Holy fucking Nation Of Islam

Racist remarks cost Imus CBS radio job [http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/900460/racist_remarks_cost_imus_cbs_radio_job/index.html?source=r_general]

By DAVID BAUDER, AP Television Writer


NEW YORK - Don Imus' racist remarks got him fired by CBS on Thursday, the finale to a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent broadcasters.


Imus was initially suspended for two weeks after he called the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week. But outrage kept growing and advertisers kept bolting from his CBS radio show and its MSNBC simulcast, which was canceled Wednesday.

"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision."

Imus, 66, had a long history of inflammatory remarks. But something struck a raw nerve when he targeted the Rutgers team — which includes a class valedictorian, a future lawyer and a musical prodigy — after they lost in the NCAA championship game.

A spokeswoman for the team said it did not have an immediate comment on Imus' firing. But Imus was scheduled to meet with the team Thursday evening at the governor's mansion in Princeton, N.J., and the team was seen entering the mansion.

He was fired in the middle of a two-day radio fundraiser for children's charities. CBS announced that Imus' wife, Deirdre, and his longtime newsman, Charles McCord, will host Friday's show.

The cantankerous Imus, once named one of the 25 Most Influential People in America by Time magazine and a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, was one of radio's original shock jocks. His career took flight in the 1970s and with a cocaine- and vodka-fueled outrageous humor. After sobering up, he settled into a mix of highbrow talk about politics and culture, with locker room humor sprinkled in.

He issued repeated apologies as protests intensified. But it wasn't enough as everyone from Hillary Clinton to Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) to Oprah Winfrey joined the criticism.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with Moonves on Thursday to demand Imus' removal.

Jackson called the firing "a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation."

Said Sharpton: "He says he wants to be forgiven. I hope he continues in that process. But we cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism."

In a memo to staff members, Moonves said the firing "is about a lot more than Imus."

"He has flourished in a culture that permits a certain level of objectionable expression that hurts and demeans a wide range of people," Moonves said. "In taking him off the air, I believe we take an important and necessary step not just in solving a unique problem, but in changing that culture, which extends far beyond the walls of our company."

It's also likely to trigger a wider debate about expression and forgiveness. Some of Imus' fans have pointed to inflammatory statements made by Sharpton and Jackson in the past, or in the lyrics of popular music.

Losing Imus will be a financial hit to CBS Radio, which also suffered when Howard Stern departed for satellite radio. The program earns about $15 million in annual revenue for CBS, which owns Imus' home radio station WFAN-AM and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show nationally. One potential replacement: the sports show "Mike & the Mad Dog," which airs afternoons on WFAN.

The radiothon had raised more than $1.3 million Thursday before Imus learned that he had lost his job. The annual event has raised more than $40 million since 1990.

"This may be our last radiothon, so we need to raise about $100 million," Imus cracked at the start of the event.

Volunteers were getting about 200 more pledges per hour than they did last year, with most callers expressing support for Imus, said phone bank supervisor Tony Gonzalez. The event benefited Tomorrows Children's Fund, the CJ Foundation for SIDS and the Imus Ranch.

Imus, whose suspension was supposed to start next week, was in the awkward situation of broadcasting Thursday's radio program from the MSNBC studios in New Jersey, even though NBC News said the night before that MSNBC would no longer simulcast his program on television.

He didn't attack MSNBC (a unit of NBC Universal, owned by General Electric Co.) for its decision — "I understand the pressure they were under," he said — but complained the network was doing some unethical things during the broadcast. He didn't elaborate.

Sponsors that pulled out of Imus' show included American Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and General Motors Corp. Imus made a point Thursday to thank one sponsor, Bigelow Tea, for sticking by him.

The list of his potential guests began to shrink, too.

Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham said the magazine's staffers would no longer appear on Imus' show. Meacham, Jonathan Alter, Evan Thomas, Howard Fineman and Michael Isikoff from Newsweek have been frequent guests.

Imus has complained bitterly about a lack of support from one black politician, Harold Ford Jr., even though he strongly backed Ford's campaign for Senate in Tennessee last year. Ford, now head of the Democratic Leadership Council, said Thursday he'll leave it to others to decide Imus' future.

"I don't want to be viewed as piling on right now because Don Imus is a good friend and a decent man," Ford said. "However, he did a reprehensible thing."

Imus' troubles have also affected his wife, whose book "Green This!" came out this week. Her promotional tour has been called off "because of the enormous pressure that Deirdre and her family are under," said Simon & Schuster publicist Victoria Meyer.

People are buying it, though: An original printing of 45,000 was increased to 55,000.

Imus still has a lot of support among radio managers across the country, many of whom grew up listening to him, said Tom Taylor, editor of the trade publication Inside Radio.

Rutgers' team, meanwhile, appeared Thursday on "The Oprah Winfrey Show" with their coach, C. Vivian Stringer.

At the end of their appearance, Winfrey said: "I want to borrow a line from Maya Angelou, who is a personal mentor of mine and I know you all also feel the same way about her. And she has said this many times, and I say this to you, on behalf of myself and every woman that I know, you make me proud to spell my name W-O-M-A-N."

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Associated Press correspondents Rebecca Santana, Karen Matthews, Warren Levinson, Seth Sutel, Tara Burghart, Colleen Long and Hillel Italie contributed to this report.


My two cents to weigh in on this farce of human indignity.

“Jackson called the firing "a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation." (BAUDER,2007)

That is got to be the biggest line of horse shit this dumb motherfucker has ever said. Hid good friend and comrade Louis Farrakhan has been preaching hate and racism against the whites and Jews all over public radio for years.
Jesse Jackson needs to realize that the smart people in the world see this fucker as a media whore. He has got to know he is a media whore. Every time there is a opportunity for him to be on television there is Jesse on television talking about the injustices that are being mented out.



FUCK FUCK FUCK


Now Nappy headed hos....come on lets think about this..... Ismus is going to be on satellite radio making 5x what he was making now. It is plain and simple i even think the statement is harsh. It is obvious that this was the same thing as being a kiddie show star and being caught in a porno theater.
This was his way of getting out of his contract and that is that.
Hillary Clinton and the gang that wanted him fired has just help this man get to the next level. Then they can whine and bitch about the injustice of it all. WHAH WHAH WHAH Boo fucking hoo.
There has been a double standard when racism is concerned. Certain fricken words are allowed only by certain skin types. And certain types are blamed for the problems of certain skin types. The problems are the fault of both fucking skin types and that is fucking that. Certain skin types are afraid to say anything as to be afraid to be politically incorrect and offend someone. One can no longer have an original opinion. Opinions are offensive to someone because someone will disagree and whine that it offends their sensibilities and boo hoo boo hoo. I have listened to Luis F. speak many times on government funded radio say that the Rockefellers and the Jews invented the IRS to suppress the African Americans. This Luis fucker, who is ill with anal sores, has tried to accept money from a known terrorist in the past.

U.S. Prohibits Gift by Libya To Farrakhan
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August 29, 1996, Thursday
(AP); National Desk


DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Federal Government denies Nation of Islam and its leader, Louis Farrakhan, permission to accept $1 billion gift promised by Col Muammar el-Qaddafi of Libya; Libya has been under American sanctions that bar most financial transactions between the two countries and limit travel; Farrakhan had sought exception that would allow him to accept the gift

These fuckers, whores of and for the media have got to be called out. They are there just for the media as much as the media is for them. “Hey some bone head used the phrase ‘you people’ lets see what rev. Sharpton and Jesse have to say. And what do the rest of the crazy democrats have to fucking say so that we can milk this for as many advertising hours as we can. It’s all about the sound bites and the dollars my bitches, the sound bites and the dollars.