Ease on down, Ease on down the road come on,
Ease on down, Ease on down the road
Don't you carry nothing that might be a load come on,
Ease on down Ease on down, down the road
I guess that Job was the load that was slowing Don Imus down, but now Imus can just ease on down the road. I am sure he will do fine and unfortunately this will probably be a boost to his career becaue he has risen out of obscurity and into the spotlight. I never heard of this guy and now he is notorious. Ok sure as a female...the term Ho does offend me but I will not just rant and rave about Imus, Bernard McGuirk is actually the one that referred to the players as Hard core Hoes.
True Imus took it further, but they continued with the racial remarks by referring to Jigaboos vs Wannabees. Some bloggers say cute Spike Lee reference. I disagree. First of all he cited the wrong Movie, so I am not so sure as to its innocent nature. Second having watched School Daze and many Spike Lee movies, their are funny parts and although represented in a musical style it was about a serious issue of divide within the Black community based on different shades of black.
Imus and friends seemed to miss the message of Spike Lee's little musical number. So when you do a joke about something and miss the essence it will probably come of as offensive. Being on the outside and never being able to identify with any part of his disparaging comment since he does not have ovaries or nappy hair , his weak attempt at an uncreative, relying on played out sterotypes joke came off as offensive.
I am all for free speech. He said what he said. People responded, advertisers pulled out and the companies he worked for decided to pledge allegiance to the almighty dollar then support his consistently offensive humor. So I guess Money Talks and Imus Walks.
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Hmmm, I think Bacon Boy's position on The Fifth Column is a bit more involved than calling it merely a "cute Spike Lee reference."
And Imus was hardly obscure. He blazed the trail for the Howard Sterns, Opies and Anthonys and all other variants of "shock jock". And this isn't a boost, this is a coffin nail. He's done. And I'm not happy about it.
I'm a black man, and I think what has happened is a harbinger of awful things to come where we are so overly sensitive that we will kill comedy, we will kill free expression, we will destroy artistry because we can't bear the thought of our feelings being hurt.
I don't like Imus, I've never been a fan and I think what Imus said was a bad joke. An insensitive joke that wasn't funny. But it shouldn't have been a career ender -- especially a precedent setting career that spans three or four decades.
You have to keep in mind that the network chose to fire him not immediately after the comments, but after several MSNBC advertisers dropped their support for the show. This was a financial decision, not a moral one.
Imus still has every right to say whatever he wishes in a podcast, or on YouTube, or whatever. However, none of us have the right to be PAID to voice our opinions. He failed to be entertaining and now he's unemployed... that's show business for you.
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