John Donald Imus, Jr. Has a Long Record of Incendiary Remarks.
The latest:
On Monday, WABC anchor Warner Wolf read a report about footballer Adam “Packman” Jones dropping his nickname, “Pacman.” Wolf also mentioned that Jones had been arrested six times since he was drafted in 2005.
Imus then asked, “What color is he?”
“He’s African-American,” Wolf said.
“Well, there you go,” Imus said. “Now we know.”
Imus said through a spokesperson that he was misunderstood.
“I meant that he was being picked on because he’s black,” Imus said.
“I find the inference of [Imus'] remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes,” said the Rev. Al Sharpton of the National Action Network, which was part of protests that led to Imus’ firing last year.
“I’m truly upset about the comments,” Jones said. “Obviously Mr. Imus has problems with African-Americans. I’m upset, and I hope the station he works for handles it accordingly. I will pray for him.”
Imus was fired last year for making racial comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” and for good measure the show’s executive producer, Bernard McGuirk, called the team “hard-core hos.” Later, former Imus sports announcer Sid Rosenberg, who was filling in for sportscaster Chris Carlin, said: “The more I look at Rutgers, they look exactly like the [National Basketball Association's] Toronto Raptors.”
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Over the years Imus has made numerous racist slurs on TV and Radio — The long string of racial slurs and inflammatory comments is well documented by Media Matters …..[MORE]
He has also been accused of making offensive remarks off the air. Here are some examples:
2. Imus referred to African-American sports columnist Bill Rhoden as a “New York Times quota hire.”
3. In 1993, Imus referred to PBS anchor Gwen Ifill, a black woman (then with the New York Times) as a “cleaning lady.”
4. As reported by New York Times columnist Bob Herbert, in the course of a 1998 interview with Mike Wallace on 60 Minutes, Imus told a producer off-camera that McGuirk was hired to perform “nigger jokes.”
5. Robin Quivers claimed that when she worked with Imus at WNBC, Imus called her a “nigger” to her face. Both Howard Stern and Quivers have also claimed that he screamed “Nigger, Nigger” at an African American secretary named Becky during their time at WNBC.
6. Imus has also repeatedly referred to Arabs as “ragheads.”
7. He has berated many female newsreaders, including MSNBC’s Contessa Brewer, which caused her to leave Imus’s show. After she left the show, Imus went on a tirade, saying, “With that fat ass she’s got, she wouldn’t be one of ‘em,” [a news 'babe'.]. Imus said on the air, “That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning.” The tirade was allegedly tied to comments overheard from Contessa’s calling Imus “a cantankerous old fool” at a 2005 dinner in a restaurant when she was still a newsreader.
8. During a show a producer also made fun of poet Maya Angelou.
9. On a December 15, 2004, show, Imus referred to publishers Simon & Schuster (under same ownership as CBS Radio) as “thieving Jews,” and later in the show issued a mock apology, saying the phrase was “redundant.” In October 1998, he described media critic Howard Kurtz as “that boner-nosed . . . beanie-wearing little Jew boy.”
10. Imus’s show routines sometimes have contained derogatory epithets for homosexuals, including “faggot” or “lesbo” and various terms describing homosexuality.
11. Imus has also made fun of Irish, Jews, Italians, other nationalities and all political positions.
Don Imus is just but a speck in a huge crop of right wing extremists in America’s media — THUGS hiding behind TV and Radio, screaming and snorting their “Hate Rhetoric” like Hyenas in “extreme sexual heat,” fueling anti-immigrant xenophobia and the baseless hate of “Foreigners” and non-whites in America — Blacks, Latinos, Immigrants…you name it.
Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O’Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, John Gibson, Lou Dobbs, Sean Hannity, ….[MORE]
…and these bonehead “airwave” morons are not always white. Here is “The Honorable” Pastor James David Manning outlining the seven winners of the “National Bigot Award.” Message originally preached on 28 May 2008.
LOL!
Sick Moron!
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