The Don Imus affair is not about Sharpton, it is not about Jesse Jackson, and it's not about hip-hop. Imus and the co-hosts he hires routinely use the nastiest and crudest language available to attack people. It's a pattern, and it is not going to change if he is allowed to spew his hate again in two weeks. Additionally, attacking a 30% president is not something progressive, or something that makes the I-man a noble figure. This is not 2002, and out standards should be higher. This is who you are defending, Libertarian Kossacks.
Imus on fighting terrorism and Giuliani:
If we're gonna be fighting these terrorists through the lives of [8-year-old son] Wyatt Imus' children," then "it might be good to start with somebody who is willing to take three big ones and drop one on Mecca, one on Jeddah, and one on Saudi -- one on Riyadh," 2/6/07
Bernie McGuirk on Hillary :
"Bitch is gonna be wearing cornrows."
Bernie McGuirk, a poem for on blacks :
Whitey plucked you from the jungle for too many years
Took away your pride, your dignity, and your spears
With freedom came new woes
Into whitey's world you was rudely cast
So wake up now and go to work?
You can kiss my big black ass
Imus in Gwen Iffil :
'Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.'
Imus on interacial marriage :
according to The Village Voice, Imus has referred to former Defense Secretary William Cohen as "the Mandingo," and his African-American wife "a ho."
Sid Rosenberg :
A White radio sportscaster who was fired after he called tennis superstar Venus Williams an "animal" and said that she and sister Serena had a better chance of posing nude for National Geographic than Playboy, recently apologized for his remarks and was rehired.
And then are many others, like these.
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