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This is the End [of the road]

Well, quite a news weekend, wasn’t it? A massive, horrible deadly shooting today at Virginia Tech, the worst shooting ever in the U.S. Before that, the entire Northeast was socked by a potent nor’easter, more common in the fall and winter than spring. I know around my house, we received over 4″ of rain, with some locales near by getting 6″+, including La Guardia Airport.

And then at the end of last week, MSNBC canceled their Imus video simulcast, and 2 days later, CBS fired Don Imus for the inappropriate comments he made about the women’s basketball team. I’m still mixed on this; I believe it was a bad thing to say, I don’t doubt he is a racist in his personal life, but I’m not sure the intent of what he said was racist. He was trying to be funny, and he failed miserably. I still don’t believe that it should have cost him his job. I still think the two week suspension was more than sufficient. None the less, Howard Stern had much to say this AM, and needless to say he is thrilled. Rightly so, because Stern and Imus have had a long standing fued back to the days of when Howard was on WNBC in the early 1980s. Imus was and is a prick to him, and I can’t disagree there.

Here’s a little tidbit from the Stern show–it’s a little Imus parody they did to the tune of Bon Jovi’s 1980s’ hit, “Wanted Dead or Alive”

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I Don’t Like Imus, But What a Double Standard

So I can’t help but comment on Don Imus’s recent media trouble, when during his show, he referenced a girls basketball team as “nappy headed hoes”. Listen, I’m not a fan of Don Imus. I really don’t care for the guy’s show, or his sense of humor. I find his voice hard to listen to. That being said, his show is about controversy, and about comedy. If he’s going to get in trouble for saying what he said – in jest – then I will have to firmly disagree. I don’t believe he should be suspended, much less fired.

I don’t even think what he said was racist. The underlying meaning was not racist. At least I don’t think so. And most importantly, no one should have to apologize to Al Sharpton. Don Imus actually went as far as calling Sharpton “sir”. Give me a break.

People in this country are becoming more and more offended by the things other people say. I don’t get in an uproar and call for Sharpton’s job every time he says something ridiculous. For example, Sharpton once said:

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.
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On top of all that, Sharpton has inspired racial riots against ‘crackers’ and jews.

I’m not offended by any of what Sharpton has to say, but no one – no one – should have to apologize to him like he is some prosecuting attorney.