What's almost funny...is a guy with a haircut that would have looked dated in 1978 trying to be hip with the rap lingo. WTF???
Why do you keep saying, "whores." It was hos... It's stupid, and it was a joke, it's shtick. I can tell you have never listened to his show to know that, so why pretend that you know exactly what was going on? He calls his wife "the green ho" because of her environmental work, then she comes on and gets mad at him and yells, and he cowers away... It's shtick. He was trying to be funny and he ****ed up. No one is are saying his comments aren't "unacceptable." No one is defending his joke. I'm not, what he said was beyond stupid, but I think it's really foolish when people pretend to know who he is, or what he thinks...especially when they can't even quote him right.
Racist? I don't know, but if he hadn't thought it then how could he say it? I'm not accusing him of being a racist but what he said is hurtful because of the effects of racism, there is a difference. I don't know his heart, but I do know that what he said embarrassed him and it's hard for me to understand how people are taking up for him when he isn't taking up for himself. Should he be fired? Nah, because the unfairness of that would overshadow what he actually did. He obviously intended to be funny, but in this case it paved the road to hell.
i think what he said is r****ded to say for the world to hear. if he wants to crack jokes with his buddies, then go right ahead. some other posters have pointed out that rappers use these kinds of derogatory remarks all the time! granted, they're rappers, but there's no consistantcy with this kind of stuff. they can say it so it's cool, but this guy can't. white people STILL get teased more than anybody by comics, the movies, TV, or the hip-hop crowd. and we sit back and laugh right along. GET OVER IT PEOPLE!! and those chicks from rutgers do look rough!!
i guess he is a misogynist too since he said hoes....but no one really cares about that since it is more "accepted".
I say "whores" because that's what "hos" means. Because we've become so accepting of the word "hos" in a comedic context, we sometimes forget what it really means and lessen the effect it can have. And if anything, "hos" is more degrading then "whores." The Rutgers girls weren't in on the "shtick." It wasn't a joke. I admitted I never listen. I'm not trying to tell you what he thinks. I just know what he said and what those words represent and that in the context, it was not a good thing.
I have not defended his comments... I said it was a stupid, terrible joke that offended many. I am only talking about people who feel the need to make this more than it was, and to actually use this to make some judgment about him as a person, without taking in everything else he has said and done.
When reading the comments from the Rutgers' basketball team regarding Imus' remarks I couldn't help thinking about the kind of comments directed at NBA players, coaches, referees and NBA media figures made in GARM. On CF.net NBA players are regularly insulted with terms that question their sexual orientation, masculinity, in some cases borderline racist and pretty much always juvenile. While I don't know if any of us clutchfans are broadcasters or respected journalists is it anymore acceptable for us to call Dirk Nowitzki "No-she-ski" and a "homo" as Imus to call the Rutgers' basketball players "nappy headed hoes"? I'm not saying this to excuse Imus' comments but to consider as something maybe we all should consider. And I say that as someone who recently referred to Kobe Bryant as a "whiny beyatch."
