legitimate complaint vs. manufactured outrage re: imus

[HuffleClaw]

ok, i'd never heard of the guy until this past weeks events and from what i hear, he's not someone who'll be missed much but...
...and this is a big ass 'but'. assorted columnists and radio pundits ROUTINELY utter similar inanitities and nothing is done but suddenly THIS one guy insults a college basketball team and is pilloried? could it be the corporate media is flexing its muscles? what happens when it is hillary or edwards or obama under their collective guns? and it WILL happen, the 'dean scream' is proof enough of that. at some point, they will gang-tackle one of the democratic candidates over some 'horribly offensive' comment. and what will happen then? all sorts of people will jump up to feign offence, the usual suspects will rant and rave about it and the REST of the democrats will call the comment 'unfortunate' or 'ill-timed' or some other bullshit, grateful it wasn't THEM who is being crucified.

[ThomCat]

1. It's a matter of the tipping point.

Raging at absolutely all of them all the time does absolutely no good at all. But at some point someone is going to do something that gets so many people upset all at once that it reaches a tipping point. So you save up your rage until you see a chance to reach that tipping point and then we all raise our voices together as loudly and strongly as we can to reach that point. Once we reach that tipping point we have a chance to make some changes.

[man4allcats]

2. I don't know. Sounds like a kind of double standard to me.

"All those other people, well they weren't so bad. But this guy! Hey, what can we say? He's just a nappy-headed radio ho that needs to go!" Like the OP, I'd never or rarely ever even heard of this character before this past week. I certainly don't defend his comments, but I suspect there are more than a few opportunists out there whose goal is not positive social change but rather simply to get as much personal mileage out of this for their own agendas as possible.


Impeach Bushco!

[HuffleClaw]

3. well, i hope some of that has been saved to deal with beck and limbaugh!

i'd dance a jig to see them canned.

[Connie_Corleone]

4. Maybe people just got sick of it.

It wasn't Imus' first time saying racist, sexist things. People just had enough, coupled with the fact that he insulted private citizens who were not celebrities and politicians. They were just playing in a basketball championship.

As far as why Imus and not someone else. It started with Imus. That doesn't mean it's going to end with him. Maybe this will scare the other idiots on the radio and TV into not using derogatory language again.

[NormanYorkstein]

5. I helped manufacture the outrage

And I damned proud of it, can't wait to do it again.

[SayitAintSo]

6. Consider another possibility ....

Could Al and Jesse and other have been used ? Imus went after Cheney in a big way - keep saying that he should be hung for war crimes. He went after the Bush administration on it's poor treatment our vets. He went after the big pharmaceuticals on the theumerisol issue (cause of autism). The list goes on. There were a lot of wingnuts that would have been REAL happy to see this guy gone. This point is being hugely overlooked.


http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/

April 13-15, 2007 -- Neo-con alert. DeForest ("Buster") Soaries, the Somerset, NJ preacher of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, who, as former New Jersey Republican Secretary of State was the Garden State's version of Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell in promoting GOP voter fraud by suppressing the African American vote (Soaries was one of the recipients of Ed Rollins' "walkin' around money" in the 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race to keep parishioners home on Election Day rather than vote for Democratic Governor Jim Florio), was the intermediary chosen by Rutgers University to host a New Jersey Governors' Mansion meeting between fired radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. Soaries' church is attended by Rutgers Women's Basketball team coach Vivian Stringer.

In 2002, Soaries challenged Democratic Representative Rush Holt for his 12th District congressional seat. Holt has long been a proponent of vote reform while Soaries champions the status quo of voter fraud to the detriment of his own race. Soaries is also a strong promoter of Bush's faith-based initiatives.

go to link for more info

[NYCGirl]

7. Sories is a friend of Imus'. NT