Video: Imus on Sharpton; Update: MSNBC suspends Imus for two weeks
posted at 4:13 pm on April 9, 2007 by Bryan
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Go-to guy to apologize for making racist comments. What a world. Don Imus may well be and probably is a bigot, but Rev. Al Sharpton is worse no matter how you look at the situation. But now he gets to be Imus’ judge and jury. What a world.
Here’s Imus submitting to Sharpton on the latter’s nationally syndicated radio show today. It’s cringe-inducing on so many levels it’s hard to know where to start. Well, other than to note that neither of these guys deserves the prominence they both enjoy.
(thanks to Ian for finding the clip)
Update (AP): OlbyWatch has audio of Keith admitting that he’s not being tougher on Imus because they share an employer — coupled with archived audio of Keith tearing O’Reilly a new one for not being tougher on Fox’s book division for the O.J. debacle because they share an employer.
Here’s a link to the audio if you don’t want to actually watch the spectacle.
Update: MSNBC is reporting that “NBC News” has suspended the morning simulcast of Imus’s radio show for two weeks. A tipster sent me the statement from NBC. Money quote: “In addition, his dedication – in his words – to change the discourse on his program moving forward, has confirmed for us that this action is appropriate. Our future relationship with Imus is contingent on his ability to live up to his word.” I.e., he’s on double-secret probation.
They’re going to air his charity radiothon as scheduled on Thursday and Friday.
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During the Rutgers press conference, I was flipping back and forth between MSNBC and BET. BET was playing music videos showing black women shaking their booties and black men calling them “ho”s.
faraway on April 10, 2007 at 12:07 PM
I was glad to hear the coach and the team captain make this an issue that has nothing to do with the race of the person who made the remark. That is at least consistant.
I still don’t get why everyone is so a$$broke about this. The only people who should have a problem with this are the gals it was leveled against. And I’d bet dollars to donuts that they’d rather his comments were ignored so they could get the recognition they deserve as student athletes. How stupid is it for the media to treat ladies basketball as a second thought, but throw them into the spotlight to find out what they think about Imus? Talk about promoting stupidity for the sake of ratings! Sheesh!
This is another reason why all people, especially minorities should vote for whatever political party that bradky pigeonholes them into.
Bwahhahahahahaha
csdeven on April 10, 2007 at 12:20 PM
While BET was showing videos degrading women, their website asks this question:
Backlash over Don Imus’ racially insensitive remarks continue to grow. Should he be fired?
We live in a bizarre world.
faraway on April 10, 2007 at 12:23 PM
NAACP was outraged as well. Their website has a big article about the outrage over Imus. However, I did a search for “rap lyrics” and their site returned “No results found for: rap lyrics”. Change starts at home.
faraway on April 10, 2007 at 12:28 PM
Amazingly, it seems the media and self-acclaimed champions of social justice like Al Sharpton just discovered Don Imus’ hateful rants (”Imus Unplugged for Two Weeks in Race Furor.”) In January 2005, Imus referred to the publishers of the Mary and Carol Higgins Clark holiday thriller “The Christmas Thief” as “Theiving Jews” and made matters worse when, according to a New York Post article, reportedly stated “I apologize … I realize that’s redundant.” Imus should have been unplugged long ago.
BrunoMitchell on April 10, 2007 at 12:43 PM
Imus’ comment was insulting and he owed an apology to the team. He gave it.
Now conservatives need to realize that they are feeding the beast of PC thinking and racial demogoguery which will surely come back and bite them in the rear.
Hannity had it right last night when he said that there is a racial double standard when it comes to making jokes about black people. That mentality should be fought. Holding blacks and whites to different standards of behavior will tear our country apart.
Bill C on April 10, 2007 at 12:51 PM
Well the big plus here is that the Imus tsunami will hopefully suck away some of the airtime that would otherwise go to who is the daddy of Anna Nicole’s baby and the American Idol nonsense.
We’ve come to this. Groan.
honora on April 10, 2007 at 1:23 PM
…and, a Rosie-less hotair.com Now there’s something to cheer about!!!
honora on April 10, 2007 at 1:24 PM
How do you know how “everyone” chooses their political allegiance?
This is the old liberal crap where they tell us what ALL the American people think. Neither you nor I nor any other person knows what EVERY American person thinks.
I choose MY political allegiance based on what I think will be best for my locality, state or country.
OBX Pete on April 10, 2007 at 1:26 PM
Well good for you. I am very comfortable with the idea that most people vote according to their own self interest. Which is perfectly fine.
honora on April 10, 2007 at 1:37 PM
OBX Pete on April 10, 2007 at 1:55 PM
Here is the rest of my message:
Well good for you. You dropped from “everyone” to “most”.
How would you like to try for “some”?
OBX Pete on April 10, 2007 at 1:58 PM
Show me an agriculture state/county etc that elects reps who don’t support farm subsidies. Show me a rural one that elects reps who support gun control. Show me a Hispanic one that elects reps who support strict immigration laws.
You get the drift. It’s the stuff of a pluralistic society.
honora on April 10, 2007 at 2:06 PM
MSNBC now needs to do the right thing and put Alex Witt on during Imus’s two week absence. Please. I’ll even set up a news desk for her at my house.
jaleach on April 10, 2007 at 4:57 PM
Imus’ kowtowing to Sharpton, and the Black Mafia, is a prime example of how deep a liberal’s ‘white guilt’ is, as they must be perpetually on guard not the offend the owners of the new ‘black plantations’ lest they be raked over their words until they shed their mortal coil.
Liberal ‘white guilt’ runs deep, especially in the MSM, where, daily, they go out of their way not to offend lest, they too, be called racist
The phrase: Gushingly sycophantic come to mind
pocomoco on April 10, 2007 at 5:11 PM
Nothing like a stupid honora statement, from that great historian. You go ahead and continue to support the party that educates the blacks. Not one major city in the U.S. has a conservative, or Republican representation on the school boards…and they haven’t for decades. You must be proud of your liberals school policies, they sure have helped the blacks. Your ignorant statement about how I think they should behave politically is exactly the mentality that has kept the blacks down, on the liberal plantation. Fear the conservatives, fear the Republicans, ooooo, watch out they are going to get you. You know what I meant, or you are too stupid to understand…so I will type real slow…the democrats have led the blacks down a road of despair and poverty, those are the facts.
Now here is the kicker that you obviously do not believe in because it was my summation and very apparent.
I think they deserve better than what the democrat party has given them. And you, by your response, do not think so, you must be proud of the way they are educated. You like them uneducated, that way you can control them.
right2bright on April 10, 2007 at 5:24 PM
No, they need to stop listening to the group who will not educate them, give them jobs, who patronize them by giving them “special” incentives not to excel.
I don’t care if they are Republicans or not, I care about their education. It just so happens that the educated blacks end up Republicans…Gee, I wonder why?
right2bright on April 10, 2007 at 5:27 PM
Care to back that up with facts more credible than right2brightsaysso.com?
What special incentives might you be referring to?
Only educated people are republicans? You throw so many plums to pick on it is hard to decide which to address.
Every post you have made in this thread refers to they, the blacks, and at the end of it you finally decide you care about their education. Please…
Bradky on April 10, 2007 at 5:36 PM
The comedian that was sitting between Sean and the Colmes actually GOT what this issue is about. Thinned skinned idiots. But then he opened his mouth and said that “Sean was “doing it to him” again”. Meaning Sean was creating a situation that made the other guy look like a hypocrite. It couldn’t be that the guy IS A FRIGGEN HYPOCRITE! I guess it just goes to show you that even though a person can get part of a concept, there is no assurance that he will get it all.
csdeven on April 10, 2007 at 7:47 PM
Good grief.. Imus is not a racist in any sense of the word. He made a stupid joke that hacked some people off. Big deal. The amount of furor over this joke is proof positive that such things aren’t a big deal any more.
The grievance pimps have the power to shut a show down for a few relatively harmless words, words that I hear every day of my life. That’s power. Since power is the at the core of racism, it’s a bit of a stretch to say that Imus is promulgating some kind of racist regression, given that he doesn’t even have the power to say anything of the kind without getting strung up by the grievance pimps.
People on the right crowing about this need to check themselves. Nothing has been gained by muzzling Imus. Quite a bit has been lost.
spmat on April 10, 2007 at 7:59 PM
Steve King, Iowa Fifth District
In fact that was the biggest attack against him in the last election, that he didn’t bring home the pork, and we still overwhelmingly sent him back. Now would you like to apologize to the people of my district? Of course not, you probably think we’re idiots for not voting in our own self interests, never mind that you have no idea what those interests would actually be.
Gianni on April 10, 2007 at 11:05 PM
This morning:
Imus: “This wasn’t some right wing racist smear….”
After having witnessed the bigotry thrown at MM and others, I find it incomprehensible that someone would assert racism is the domain of the right.
What a miserable bastard he is.
drjohn on April 11, 2007 at 7:21 AM
Read my lips: what you think is irrelevant. Just as what I think. This really isn’t hard.
honora on April 11, 2007 at 8:39 AM
I absolutely apologize, though for being mistaken, not for the mean spirited feelings you attribute to me. I would suggest this is a case of the exception proving the rule however.
Again, thanks for the nasty insult. That Easter buzz sure doesn’t last long, does it?
honora on April 11, 2007 at 8:42 AM
My final words here on this subject.
Imus still does not get it. He has paraded some of his liberal buddies on the show this morning to praise him and tell him how great he is i.e. Barnicle, Begala and Carville. Personally, these three libs are the last people on earth I would want defending me.
Apparently his ‘buddy’ Harold Ford, who Imus backed in his failed senatorial quest last year, has abandoned him. He can’t get Ford to call him and come to his defense. Imus is so stupid that he can’t tell when somebody is using him. Of course his backing Ford may be why Ford lost. Imus blamed his loss on the bigoted, racist southern people in Tennessee. Why wasn’t he called down for that sweeping description of southerners? Imus failed to tell us (if he knew) that Ford’s father was elected to congress by the same ‘bigoted, racist southerners’.
Imus has spent the morning talking about the hypocrites who are out to get him. He is still referring to the racist, bigoted right wing nuts. He just doesn’t get it. He is one of the most hypocritical people on the planet.
If he says “I don’t mean to be patronizing…….” one more time and then goes on to patronize I think I’ll puke.
OBX Pete on April 11, 2007 at 9:22 AM
You claim that all people vote a particular way for a particular reason and you’re the one that’s insulted?
Gianni on April 11, 2007 at 9:26 AM
Last I checked it wasn’t the right wingers attacking him… He’s an idiot.
Gianni on April 11, 2007 at 9:30 AM
I claim that self interest is the overwhelming reason behind almost all voting. For that, I got accused of thinking people in your district were idiots and that I of course was ignorant. So yeah I’m insulted. You made this personal and nasty, I did not. Surprise me by taking responsibility.
honora on April 11, 2007 at 1:04 PM
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