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Clinton weighs in on Imus controversy

Posted: Wednesday, April 11, 2007 1:31 PM by Mark Murray
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On her campaign Web site today, Hillary Clinton comments on Don Imus' controversial statement about the Rutgers women's basketball team, and asks viewers to send a message of support to the team. Respondents have the option of signing up for campaign emails. 

"Don Imus's comments about them were nothing more than small-minded bigotry and coarse sexism," she says on the Web site. "They showed a disregard for basic decency and were disrespectful and degrading to African Americans and women everywhere. Please join me in sending the young women of Rutgers a message of respect and support. Show them that we are proud to stand with them and for them."

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Dr D, please!!!! If momma forgives Uncle Bill, why can't you and I just watch. Did you know that when Paul wrote his bits in the bible, he said that whenever we look upon a woman and consider her a lover, we have sinned. Now that we've gotten through that,let anyone without sin attack Bill Clinton. Remember, if its ok with momma, its ok.Isn't strange that when the truth came to light, his attackers had a worst record in the "I have a girlfriend on the side" department. Dr D, I cannot believe that you,the good Dr is allowing the news repoters to do your thinking. C'mon dude, you are smarter than that.
Dr. D. Did you know that George Washington had wooden teeth, halitosis(sp), swore a lot and owned slaves? He also led a revolution and freed a nation. As a Black American, should I look only at his slave issue and decide to erase him from history?
Hilary is jumping on the bandwagon because Imus had a great hatred of the woman and constantly berated her on his show. Now that he's out of the way she has a better shot at the Presidency.
Arthur, well I guess you did not understand my comment or perhaps I did not explain myself correctly. I have never been accused of being a Fox news watcher on this blog. Quite the opposite, I am often characterized as a liberal nut.As for my comment about the birth certificate, have to admit, I felt some people would try to say I was un-American in my views, which has also happened. So, that comment was used as a defense mechanism, and not meant to be derrogatory.Oh, and as for that war in Iraq, I have never supported that either.
I wish Coulter's TV appearances were cancelled for calling John Edwards a "faggot," and Rush fired for mimicing Michael J. Fox's disability, and so on and so on, but that's not the world we live in, so, instead, I don't watch FOX, or CBS since they allowed Rush to spout on there, or listen to righ wing radio or read Coulter's books and I am a much happier person for doing so.
Well, I for one feel much better about Jackson's and Sharpton's outrage after listening to their latest spin on the 'Imus Affair'. Seems now, the most pressing issue isn't WHAT he said, it's WHERE he said it. See, Chris Rock, Chappell, and other comdians (and rappers) are ok, because they don't say their racist thngs on the PUBLIC AIRWAVES. Anyone else notice this the last few days? Sounds to me like if Imus had made his comments on a stage somewhere instead of from behind a mike, his use of 'nappy-headded ho's' would have been somehow ok, right Rev's? Jessi and Al And speaking of false outrages, whay is 'ho' so much more a demeaning term for women than 'femminazi'?? Sure a lot of double standard goin' on these days.
"Drag a hundred-dollar bill through a trailer park, you never know what you'll find." James Carville, after Paula Jones made a sexual harassment allegation against Bill Clinton Yes, the Clintons are well known for their women's right issues support.
Until Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are forced to answer for their racism re Tawana Brawley and 'Hymietown', respectively, they should just shut the hell up. Those two are the biggest hypocrites on the face of the Earth and - surprise surprise - the MSM is ignoring that fact. Imus was just as wrong as those two hypocrites but strangely only Imus is being grilled for it. Why is that, esteemed posters?
Arthur , I did answer you. Hopefully, my post will go up soon.
Dan, it is Arthur.Mr desmond's remarks about being "born here and has a birth certificate to prove it" raises my feathers to another level. The conotations are wide spread. I too am a Liberal with my stamp branded into my brain. You see Dan, my pastor and my father are to blamed togather with Jesus for my Liberlism. They go on with this Non-sense about "love everybody". Dangerous stuff huh.Don't you guys try that, it"ll mess you up when you start to really feel it. Should we start to LOVE everyone we would loose our RELIGOUS RIGHT.They would have to start to love even the people of Iraq. Don't blame Mr Christ commanded that!When you say that you are a christian, that means that you are Christ-like. Then Mr JESUS went futher and suggested that we "love our enemies". Good lord, where would we be if we couldn't go to war with some country every now and again. Nobody to hate. Hell, we couldn't take it. Fox news???? Sir I am a Viet Nam Veteran Veteran and I never learned to hate them. I watch Fox News daily and I am told constanly to hate everything they despise.Maybe they put a different program into your home. Please watch out for that love everybody stuff. You may even find love in your heart for those poor Mexicans coming across the border seeking something of a better life. PS. unlike Republicans, Liberals don't all feel the same way on issues. That is the beauty of being a Liberal.Feel anyway you wish. The tent is open. Please leave your hatred at home and you'll find life a lot more pleasant.
We are all guilty of comments we have made in the past and will do so in the future that we wish we never made. If you are really outraged at what the man said and not the man who said them, then you have to have the same standards for everyone who uses them
It's funny that the same people who call for Don Imus's head on a platter never say a word about some of the video's on BET late at night. Some of those video's and some of the rappers make Imus actually look a bit tame. It is pretty hard to accept all this when your leaders in this movement are Al Sharpton and Jesse jackson. Those two are just as much a problem as Imus was. Imus is a racist and Sharpton and Jackson are anti-semites. Jackson was ready to hang the duke guys right then and there just like Mike Nifong was. Now Nifong has had his career shredded because of a rush in judgement. Jackson will just hide out like the coward he is. Jesse jackson needs to have a meeting with the duke players and tell them he is sorry for his actions. What Imus did was very stupid and disconcerning. However Sharpton and jackson are just as stupid. Be careful you two, what happened to Imus and his racist talk can happen to you two as well.
Arthur, my post did not go up,so I will try again. I was not trying to be derrogatory when i mentioned I had a birth certificate . I brought it up because I am often classified as un-American for my views. I have also been told I am a liberal nut. And as for that war in Iraq, I never supported that either.
This entire situation has gotten all out of control. He said a stupid thing and I feel badly for the girls on the Rutgers basketball team. They should be apologized to. But Rev. Al and Jesse Jackson are now carrying this torch to basically try to ruin Imus. There are a lot worse things said in certain rap songs & videos and they don't call for the artists or station managers that play them to be fired. Can you say "double standard" and "witch hunt"? No one says much when other ethnicities have things say about them...I guess they're all fair game.
I have watched Imus off and on for a while now, and I was wondering when his next sexist or racist remark was going to get him into a world of trouble. Yes he should be fired because this is an ongoing pattern regardless to his pretentious apologizies. It does matter who says what and no he is not being singled out for a bad comment but for a whole body of bad and deplorable comments. It does not matter to me who said what whether blacks joked that way or say it on rap songs that I do not listen too. This guy is on the public airways everyday! He should be held to some type of moral standard and accountability. To excuse his total body of ridiculous and foul mouthed remarks would be agreeing with them. It is his time to go!
I have tried to stay out of the fray however, Don Imus is a sexist and a racist and a stupid one at that! I have a niece that goes to Rutgers and was told by her that many of the women of every race at Rutgers' feel that he personally insulted them with his remarks. His show is not even entertaining. Why would we continue to support a jerk like this to stay on the airwaves?
And Arthur,I am also not a member of the religious right.They definetly don't want me and I want no part of them. Next time, I will make my post clearer so people who have never read my posts before have a better understanding of what I am saying.
Jerry- your point about late-night BET videos is well-taken, but that is not Imus' competition. Like it or not, standards for national morning television are much higher. So now that Imus is off MSNBC, it's fair to demand that black leaders target corporations who financially profit from racist or misogynist(sp?) music.
I stand somewhat corected from an earlier post in which I said Jackson's focus in the 'Imus Affair' was changing from WHAT was said to WHERE it was said. Well, earlier today, I saw him on TV again, and it seems now the REAL reason what Imus said is so much worse than what rappers and black comedians say (WAY more often, I might add) is due to the lack of blacks, especially women, that have time slots during prime-time on MSNBC. Where is this guy's credibility, anyway? Why does the press continue to give him any coverage at all??
This is to inform you that I will no longer be watching MSNBC due to your cowardly betrayal of Don Imus. I programmed MSNBC out of my TV remote last night so you are hereby gone for good. Don Imus is not a racist. His use of certain expressions is intended as a sarcastic “poke in the eye” to the black Rap subculture and one that despicable subculture badly deserves. Each time he and Bernie use those expressions it’s a jab at black rappers and the larger community of people who tolerate the foul crap spewed by black rappers. You are pawns in the anti-white hate politics of Jackson and Sharpton. Those bafoons depend on black on white resentment to maintain popularity. They are trying to do to Imus, the same thing they did to the Duke Lacrosse team members. That was and this is nothing more than a witch hunt. You and all the sponsors along with the Rutgers people have been used. Politicians always tell people what they want to hear so this must be what the black community wants to hear.
To the bleeding heart liberals and the black race baitors .. the hate seething from your collective lips is alarming. Free (even if unpleasant) speech is guaranteed ... apparently only for the politcally correct. Be careful white folks because political correctness is INTOLERANCE practiced by the majority. And once the majority white population becomes aware that the real target of the black racists is them, public opinion and political correctness will shift. So I sit back and wait for the UNcivil war that will result from the backlash against witch hunts such as the one currently aimed at Don Imus.
Your right Mark and I'm a black man. It's called being thin skinned only to whites and hating people for something in the past that wasn't our generations fault. Al Sharpton is doesn’t care about anyone mainly his personal cause. I thought a man of god was supposed to know forgiveness. Al Sharpton just brought this man in the spot light and has made him more famous than ever. I will tune in to his show now even though I have never seen it b4 just to see what other funny stuff he has to say. After all that’s an entertainers job right!
Don Imus knows what he did was wrong - I will not defend his words. He sincerly appologized and asked to meet with the Rutgers team so that he may do so in person as well. I believe that the decision as to whether he should be fired should not have decided during the "heat" of this controversy. MSNBC announced this decision on the same day that it was announced that the charges agains the Duke players had been dropped and that these boys were innocent. Keep in mind what the media's and the "public's" rush to judgement has done to these boys. While not excusing the bad actions on the part of Don Imus, I do think that we should all take a step back. I think MSNBC should have waited to make its decision until after the media fury had subsided and until after Don Imus had the opportunity to meet with the young women of Rutgers University.
I just read that he got fired fron CBS now after they talked with al sharpton and jessie jackson wow talk about power listen to these guys you lose a job. If you want to talk racisim these two guys are the biggest bigits there is they put white people down all the time and I am black saying this i have no respect for these 2 guys. They dont think for me and I feel what Imus said really is not racisim as far as I am concern and like I said I am black
What makes Don Imus' remarks so repulsive is that they were directed at 10 young women who are innocent. They have no political adgena,etc...They are just hard working, intelligent young American athletes trying to better themselves through education and athletics. They are the kind of people we hope our kids would emulate. It is dispicable when these young innocents should be degraded by an old jackass like Dom Imus; or a young jackass like the rappers who make their millions degrading women, young & old.
I'm tired of cow towing to racist bullies ... I'll NEVER support ANY minority cause or candidate again. Why give power to people who will only use it against me and my children? All minority race haters (Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, etc.) be on notice ... you'll get NO support from me; and neither will any candidate that accepts their support (read Democrats).
I think the thing that irritates Sharpton,Jackson,etc. is partly the fact that Imus easily slid into the young black male vernacular. Watching his show on MSNBC for more than ten years I have discovered that noone is safe no group is safe. Isnt it interesting that stereotypes are accepted and perpetuated by the very groups who are subjectsof said stereotypes.
Gee...I wonder what Sharpton and Jackson will do now that the cameras have disappeared, the media has left their doorstep, and another press conference would prove redundant? They have their sacrificial cow. Now what? I have a few suggestions? First, let them go down to North Carolina and stand by the 3 young men who were victims of a racist and corrupt prosecutor's office. If they want to beat their chests and say how moral and "fair" their intentions were in the Imus case, let them be moral and fair to those young men at Duke University and support them and say how they were abused. But it won't happen. 2. Sharpton needs to apologize for the harm he has caused in the Tawana Brawley and Crown Heights affairs. For no other reasons then pure greed and personal vengence for perceived "injustices" against individuals of his ethnic group, he manufactured falsehoods and mythical incidents that severely damaged people's reputations. And he did this with impunity and without one utterance of apology in either case. He needs to recant. But it won't happen. 3. Jesse Jackson did apologize for his recent marital "indiscretion", but has he shown remorse for calling NYC "Hymietown"? Jews being "interlopers"? I haven't seen any retractions. Jesse, for heaven's sake, apologize for your anti-semitic remarks! But it won't happen, either. In fact, I haven't seen one shred of compassion from either of these supposed "Reverends"! I look in their eyes and all I see are dollar signs and hypocrisy. These individuals have made quite a comfortable living for themselves as muck-rakers and race-baiters, and they think that they are so elevated above the rest of mankind that they don't have to apologize to anyone. One last question: Who will they go after now? CBS Records, who rakes in hundreds of millions of dollars while allowing their rap "artists" to pump out audio venom against women and people not of their ethnic persuasion? It's not going to happen. These two men have no morality, or they would would have called for the same boycotts against record companies long ago. Hypocrisy is a very unattractive necklace to wear around one's neck.
I always enjoyed watching the Imus show in the morning, not that I always agreed with him, or condoned his sometimes rude talk. What I certainly don't like is being told by two racists (Sharpton, Jackson) what I can or cannot watch in the morning. I have already advised the companies that pulled their ads and thereby contributed to the firing of Don Imus that I will not purchase anymore of their products. I am just sick of this overblown political correctness - get a life.
FRUMMER - THAT WAS EXCELLENT AND I AGREE WITH YOU 100%! YOU CAN'T EXPLAIN THE TRUTH MORE ACCURATE THAN THAT. EVERYBODY SHOULD READ YOUR POST 100X AND LEARN SOMETHING FROM IT!
I don't know why Imus said his show was comedy. One of the ladies who commented above said she goes there daily to get her dose of hate. What's funny about that?
I haven't felt this low since Bush was elected the second time. Imus was wrong. His crime wasn't a capital one. This 60+ year old life long Democrat and unrepentent liberal, shaker of JFK's hand, McGovern voter etc. is wondering what group he can now join and support to protest the hypocrisy and double standards of firing IMUS while supporting Sharpton and Jackson. Are there any mainstream groups (NOT white supremacist) that a white man can now turn to in a counter boycott to protest the double standard? If I have to join the RNC I will, I'd rather not but I will. I can no longer support the DNP whose relationships with Sharpton and Jackson continue as we speak. Someone help please.
Finally, a comment that gets to the crux of the issue! Thanks, Bob Brandon, for saying what I have been thinking all day. The Rutgers women athletes were minding their own business, going to classes and basketball practice,and partying with their friends when they had time. And Imus thought it was OK to make a buck with his blatantly sexist put downs. One of your earlier writers pointed out that the Rutgers women didn't meet Imus' standards of beauty and femininity. That comment was right on, too. The part of his comment calling the Tennessee players "cute" has not received much publicity, but that would seem to reinforce Imus' problem with the Rutgers women. It's one thing to skewer politicians, people in show biz, and other types in the public eye. But, come on, Imus went overboard this time. Born in the thirties, I've lived through the times when society worked hard to limit the aspirations of women in all arenas, including athletics. I say "bravo" to the Rutgers women! I just wish they could have knocked off the Lady Vols!! Lou, Clemson, SC
America needs a white Sharpton so he can go shut down rappers and black comedians.
This is not about Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson or anything else other Mr.Imus' words...that don't bear repeating. Some argue that he's been saying this kind of stuff for forty years. If that's true, then his retirement is long overdue. Don who?? Get him out.
Please, America. those companies that pulled their ads from MSNBC are of the assumption that ALL of us BLACK folks are following the good Rev Sharpton and the good Rev Jackson. B S. The aforemention JUDASES know that when they scream aloud that there will be some listeners and there will be cameras. You get a full camera and those Mighty White Folks assume that all the Black Folks in the country are there. There aren't that many Black Folks in the few black movies they may have seen. This is a SHAKE DOWN by those JUDASES of those corporations. They pay those guys to kool down the rest of us. Case in point, why is it that you never see them ranting and raving about the positive things that Black Kids are doing, such as these kids on the basketball team ,prior to this situation. Nothing!!!!! There are millions of Black Kids out there making positive strokes, but you do not hear word from them. No money in it for them. Bill Cosby tried to speak to us on a national level about us improving our family ties and making our way into the lives of our children as black men. JUDAS was no where to be found. No money in it for them. Spellman college did the same about Rap Music. Now that Imus is gone JUDAS, and we have all discussed our displeasure, PLEASE, let us move onto Rap music while we are all fired up. Rap music and pants that fit.C'mon let us now get onto our young black men to start respecting our young ladies as we have demanded of Mr Imus. Fair game don't you think? I'll remind you again....Yes I am Black and a life long Liberal. Yes, I always watched the I-Man every morning.
Desmond, one thousand pardons please. I declare that I am sorry if I offended you. When I am wrong, I am wrong.I wouldn't call a Republican a Republican. I just wouldn't cuss like that. Sorry
Thoughts on Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton from a black writer, Jason Whitlock: Their leadership is stale. Their ideas are outdated. And they don’t give a damn about us. We need to take a cue from White America and re-elect our leadership every four years. White folks realize that power corrupts. That’s why they placed term limits on the presidency. They know if you leave a man in power too long he quits looking out for the interest of his constituency and starts looking out for his own best interest. We’ve turned Jesse and Al into Supreme Court justices. They get to speak for us for a lifetime. Why? If judged by the results they’ve produced the last 20 years, you’d have to regard their administration as a total failure. Seriously, compared to Martin and Malcolm and the freedoms and progress their leadership produced, Jesse and Al are an embarrassment. Their job the last two decades was to show black people how to take advantage of the opportunities Martin and Malcolm won. Have we at the level we should have? No. Rather than inspire us to seize hard-earned opportunities, Jesse and Al have specialized in blackmailing white folks for profit and attention. They were at it again last week, helping to turn radio shock jock Don Imus’ stupidity into a world-wide crisis that reached its crescendo Tuesday afternoon when Rutgers women’s basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer led a massive pity party/recruiting rally. NCAA Hoops Fanhouse Getty Images What is the Fanhouse? Only the Web's most popular sports blog. · College Basketball Fanhouse · NCAA Tournament Breakdowns · Latest Rumors | Coaching News · Hottest Gossip | Recruiting News MORE FANHOUSE · NCAA Football | NFL | NBA · Baseball | NASCAR | NHL Hey, what Imus said, calling the Rutgers players "nappy-headed hos," was ignorant, insensitive and offensive. But so are many of the words that come out of the mouths of radio shock jocks/comedians. Imus’ words did no real damage. Let me tell you what damaged us this week: the sports cover of Tuesday’s USA Today. This country’s newspaper of record published a story about the NFL and crime and ran a picture of 41 NFL players who were arrested in 2006. By my count, 39 of those players were black. You want to talk about a damaging, powerful image, an image that went out across the globe? We’re holding news conferences about Imus when the behavior of NFL players is painting us as lawless and immoral. Come on. We can do better than that. Jesse and Al are smarter than that. Had Imus’ predictably poor attempt at humor not been turned into an international incident by the deluge of media coverage, 97 percent of America would’ve never known what Imus said. His platform isn’t that large and it has zero penetration into the sports world. Imus certainly doesn’t resonate in the world frequented by college women. The insistence by these young women that they have been emotionally scarred by an old white man with no currency in their world is laughably dishonest. The Rutgers players are nothing more than pawns in a game being played by Jackson, Sharpton and Stringer. Jesse and Al are flexing their muscle and setting up their next sting. Bringing down Imus, despite his sincere attempts at apologizing, would serve notice to their next potential victim that it is far better to pay up than stand up to Jesse and Al James. Stringer just wanted her 15 minutes to make the case that she’s every bit as important as Pat Summitt and Geno Auriemma. By the time Stringer’s rambling, rapping and rhyming 30-minute speech was over, you’d forgotten that Tennessee won the national championship and just assumed a racist plot had been hatched to deny the Scarlet Knights credit for winning it all. Maybe that’s the real crime. Imus’ ignorance has taken attention away from Candace Parker’s and Summitt’s incredible accomplishment. Or maybe it was Sharpton’s, Stringer’s and Jackson’s grandstanding that moved the spotlight from Tennessee to New Jersey? None of this over-the-top grandstanding does Black America any good. Most Popular Sports Stories Jackson, Sharpton Should Step DownYankees Lose Mussina, Game to TwinsQB Bledsoe Calls It a CareerPats-Colts Highlights New NFL ScheduleWitness Surprised Waltrip SurvivedWe can’t win the war over verbal disrespect and racism when we have so obviously and blatantly surrendered the moral high ground on the issue. Jesse and Al might win the battle with Imus and get him fired or severely neutered. But the war? We don’t stand a chance in the war. Not when everybody knows “nappy-headed ho’s” is a compliment compared to what we allow black rap artists to say about black women on a daily basis. We look foolish and cruel for kicking a man who went on Sharpton’s radio show and apologized. Imus didn’t pull a Michael Richards and schedule an interview on Letterman. Imus went to the Black vice president’s house, acknowledged his mistake and asked for forgiveness. Let it go and let God. We have more important issues to deal with than Imus. If we are unwilling to clean up the filth and disrespect we heap on each other, nothing will change with our condition. You can fire every Don Imus in the country, and our incarceration rate, fatherless-child rate, illiteracy rate and murder rate will still continue to skyrocket. A man who doesn’t respect himself wastes his breath demanding that others respect him. We don’t respect ourselves right now. If we did, we wouldn’t call each other the N-word. If we did, we wouldn’t let people with prison values define who we are in music and videos. If we did, we wouldn’t call black women bitches and hos and abandon them when they have our babies. If we had the proper level of self-respect, we wouldn’t act like it’s only a crime when a white man disrespects us. We hold Imus to a higher standard than we hold ourselves. That’s a (freaking) shame. We need leadership that is interested in fixing the culture we’ve adopted. We need leadership that makes all of us take tremendous pride in educating ourselves. We need leadership that can reach professional athletes and entertainers and get them to understand that they’re ambassadors and play an important role in defining who we are and what values our culture will embrace. It’s time for Jesse and Al to step down. They’ve had 25 years to lead us. Other than their accountants, I’d be hard pressed to find someone who has benefited from their administration.
Vote Republican ... Spite the minority Racists ... Boycott NBC ... Don't support ANY minority causes ... Don't give the minorities power to hurt your children ... SQUASH the race haters ... get them OUT of the Media ... Boycott all businesses that cater to minotities .. throw all out politicians that give in to minority demands.
Isn't it amazing how many educated black people identify Mr Sharpton and Jackson? It’s evident here that’s for sure. They cater to a crowd that doesn’t know any better and thats where there support comes from.
Earl, please wake up. Forget the coffee, just wake up.
Arthur, as a person who has been on this blog for a few months, I was catergorized with several other people as having the same post office box in their mind.We were all labelled, as a group.We all tend to agree on President Bush's war policy. That is why were were labelled.We call ourselves RUTUS, for Round Up The Usual Suspects.I think my choice of words put me in another box, albeit, temporarilly.I do not speak for them. They speak for themselves.
Arthur, as a person who has been on this blog for a few months, I was catergorized with several other people as having the same post office box in their mind.We were all labelled, as a group.We all tend to agree on President Bush's war policy. That is why were were labelled.We call ourselves RUTUS, for Round Up The Usual Suspects.I think my choice of words put me in another box, albeit, temporarilly.I do not speak for them. They speak for themselves.
Curtis James, please don't assume that us "educated blacks" are following Al Sharpton. When you saw Al Sharpton doing the eulogy for James Brown, America probally said,"look at all the blacks following Al Sharpton". They were not there for Al Sharpton.........They were there for James Brown.Al Sharpton was there for the photo-op, not James Brown. Look at the media reels of the people at those funeral events and the good reverend's protest and you'll see the differences on appearances alone. Most people dress as they think. We all go to funerals for the dead, not the speaker. Stop thinking that those people were supporters of Al's. Remember that it is Al and Jessie that tells us about their following. Their own little "weapons of mass destruction".
Desmond, again I am sorry.I am a liberal and a christan. I believe in "free speach and free thinking". A person can think and feel whatever they wish as long as they do not insult others. I am a Viet Nam veteran and I never supported the war in Iraq. You see, I believe that since the Middle Ages are over, maybe we should try talking now. You know, something like a marrage. Yes, why don't we do the civilized thing. TALK!!!! Yes, i realize that we do have a lot of bombs left, our long range planes are all gased up. Good Lord, we need to drop that on some one!!!!!!!!! Some say "forget that talking. we don't speak the same languege anyway". I knew that Iraq had no planes after the last war. Forget the people, look at what a beautiful, historic country we bombed to shreds. Should you read the old testiment you will find many references to Iraq. Course, most of don't want to go to the next state over let alone traveling to far away places.
Hillary and the rest of the hypocrites should be fired also!!!! How dare they accept contributions from the racial rappists for their own use but yet condemm Imus. By the way, Imus is not a racist and he did not make those hurtful comments out of hate. The black women of this country better start demanding that these rappers' music be banned. And Hillary and Obamma should be thrown out of government. She doesn't belong in NYS anyway.
this was sooo uncalled for becuse it doesn't matter that he said it but to who it was direted to and that it was very inappropriate
"Who cares about words? Can’t we be thicker skinned? Why is this Duke rape thing such a big deal when it isn't even true? Yet you hear nothing of the white couple in Tennessee who had been raped and murdered by 4 blacks in a recent admitted forensically proven hate crime? The 07' Channon Christian murder dwarfs everything thing race related we have ever heard about in recent years. The crime involved cutting the boyfriends penis off while he was still alive watching his girlfriend get raped and cutting away the girlfriends breast while she was still alive, then stuffing her in a trash can? Why don’t you hear of this unless you live in TN? Why can’t/won’t the media talk about the other side of the fence? Video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UgvmmyDpzHw" Why no response to this? If the situation were reversed we would have Fat Al calling for thier heads. But since its 2 whites, it goes uncovered and ignored. Thats what are country is coming too.
Thank you Pete, Someone finally mentioned Channon Christian & Chris Newsom and the carjacking, kidnapping, rape, assault, battery & murder done to them IN JANUARY, 2007 in Memphis. NOT ONE THING MENTIONED BY ANY MAJOR NEWS NETWORK. See: www.amren.com/mtnews/archives/2007/05/the_knoxville_h.php
I KNOW BUT THE IMUS STORY IS A CONTROVERSY WHAT ABOUT THIS????????? WHY HASNT THIS GOTTEN THE ATTENTION IT DESERVES???? Had this been a white on black crime - Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson would have descended on Knoxville like a swarm of angry bees. I guess the lack of TV cameras discouraged them? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Channon_Christian_and_Christopher_Newsom_murder What has this world come to?


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