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Imus and Va Tech Shooter

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just a thought here. Think...if this tragedy happened last Monday, NO ONE would have been talking about Imus. He would have been off the hook. See what a slow news week can do to a career.
 
The really sad thing is that this shooting will probably be forgotten by the media much faster than Imus' three infamous words.
 
I disagree. The media will be on this longer than on Imus. More than race baiting, the media loves pushing for strict gun control. We won't hear the end of this for weeks.
 
Reminds me of how well 9/11 helped the guy in the Chandra Levy case. I remember her name but not his. Also, the Imus thing and Virginia Tech might have a new life together. The first student publicly identified as shot dead is African-American, apparently the first one killed. Could the Imus controversy be the culprit in the shooter's first choice? What has the world come to?
 
Oprah is still interested. She's got a show on rappers responding to critics about the use of foul language in their music Tuesday.

As for the Virginia Tech case, immigration (lax use of oversight with any foreigner given a visa) will be an issue with it.

The Imus controversy will be remembered but certainly the spotlight is out. Timing for him was not good. If everything was moved one week forward with what went on at Virginia Tech, his story probably would never have developed.
 
Oprah is still interested. She's got a show on rappers responding to critics about the use of foul language in their music Tuesday.
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I saw the promo for this on Nightline, the guests are Rusell Simmons and (I believe) Shawn Combs (or whatever idiotic name he is currently using). I'am sure we'll get objective viewpoints from these two minimally talented characters.

Both of these have made large fortunes peddling and pandering to the worst aspects of comtemporary black culture. I'll pass.

It might be interesting if she asks Combs about that 1991 "concert" riot at City College in which he massively over sold tickets and blocked an exit door causing a stampede and nine deaths. Why was he never indicted and jailed for this.

I'am not holding my breath for an answer.

Lino
 
Also consider all the media attention the dead students are getting, meanwhile, the same number of kids..same age or younger....are dying in iraq...32..what is that a three day toll in iraq?
 
Apples and oranges.

The difference between the two stories (and it is a huge one) is that the soldiers that are in Iraq are fighting a WAR. It is unfortunate that young people die during wars, and it is shocking - but it is not the same sort of shock one gets when they hear that entire class of kids that were doing nothing other than trying to go to get an education on an average day at a college were executed by a psychopathic mental defective that (thanks to a failed system) should have been confined to a rubber room, not living on a college campus.

The next time a war is fought without deaths, it will be the FIRST one.

Sorry for the momentarily extending the hijack there :-\ ...as for Imus, his timing was not the greatest. If he'd made his little now-infamous comment during the Nor'easter it would have barely been a blurb on Page 40 of the paper due to all the flood coverage, if that.
 
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