer?
NOT SQUAT!
What have the above mentioned rever-ends done to unite and heal?
NOT SQUAT!
What has a friggin' B-Ball team done to help their fellow man, by showing the balls(?), and compassion to shrug off assinine comments?
NOT SQUAT!
Just what have these dividers done to be such cowards that hide behind something so irrelevant as skin color? And why have they turned being black into an affliction, and not a rich heritage?
NOT SQUAT!
What takes real courage is to tell those of us who's recipe for success is pure devisiveness to STFU, and crawl back under their ignorant hypocritical rocks.
We've got our Heroes in the GWOT dying all the time, and here we sit pansy-assed and crying in the mirror. I for one am very ashamed of how far we have fallen. In my 50 years of life, I never thought I'd see a castrated nation as we appear to be headed!

That was a dumb ass RANT. Only a mega-idiot would say Imus should keep his megaphone after this verbal gaff. Screw IMUS. Glad to see the racist dumbass fired.

As I told my boss: If a co-worker talked about "Jewing" somebody out of money, I would be offended. I would expect people not to say that in my presence. I would expect (and be happy with) an apology. But if the co-worker talked about "Salami-eating, garlic breath, hook-nosed Jew bastards," I would refuse to work in the same company with him.

Imus used the "N" word (though he denied it at first) with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes in 1998. That was radioactive BUT DIDN'T GET HIM FIRED. This was different!!!!
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Imus needs to find a job where he keeps his mouth mostly shut all day. Maybe flipping burgers or delivering pizza. HE SHOULD NOT HAVE A MEGAPHONE!

Nice one Sarah! I was always taught that they are only words and they don't define who I am! I do that and I'm not a victim based on somone else's comments...but the liberals have convinced us that we are all a bunch of whining nincompoops who can't stand up for ourselves...we need morons like Jesse and Al to intercede! Good grief!

Brilliant, just brilliant.

Imus may annoy some of you, but you can't deny that he has raised MILLIONS of dollars for wounded vets and their families, as well as MILLIONS of dollars for kids with cancer. Um, how much money are the good reverends raising - for CHARITY, that is?

Honestly, when Imus pokes fun at the Irish or Catholics, and I am both, I laugh at it or ignore it. I know what I am, and I don't need positive affirmation from some shock-jock stranger on the radio to reinforce my sense of self.

What he said was incredibly stupid and mean, but if he had said they were "blonde bimbos" would we have even noticed?

You have to feel bad for the Tennessee team. You're not going to see them on Oprah, and they actually won!

Holy Moly!!! I didn't even realize that was a Sarah rant until I hit the comments. Great job!!!
Tell Frank, now we need to nuke the Moonves (Les, that is). I especially liked the funky Imus hair thing too. Great stuff. I dig that Ham girl but you ROCK Sarah!!!

Why is the concept of common decency so foreign to so many people these days? Jackson and Sharpton are race-baiting assholes,but they have been for years. That doesn't make it right for some crabby jerk to call college students "nappy headed hos" or laugh when his producer says "jigaboos" a few seconds later (check out the clip at YouTube).

My mama taught me better. Screw Imus. He doesn't have a "right" to be on radio.

//My mama taught me better. Screw Imus. He doesn't have a "right" to be on radio.//

Maybe your Mama should have taught you that, in America, free speech still applies, even if someone else dislikes it or trumps it up as another way to tell Whites how they may or may not talk.

I agree with the weakness for Eminem, though I've managed to cull him out of my listening habits. However, when I come in contact with his music I find myself unavoidably drawn. *sighs*

Oh, fantastic rant, by the way. You have my permission to do that more often.

In general and in principal I don't like people being bullied into silence (but again, that's one reason I don't feel much sympathy for the guy - If there's anybody who should have been able to hit back and know how to handle a bully, it's Imus), but we aren't talking about actual rights with this - This is taking up the liberal definition of free speech. Imus has a right to speak, he has a right to keep the government from stopping him from speaking, but he doesn't have a right for someone else to pay him for it. MSNBC had a right to fire him for whatever reason they wanted to.

Were they cowards in response to Sharpton and Jackson? Were they hypocrites? Absolutely. An insensitive comment, even at this level, was hardly something new from Imus and they had employed him for years. If we're concerned about setting precedents, though--we can also avoid the idea that if some liberal actor, musician, etc. suddenly has people who don't want to pay them or buy their work anymore because of something they said, that person's free speech rights are being squelched. We have a right to threaten to boycott Rosie's employers for paying her to go on television and say the stuff she says and a guy like Sharpton, worthless turd that he is, has a right to do the same. NBC and CBS are big enough to handle a guy like Sharpton; a bully would never get anywhere without 10 cowards that sit around and let them--blame the cowards.

Nice rant and very much to the point. It expressed much what I have been thinking the last couple of days. We will eventually end up not being able to say anything in a few years (if not already) if you happen to be white. But the 'others' can say whatever they want about us with no repercussions.

Sad....

Did you want to add anything else? LOL! I agree with you. He said a horrible thing, but it's not the end of the world, aaaand he's not the only person who has said something offending.

Some people are a bunch of thin-skinned !@##$%#. *rolls eyes*

[See, we pay for the space and the bandwidth, so I reserve the right to edit profanity, especially when it's blasphemous. --sk] Enough! This is but another indication of why the left has such a hard-on for the 2A! Time to chlorine the gene pool!

"Not only did he steal our dreams, he hurt our character of Rutgers University, our state, and all who have been associated"

Did anyone expect different from nappy headed hos?

A little late in commenting here, but excellent rant. Right on point.
And Misha linked you! How cool is that?

Moments before CBS fired Imus,Oprah spoke with the Rutgers coach and team. Going on with her show,Oprah stated..when at a party there's always one person who just can't dance.."it's useully a white guy". Help get this out ! I wrote her show to no avail ! Wade Johns Morristown Tn Whitesburgwade yahoo

The Demoncratic Party is still the party of slavery. They want to decide who can say what. They want to take us back to 1850 in Georgia when blacks were not allowed to even talk in public, with a Liberal twist.

What these people want to be is the Master. They get to say whatever they want. Call Bush, Hitler, call Malkin a ho' and lets not even talk about Coulter and Rice. No body else however can say anything remotely offensive about their sacred COW'S (and yes that is a veiled reference to Rosie O'Donnell.

The problem is that these ideologues can't debate on the facts much less garner enough people to keep there lame station (air america ) on the air. They wouldn't know the truth if it stood up and bit them on the nose.

That said Imus was a mook. What a stupid thing to say and do. Then again I found his show to be patently offensive to just about everyone and never wanted to start my day on such a negative note anyway. But this debacle is ridiculous, however thats what libs excel at.

Call the sistas a ho and only a Black man can help? I didn't think so. Al Sharpton put those girls in their place much more than done Imus. Personally, I thought girls playing D1 basketball and good enough for the NCAA finals and getting a degree from Rutgers... well I thought they wouldn't need a man to protect them from an old fart hurling insults.

**Maybe your Mama should have taught you that, in America, free speech still applies, even if someone else dislikes it or trumps it up as another way to tell Whites how they may or may not talk.

Posted by: AlanABQ on April 13, 2007 11:40 PM**

I don't recall advocating an overturn of the first amendment. Try reading slower.

I now have a greater understanding of why some men join outlaw motorcycle gangs, i.e. to get away from the gutless p-ssies ruining this country. At least in THAT crowd, the kind of behavior you just tore apart would get the person a much-deserved ass-kicking.

One difference between an office and a shop is how insults are handled. In an office there's memos, meetings, new policy, and continental breakfasts. In a shop an insult is handled with a harsher insult or a prank that results in comedy and shaming. Hee hee... shops are fun!

John-

I went back & read it slower per your request, and I discovered that it's still an inane remark, no matter what speed I read it. I'm still not sure why you put quotes around the term 'right'. Imus has every right to make less-than-flattering remarks on the radio, on the street, etc; Imus' current main critics (J. Jackson & A. Sharpton) do it all the time. It's not as though he had a racial meltdown like Michael Richards did.

And it's OK to laugh at something, even if it's done in poor taste. That's called "freedom", as in freedom of speech, freedom of expression, and so on. If someone is being censured because someone else decided that a casual comment made in haste "stole their dreams", then the offended party ought to dream a little bigger than that.

Thanks!

^^ What he said!

I have been pondering since my last post and have decided that,
I AM OFFENDED:
by Jessie Jackson's portrayal of every white person as a racist
by liberals portrayal of every conservative as a racist
by Al Sharpton's dismissal of every white person as a racist
by the Rutgers Womens Basketball team who claim that one mans stupid insult ruined their "dreams" and lives
by the MSM's pass on anything that remotely hints as racism coming from the protected classes

I want someone to apologize to me, right now! Then I want the Reverends Jackson and Sharpton fired from their positions as "Moral Authority" over all things race related, and I want the Rutgers Womens Basketball team to have to integrate.

Those are my demands.
(I figure I've got as much chance of seeing any of those things happening as the Northern Irish have of living in peace and security anytime soon; )

Seanmahair-

Yes, but who would've thought we'd see Gerry Adams & Ian Paisly sit next to each other & TALK? I thought I's see the Sox win the pennant twice before that ever happened. So maybe if enough people really open their eyes to the duplicity of the "good reverends" Al Sharkton & Jesseh Jackass, something amazing will happen here, too.

John-

I went back & read it slower per your request, and I discovered that it's still an inane remark, no matter what speed I read it. I'm still not sure why you put quotes around the term 'right'. Imus has every right to make less-than-flattering remarks on the radio, on the street, etc

Try reading EVEN SLOWER. Here's what I wrote:

He doesn't have a "right" to be on radio.

Emphasis provided for the reading-impaired. Got it? He does indeed have the RIGHT to say whatever he wants, and I never said otherwise.

As for the rest of your comment you must have me confused with someone else, as none of is germane to anything I wrote.

Oh, OK. You win. Happy?

i think Happy Feet should be sued. They sing a song in that movie that refers to that "nappy headed boy"...WTF?????? And I am not kidding. Watch and listen. (Of course there is a lot of other crap in that supposed children's movie, like sexual overtones, making fun of Mexicans, and of course America as the bad "alien". What a crock!!!

So let me see if I got today's lesson right.
Certain words are ONLY to be used by CERTAIN skin colors. Just trying to clarify this so I can explain it to my kids.
So listen up cracker*-children, there is no real 1st Ammendment, only the misconception of one.

*(Being "One", I'm PC-qualified to use that word!)
Now taking this to the next logical step, does that mean that it is henceforth immoral to speak aanother races languages. Isn't this going to be a huge setback for translators?

Why do I feel like asking you all to pull my finger?

most excellent rant, sarahk!!

I truly wonder if I couldn't have sharp-tongue and the rainbow man fired from their self-appointed positions - for turning me into a racist? I was brought up to think that all men (ok, ok -- and women) were created equal ... but those two are starting to make me wonder ....