Posted on 04/10/2007 3:25:18 AM PDT by Thebaddog
I see it more from a perspective of a female .... it’s locker room, gutter talk and it cheapens our culture. You can list all sorts of other people who act this way and I agree that they should not. Is it hypocritical to only go after the white guys, maybe but I still think he should be booted off the air.
Shhhh..................Don’t confuse people with the truth.
Just thought of something else. Look at how many of the liberal dem politicians won’t appear on a Fox debate. Wonder how many of them will wind up appearing on the Imus show during the campaign cycle? Hmmmmmmmm. Something to watch.
FYI..I had MSNBC on in the background for an hour or so this morning..to see what would happen. I noticed they had an awful lot of bumper music being played...to fill dead airtime..which would only happen if a lot of sponsors pulled their ads..so, we shall see..
The 'authoritarian personality' is not to be interpreted primarily as a handbook for the conduct of warfare against prejudice as such, but as a handbook for psychological warfare against the American male for the purpose of rendering him unwilling to defend traditional and formerly held beliefs and values. In other words, the purpose would be to emasculate him. (emphasis supplied).
Dr. Atkinson
Imus is an equal opportunity traducer. He routinely features a character actor/comedian who satirizes Reverend Falwell. As a Protestant Christian I am offended by this. His producer routinely presents a satire making Cardinal Egan look ridiculous. Catholic Christians equally have a right to be offended. But in neither instance is NBC or CBS offended. They husband their indignation only to react to vilification of female African-American basketball players. .
Who was the reactor in chief? That charlatan, the Reverend Al Sharpton! I find Reverend Al's very existence offensive and I certainly find his mendacious behavior in the Tawana Brawley caper to be a vilification of white people. The powers that control the airwaves, private profit making companies, have not reacted in indignation against the buffoonery and malicious anti-white vilifications of Reverend Al, rather they have actually given him his own radio program.
Do I care? Personally, no. After all, I hold Reverend Al in such contempt that it is impossible for him to insult me, impossible for him to get under my skin. Likewise, the contrived slanders against Reverend Falwell or other Christians committed routinely on Don Imus' program fail to arouse me, perhaps because I'm of an age and upbringing which considers these sorts of things to be part of the chaff of our modern world.
But on a political and policy level, I care very deeply because the Reverend Al Sharpton, and his fellow travelers at CBS and NBC, are setting a standard which ultimately will shift political power away from me and to the likes of the Reverend Al Sharpton. And that is a prospect that arouses me fully.
Political correctness, multiculturalism, laws against hate crimes, and other legal, quasi legal, and extralegal restrictions on freedom of thought and freedom of expression are not the natural and haphazard expressions of a leftist political philosophy, rather they are a calculated attempt to move the fulcrum of political power to the left by changing the rules under which we live. As a white, male, Christian, I don't have the same standing to complain as a black buffoon and notorious liar. As a white, male animal, I have been defined into an animal who has fewer rights than other animals who are "more equal."
Dr. Atkinson has written a series of articles and given a series of lectures, some of them at the Naval Academy, in which he contends that all this political correctness is not an accident of history but, dare I say it, the product of a conscious conspiracy to exploit the doctrines of cultural Marxism in order to convert our society to the socialist model:
Most Americans do not yet realize that they are being led by social revolutionaries who think in terms of the destruction of the existing social order in order to create a new social order in the world. These revolutionaries are the New Age elite Boomers, the New Totalitarians [26]. They now control every public institution in the United States of America. Their 'quiet' revolution, beginning with the counter-culture revolution of their youth, is nearly complete. It was based on the intellectual foundation of the 'cultural Marxists' of the Frankfurt School. Its completion depends on keeping the American male in his psychic 'iron cage.'
...history identifies a small group of German intellectuals who devised concepts, processes, and action plans which conform very closely to what Americans presently observe every day in their culture. Observations, such as those made at the beginning of this piece, can be directly traced to the work of this core group of intellectuals. They were members of the Frankfurt School, formed in Germany in 1923. They were the forebears of what some proclaim as 'cultural Marxism,' a radical social movement that has transformed American culture.
'Cultural Marxism' and 'critical theory' are concepts developed by a group of German intellectuals, who, in 1923 in Germany, founded the Institute of Social Research at Frankfurt University. The Institute, modeled after the Marx-Engels Institute in Moscow, became known as the Frankfurt School.7 In 1933, when the Nazis came to power in Germany, the members of the Frankfurt School fled to the United States. While here, they migrated to major U.S. universities (Columbia, Princeton, and California at Berkeley). These intellectual Marxists included Herbert Marcuse, who coined the phrase, 'make love, not war,' during the anti-Vietnam War demonstrations.
By promoting the dialectic of 'negative' criticism, that is, pointing out the rational contradictions in a society's belief system, the Frankfurt School 'revolutionaries' dreamed of a utopia where their rules governed.
If you're interested, you can find a full explanation of Dr. Atkinson thesis here:
http://www.newtotalitarians.com/PsychicIronCagePartII.html
Meanwhile, we have a better understanding of why Don Imus, who has made a career of being naughty, must now go to the woodshed for doing what he has been doing for decades.
It's all about the ratings baybee!! and the I-Man's will go no direction but up.
Didn’t he once call Howard Kurtz a “penis nose” and “boner-nose Jew”? Anybody else remember that?
IMO he’s a jerk.
It’s only unforgivably evil if a white man says it. It’s about power. Black people enjoy having some power over the speech of white people.
When they can make us shut up and not say certain words under threat of firing and lawsuits, or joke about other races while black comedians can insult whites all day - it makes them feel powerful.
Yup, white liberals love to insult black people like Clarence Thomas and Michael Steele. A black man who’s not liberal is an instant “Uncle Tom” to them.
I don’t know about Kurtz, but he’s regularly referred to Stern using those expressions. But those two never attempted to hide their contempt for each other.
I’m sure NBC had an investigation first and that is why Imus didn’t get suspended the day after the comment.
Here is confirmation that “all” media people feel larger than life. Ifill proclaims herself a role model, Imus thinks he can tear down GM, or build it up, depending on whether or not it sends vehicles to his self serving ranch in New Mexico, where he badgers the governor to suck his .....for some .......in close proximity to his.......wife’s...Oh well.
This is spot on, but the problem as I see it, is WE are letting it happen. Conservatives and likeminded people need to band together and stop this by demanding accountability for the precepts already in effect. We pussyfoot around these issues until pretty soon we're under total socialistic rule because we're too lazy to fight and make crucial stands WHEN we need too.
You see exactly the danger of being keelhauled for saying something that may offend others. Too much PC in this for me to go after the Imus. I might say something that offends some hyper-sensitive twit and I wouldn’t want the same national eruption over nasty words. We’re Americans! Some of our greatest liberties were bought with nasty words.
But, saying that, those who live by the PC sword shall die by the PC sword.
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