Thanks, Don Imus, for giving us blacks an excuse to ignore our real problem

[Little-Acorn]

This editorial hits the nail on the head. How much longer do we have to listen to people accusing someone of racism, who said exactly the same things the supposed "victims" say to each other every day?

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http://www.kcstar.com

Imus isn’t the real bad guy

Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.

by Jason Whitlock
Kansas City Star

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.

It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.

It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.

I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.

Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.

But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

 

[Vintij]

I couldnt agree more. Ludacris had a public ceremony and got the key to the city of Atlanta for saying the same things Imus said. LUDACRIS! You know the guy those rutgers players blast on stereo after games!

 

[Superlative]

The only reason this is getting so much attention is because its such a slow news week.

 

[T-Bor]

I feel bad for IMUS. He did say something stupid but the amount of coverage is ridiculous. Rappers can call each other hos and bitches all day long and IMUS does it and its a two week suspension, although with PAY. So that's no big deal. The big deal is the sponsors that are leaving his show now due tot he pressure. I cant stand Sharpton and Jackson they are the biggest biggots out there. They hate white people.

I wish IMUS would say you know what..I have enough money..I can retire or go to satellite...and then tell Al Sharpton that he is a nappy headed hoe too. God I would love that.

 

[onedomino]

The editorial comment posted above is absurd. Don Imus is a merchant of hate and must go. His comments were racist and disgusting. Yes, hip-hop is cesspool, but we cannot excuse unacceptable behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. Imus through his actions has become an icon of racism and an affront to all women. It is time to commercially squish this money grubbing parasite and let him ooze down the drain. America cannot tolerate this antediluvian slime. Just exactly who is the ho? Imus has repeatedly demonstrated that he will say anything for money. Who says that hatred and bigotry do not sell?

 

[Little-Acorn]

The editorial comment posted above is absurd.

Actually, it's right on the mark, isplaying far more realistic viewpoints than many posters here... onedomino.

Don Imus is a merchant of hate

He's a merchant of many things, some worthwhile, some not. There's a lot of such talkers out there. But what he said recently displayed no hate.

and must go.

See that knob on your radio, marked "OFF"? Turn it. He'll go. Anything else I can help you with?

His comments were racist

Not really. He was imitating various rappers and other such trash, who say that kind of thing all the time.

and disgusting.

Quite true. Which is why I turned my radio knob long ago, on both Imus and the rapper trash.

Yes, hip-hop is cesspool

Yup. See above comment about radio knob.

but we cannot excuse

What you mean "we", kimosabe?

unacceptable behavior

Whoa, slow down there, partner. Imus's comments were mildy in bad taste. One of the reasons many people don't bother listening to him. As the article said, if he had encouraged murder, drugs, etc. that would have been "unacceptable". These weren't.

Imus through his actions has become an icon of racism and an affront to all women.

Is there something in the water where you live, that makes you go ballistic and start screaming over every silly and unimportant comment by a silly and unimportant radio jock?

It is time to commercially squish this money grubbing parasite and let him ooze down the drain.

Go right ahead. Call his sponsors (Are you actually going to do what you say, or just sit here and whine on your keyboard?) If enough people do that, then you will have an impact. A few sponsors have dropped him already, though not many and not for long. If not many people join you, then I guess you're outvoted. Better start planning an alternate strategy, like maybe getting a life and growing a moderately thick skin like most people did long ago. And don't forget that radio knob.

America cannot tolerate this antediluvian slime.

Not sure how many Americans you contacted before announceing what they ALL thought, but most of us can tolerate him just fine. Wonderful thing, that radio knob.

Who says that hatred and bigotry do not sell?

Apparently it does. You seem to be riding your own hatred a long way, with no outside help. Even Imus didn't have to say anything important, to get you going.

Let me know when that thick skin takes root. Or if.

 

[William Joyce]

Just exactly who is the ho?

You da ho.

 

[T-Bor]

Easy guys...I think he may be from that sissy state California..And you know what that means dont ya ??? It means..

The editorial comment posted above is absurd. Don Imus is a merchant of hate and must go. His comments were racist and disgusting. Yes, hip-hop is cesspool, but we cannot excuse unacceptable behavior by pointing to other bad behavior. Imus through his actions has become an icon of racism and an affront to all women. It is time to commercially squish this money grubbing parasite and let him ooze down the drain. America cannot tolerate this antediluvian slime. Just exactly who is the ho? Imus has repeatedly demonstrated that he will say anything for money. Who says that hatred and bigotry do not sell?

 

[onedomino]

You da ho.

Go right ahead. Call his sponsors (Are you actually going to do what you say, or just sit here and whine on your keyboard?) If enough people do that, then you will have an impact. A few sponsors have dropped him already, though not many and not for long. If not many people join you, then I guess you're outvoted. Better start planning an alternate strategy, like maybe getting a life and growing a moderately thick skin like most people did long ago. And don't forget that radio knob.

Joyce, an insult coming from a hyper-racist like you provides the best compliment a person can receive. Perhaps you and Acorn can get together and form the Imus Has Been Tragically Mistreated Defense Fund. Acorn is the quote from you above an example of the same good judgement that you displayed in posting the article that started this thread, or an instance of your amazing prediction ability? See the following, it should have happened five seconds after the excretment issued from Imus' mouth:

MSNBC Drops Simulcast of Don Imus Show
Network apologizes to Rutgers women's basketball team for racial remarks

NEW YORK - MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, responding to growing outrage over the radio host’s racial slur against the Rutgers women’s basketball team.

In a statement, NBC News announced "this decision comes as a result of an ongoing review process, which initially included the announcement of a suspension. It also takes into account many conversations with our own employees. What matters to us most is that the men and women of NBC Universal have confidence in the values we have set for this company. This is the only decision that makes that possible."

The network statement went on to say, "Once again, we apologize to the women of the Rutgers basketball team and to our viewers. We deeply regret the pain this incident has caused."

The network’s decision came after a growing list of sponsors — including American Express Co., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp. — said they were pulling ads from Imus’ show for the indefinite future.

more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17999196/?GT1=9246

 

[T-Bor]

THE Pain this incident has caused huh...OH MY GOD...Like joking on the radio and laughing and saying some women look like Nappy headed hos causes pain? Those girls have heard much much worse I am 100% positive of that. MSNBC is just responding to pressure to hypersenitive FAGGOTS like yourself. Your political correctness makes me want to vomit. Dont you have some anal beads to pull out?

 

[Vintij]

lol, I havent heard anal beads used on this board until now.

Anyway, the fact of the matter is this guy said something, people got offended, he appologized and still gets canned? I dont care about what happens to him, its just rather pointless making him the poster child of all racism. If your going to can him, why cant you fire other comedian and rappers? I wish someone would call me a nappy headed hoe so i can get national exposure, and sympathy aka attract more kids to my school to scout for the basketball program. Its just not fair to fire this guy and not everyone else in the industry! Look at eminem, a white guy saying, "you think i wont choke no whore till her vocal chords dont work in her throwt no more?" And he is praised as a lyrical genius.

 

[onedomino]

Hey Joyce, why don't you tell the newbies to the board, and the defenders of Imus the two-bit purveyor of sexism and racism, the meaning of your nic? Why don't you tell them that William Joyce was a Jew hating Nazi traitor executed by the British after WW2? Whenever I have challenged you on this in the past you have quit the thread because you are a coward, just like all racists. Well, let's not wait. Here is the historical reference and meaning of Joyce's nic:

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/2WWjoyceW.htm William Joyce was born in New York City on 24th April 1906. His mother was English and his father was a naturalized Irishman. He lived for a time in Ireland as a child and in 1922 he emigrated to England with his family. He attended the University of London where he graduated with a first class honors degree.

In 1923 Joyce joined the British Fascisti (BF). Its leader, Miss Rotha Lintorn-Orman later said: "I saw the need for an organization of disinterested patriots, composed of all classes and all Christian creeds, who would be ready to serve their country in any emergency." Members of the British Fascists had been horrified by the Russian Revolution. However, they had gained inspiration from what Benito Mussolini had done it Italy.

The BF were unpopular in some areas and Joyce often acted as a steward at public meetings. On 22nd October 1924 Joyce was on duty at a meeting at Lambeth. He became involved in a fight and received a razor cut from the corner of his mouth to behind his right ear.

In 1925 Maxwell Knight, the Director of Intelligence of the British Fascisti, was recruited by MI5. He was placed in charge of B5b, a unit that conducted the monitoring of political subversion. Knight recruited a large number of his agents from right-wing political organizations. It was later discovered that Joyce was one of MI5's agents. Over the next few years Joyce provided Knight with information he had about the activities of the Communist Party and other left-wing groups.

Like other members of the British Fascisti, Joyce had a deep hatred of Jews and Communists. He claimed that his facial wound had been caused by a "Jewish Communist". He also blamed his failure to complete his MA on a Jewish woman tutor.

In early 1933 Joyce joined the British Union of Fascists (BUF) led by Oswald Mosley. The BUF argued for a program of economic revival based on government spending and protectionism. By 1934 Mosley was expressing strong anti-Semitic views and provocative marches through Jewish districts in London lead to riots.

Mosley attracted members from other right-wing groups such as the British Fascisti, National Fascists and the Imperial Fascist League. By 1934 the BUF had 40,000 members and was able to establish its own drinking clubs and football teams. The BUF also gained the support of Lord Rothermere and the Daily Mail.

Oswald Mosley appointed Joyce as the party full-time Propaganda Director. Joyce, along with Mosley and Mick Clarke, were the organizations three main public speakers. On 7th June, the BUF held a large rally ay Olympia. About 500 anti-fascists managed to get inside the hall. When they began heckling Mosley they were attacked by 1,000 black-shirted stewards. Several of the protesters were badly beaten by the fascists. There was a public outcry about this violence and Lord Rothermere withdrew his support of the BUF. Over the next few months membership went into decline.

Under the influence of Joyce the BUP became increasingly anti-Semitic. The verbal attacks on the Jewish community led to violence at meetings and demonstrations. In November 1936 a serious riot took place when left-wing organizations successfully stopped Mosley marching through the Jewish areas of London.

The activities of the BUF was checked by the the passing of the 1936 Public Order Act. This gave the Home Secretary the power to ban marches in the London area and police chief constables could apply to him for bans elsewhere. This legislation also made it an offence to wear political uniforms and to use threatening and abusive words.

The BUP anti-Semitic policy was popular in certain inner-city areas and in 1937 Joyce came close to defeating the Labor Party candidate in the London County Council election in Shoreditch.

Joyce argued that the BUP should take a more extreme position on racial issues. Mosley disagreed and began to feel that Joyce posed a threat to his leadership. He therefore decided to sack Joyce as Propaganda Director. In an attempt to save money another 142 staff members also lost their jobs.

Joyce now decided to leave the organization and with the help of John Becket and A. K. Chesterton he founded the National Socialist League. In a pamphlet, National Socialism Now, Joyce began to express views similar to those of Adolf Hitler. He wrote: "International Finance is controlled by great Jewish moneylenders and Communism is being propagated by Jewish agitators who are at one fundamentally with the powerful capitalists of their race in desiring an international world order, which would, of course, give universal sovereignty to the only international race in existence."

When Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Czechoslovakia Joyce became convinced that war with Germany was inevitable. Unwilling to fight against Hitler's forces, Joyce began to consider leaving the country. This view was reinforced when he was warned by Maxwell Knight of MI5 that the British government was considering the possibility of interning fascist leaders.

On 26th August, 1939, Joyce left for Nazi Germany. Soon after arriving in Berlin he found work with the German Radio Corporation as an English language broadcaster. Joyce joined the 'German Calling' program. On 14th September, 1939, a report in the Daily Express described the broadcaster as speaking the "English of the haw-haw, damit-get-out-of-my-way variety." It was not long before Joyce became known as Lord Haw-Haw.

Joyce continued to broadcast throughout the Second World War. In 1940 the Daily Mirror organized the Anti Haw Haw League of Loyal Britons and members pledged not to listen to these broadcasts. Other British subjects who took part in these broadcasts included John Amery, Railton Freeman, Norman Baillie-Stewart, Kenneth Lander and William Griffiths.

Joyce was captured by the British Army at Flensburg on 28th May 1945. Three days later Joyce was interrogated by William Scardon, an MI5 officer. Joyce made a full confession but at first the Director of Prosecutions doubted whether he could be tried for treason as he had been born in the United States. However, his broadcasts during the war had made him a hate figure in Britain and the Attorney General, David Maxwell-Fyfe, decided to charge him with high treason.

Joyce's trial for high treason began at the Old Bailey on 17th September, 1945. In court it was stated that although he was United States citizen he had held a British passport during the early stages of the war. It was therefore argued in court by Hartley Shawcross that Joyce had committed treason by broadcasting for Germany between September 1939 and July 1940, when he officially became a German citizen.

William Joyce was found guilty of treason and was executed on 3rd January 1946.

and also this reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joyce

America has a profound problem with racism, whether it is hard-core universal racists like the poster William Joyce who hates everyone, or those who hate specific groups like Blacks, Asians, Irish, Arabs, Jews, Italians, Hispanics, you name it. People with media power like Imus become dangerous when they use their position to denigrate women student-athletes because of their sex and color of skin. We are all in this place called America together and we must relate to each other as human beings, not as objects of a particular sex or skin color.

 

[red states rule]

Whitey, learn to keep your mouth shut
A racial storm in America

Alan Davieson
Don Imus, the line-crossing talk-radio host who broadcast daily across America from his New York studio, has been fired for referring to a team of black women basketball players as “nappy-headed ho’s”. Imus, a former Marine with a gruff demeanour, had an unsentimental show or, as they might say in America, it featured “guy talk” (any Briton, by the way, who uses “guy” or “guys” deserves a glossectomy).

There was some banter and unsubtle opinions were aired. It was not out of control but it also wasn’t a sanitised PC affair. He’s quite amusing and articulate in a resolutely uncomplicated way and had a huge listenership generating vast advertising revenue. Consequently, he attracted significant political figures as guests, pretty much anyone bar the President, who, of course, is rarely free to speak in public unscripted lest he describe Condi Rice as “that Secretary of State ho” in a momentary lapse.

Nappy-head, it turns out (excuse my whiteyness), means a black person who has allowed their hair to grow naturally into a tightly curled afro. It’s a term that can be used self-referentially with pride or disparagingly about others. Being a racial thing, its power is in the mouth of the speaker. Or is it in the ear of the listener? It’s complicated, so, in the interests of a quiet life, don’t use it unless you are very confident or, in fact, a nappy-head.

Imus apologised, offered no excuses, was roundly vilified and endured the measured, disproportionate wrath of Al Sharpton when guesting on the black activist/pentecostal minister’s radio show to defend himself. What they said, Imus and his sports reporter buddy, about the basketball game, was quite funny. The two teams were physically different. It was college basketball and Rutgers were playing Tennessee. The Rutgers girls looked more intimidating, they were inked up (tattoos . . .) and were altogether more menacing-looking even in defeat. These white radio boys were sniggering about that.

Basically, had it been a football match and it had all kicked off in the tunnel after the game, you’d have backed the Rutgers girls. The banter in the studio started trying to incorporate some black street language to describe the game to comic effect. It wasn’t very clever but then it’s morning talk radio.

To get to the top in college basketball you have to be good, in a general sense, not just at basketball, and you have to make sacrifices. At least that’s what college basketball folk and their families say. The girls were upset and in their robust defence they have been referred to as fine “representatives of God”. What fun you could have with that on the air if you were allowed to. God has sent down a team of 6ft tall Amazonian tattooed basketball players to represent Him. No doubt the devil sent Don Imus.

This happens when things get Blown Up Out Of All Proportion. There are enough people with a keen ear for a lapse that anyone broadcasting anywhere ought to speak thoughtfully. If only because you may not know how much offence you’ve caused until the outcry afterwards. Imus didn’t say: “If I’ve offended anyone I apologise.” He knew he’d caused offence.

He also did not say that the language and lyrics of black American rap artists leave his kind of remark not just in the shade but on the dark side of the moon.

A few years ago, on C4’s Big Breakfast, Johnny Vaughan asked me which was my worst ever stand-up gig. In 1989, at a private party in a Basildon disco, I performed to unanimous indifference. After me was an older comic. He ventured “Are there any Pakis in?” then went down a storm with racist material. Johnny intervened: “You can’t say that.” I said: it’s a true story — he said Pakis, not me. He stepped in with the forceful jocularity of the practised live TV presenter: “You can’t say that word.”

Some time later, a group of young British Asians were sitting in front of me at a football match. Bizarrely, one of them wanted a picture of me as his mum was a Jonathan Creek fan. His mate sneered: “I ain’t taking a picture of him, he used the P-word on TV.” He had me down as a racist, which was unpleasant. I’d gone over some invisible line. Johnny Vaughan knew where the line was; I didn’t. I thought context was relevant. I was as naive as a newborn calf. I was a C-word.

Among friends, thankfully, you can draw your own line. Wesley and Donald, two friends of mine from Edmonton, were discussing Donald’s attempts to sell his house after the break-up of his marriage. Donald was talking about some people who’d said they’d buy and then went back on the deal they’d shaken on.

“White folks?” said Wesley. “Yeh, they was white,” replied Donald. “Can’t trust Whitey,” said Wesley. “Nope,” said Donald, “you sure can’t trust Whitey.”

This observation had a poignancy and surprising air of veracity about it as well as being amusing, given that Wesley and Donald are both white.

Generally speaking Whitey’s too dumb to know where the line is. He must tread carefully since it’s the only line on the whole map of the world that he didn’t draw.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article1652592.ece

 

[red states rule]

THE Pain this incident has caused huh...OH MY GOD...Like joking on the radio and laughing and saying some women look like Nappy headed hos causes pain? Those girls have heard much much worse I am 100% positive of that. MSNBC is just responding to pressure to hypersenitive FAGGOTS like yourself. Your political correctness makes me want to vomit. Dont you have some anal beads to pull out?

Here's how it went down with the Imus affair [this is a selection from the complete article that can be found here: http://online.wsj.com/public/article... main_tff_top ]



At 6:14 a.m. on Wednesday, April 4, relatively few people were tuned into the "Imus in the Morning Show" when Don Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed ho's."

Ryan Chiachiere was. A 26-year-old researcher in Washington, D.C., for liberal watchdog organization Media Matters for America, he was assigned to monitor Mr. Imus's program. Mr. Chiachiere clipped the video, alerted his bosses and started working on a blog post for the organization's Web site.

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On the morning of the original broadcast, there was little response to Mr. Imus's slur. Media Matters posted the video and transcript on its Web site and sent an email blast to several hundred reporters, as it does nearly every day. The post received dozens of comments, many heated, some more than 300 words long. The next day, top news outlets didn't mention the incident.

On Thursday, at about 3 p.m., NBC News President Steve Capus was conducting a routine planning meeting in his third-floor offices at Rockefeller Center when an assistant interrupted him to take an urgent phone call, according to a person at the meeting. On the other line: MSNBC General Manager Dan Abrams. Mr. Abrams said MSNBC executives were fielding complaints from viewers and employees who had seen a video clip of Mr. Imus's remark on the Media Matters site, this person says.

The group is a Web-based nonprofit organization devoted to monitoring "conservative misinformation" in print, broadcast, cable, radio and Internet media outlets. It frequently complains about Rush Limbaugh and Bill O'Reilly. Although the Imus show isn't generally considered conservative, some of its guests are.

Mr. Capus called an emergency meeting with MSNBC's management team, the producers for the TV version of "Imus in the Morning" and the head of public relations for NBC News. Among other decisions, Mr. Capus asked his PR team to draft a statement apologizing on behalf of MSNBC but clearly pointing out that "Imus in the Morning" was a CBS Radio production. MSNBC and NBC are owned by General Electric Co.'s NBC Universal.

 

[red states rule]

THE Pain this incident has caused huh...OH MY GOD...Like joking on the radio and laughing and saying some women look like Nappy headed hos causes pain? Those girls have heard much much worse I am 100% positive of that. MSNBC is just responding to pressure to hypersenitive FAGGOTS like yourself. Your political correctness makes me want to vomit. Dont you have some anal beads to pull out?

Of course black libs can say whatever they want about any conservative:


New Black Panther Party Leader Calls Michelle Malkin a ‘Political Prostitute’
Posted by Noel Sheppard on April 15, 2007 - 13:48.
In the midst of the Don Imus/Rutgers women’s basketball team controversy, one would think that calling a woman a prostitute, or any similar epithet on the air, would be so inexcusable that it would meet with extraordinary media outrage.

After all, if you did a Google news search of the name Don Imus, it would generate almost 15,000 stories about the controversial radio host. The phrase "Nappy-headed hos" garnered almost 10,000 results.

Yet, when the New Black Panther Party leader Malik Shabazz called Fox News contributor Michelle Malkin a “political prostitute” on Thursday’s “O’Reilly Factor,” the media largely ignored the event. In fact, a Google news search of his name identified that only one major media outlet reported this outrageous comment, albeit at the USA Today Online Politics blog.

Regardless of the double standard, here is the disgraceful segment of this interview which coincidentally occurred within hours of Imus being fired by CBS Radio for his comments (video available here, h/t Hot Air):


MALKIN: And, last May, one of your members said to Reade Seligmann, one of the Duke lacrosse players -- quote -- that he was a "dead man walking."

You're not going to apologize for that?

SHABAZZ: First of all, I can't confirm that's true.

Will you apologize for being a political prostitute for Bill O'Reilly, a white male chauvinist racist, as a woman of color?

MALKIN: You're calling -- you want to call me a whore on national TV?

SHABAZZ: A political -- yes, a political...

MALKIN: There's only one whore on this split-screen, and it's you, Mr. Shabazz.

SHABAZZ: As a woman of color, you should be ashamed for being a mouthpiece...

MALKIN: You should be ashamed of yourself...

SHABAZZ: ... for a male chauvinist racist Bill O'Reilly.

MALKIN: ... for profiting off of your racial poison.

SHABAZZ: You should be ashamed of yourself for defending and being a spokesman for Bill O'Reilly...
http://newsbusters.org/node/12049