If the station lost ad revenue...enough ad revenue.. and not just that , but I think that he would be in a pretty actionable situation, especially if any moentary hardship is experieced because of the sue happy nation in which we live.

I don't think he should get sued, but he could.

And from a liablity stand point...I mean, you have to draw a line if you're the guy in charge of the station. Because the station could sued/fined by FCC maybe both on top of poetentonlly loosing ad money. Not that I think there would be that much ad money in am radio, but from what I can gather, his was [is?] pretty popular. But I guess if show goes, then all the ad money for it would go, but they would just find another show.

I can imagine the players themselves suing, but even that seems pretty unlikely. It's really hard to imagine the FCC getting involved, but maybe they have standards that allow them to address racially offensive speech. (I think "nappy hos" is offensive, but IS it at a level the FCC would address?)

I'm sick of hearing "reporters" refer to Imus's "racist comments". Lets try "controversial" or "cruel".

You don't think the "nappy" makes it racial? Not that white people couldn't be nappy headed, but that wasn't the context.

I went back and read the transcript on the first page; it's pretty racially focused with the follow up comment too.

Now, I'm not saying that I believe Imus to be a racist based on the one comment, but the comment sure seems to be a racist one.

Not really, no.

Really, even with the follow up about Spike Lee movies?

How DO you see it? Just sort of anti-toughness and tattoos? Pro-femininity?

I think it was rude. I think he made a cruel comment on how the girls looked. I think he implied they were thuggish, but I don't think that made his comment racist.

I just think if its a situation where people like me and you sit down and analyze and debate whether its racist, the news certainly shouldn't refer to it as such.

But you know there are some people who think that "thug" has racial connotation.

I don't. I just think of a brutish tough guy, maybe with a mafia implication, but I had a conversation at lunch with some people about it, believe it or not, who think thug suggests something racial, if for example, you said of a teenage dressed in a rough way, that he looked like a thug.

I think the Imus comment is racist, but that he may not be. It probably didn't occur to him how bad it was going to seem.

It may be racist, but if its borderline, I don't like the media asserting it as though its a known fact.

I've got hos in different area codes. Maybe I've been listening to too much Nappy Roots. Maybe it's the song Nappy Heads.

This is a waste of political capital. You would think the slaughters of people in Darfur would get more protests than Imus - a guy that most black people don't even listen to anyway.

-Rudey

which kind of takes us back to many of the points in the Disney thread, except that everyone will be expected to punish Imus and his station for his comment whereas in the other instance. . .

Why isn't there a thread about this instead of Imus? I mean the crap you mentioned gets played over our airwaves (I think) pretty much all day, every day, in every city in the U.S. Why is it just a white radio talk host (and an obscure one at that) being called out?

Honestly, his comments are tame compared to many song lyrics which the FCC has no problem with. Whoever mentioned FCC sactions has got to be kidding.

Agree totally.

I don't watch his show, but I think his comment was way overboard and to me it sounded like a racist remark.

I think it's the fact that he's not obscure; Imus is pretty famous, at least along the east coast. I just assumed he was famous nationwide, but that could be my east coast bias.