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"Can't you tell how excited I am???"
"I've got sunshine..."
...after a hard day of burgers, brats and lemonade!
"Mmmmm....Trans Am!!!!! "
rehearsing MIDSUMMER at the UK Arboreitum/ 2006
Mr Scott had it wrong...Chuck Norris CAN change the laws of physics- with his fists!!!
If, on Nov 4th, Chuck Norris votes for Mike Huckabee, then BY GOD Mike Huckabee is our next President!!!
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rehearsing MIDSUMMER at the UK Arboreitum/ 2006
THE MAN AND THE LEGEND
Mr Scott had it wrong...Chuck Norris CAN change the laws of physics- with his fists!!!
26 comments:
Ya says your piece, you takes your chances and deal with the consequences of your actions.
That said, I long ago stopped listening to talk radio because it's pretty much devoid of intelligent discourse and only incites trumped-up controversy and allows the phone-in idiot opinions of mostly uninformed cretins.
Thanks for posting that Rick. I had heard about WHitlock's column, but hadn't read it. Bravo, Jason ! Well said...Also, Rick, the GREY'S ANATOMY example is a good one...
D$ also makes a great point on "select racism", or more to the point, select censorship. I think Imus is a putz too, and I've never liked the guy, but there have been things TEN TIMES as inflamatory said on everything from Howard Stern, to local Lexington morning radio. Why this, why now? Makes one wonder...
What kind up uproar would have been made if Stern had said it? Probably not as much. It was a stupid thing to say, but Imus has said some pretty stupid things in his time.
I think the good he has done with his kid's cancer ranch outweighs the bad comment.
Amen, D$.
I'm so tired of this "selective" censorship. What Imus said was stupid but it's not any worse than other negative slang you hear about women (especially on Howard Stern), or whites, or certain religious groups, or Native Americans, or homosexuals, etc. etc.
So much hate. It's sad.
"Did rick just postsomething that has a negative slant on hip hop?"
LOL, steve...that caught me off guard too!
Rick, I've enjoyed the way Olbermann has been calling out our current "president."
I read Whitlock a lot, I like his stuff, but I'd really like to hear what the late, great Ralph Wiley would've had to say about all this. Here's something from Leonard Pitts, writes for the miami-herald.
At Large
Firing of Imus removes leader of sorry band
BY LEONARD PITTS JR.
lpitts@MiamiHerald.com
Obviously, someone has put crack in the nation's drinking water.
What else can one think after the spasms of bigotry to which Mel Gibson, Isaiah Washington, Tim Hardaway and Michael Richards have treated us over the last nine months? That's a lot of stupid in a short period of time.
And then there's radio shock jock Don Imus who, as even polar bears must know by now, last week leveled racist and sexist insults against the Rutgers University women's basketball team, most of whom are black. Until then, the team was best known for a gritty season that brought them within a game of the championship. Now they are famous as the objects of a misbegotten attempt at banter between Imus and producer Bernard McGuirk.
''That's some rough girls from Rutgers,'' says Imus. ``Man, they got tattoos . . .''
''Some hard-core hos,'' observes McGuirk.
''That's some nappy-headed hos there,'' says Imus.
The resulting firestorm cost Imus many of his sponsors and his MSNBC simulcast. Thursday, CBS canceled his show outright.
And there are a few things that need saying here:
One, it is beyond pathetic that two grown men would use the reach and power afforded them as members of the media to mock the looks of a bunch of college girls.
Two, while it is fitting that Imus' slur has angered and energized the African-American community, one hopes we'll see this same indignation next time some idiot black rapper (paging Snoop Dogg) refers to black women in terms this raw or worse. Indeed, it's doubtful Imus would have even known the word ''ho'' -- black slang for ''whore'' -- had idiot black rappers not spent the last 20 years popularizing it.
Three, to make this about Don Imus is to miss the point.
There is something entirely too precious about all this, particularly the expressions of shock and disappointment by Imus' media friends and his corporate partners. To put it another way: What did Imus do last week that he has not done repeatedly? We're talking about a man who has built a career on verbal diarrhea. He has slurred women and gays and blacks and Jews. He once referred to Gwen Ifill as ``the cleaning lady.''
Yet none of that was enough to keep him out of radio's Hall of Fame, nor to keep such VIPs as Tom Brokaw, Chris Matthews, Tim Russert, John Kerry and John McCain off his show. So what's it mean that Imus finally is paying the piper, given that he has danced so long without paying a dime?
What's it mean, all this sound and fury about one stupid remark, when he is an avatar of a school of ''entertainment'' that stretches far beyond him to video channels and bookstores and TV screens? In this school, coarseness is its own justification, rudeness its own reward. One pushes boundaries of propriety not to enlighten, not to say something vital, not even to make people laugh. One pushes the boundaries because they are there. And the willingness to do so gets mistaken for courage and authenticity.
Don Imus ought to be ashamed of himself, but no more so than Kerry, Matthews, Brokaw, Biden and anybody else who lacked the wit to understand that the willingness to offend in and of itself represents neither courage nor authenticity. The question is, what are you offending for? If you are pushing boundaries, what are you pushing them toward?
It is painfully clear that Imus was pushing toward nothing, unless you count the gratification of his own ego and misanthropy.
What's sad isn't that he was willing to lead in that direction. What's sad is that so many of us were willing to follow.
Interesting point this last column makes. When so-called esteemed politicans and celebrities agree to go on these shows, do they not give them a legitimacy and an aura they really don't have.
I applaud John Edwards and his democratic candidates who followed suit in refusing to debate on FOX news.
The best way to get rid on pundits who are "pushing the boundaries to nothing" is to ignore them, but something neither the listening public or those who wish media access refuse to do.
I mean why would Clinton even agree to be interviewed by Chris Wallace on Fox? Couldn't he see it was going to be an attempt at a smear job from way off.
So when if the Democrats or any sensible human being who truly desires "fair and unbalanced" reportage would just boycott the Bill O'Reillys, the Sean Hannitys, the Rush Limbaughs, and any other TV/Radio mouth who doesn't really elevate the public discourse to some intelligent level, they wouldn't have a platform except for the dim-witted mouth-breathers they already serve.
I think sometimes the Dems like to go on FOX news (i.e the recent CLinton interview) to create an outburst or some kind of conflict. It galvanizes their base and gets people excited. Tell me Clinton didn't literally come out swinging from the word go (which, btw, I absolutely loved! GOD, I miss having that guy in the White House!)The John Stewart/Tucker Carlson episode is another example...tell me that Stewart (as beautiful as the moment was) didn;t have that planned down to the last detail...
I'm glad Bob's article brought up the Tim Hardaway incident. He went on ad nauseum on Dan Lebetard's show in Miami about how he "hated gay people" and there was virtually no criticism from the mainstream media. It truly was a revolting display, and one that in my mind deserved a LOT more attention. But what happened? He said he was sorry, retracted the statement and within a few days all is forgotten.
I'm certainly not trying to let the I man off the hook. I think what he said was deplorable. I just wish that we could get to a place in this country where we could have some civil discourse about racial/gender/lifestyle issues without people blowing their lids and knee-jerking all over the place. Was it wrong? Yes...but the man showed contrition- he apologized, he met with the appropriate people, and I think given the chance, he would've done more. But CBS rushed to punishment, and the result is the man is out of a job. Sure, he'll recover nicely (probably- oh Ironos,God of irony- right next door to Howard Stern at SIRRIUS) but at some point I think we have to realize that making a crude statement is NOT an unpardonable sin. Weigh that against the millions upon millions that Imus has raised for pediatric cancer patients, and I think perhaps we could've given the man a pass. And no, it wasn't the first time he had made inflamatory statements, but as we all know, in talk radio that's the name of the game. It's siply unfair to pick and choose. You're going after one- go after ALL of them. Throw Stern's punk ass off the air, ban Tim Hardaway from EVER having anything to do with the NBA and fire that homophobic fucker from GREYS ANATOMY.
Oh well...end of rant...
KO? Self righteous???SAY IT AIN'T SO, Rick!
Rick, yea, Olbermann is very self-righteous, kinda smug too. I can't argue with that!
Saw the Wilbon column, that was good too.
Pimps up, ho's down...
Bob
What if we lived in a society where we all adhered to Thumpers' mommys rule of etiquette....
"If you cant say something nice about someone, dont say anything at all."
*sits back and imagines how pleasant and boring it would be.
Ho with an "e?" You are too white, Tim!! :) Lara
Okay, Jesus, I just read all of the other comments. So sorry to throw that arrow atcha, Tim. I will now be very serious.
Hey! I just cut and pasted that lyric from an internet lyric site, so don't blame me! I, too, thought HO was e-less...
and so the p.c. parade begins.... the powers that be at a radio station in pennsylvania just fired their morning drive-time d.j. for sponsering a "I'm a nappy headed ho" contest. that one truly made me choke on my ho-ho, maybe i'll switch to twinkies.....
p.c. pt. deux
it just came over the wire that al sharpton, feeling he is on a roll, is now demanding that santa claus be dismissed.
and finally (I promise!) p.c. pt. drei
the american society of agriculture urges respect for certain gardening impliments. Society president I.M. Smarmy states, " Please don't call it a hoe. It does so much more than till the earth and provide slapstick comic relief." In a related story, the U.S. Square Dancing association will no longer tolerate the colloquial term, "hoe down," prefering instead the term, "redneck breakdancing festivals."
btw, the penn. story is all too true.
Steve, you're right! It's all about revenue. As long as on-air assholes can make it for you, everything's okay. Once they start to jeopardize revenue, they're gone.
I'm not sure what I'm trying to say here, but I was thinking last night about the Imus debacle and the Duke Lacrosse team mess, and the fact that whenever the press--even NPR--talked about the Duke case, the alleged victim was identified as an "African American exotic dancer." Why Af Am? Why any racial ID at all? Why did we need any description of her anyway?
She was an alleged victim, not a perp. If she'd been white, they'd never have called her a "Caucasian exotic dancer." Or "Irish American" or "Italian American," for that matter. That kind of labeling just furthers the division between races in this country. It's just one step above calling her a "nappy-headed exotic dancer," if you ask me.
Mostly I think Imus' show was just boring as all-get-out. I say good riddance to the guy. (And notice I didn't say "old, white, stupid cowboy hat-wearing guy.")
right on, Missy...
Entertainer Don HO died tonight.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are calling on Ho's relatives to make a public apology to all prostitutes and loose women in general for the irony.
Topical AND humorous, babe! Nice work!
Missy, while I agree with the "alleged victim" not needing to be racially identified. I quite frankly am a bit confused as to why the "alleged victim's" identity needs to be hidden at all. I personally think we're long past the days when "she was asking for it" defense is really taken seriously by rational human beings. But even if it isn't, why is it okay to identify "the alleged perps" and not the "alleged victim"? Why should their reputations be smeared before their innocence or guilt is proven (anyone ever catch Nancy Grace's rush to judgment on this one)? If hiding the identity of the accuser in a he said/she said case is crucial, then it seems to me, that's what it should be for the accused as well. We've seen too many people get vilified on just the accusation alone.
I think in the British courts in a case like this, no publicity is allowed at all until the case is resolved
as Tim said, good one babe!
Lawd, with all the hateratin' and goin' on in this world, it makes me wish more people followed the three Divine Principles my own mammy passed on to me:
1) Lord loves a workin' man.
2) Don't trust whitey.
3) See a doctor and get rid of it.
Say it once, say it loud: http://myspace.com/miketuttle (Let the music load. Smile.)
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