Imus Still in Hot Water

[Kevin]

Originally Posted by MzJ25

I wonder when Imus will be checking into "rehab", that seems to be the new hot thing. I'm personally sick of hearing a bunch of tired apologies that don't amount to a hill of beans. Imus is not a stupid man, he knows exactly what he was saying when he said it. Hell, he's damn near 100, he's been around the block long enough to know what's appropriate and what's not.

He's making a mistake by not deflecting any "blame." If black "artists" use words like that (and worse), no one bats an eyelash... but if a white guy on the radio says it... God help him.. national crisis... This whole situations is absurd.

I personally don't think that a two weeks suspension is enough. It seems that the only way for people to really learn a lesson is to gut punch them where it hurts and for Imus, that would be in his wallet. Bravo to Target, Biglowe, Staples and Protor & Gamble for pulling their ads from this show.

Pansies. The 2-week hiatus is probably his publicist's idea though. Do you think he'll be sitting at home sipping cosmos during this time? Hell no. The guy's going to be on every talk show from Larry King to the "The View." He'll come back and his market share will have tripled.

To even think that you or Al Sharpton or whoever can teach a 70+ year-old man "a lesson" for daring to utter "insensitive" words is one of the dumbest ideas I've ever heard. For some reason, America seems to be lapping that up as well.

Sans the media circus over this and the repetition of the words over and over, no one would have even heard about this thing, the Rutgers women would have been spared their humiliation, etc. Imus' show and his words would have been like that tree falling in the forest where no one was around to hear it.