Imus

["Dr. Dirt"]

Bobby, here's a hint.... every thing is NOT about you!

It's about hijacked threads!

Everything is about hijacked threads? May I quote you?
Jackee, I'm sorry if I offended you or caused you any undue reading this morning.

 

[TJ]

Bobby...Sorry? C'mon I like your posts...it makes things interesting....keep it up!!

 

[ProStockJunkie]

I received a survey on Monday with only one question. Did I think Imus would be back on the airwaves?

Just got the results awhile ago. Nearly 80% of the responses were yes.

Hopefully, if that happens, it will be a new and improved Imus.

 

["Dr. Dirt"]

I agree!
If he didn't learn from this monumental blunder, he should be unemployed.

 

[megadeth]

Re: Imas

I know what Imas said was wrong but is that any different than what Howard Stern has been saying for 30 years on-air?

And by the way, Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton (who is the biggest crock going) are quick to cry "racist!" when someone say anything they don't like but they find no problem with making pot shots at jewish people and other ethnic groups.

Howard Stern never say's racists things he tends to push the envelope on sexuality and crude humor.
Imus on the other hand is a A$$hole who should have been let go along time ago. I don't think Howard likes him much either he once called Howards sidekick Robin the "N" word.
That is why Howard is on Satellite Radio there are no restrictions from the FFC!

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Re: Imas

These guys would probably disagree.

7'10 Proud American Record Holder Charles Austin

8' 1/4" World Record holder Javier Sotomayor

Bobby said "Oh, and Ted, white men can jump! Two of my sons high jumped 7 ft. and there are very few world class athletes of any color who could say that."

What part of Bobby's statement is it that you're saying they would "probably disagree" with?

As far as holding someone to the exact meaning of their words goes. How do you know what these guys "probably" agree or disagree to? Have you polled them?

If I made such a statement based in what couldn't be anything more than my personal opinion, it would be prefaced with something like "I think" instead of stating it as a fact as you have. Maybe you could try "I don't know, but it looks to me like..." since you're experienced with that one.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Re: Imas

If I wandered into a track thread, so be it, but based on the topic, and your post, it seems like athletes of any color could say they had not jumped above 7', I thought I would post pics of men of color that hold American and World records. It just so happens that Cubans and African Americans are kicking butt in the high jump.

An African American and Cuban have at least 6" more than your sons. Thats all.

"I don't know, but it looks to me like" (remember those words, Mr. Moon?), you're trying to interpret Bobby's quote as saying something against other races.

I guess we're first going to have to consider what fits everyone's definition of "world class athletes." I didn't take Bobby's post to mean the majority of athletes who specialize in jumping. I took it the way he worded it.

 

[mike cummings]

I came across this tonight. I tells how the hip hop culture flat out refuses to help law enforcement in any way:

Rap star Cam'ron says there's no situation -- including a serial killer living next door -- that would cause him to help police in any way, because to do so would hurt his music sales and violate his "code of ethics." Cam'ron, whose real name is Cameron Giles, talks to Anderson Cooper for a report on how the hip-hop culture's message to shun the police has undermined efforts to solve murders across the country. Cooper's report will be broadcast on 60 MINUTES Sunday, April 22 (7:00-8:00 PM, ET/PT) on the CBS Television Network.

"If I knew the serial killer was living next door to me?" Giles responds to a hypothetical question posed by Cooper. "I wouldn't call and tell anybody on him -- but I'd probably move," says Giles. "But I'm not going to call and be like, ÔThe serial killer's in 4E.' " ( For an excerpt of Giles' interview, click here

Giles' "code of ethics" also extends to crimes committed against him. After being shot and wounded by gunmen, Giles refused to cooperate with police. Why? "Because...it would definitely hurt my business, and the way I was raised, I just don't do that," says Giles. Pressed by Cooper, who says had he been the victim, he would want his attacker to be caught, Giles explains further: "But then again, you're not going to be on the stage tonight in the middle of, say, Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, with people with gold and platinum teeth and dreadlocks jumping up and down singing your songs, either," says Giles. "We're in two different lines of business."

"So for you, it's really about business?" Cooper asks.

"It's about business," Giles says, "but it's still also a code of ethics."

Rappers appear to be concerned about damaging what's known as their "street credibility," says Geoffrey Canada, an anti-violence advocate and educator from New York City's Harlem neighborhood. "It's one of those things that sells music and no one really quite understands why," says Canada. Their fans look up to artists if they come from the "meanest streets of the urban ghetto," he tells Cooper. For that reason, Canada says, they do not cooperate with the police.

Canada says in the poor New York City neighborhood he grew up in, only the criminals didn't talk to the police, but within today's hip-hop culture, that's changed. "It is now a cultural norm that is being preached in poor communities....It's like you can't be a black person if you have a set of values that say ÔI will not watch a crime happen in my community without getting involved to stop it,'" Canada tells Cooper.

Young people from some of New York's toughest neighborhoods echo Canada's assessment, calling the message not to help police "the rules" and helping the police "a crime" in their neighborhoods. These "rules" are contributing to a much lower percentage of arrests in homicide cases -- a statistic known as the "clearance rate" -- in largely poor, minority neighborhoods throughout the country, according to Prof. David Kennedy of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. "I work in communities where the clearance rate for homicides has gone into the single digits," says Kennedy. The national rate for homicide clearance is 60 percent. "In these neighborhoods, we are on the verge of -- or maybe we have already lost -- the rule of law," he tells Cooper.

Says Canada, "It's like we're saying to the criminals, ÔYou can have our community....Do anything you want and we will either deal with it ourselves or we'll simply ignore it.' "

DRUDGE REPORT FLASH 2007®

This is where al sharptoon and jesse jackoff need to focus their energies rather than pile on a radio announcer who is practicing his right of free speech. As a result of this "code of ethics" many black people are dying and their killers are getting away with it.

Can someone remind me how many people died as the result of Don Imus' words?

 

[megadeth]

Re: Imas

These guys would probably disagree.

7'10 Proud American Record Holder Charles Austin

8' 1/4" World Record holder Javier Sotomayor

Unless "YOU" were born in Africa I hate to inform you but your American!

I hope you don't remove all your posts again!

 

[Nitrohaulic]

Re: Imas

Unless "YOU" were born in Africa I hate to inform you but your American!

I hope you don't remove all your posts again!

Or, make political statements, then ask that the thread be moved because it's now "political."

I guess the cycle of this person attacking and disrespecting people here, having it demonstrated to them to the point that it can't be defended, leaving for a few months, then always returning is never going to end.

 

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Re: Imas

Unless "YOU" were born in Africa I hate to inform you but your American!

I hope you don't remove all your posts again!

So is Charles Austin.
Bay City Texas. American High Jump Record holder..

What does that have to do with Africa?

 

[megadeth]

Re: Imas

So is Charles Austin.
Bay City Texas. American High Jump Record holder..

What does that have to do with Africa?

Figure it out.

 

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Re: Imas

Figure it out.

Enlighten me, please.

 

[megadeth]

Re: Imas

Enlighten me, please.

Not my job you have a brain use it!

 

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Re: Imas

Not my job you have a brain use it!

Please educate us all about how Imus and Guirk, (who also got fired), high jumpers of any color, have any thing to do with Africa.

I will hang up and listen.

 

[rocketman]

the whole imus deal was overblown, even the NJ Governor was nearly killed traveling 90 MPH to meet with Imus and the girls. Either the Govy was super late or he thought this was the biggest damn deal to ever happen and by damned he had to get there just as quick as he could!

I don't care for Imus, but isn't there more important things to be concerned about?

 

[mike cummings]

the whole imus deal was overblown, even the NJ Governor was nearly killed traveling 90 MPH to meet with Imus and the girls. Either the Govy was super late or he thought this was the biggest damn deal to ever happen and by damned he had to get there just as quick as he could!

I don't care for Imus, but isn't there more important things to be concerned about?

You are absolutely right. It seems even the Rutgers team is seeing this as a non-event when you compare it to more recent events:

NEW BRUNSWICK, N.J. -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton finally dropped by Rutgers to meet with the school's women's basketball coach -- but the players themselves skipped the half-hour meeting, citing their studies and Imus fatigue.

Clinton had been scheduled to meet with Scarlet Knight coach C. Vivian Stringer and an assistant, and possibly some of the players, Monday to talk with them about Don Imus's "nappy-headed ho" comments.

But that sit-down was postponed due to weather and because the story seemed far less significant after the Virginia Tech killings.

Newsday.com: Rutgers team skips Clinton meeting

it's too bad the vote hungry political whores can't let let this minor incident pass, but theyare going to milk it for everything they can get out of it.

 

[Nitrohaulic]

I think Dolly Madison or Little Debbie sells something called "HO-HO'S"? And, if I remember correctly, guess what color they are? Someone should let Al and Jessee know. I'd pay money for a candid pic of either of those two eating them.

 

[d'kid]

Hostess... still sell them under that name... check out your friendly neighborhood "Food Lion".... and at one point they also changed the name of Ding-Dongs to King Dongs (back to the original name now)

 

[megadeth]

Re: Imas

Please educate us all about how Imus and Guirk, (who also got fired), high jumpers of any color, have any thing to do with Africa.

I will hang up and listen.

Your the only one who doesn't seem to have a clue. I could live with that!
But I'm glad to see that you at least stick around theres hope for you yet!

P.S. Hint!