On Imus and Rutgers
If Don Imus was conservative, how long would he last after having said what he said about the players on Rutgers’ women’s basketball team? And would his apology have been enough?
Congrats to the Scarlet Knights on their NCAA runner-up performance.
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UPDATE: Well, it looks like the I-man finally crossed a line he shouldn’t have after all these years and actually is suffering consequences — (further update) something a commenter below notes that Al Sharpton has managed to avoid all these years.
Lookin’ like the libs are bein’ pretty tough on old Don to me. Racism never has been party or ideology specific. There do seem to be more on the right who tend to that persuasion. Mostly, if not predominantly so.
Comment by Eric — April 9, 2007 @ 10:54 am
#1, not buyin’ the stereotype. Lib racism that is paternalistic and condescending is racism nonetheless (i.e., soft bigotry of low expectations), and may be MORE prevalent as a % of the lib population than “raging racism” is in the conservative sphere — perhaps even predominantly so.
Comment by TBlumer — April 9, 2007 @ 11:11 am
If Coach Stringer, Mr. Powell, and/or some of the Rutger’s players wish to come down on Mr. Imus I will suggest their remarks are appropriate and should be respected. The one who pounds his chest most mightily in calling for the head of Don Imus is Al Sharpton. This is the same Al Sharpton who, following indisputable proof that Tawayna Brawley was not attacked by NYPD officers, continued to assail their character and reputations. And I might add, to date I do not recall ever seeing that Mr. Sharpton ever admitted his mistake and never apologized to the officers. How he can believe he has any credibility in questioning Mr. Imus’s morality is beyond common reasoning.
Comment by Bill — April 10, 2007 @ 3:05 pm
Bill you stole my line,so all I can say is Shapeton is a nappy head ho.UR right he never admitted to anyone why he was hidding the”T” out in Middletown,NY.Only thing I can add and you will remember this.Rutgers fought for years not to have the N.J.College for Women blended in with the Scarlett Knights.Bury your own skeletons folks.
Bob
Comment by bob kulesa — April 10, 2007 @ 6:09 pm
the soft bigotry of low expectations. that’s some good stuff there. how many focus groups did THAT one take? i would hope a conservative would last just about as long. why qualify it? you were on the right track. i assume if a conservative gave a faux apology (ie: “nappy headed ho” comes from the black community, not white community) they’d get about the same treatment.
it’s jut too bad that this has distracted from what should have been a celebratory coming home for the Scarlet Knights.
ps - the stereotype was just a dig…figure you know that.
Comment by Eric — April 10, 2007 @ 8:24 pm
#5, that was a bit of a tag line from Bush 2000 and the original effort to get No Child Left Behind passed. Surprised you didn’t hear of it. It’s an apt description of the liberal plantation.
Imus is getting more than I expected, but not as much as he deserves. In a perfect world, there wouldn’t need to be an outrage campaign. People would just tune him out, his audience would disappear and so would his job.
Comment by TBlumer — April 10, 2007 @ 10:12 pm