[Vision2020] Imus Looses His Job

[J Ford]

So Butler calling two white guys "nigger" while beating the ever-living crap 
out of them is NOT real or what?  Or are you saying the white guys were not 
real?  Or maybe they should have been the focus of Butler and his gang's 
attention to the point of bleeding?  Is that real enough?

What Imus did was wrong.  But what Butler and his crew did was worse.  THAT 
is as real as it gets.


J  :]





>From: keely emerinemix <kjajmix1 at msn.com>
>To: J Ford <privatejf32 at hotmail.com>, <vision2020 at moscow.com>
>Subject: Re: [Vision2020] Imus Looses His Job
>Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 21:21:18 -0700
>
>
>All such language, regardless of who uses it, is deplorable.  The 
>difference is that Imus spoke about a real group of real women who should 
>not ever have been the focus of any of his verbal sewage.  keely> From: 
>privatejf32 at hotmail.com> To: vision2020 at moscow.com> Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2007 
>14:54:32 -0700> Subject: [Vision2020] Imus Looses His Job> > > This is what 
>happens when all that is done is a comment is made.  I am NOT > saying the 
>comment was a good one or should be allowed; but this guy should > NOT have 
>lost his job over it, especially given rappers, actors, and other > 
>blacks/negros/"African Americans" use even worse terms and language and 
>THEY > ARE PAID for it.> > This is just wrong!  Suspend the guy for a 
>couple of weeks without pay, but > taking his job away is just not right.> 
> > > > NEW YORK - CBS fired Don Imus from his radio program Thursday, the 
>finale to > a stunning fall for one of the nation's most prominent 
>broadcasters.> ADVERTISEMENT> > Imus initially was given a two-week 
>suspension for calling the Rutgers > women's basketball team "nappy-headed 
>hos" on the air last week, but outrage > continued to grow and advertisers 
>bolted from his CBS radio show and its > MSNBC simulcast.> > "There has 
>been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our > young 
>people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in > 
>this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves 
>said > in announcing the decision. "That consideration has weighed most 
>heavily on > our minds as we made our decision."> > Rutgers women's 
>basketball team spokeswoman Stacey Brann said the team did > not have an 
>immediate comment on Imus' firing.> > Time Magazine once named the 
>cantankerous broadcaster as one of the 25 Most > Influential People in 
>America, and he was a member of the National > Broadcaster Hall of Fame.> > 
>But Imus found himself at the center of a storm as protests intensified. On 
> > Wednesday, MSNBC dropped the simulcast of Imus' show.> > Losing Imus 
>will be a financial hit to CBS Radio, which also suffered when > Howard 
>Stern departed for satellite radio. The program is worth about $15 > 
>million in annual revenue to CBS, which owns Imus' home radio station > 
>WFAN-AM and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show > 
>across the country.> > The Rev.> Al Sharpton and> Jesse Jackson met with 
>Moonves on Thursday to demand Imus' removal, > promising a rally outside 
>CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to > persuade more advertisers to 
>abandon Imus.> > Sumner Redstone, chairman of the CBS Corp. board and its 
>chief stockholder, > told Newsweek that he had expected Moonves to "do the 
>right thing," although > it wasn't clear what he thought that was.> > The 
>news came down in the middle of Imus' Radiothon, which has raised more > 
>than $40 million since 1990. The Radiothon had raised more than $1.3 
>million > Thursday before Imus learned that he lost his job.> > "This may 
>be our last Radiothon, so we need to raise about $100 million," > Imus 
>cracked at the start of the event.> > Volunteers were getting about 200 
>more pledges per hour than they did last > year, with most callers 
>expressing support for Imus, said Tony Gonzalez, > supervisor of the 
>Radiothon phone bank. The event benefited Tomorrows > Children's Fund, the 
>CJ Foundation for SIDS and the Imus Ranch.> > Imus, whose suspension was 
>supposed to start next week, was in the awkward > situation of broadcasting 
>Thursday's radio program from the MSNBC studios in > New Jersey, even 
>though NBC News said the night before that MSNBC would no > longer 
>simulcast his program on television.> > He didn't attack MSNBC for its 
>decision — "I understand the pressure they > were under," he said — but 
>complained the network was doing some unethical > things during the 
>broadcast. He didn't elaborate.> > He acknowledged again that his comments 
>about the Rutgers women's basketball > players a day after they had 
>competed in the> NCAA championship game had been "really stupid." He said 
>he had apologized > enough and wasn't going to whine about his fate.> > 
>Sharpton and Jackson emerged from a meeting with Moonves saying the > 
>corporate chief had promised to consider their requests.> > "It's not about 
>taking Imus down," Sharpton said. "It's about lifting > decency up."> > 
>Sheila Johnson, owner of the WNBA's Washington Mystics and, with her > 
>ex-husband Robert, co-founder of BET, called Imus' comments reprehensible 
>in > an interview with The Associated Press. She said she had called 
>Moonves to > urge that CBS cut all ties with the veteran radio star, and 
>was worried that > what he said could hurt women's sports.> > "I think what 
>Imus has done has put a cloud over what we've tried to do in > promoting 
>women's athletics," she said.> > Several sponsors, including American 
>Express Co., Sprint Nextel Corp., > Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and 
>General Motors Corp., have said they > were pulling ads from Imus' show 
>indefinitely. Imus made a point Thursday to > thank one sponsor, Bigelow 
>Tea, for sticking by him.> > The list of his potential guests began to 
>shrink, too.> > Newsweek Editor Jon Meacham said the magazine's staffers 
>would no longer > appear on Imus' show. Meacham, Jonathan Alter, Evan 
>Thomas, Howard Fineman > and Michael Isikoff from Newsweek have been 
>frequent guests.> > Imus has complained bitterly about a lack of support 
>from one black > politician, Harold Ford Jr., even though he strongly 
>backed Ford's campaign > for Senate in Tennessee last year. Ford, now head 
>of the Democratic > Leadership Council, said Thursday he'll leave it to 
>others to decide Imus' > future.> > "I don't want to be viewed as piling on 
>right now because Don Imus is a good > friend and a decent man," Ford said. 
>"However, he did a reprehensible > thing."> > Imus' troubles have also 
>affected his wife, author Deirdre Imus, whose > household cleaning guide, 
>"Green This!" came out this week. Her promotional > tour has been called 
>off "because of the enormous pressure that Deirdre and > her family are 
>under," said Simon & Schuster publicist Victoria Meyer.> > People are 
>buying it, though: An original printing of 45,000 was increased > to 
>55,000.> > Imus still has a lot of support among radio managers across the 
>country, > many of whom grew up listening to him, said Tom Taylor, editor 
>of the trade > publication Inside Radio.> > Yet he's clearly became a 
>political liability for a major corporation — CBS. > (General Electric Co. 
>owns NBC Universal, of which MSNBC is a part.) NBC > News said anger about 
>Imus among some of its employees had as much to do > with ending the MSNBC 
>simulcast as the advertiser defection.> > Bryan Monroe, president of the 
>National Association of Black Journalists and > vice president and editor 
>director of Ebony and Jet magazines, met with > Moonves on Wednesday. It 
>seemed clear Moonves and his aides were struggling > with a difficult 
>decision, he said. He urged them to take advantage of an > opportunity to 
>take a stand against the coarsening of culture.> > "Something happened in 
>the last week around America," Monroe said. "It's not > just what the radio 
>host did. America said enough is enough. America said we > don't want this 
>kind of conversation, we don't want this kind of vitriol, > especially with 
>teenagers."> > Rutgers' team, meanwhile, appeared Thursday on "The> Oprah 
>Winfrey Show" with their coach, C. Vivian Stringer.> > At the end of their 
>appearance, Winfrey said: "I want to borrow a line from > Maya Angelou, who 
>is a personal mentor of mine and I know you all also feel > the same way 
>about her. And she has said this many times, and I say this to > you, on 
>behalf of myself and every woman that I know, you make me proud to > spell 
>my name W-O-M-A-N. You've really handled this beautifully."> > Imus said 
>earlier Thursday he still wants to meet with the team.> > "At some point, 
>I'm not sure when, I'm going to talk to the team," he said. > "That's all 
>I'm interested in doing."> > Rev. DeForest Soaries, who is Stringer's 
>pastor and has been helping > negotiate the terms of the meeting with Imus, 
>said he had not yet talked > with Imus or coach Stringer but said: "Right 
>now, as far as I know, the > meeting is still on."> > Soaries said the fact 
>that Imus was off the air on both MSNBC and CBS took > some pressure off of 
>the upcoming meeting with the Rutgers women.> > "This removes the burden 
>from Rutgers women to determine the status of Imus' > employment," Soaries 
>said in a telephone interview.> > ___> > Associated Press correspondents 
>Karen Matthews, Warren Levinson, Seth Sutel, > Tara Burghart and Hillel 
>Italie contributed to this report.> > > J  :]> > 
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