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Jason Whitlock: Imus Isn't the Real Bad Guy
KC Star ^ | 4/11/07 | Jason Whitlock

Posted on 04/11/2007 6:41:32 AM PDT by meg88

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To: meg88

Sharpton, Jaxhun, & the rest of the race pimps were set in Sep 2001 for the big splash with their agenda in South Africa with the UN Proceeding on “racism” and slavery that was headed toward reparations on a grand scale.....but it was somewhat derailed by the Israel matter, and then completely by 9-11. The race pimps here in the US have been on the back burner ever since, despite anything they can cook up.....business has been bad for a long time for them.

But things fell into place for them, finally, with a stupid but routine joking remark by Imus, who can be pointed to after the fact as being mostly a liberal......and NOW (this non-issue having been exploited so successfully, in fact beyond the wildest dreams of those pressing it) the way is cleared to go after any and all conservative talkers. Imus is no conquest for the left.....who are quite willing to sacrifice one who has been seemingly friendly to them, even though he has been abrasive and mostly irrelevant to them he is a feather in their cap since when the conservative talkers come under attack en masse they can point to Imus and claim HE was no conservative, so there is no bias in their current campaign to take conservative talkers down.

This will be in full swing before summer arrives.


21 posted on 04/11/2007 7:06:21 AM PDT by Vn_survivor_67-68
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To: meg88
This guy is right on! Blacks are their own worst enemy. We were waiting at a light watching a black kid seem to limp across the street. On closer observation we realized his pants were so low they were below his buttocks with a belt tightly holding them there so he had trouble walking. If we had used the ‘n’ word to tell him to get out of the street before he got hit, we would have been hailed as racist. But if he had been wearing normal pants and walking in a regular manner we never would have thought of the ‘n’ word.
22 posted on 04/11/2007 7:07:32 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: meg88
Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset.

Nails it.

23 posted on 04/11/2007 7:09:04 AM PDT by Tax-chick ("His mother said to the servants, 'Do whatever He tells you.' ")
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To: mainepatsfan

Of course they did. I really don’t see how ESPN is managing to remain as the leader in sports news. I can’t imagine a more limp wristed group of pansies than the ones they have on the air and on their website. Every few days, another mindless article about gays in sports pops up. Then, a few days later, there will be yet another article about the lack of minorities in sports (the most recent was about the lack of blacks in baseball). When I see these things on their website, I have to ask, who the hell is this marketed to? Is there any sports fan in the country that wants to read their pathetic social commentary?


24 posted on 04/11/2007 7:09:37 AM PDT by LanPB01
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25 posted on 04/11/2007 7:10:42 AM PDT by meg88
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To: colonel mosby

It was a stupid lame joke.

Meanwhile, there hasn’t been a rap album produced in the last ten years that doesn’t basically call them niggas and hos.

But they ain’t gettin all upset about that now, are they?


26 posted on 04/11/2007 7:11:23 AM PDT by djf (Democracy - n, def: The group that gets PAID THE MOST ends up VOTING THE MOST See: TRAGEDY)
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To: djf

While watching the joke of the Rutgers news conference I was wondering what songs the girls had in their iPods.


27 posted on 04/11/2007 7:14:46 AM PDT by Shyla
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To: meg88

Boy, does Jason Whitlock really hit it on the head!


28 posted on 04/11/2007 7:15:04 AM PDT by Gritty (Of the two suicide cults America confronts, Liberalism is by far the more lethal - Don Feder)
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To: LanPB01

What frustrates me as a sports fan is they go out of their way to say something nice about a player or team even when they clearly don’t deserve it.


29 posted on 04/11/2007 7:18:14 AM PDT by mainepatsfan
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To: meg88

He’s absolutely right, Mike Lupica is a tiny companion.


30 posted on 04/11/2007 7:18:14 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: meg88

And this is the guy ESPN sacked because he once criticized whiny NYC weasel Mike Lupica. ESPN also continues to employ “writers” like Scoop Jackson, Screamin’ A. Smith and now Jemele Hill, who once declared that Tiger Woods wasn’t doing enough for the black cause (?!?!?).

It’s a sad commentary on the times that many think Whitlock is only “allowed” to criticize hip-hop culture because he is black himself - but let’s ignore the circumstances and thank him for his courage and lucidity.


31 posted on 04/11/2007 7:19:00 AM PDT by relictele
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To: Lee'sGhost

Why did J Whit have a falling out with ESPN? Was he a little too conservative for their liberal northeastern tastes up there...


32 posted on 04/11/2007 7:20:11 AM PDT by meg88
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"Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred."

Powerful words that really ring true. When I think of an oppressed race I think of the Jews, who over the millenia have been marginalized, maltreated and subjugated by nearly every country they've migrated to. Yet their indomitable spirit and God-given abilities have always won out over oppression. The Jews have always risen to cultural equality and economic prosperity with every people of every nation, regardless of prejudices against them. They need no special laws to attain 'equality', because the natural law that declares "water rises to its own level" cannot be overridden by any amount of human hatred or ignorance, or by any nation's laws. The Jewish people should be an inspiration to blacks who still feel oppressed. In this generation at least, the black people of America are their own worst enemy, because as the author so articulately points out, they oppress themselves.

33 posted on 04/11/2007 7:24:15 AM PDT by Oceans99
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To: meg88

Nappy headed ho's? Thats it? THAT'S IT?

I haven't been following too closely, but I had heard about the suspension. I never heard what he said, but I assumed it was something REALLY bad, I mean, this guy is already AWFUL, he is nothing more than a big d*ck with a microphone, IMHO.

I am not impressed, Imus should be off the air for a lot of reasons, but really, this is pathetic. This is embarassing for us as a CULTURE. The hypocracy is stupifying.

34 posted on 04/11/2007 7:24:48 AM PDT by Paradox (Secular Conservative, thank God!)
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To: meg88

I have no idea. Don’t read SI. I just know that when I see Lupica on TV I change the channel.


35 posted on 04/11/2007 7:27:29 AM PDT by Lee'sGhost (Crom! Non-Sequitur = Pee Wee Herman.)
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To: Bahbah
I can’t believe Jason Whitlock wrote this.

Really? I can. He's written about stuff like this in the past. Most recently slamming the NBA ‘All-Star” week at Las Vegas.

I don’t always agree with Whitlock –in fact about half the time I don’t. He is an arrogant, self-promoting, egomaniac (am I repeating myself?) But a broke clock is correct twice a day.

36 posted on 04/11/2007 7:30:18 AM PDT by Lurking in Kansas (Nothing witty here... move on.)
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To: Publius Valerius
I think Whitlock is a pretty straight shooter.

Whitlock has always been a straight shooter. Now that he is free from the politically-correct, Disney-owned "worldwide leader in sports" he has become even more of a straight shooter.

IMO, he truly sees the country as the rest of us in "flyover" country see it. Not the way, ESPN and the rest of the East Coast MSM see it!

He definitely nailed the real problem in this column, and even got in a dig at that worthless piece of junk Mike Lupica.
37 posted on 04/11/2007 7:32:56 AM PDT by TexanByBirth (Texas Governor Rick Perry: The Best Aggie Joke Ever!)
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To: Lurking in Kansas
He's written about stuff like this in the past.

Yes, someone else pointed that out. I was unaware of that. He is certainly right on this one so credit where credit is due.

38 posted on 04/11/2007 7:32:59 AM PDT by Bahbah (Regev, Goldwasser & Shalit, we are praying for you.)
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To: meg88
But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

Speaking of opportunism, the coverage of this is sickening. An army of talking heads don their velvet robes of self-righteous, politically correct piety, all the while thinking "Ratings bonanza, let's milk this for all it's worth."

The biggest story in the world for a week is that some radio clown said three stinking words.

I'm glad there's not a world war going on, that'd be something to talk about.

39 posted on 04/11/2007 7:36:09 AM PDT by FlyVet (O)
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To: LanPB01

ESPN appears to have a dynamite team of businessmen that have really put the screws to sports leagues, and it helps that they are backed by ABC.

I agree with you, though. I think ESPN is far too self-important for my taste, but for better or for worse, it is a sports powerhouse.

The only sport that I can think of in recent memory that gave the figurative finger to ESPN was professional golf, and I’m not even sure that was the wisest move.


40 posted on 04/11/2007 7:36:13 AM PDT by Publius Valerius
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