MIKE TIABBI ON THE IMUS PROGRAM YOU GOT TO BE KIDDING!

I was surprised to hear Rolling Stone writer Mike Tiabbi as a guest on the IMUS radio program this morning. Tiabbi should be in the running for the Jason Blair award for lazy journalism this year not be given air time. Read this to find out why. I would have thought the IMUS program would have had higher standards for guests. At the very least  IMUS should have called him out on the Bachman piece.

Another Snow Job!

President Bush's former press secretary Tony Snow said on Imus this morning that Conservatives will need to go to McCain not the other way around. Uh, Tony who exactly needs votes to become President?

Don Imus is back.

Don Imus will be back on the air today and all I can say it is about time. My only concern is how I will be able to listen to him here in D.C. At least when I am back on Long Island I can here him on WABC AM. Those who helped manufacture the outrage against Don Imus I hope are a little concerned. From weak kneed executives at NBC and CBS. Not to mention other hypocrites like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Keith Obermann and Al Roker who help lead the lynch mob to get Imus off the air. There should even be some Presidential candidates like Hillary Clinton who should be afraid, very afraid. I for one hope that Imus opens up a big can of "wup ass" on them all. They deserve it just as Imus deserves to be back on the air.

No Imus! No Peace!

You can almost smell the hypocrisy coming out of the National Association of Black Journalists as they came out against Don Imus returning to the airwaves. To them the first amendment has no meaning as they appear to attempt to silence voices that they find objectionable.

"CHICAGO Weighing in again on the Don Imus controversy, the National Association of Black Journalists Tuesday said the radio personality who outraged many with his comments about "nappy-headed ho's" should not be allowed back on the air.
NABJ called reports that Imus is in negotiations with Citadel Broadcasting and in informal talks with Fox News "unimaginable."- Editor and Publisher

Unimaginable? What a laugh! These so called "black" journalists had better not turn on black oriented television programs like those on BET. Because they would have heart attacks when they hear how black rap artist degrade and demean black woman. No even after numerous apologies by IMUS these hypocrites still don't want his acerbic humor to be heard on the air. But, they give Tom Joyner a free pass when he and his crew make fun of whites. Yes the hypocrites at the NABJ are in good company with the likes of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, Keith Obermann, Al Roker and others who who mau maued the weaselly executives at NBC and CBS. Along with players like Eugene Robinson at the Washington Post and others. But, is there something else going on here? Perhaps Frank Rich said it best:

"Familar as I am with the warp speed of media, I was still taken aback by the velocity of Don Imus’s fall after he uttered an indefensible racist and sexist slur about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Even in that short span, there’s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate, starting with Al Sharpton, who has yet to apologize for his leading role in the Tawana Brawley case, the 1980s racial melee prompted by unproven charges much like those that soiled the Duke lacrosse players."

There is another backstory for what Bill Maher calls the "manufactured outrage" against Imus and it has intriguing tie to the Hillary Clinton campaign and the liberal "watchdog" group Media Matters who pushed the story. You can read about those ties and the attempt to silence a Clinton critics like Imus here. It may just be that the NABJ and others are really worried that when IMUS gets back on the air he is going to open a big can of wup ass on them when he gets back on the air. I hope he does and I will be listening.

Russell Simmons and other black hypocrites

It's funny to watch as the black hypocrites who helped create the racial firestorm that got the old white guy Don Imus fired. These same blacks are now trying to contain the flames they fanned so that they and their wealthy lifestyle don't get consumed in the fire they lit. The Washington Post had an article where rich black mogul Russel Simmons had a meeting at a Warner Bros executives house. Here are some of the money quotes:
"The meeting, called by hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons' Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, was held at the New York home of Lyor Cohen, chairman and chief executive of U.S. music at Warner Music Group. The summit, which lasted several hours"

Alright! Now black leaders like Russell Simmons gonna lead the way. The black community is gonna step up to the plate and show us the the racial lynch mob that went after Don Imus is gonna clean it's own house too and go after lyrics in rap music which more black kids listen to than Don Imus. I can't wait for their statement.

"Organizers billed the gathering as a forum to "discuss issues challenging the industry in the wake of controversy surrounding hip-hop and the First Amendment." Afterward, they planned to hold a news conference at a Manhattan hotel to discuss "initiatives agreed upon at the meeting." But by early afternoon, the news conference was postponed, because the meeting was still going on."

That's ok. We are waiting right here for the statement!
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"After the meeting ended, it was unclear whether there would be another one. Simmons' publicist released a short statement that described the topic as a "complex issue that involves gender, race, culture and artistic expression. Everyone assembled today takes this issue very seriously. Although no recommendations emerged, the gathering was significant for its who's-who list of powerful music executives."

WHAT! Looks like more shuck and jive from these hip hop rap moguls who wanna take guys like Don Imus down but, don't want to kill the goose that lays the golden misogynist, racist lyrics that make millions for them. Hypocrites come in all colors including black.

"Meanwhile, the Rev. Al Sharpton, who said he planned to challenge the recording industry on denigrating lyrics, announced he had suspended plans to honor Def Jam's L.A. Reid during this week's convention of his National Action Network in New York. Sharpton was among Imus' most vocal critics and demanded his firing. Several rappers under Reid's label frequently use racial and sexual epithets."

Hmmm, I guess the Imus situation finally opened Sharpton's eyes that the misogyny and racism that he went after Don Imus for actually has roots in the black rap and hip hop music industry. Or did he realize that honoring guys like rap mogul L.A. Reid might make him look like a hypocrite after going after IMUS for his remarks. YA THINK?

Looks like it's time to bring in the hanging judge. Stanley Crouch!

No more Staples for me.

One of the sponsors of IMUS in a knee jerk reaction to his remarks was STAPLES. Their action helped lead the corporate mainstream media cowards at NBC and CBS take the IMUS program off the air. I just sent them an email that I will be using Office Depot for my office supplies from now on because of their action over Don Imus. You can too! Here is there contact email:

http://www.staples.com/sbd/content/help/contact/other_quest.html

NBC News after fatally shooting IMUS, gives Hui another shot.

Less than a week after NBC News executives like Steve Capus folded like a cheap suit and bowed to the pressure of a racial/political mob that included Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Al Roker, Keith Obermann and shot Don Imus in the head, The news organization is once again in the media spotlight for airing the diatribe and video of Cho Seung Hui the Virginia Tech shooter.

"The unexpected package from Cho Seung Hui that arrived at NBC News yesterday morning contained both a worldwide scoop and a journalistic dilemma."Howard Kurtz, Washington Post

Delemia indeed. After letting Hillary Clinton's political hitmen (Sharpton & Jackson) knock a Clinton critic IMUS off the air. I wonder why Cho Seung Hui would chose to send to NBC News his tapes, photos and writings? Was it because he thought so highly of NBC News or was because NBC was in the news the week before because of the disgraceful handling of the IMUS firing. There are some unanswered questions about this:

Of course, no one forced NBC to broadcast those words and pictures. Capus said network journalists debated for hours what they should make public. "There are some things we haven't shown and words we haven't released that are more appropriate to hold back," he said

Like maybe why Hui choose NBC over other the other mainstream media outlets to deliver his finally shot. Until the public gets to see the entire video and all the documents. NBC will be under a cloud of suspicion over what they released and showed on their network and MSNBC. It could be like the Imus firing NBC is not telling us the whole story.

Isn't it Rich

Frank Rich in Sunday's New York Times weighs in on IMUS, hypocrisy, media, free speech and is spot on. An example:

"Familar as I am with the warp speed of media, I was still taken aback by the velocity of Don Imus’s fall after he uttered an indefensible racist and sexist slur about the Rutgers women’s basketball team. Even in that short span, there’s been an astounding display of hypocrisy, sanctimony and self-congratulation from nearly every side of the debate, starting with Al Sharpton, who has yet to apologize for his leading role in the Tawana Brawley case, the 1980s racial melee prompted by unproven charges much like those that soiled the Duke lacrosse players. "

Al Roker: Lying, delusional or hypocrite.

Al Roker the Today Show Weatherman whose talk with NBC News Executive Steve Capus was a major reason for the firing of Don Imus from MSNBC. Made some remarks in the official NBC blog for the Today Show like:

"And by the way, for all those people who posit that the phrase is rooted in the black community, it is not. My childhood neighborhood of St. Albans, Queens, is a middle-class neighborhood. People keep their homes neat and their lawns mowed. I never heard the word "ho" in my neighborhood or in my parents' home."- Al Roker

I too never heard the word "ho" in my neighborhood or in my home when I was growing up either . But, I did and do hear it on black rap and hip hop music coming on BET, MTV and urban radio stations all over the place. Al Roker is saying he never heard the word. He is either lying or really does not pay attention to what is going on in black communities all over the country. So IMUS gets fired because he said something that yes was insensitive but it also showed he was more in tune with black culture than Al Roker.

"But just as he wants to be judged on what he does, he must also be judged on what he says and what he has said, both on and off the air."

But Roker himself is not above using race for a laugh on the Today Show. For example when he was doing a cooking segment that used artichokes. The cook mentioned that when you take off the artichoke leaves, you rub the bottoms with lemon so they don't turn black.

"You might even want to rub lemon on your hands so the black doesn't get on them either," he said.
"Well, it's a little too late for me, but..." Roker shot back"

Oh, I get it Al! You are black. Should I laugh? Or should you be fired too!

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IMUS: No Justice, No Peace!

Hmmm, one of the leaders of the racial/political lynch mob that went after Don Imus. Al Sharpton also heads the National Action Network. His organization is having a convention in New York:

Ninth Annual National Action Network Convention

Sheraton New York Hotel & Towers,

811 Seventh Avenue @ 53rd Street

4-Day Schedule April 18, 2007-April 21, 2007

Maybe all the people who are outraged at how Sharpton and his mob got IMUS booted off the air at MSNBC and CBS are already getting their IMUS FIRED! NO JUSTICE NO PEACE signs ready to protest Sharpton's role in the affair in front of the hotel. And guess what? Hillary Clinton will be one of the speakers what a coincidence.

The Imus media firestorm: Black hypocrisy and what lies beneath.

The press conference with the Rutgers Woman's basketball team should show Imus and others why what Imus said was wrong, insensitive and inappropriate. These woman athletes should be outraged and it looks like Imus will speak with them privately and apologize personally. That is appropriate. Team Captain Essence Carson had it right when she said:
"Some have pointed out that young women are routinely and unfortunately called "hos" in some rap lyrics. "That doesn't make it any more right for anyone to say it, it doesn't matter if you are African American, Caucasian, Asian, it really doesn't matter," said Rutgers team captain Essence Carson at a news conference yesterday. "All that matters is it's wrong."-Washington Post
I wonder if the black media elites like Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Washington Post columnist Eugen Robinson and the National Association of Black Journalists etc... who are so outraged over Imus remarks will take the words of Ms. Carson to heart and go after BET (Black Entertainment Television), MTV and the rap and hip hop recording industry who promote artist and entertainers who compose songs with much more racist lyrics and images. If they don't it will show the hypocrisy of what Bill Maher calls the "manufactured outraged" against Don Imus. Don't hold your breath while you wait for all these same racial ambulance chasers going after Don Imus to go after the rap music industry for their use of even worse words and images. You can almost smell the hypocrisy coming from the positions of these black media elites.

But, why all this overblown "outrage" over the Imus remarks? Underneath all the media firestorm hidden in the remarks of people like Jesse Jackson may lie the real reason for the this media firestorm concerning Don Imus. It is political.
Don Imus usually uses his acerbic humor to go after the powerful that includes going after people from President Bush, Dick Cheney to Hillary Clinton. And there may lie the real reason for the media lynching of Don Imus. Both Sharpton and Jackson are Democratic partisans. Imus has often said that he would not have Hillary Clinton on as a guest on his influential program. Jackson appeared on Lou Dobs on Monday and here is the smoking gun money quote:
"JACKSON: He's not irreverent toward Joe Lieberman. He's not irreverent towards Harold Ford. He irreverent towards those he chooses to call out. But the idea of this pattern, the statements about. And even today he said he didn't want Hillary Clinton on his show. A political statement, you know. It's a very political show."- Jesse Jackson on Lou Dobbs

So that's what this is really all about. Democratic partisans like Jackson and Sharpton among others are going after Don Imus not so much because of his insensitive stupid remarks about the Rutgers Woman's basketball team. But rather being Democratic partisans and long time friends of Hillary and Bill Clinton they are trying to also eliminate or take down someone in the media who has derided Clinton in order to earn some points with the Democratic party and Hilliary Clinton in particular. More to follow....

Imus and the Jesse Jackson shakedown.

After listening to Jesse Jackson on Lou Dobbs and Hardball. I appears to me that there is more to the flap over Don Imus's insensitive and some would say racist remarks about Rutgers woman's basketball team. Don Imus has apologized several times and has made an out reach to woman involved but, still black media elites like Jesse Jackson appear to be shaking down both MSNBC and CBS to get IMUS fired and be replaced by a black host. It sure looks like there is an agenda going on here by Jackson and other blacks in the media. You don't see the racial media types coming down as hard on the racist and degrading of woman in lyrics of the rap and hip hop music industry like they been have coming down on IMUS.
It seems that not only Don Imus is under attack but, also in a way free speech is under attack. What we need is to have Lenny Bruce come back from the grave with a big can of wup ass. If Imus goes so goes a little bit of freedom for us all. If you don't like IMUS don't listen to him. Just like I would do if MSNBC or CBS replaced him with someone like Jesse Jackson.