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w2amr
04-09-2007, 10:41 AM
This just keeps getting better. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/)
Quote[/b] (w2amr @ April 09 2007,02:41)]This just keeps getting better. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/)
One word to describe Imus...
BOZO
KG6JTB
04-09-2007, 02:43 PM
Quote[/b] (nx6d @ April 08 2007,07:52)]Quote[/b] (w2amr @ April 09 2007,02:41)]This just keeps getting better. http://www.qrz.com/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/biggrin.gif
link (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/)
One word to describe Imus...
BOZO
Yes, I don't get that guy. He's fine for radio, but for NBC to have him on in the morning always seemed weird.
If I were the president of NBC, I'd cancel his contract.
Dave
KG6JTB
WA3WDR
04-09-2007, 03:09 PM
Goes to show that there are some things that you just don't joke about. At least he didn't suggest some unspeakable murderous act, like another air personality did some years back.
Actually, his trademark irreverence aside, Imus is pretty decent. This strikes me as a blunder that happened in a rush to be comical on the air.
n2ize
04-09-2007, 03:42 PM
It's about time he be giving his walking papers. Obviously he pulled this garbage to draw a reaction. At this point it should be the last reaction he draws.
w1alc
04-09-2007, 04:48 PM
He has been pulling crap like this for years, so I doubt if he is going away anytime soon....
kc7jty
04-09-2007, 04:52 PM
I can't stand that goof, but America is now the land of paranoid and correct little girls. MOMMIE, MOMMIE!! did you hear what that man said!?
It's quite nauseating.
KI4SQT
04-09-2007, 05:00 PM
You guys...Imus was hired as a shock jock, not for his exemplary brodcasting skills and professional voice...LMAO...Sooooo when he throws out a shocker, everybody goes into a tissy fit.
By the way...I don't think that there is anything in the FCC Regs about being politically correct...
Much ado about nothing on this one...
Quote[/b] ]By the way...I don't think that there is anything in the FCC Regs about being politically correct... Typical "4" land comment.
KD6NIG
04-09-2007, 05:05 PM
Honestly I'm surprised hes still able to do radio. I remember a few years ago hearing that his health wasn't that good.
He was one of the few at the time that would call people "stupid idiots" though. I used to listen when I first started working for cable, and got the oldest van-which only had an AM radio. This was 10 years ago in 1996....
It was the only station I could stand. It was him in the early morning, then Jim Rome (last I heard hes still going strong) then Don and Mike.
After the first year I got a newer van with FM. Stopped listening to him, but kept on with the others, mostly. Sometimes I would change if it got too goofy.
I remember him sounding really bad then though, almost like he was really sick sometimes. I didn't know he was still doing radio till I saw the headlines on FauxNews this weekend.
As for what he did, it doesn't take much brain power to realize that, in this day and age, its not going to fly. You think he would have learned from all the others making such comments and being raked over the coals.
Might be time for him to retire to his ranch. Forget where it is, but I remember him talking about it all the time.
I always thought though, if the Marlboro Man lived beyond 50, he'd probably sound like Imus.
KI4SQT
04-09-2007, 05:12 PM
Quote[/b] (n9xr @ April 08 2007,12:04)]Quote[/b] ]By the way...I don't think that there is anything in the FCC Regs about being politically correct... #Typical "4" land comment.
From the 9 land of fruits and nuts...LOL
kc7jty
04-09-2007, 07:00 PM
Grow up kids, adults should be able able to say whatever they want in the land of the free.
PC: be careful what you say it may be the truth.
KI4ITV
04-09-2007, 08:54 PM
Given the cast of characters involved in this saga, nobody should be surprised, shocked, or even awakened by it.
Imus will get a slap on the wrist for doing his job.
Al Sharpton will get a new twenty-thoudand dollar set of clothes and accesories for his next TV appearance.
Jessie Jackson will find a way to extort a vast sum of money from NBC to spend on his girlfriends and other personal extravagence, through the rainbow coalition .
And the black population will have gained nothing from its use as a social wedge while some whites will run around feeling guilty for having the same approximate amount of melanin that Imus does.
Totally predictable and self-rewarding for all of the players.
This crap has got to stop one day and some real issues need to be addressed.
But, it can be fun to watch.
kl7aj
04-09-2007, 08:56 PM
The term "personality" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?
k9kxq
04-09-2007, 10:54 PM
Quote[/b] (kc7jty @ April 09 2007,14:00)]Grow up kids, adults should be able able to say whatever they want in the land of the free.
PC: be careful what you say it may be the truth.
I agree, sticks and stones, but words can never hurt,obviously the Rev never listen to some of this rap crap that's being sold to our young....
kxq
n2ize
04-09-2007, 11:08 PM
Shock Jock or not why should this type of blatant racist mockery be tolerated ? Racism cost people their lives, why should it be mocked or used as the butt of a joke.
The really sad this is thatthese "shock jocks" are not even "shock jocks" anymore. They are not funny. If anything they are played out and boring.
I have lost count of the number of times that I have heard black men use this same language to describe black women. IMHO, it is time for this type of extortion to end.
KI4SQT
04-10-2007, 12:55 AM
Quote[/b] (n2ize @ April 08 2007,18:08)]Shock Jock or not why should this type of blatant racist mockery be tolerated ? Racism cost people their lives, why should it be mocked or used as the butt of a joke.
The really sad this is thatthese "shock jocks" are not even "shock jocks" anymore. They are not funny. If anything they are played out and boring.
I don't know what dictionary that you're using....butttttt..."Nappy headed" is not a racist comment...neither is being called a "Ho"...for all I know, you could be nappy headed (not a racist remark)...
kc7jty
04-10-2007, 02:00 AM
Quote[/b] (KI4ITV @ April 09 2007,13:54)]Given the cast of characters involved in this saga, nobody should be surprised, shocked, or even awakened by it.
Imus will get a slap on the wrist for doing his job.
Al Sharpton will get a new twenty-thoudand dollar set of clothes and accesories for his next TV appearance.
Jessie Jackson will find a way to extort a vast sum of money from NBC to spend on his girlfriends and other personal extravagence, through the rainbow coalition .
And the black population will have gained nothing from its use as a social wedge while some whites will run around feeling guilty for having the same approximate amount of melanin that Imus does.
Totally predictable and self-rewarding for all of the players.
This crap has got to stop one day and some real issues need to be addressed. #
But, it can be fun to watch.
you just made a blip on my radar screen. Good show OM.
N4AUD
04-10-2007, 08:22 PM
Quote[/b] (KI4ITV @ April 09 2007,16:54)]Given the cast of characters involved in this saga, nobody should be surprised, shocked, or even awakened by it.
Imus will get a slap on the wrist for doing his job.
Al Sharpton will get a new twenty-thoudand dollar set of clothes and accesories for his next TV appearance.
Jessie Jackson will find a way to extort a vast sum of money from NBC to spend on his girlfriends and other personal extravagence, through the rainbow coalition .
And the black population will have gained nothing from its use as a social wedge while some whites will run around feeling guilty for having the same approximate amount of melanin that Imus does.
Totally predictable and self-rewarding for all of the players.
This crap has got to stop one day and some real issues need to be addressed.
But, it can be fun to watch.
Yep.
Imus has done this stuff for 30 years or so. It IS what he gets paid for, and he and the other cast of characters including Sharpton and Jackson aren't deviating from the script. Imus will end up donating a bunch of money to Rutgers, the powers that be at the school will arrange for a meeting with the team, and all will be well. Money for everybody, ratings go up, etc.
People seem shocked over this. Exactly why Imus was the first to be called a "shock jock."
WA3WDR
04-10-2007, 09:27 PM
Sure - Sharpton wants presidential candidates to boycott the Imus show... and go to the Sharpton show instead. And Jesse Jackson should pipe down. Maybe Imus made fun of him when Jackson got nailed for his 'Hymietown' joke, and this is his payback, I don't know.
w2amr
04-10-2007, 09:35 PM
What a wonderful gesture on Imus' part, offering himself as a human sacrifice on reverend Al's radio show. I heard #highlights of the show today, and #listening to these two idiots going at it was the best radio I have heard in weeks. The really ironic part is , Sharpton is a probably worst bigot than Imus could ever hope to be.
KG6QHK
04-10-2007, 10:28 PM
Quote[/b] (KI4SQT @ April 09 2007,17:55)]Quote[/b] (n2ize @ April 08 2007,18:08)]Shock Jock or not why should this type of blatant racist mockery be tolerated ? Racism cost people their lives, why should it be mocked or used as the butt of a joke.
The really sad this is thatthese "shock jocks" are not even "shock jocks" anymore. They are not funny. If anything they are played out and boring.
I don't know what dictionary that you're using....butttttt..."Nappy headed" is not a racist comment...neither is being called a "Ho"...for all I know, you could be nappy headed (not a racist remark)...
You're not serious! I guess you've never been to NY then, have you? Yes, that "nappy-headed hos" thing could be construed as a racist remark. Was it meant that way? Only Don Imus really knows the answer to that question. Again, it's the APPEARANCE of impropriety that we're really dealing with here.
It's like I said before, "It's not what you say, it's how you say it!" (Quote from my XYL)
kc7jty
04-11-2007, 01:55 AM
The first 10 full minutes of the NBC evening news tonight was devoted to this horse crap. America you are sick and beyond repair.
Rejoice in your C.S. pop culture America it suits you perfectly.
N4AUD
04-11-2007, 02:18 AM
With everything that is going on in the world, how much time has been used up by this Imus thing, American Idol, Anna Nicole Smith's death/baby's daddy and whatever Paris Hilton has been up to lately?
KG6QHK
04-11-2007, 06:13 PM
Quote[/b] (kc7jty @ April 10 2007,18:55)]The first 10 full minutes of the NBC evening news tonight was devoted to this horse crap. America you are sick and beyond repair.
Rejoice in your C.S. pop culture America it suits you perfectly.
HEY! I resemble that remark!
w1alc
04-11-2007, 06:18 PM
Somebody posted this link in another thread.
Kinda says it all: #link (http://michellemalkin.com/archives/007286.htm?print=1)
kc7jty
04-11-2007, 06:30 PM
Quote[/b] (n4aud @ April 10 2007,19:18)]With everything that is going on in the world, how much time has been used up by this Imus thing, American Idol, Anna Nicole Smith's death/baby's daddy and whatever Paris Hilton has been up to lately?
Welcome to tabloid mainstream America. The real problem is that the people who know better (the ones with brains) are the outcasts, bad ones, trouble makers, especially if they say something about it.
KMFA brain dead Americana! Push down on the accelerator dumb @ss, the light ahead just turned red.
WA3WDR
04-11-2007, 06:46 PM
We have this non-issue, and we have another non-issue about eight US Attorneys that the President can hire and fire at whim.
But meanwhile, there are no news reports about how the Vice President of the United States conspired to leak the identity of a covert CIA agent. That leak occurred; the agent was compromised; an entire US anti-proliferation spy operation was blown; and who knows how many helpful overseas assets were killed as a result.