Comments on: Crossing the line one time too many

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

handle his insults at the time they were being used against Imus. Oh, no! he waiting until Imus was groveling in the dirt before Sharpton and Jackson and then let loose his opinions.

It worked Mr. Ambrose and the Don Imus that we all knew, is nothing but an evil racist. Take a number and keep striking out against him.

This will continue until November 2008 when all Americans will be emotionally back to the racism fights. I’m embarrassed to be an American at this time and feel we are beyond help. I am not a racist and both my daughters are married to wonderful Jewish men who are absolutely able to laugh with Imus. The next time you are offended by someone’s comments, strike at them and not wait until they are on their knees.

By: Ross

Ross — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Can I ask you all something? Is there a single decent thing on television? Isn’t it all about hate, anger, humiliation, all the worst things about human beings, magnified, glorified, and packaged and sold to us as though it were life itself?

TV is scum. The people on TV are scum. The people who watch TV (of which on occasion I am one)soak their brains with the worst forms of discourse and are shown that the worst ways to treat another human being are in fact the most desirable and respectable.

Someone who devours a penis for money needs psychological help. People who vote for singing contests, but do nothing as real elections are destroyed, are not real Americans. Creativity is killed, and the human spirit diminished, by this evil contraption that has made its way into the corner of every room of every home.

Turn the damn thing off, for God’s sake!

By: Steven Horn

Steven Horn — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Imus is off the air, his silly looking hair poking out from beneath his cowboy hat doomed to never grace a television screen again. He “stepped over the line” – apparently an arbitrary line, with no real standards or boundaries, that is defined by who screams the loudest or waggles the biggest finger in the wake of an “offense”.

Perhaps, just perhaps, the time for being sarcastic, for making light of others problems, for insisting on making distinctions between different “cultures” within the United States has come to an end. Perhaps we’ve grown to the point where we can start to respect each other and ignore the racial divide(s) – rather than accept or exploit them.

Could it be that we, as a people, have outgrown Howard, Rush, Imus, Jesse and Al, those masters of pointing out our differences and exploiting them to their own devices?

By: Sonorous Pest

Sonorous Pest — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

While at times I have watched the Imus show, I have been struck by the insanity of the people on the show including Imus. Benard, the worst offender and some of Imus’s star butt heads who continue to offend almmost every, one did not strike me as funny, but sick individuals who need to be in Bellview.

Contessa Brewer was the local target one day, and as she sat in front of Imus and was riddled with insults by Benard and some of Imus’s “talant” I screamed at the TV urging Contessa to get the hell out of there. This was not funny, but insulting, and as I listened to this filth I wondered when the Producers were going to stop this insanity.

The Rutgers incident brought all of this to a head and eventually Imus was TERMINATED, with the help of Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson, two of the biggest hypocrits in our society. While “Hip Hop” is free to disparage the black community, Jessie and Al stand by and say nothing. They did, however, maintain that they had addressed ths subject of Hip Hop. When did they do this? Did they do it by email or snail mail, I don’t think so. I have never seen or heard either make comments about Hip Hop until the Imus incident when Big Al said he had addressed the problem, BullS**t. I did not see or hear of Jessie Jackson or Al Sharpton marching in front of the HIP HOP group demanding they stop the constant insults against black women and women in general. I do recall the Hip Hop group advocating killing cops, where were Jessie and Al then? These two call themselves ministers, but only at tax time.

By: Judy Bodnar

Judy Bodnar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

There IS far more to Don Imus than his pomposity and the
outrageous demeaning remarks he has til now, been guilty of. I don’t know if he can ever rally from the latest spew of demeaning stupidity he uttered (and has always allowed his producer to spew) But I am hoping he can somehow get back on his feet and do what he is capable of doing and reverse what has been a deplorable lack of respect and tolerance of others. There is absolutely no one who could contribute more and I would
bet on it. But with the public airways rife with the pollution of hate filled, disprespectful, and intolerant messages that have been allowed to flow freely from most the of them…It will be more than a little difficult if not impossible.

By: Donna

Donna — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

such will thy affections be esteemed; and such will thy deeds be as thy affections; and such thy life as thy deeds” -Socrates

By: Roger

Roger — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Hypocrisy all the way around in this escapade.

They claim to be the heirs of Martin Luther King, but act like PT Barnums sidekicks.

They criticize Imus but make no comments on Rap “artists” who make a living off negative comments on black women specifically. .

Imus was a stupid old man with evidently a good heart.

Sharpton / Jackson are just evil. And they call themselves ministers. Of course even Satan keeps transforming himself into an angel of light, per the bible, so it’s no surprise these guys do the same thing.

By: Boots

Boots — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Look here all you hypocrites. What should have been done to Imus and others who go into the deep end of the offensive comedy routines on radio and TV is this. If it is bad enough the FCC steps in, it’s their job to do that, not Al Sharpton’s race mob. Of course the FCC does have a dental problem, very little to no teeth. Congress is their dentist, can you dig? Then there is the big boss man. In Imus’s case MSNBC and the people who own the radio station. They have the power to say slack off or else. Then there’s the market, the people with the ads and the people with the dial at their fingertips or the “clicker” in their hand.

I’d bet big bucks that the girls basketball team never even heard of Don Imus before they lost that game. I’d bet big bucks they still wish that they had never heard of Don Imus. Good old big mouth Al Sharpton, Mr. Cause and Effect should be his handle from now on. I’d bet good money the Gov. of NJ will be cursing him if he wakes up from the automobile accident. Cause and effect Al. All those charities and kids who go to the Imus Ranch will probably miss all that Imus input. Cause and effect Al. Imus had a history of making off color remarks about everyone and everything, including himself. He also did a lot of good for other people. Al Sharpton has a history of starting riots and backing the wrong horse and hurting people. Al Sharpton doesn’t do a lot of good for even a little bit of people.

Ain’t this New America great? Personally I think it sucks, big time.