Imus and Rutger's Women's Basketball. (Page 4)

People cared about the Uconn team because they won. If they lost, no one would care. 

No Chinese either. A drought of multi-sport athletes in these ethnic backgrounds? 

I think we can all agree that it was NOT funny. Move along. 

Ok Don Quixote - your mission is fulfilled. 

The last I looked a semifinalist is still a success. 

Just when you thought (hoped) this thread was dead...

So, I've been watching the news programs this weekend. I'd never listened to Imus, didn't know anything about his show. Now I do and now that I do, I have no compassion for the guy. His yanking was overdue, IMO.

Good riddance.

We, as a society, have become too dumbed-down and complacent with garbage.

This isn't a free speech issue - aside from the fact that broadcasting is a privilege, not a right, the government did not intervene (as they did with Garbage Master Stern). This is a free market issue - and the free market has decided that garbage is no longer such a good sell.

First let me make it clear, that Imus is a jerk and his statement regarding the Rutgers Womens Baskeball Team was clearlly offensive.  That said,  the same day that Imus was fired the North Carolina Attorney general announced that they were dropping all charges against 3 Duke LaCrosse players.

The day before Rev. Al Sharpton was on TV lamenting the horrors that had been bestowed upon the Rutgers women.    Meanwhile the injustice afforded the 3 Duke Lacrosse players was all but ignored in favor of the Rutgers/Imus story.

Let's put some things in perspective, ultimately, while Imus' statement was offensive, they were, in the end, only words.

Contrast that to 3 Duke Lacrosse players who were wrongfully accussed of a henious crime.  Where a cowardly, filthy district attorney used the case and race and economic issues to get re-elected.  Where Rev. Sharpton and Rev. Jesse Jackson came out and villified these 3 men prior to the case ever being resolved in Court. Where Rev. Sharpton called for a conviction based solely upon race, and stated that an acquital would be an injustice.  The fact that 90 Duke professors signed a petition denouncing the Duke Lacrosse players.  The fact that the Lacrosse coach was forced to quit, and the Duke Lacrosse program was cancelled for a year. 

So who was truely wronged here?  What is a bigger social story?  Imus' words had little real effect.  They were a verbal insult. 

The Duke Lacrosse case implicates a dirty DA, the use of three innocent men for political gain by that DA, as well as by Sharpton and Jackson.  Not to mention the real effects that the case had not only on the men wrongfully accussed, but on the Lacrosse players that had their season cancelled, as well as the notion that supposed intellectual professors at one of the best universities in the country, used thier possitions at the school to judge these men before a single piece of evidence had come to light.

The Imus story is an interesting tid-bit.  Imus is a jerk.  But the Duke lacrosse case is a tragedy. 

There is far more social implications in the Duke Lacrosse case then in the Imus/Rutgers case.

I'm waiting patiently for Jackson and Sharpton to issue an apology to those three young men.  

Oh, Jesse and Al...Where are you??????

Prison. Albuquerque.  See I can do it too. (Someone name the movie...)

Since this topic has been beaten beyond recognition, I'll hijack and throw out a "Seriously, WTF"? I see a more logical connection between Relativity and Elizabeth Hurley's attraction to Hugh Grant.

Or anyone's attraction to Hugh Grant. Seriously, what is it about that doofus that makes the women all moist?

(and yes, I am generalizing, because there are no women he doesn't give the vapors. i've asked them all)