Ok Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson...

[radiolover78]

...now that you have Don Imus off the air, start going after rap and hip hop artists and ANYONE else who is a 'racist' or a 'bigot'.

Or will you continue to be hypocrites? I assume the ladder, but prove me wrong, please.

 

[Chris_Rose]

Al Sharpton should start by comdemning the offensive music played by his EMPLOYER Radio One. I believe Rev. Jackson is employed (part time) by Clear Channel (his Sunday morning radio show). Clear Channel is also guilty of playing rap songs with offensive lyrics.

And let's not forget that Clear Channel employed Star and Bucwild, until Star got busted for threatening a minor. Star would use the N-Word with reckless abandon on a daily basis. Where was the outrage then!?!?!

I'm not defending Imus. Far be it from me to cry for a multi-millionaire. He'll be fine. I just think there needs to be some consistency here. Especially where Jesse and Al are concerned.

Will Radio One make a pledge to do away with offensive rap lyrics on the air? Will Al Sharpton call them on it if they don't? Truth be told, hip-hop radio is far more egregious in that their songs are played to millions of impressionable young teens and kids. Something should be done.

 

[mostb1]

[EDIT-post removed for offensive content]

Radio needs some censoring as far as I am concerned. The bar has been moved TOO LOW. It's time to raise it again. The industry better do it themselves before a Democrat congress gets involved and really screws things up.

I wouldn't support most of these efforts at all (I am a conservative Reagan Republican). I certainly don't like what is written in #9. The moderator on this site should edit one uncalled for name out now.

The marketplace has decided Imus fate. Get over it. He was long overdue to be removed.

 

[radiolover78]

Agreed. #9 is unacceptable.

Isn't the point of this whole debate to end racism, sexism, and general hate towards different individuals?

 

[tigermichal]

What most of you don't understand is that Radio One is not allowed to air profanity just like Imus wasn't allowed to say what he said.... Hip Hop is EDITED on radio!

 

[radiolover78]

A few 'faults' of Al Sharpton

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2411

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Also check out this link:

http://smoothstone.blogspot.com/2007/04/al-sharpton-is-racist-and-jew-basher.html

I'm listen to Mark Levin right now and he's talking with Steve Pagones, who confirms that Al Sharpton has still not apologized to him.

Unbelieveable.

 

[TowerBuzz]

You guys HAVE to stop making this about Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, it is not about them. IMUS MADE THE COMMENTS, Sharpton and Jackson have the right to protest such speech, as does anyone who feels that it is not appropraite. Some people (white people) in this country especially in New York see Sharpton as an opportunist and while that may be so to some degree, it may not be depending on your perspective but again Imus is responsible for what happened to Imus, period. Sharpton and Jackson are just part of the protest, NOW was all over him, NOW, THE NATIONAL ORGANIZATION FOR WOMEN, mostly white suburban women that make up that group. NOt Sharpton and jackson,......... The Duke cae/ has ZERO to do with this. Let's not eclipse the real issue, seriously. Some idiot actually brought up the OJ verdict in his post, yo guys are losing your heads. Imus is a rich, old man from the old school where certain bigoted views were pretty commonplace. Does thatr make him a huge cross burning racist? NO but there is no question that he's from a certain era and holds certain bigoted views, it's just fact based on his past history and things he has said. HE is also so not a 'shock jock" he's been a radio version of Tim Russert for years, he's no shock jock and if he thought he could be while at teh same time interviewing presential hopefuls and government figures, well that's not very reaiistic!.

Talk about shooting the messenger, it is not about Sharpton and Jackson and how full of t you may think they are, Imus blew it, period.

 

[radiolover78]

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are hypocrites.

I don't know why you fail to see that.

Of course Imus made the comments. Of course he screwed up, but Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have no right to go after him and gobble him up when they've been racist themselves.

 

[Rebelyell]

You guys HAVE to stop making this about Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, it is not about them. IMUS MADE THE COMMENTS, Sharpton and Jackson have the right to protest such speech, as does anyone who feels that it is not appropraite.

Sure Jesse and Al have the right to protest; but since they have "jumped" into the spotlight and since they are public figures, we have the right to criticize them.

Sharpton and Jackson made a BIG deal out of this and therefore made it about them.

 

[tigermichal]

You guys HAVE to stop making this about Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, it is not about them. IMUS MADE THE COMMENTS, Sharpton and Jackson have the right to protest such speech, as does anyone who feels that it is not appropraite.

Sure Jesse and Al have the right to protest; but since they have "jumped" into the spotlight and since they are public figures, we have the right to criticize them.

Sharpton and Jackson made a BIG deal out of this and therefore made it about them.

It is a BIG deal... Imus called these women racial slurs over the air, and this isn't the first time.... they were defenseless and they didn't deserve it at all. All the sorrys in the world won't make up for what he did

 

[radiolover78]

Defenseless? You make it sound like these women are weak and incapable of defending themselves.

 

[froggiesmother]

Can anyone tell me what churches the Reverend Al and Jesse hold there services in?....All these years and I have yet to see these two men do anything at all in the public spotlight that would represent a Christian view of forgiveness...These two are the worst form of racism and bigotry, the ones that hide behind the cloak of God. They do nothing except to constantly seek retribution and firings in situations like this. There is no healing involved with the firing of Imus...It's another case of these two phoney hucksters getting their names in the Spotlight so that they can continue to reap financial rewards from the same community they claim to be representing....What a couple of snake oil salesman!...And the public continues to soak it in...Absolutely pathetic....Would it not have been better for the man to serve a two week suspension and then maybe coordinate a huge radio fundraiser to create scholarships for underprivileged minority students?...The man would have generated millions upon millions of dollars like he has done in the past for his other charities....How sadly ironic that he gets fired on the same day that he generates millions for children of all colors...Typical of the American reaction to everything anymore...The man raises millions upon millions of dollars for sick and underpriviled children over the years and you hear not a peep out of the so called Reverends, but make a poor judgement and get crucified for it......If only Sharpton and Jackson were silenced for all of there many, many indiscretions.....Ask the Village of Wappingers Falls Ny what a despicable human being Sharpton is.....and yet this is the barometer we now use for moral judgement.....Absolutely and utterly pathetic!!!

 

[formeraa]

Sorry to tell you but EVERYONE in this country has a right to express their opinion. And GUESS WHAT??? Jesse and Al WON! Too bad, so sad for Imus.

 

[mostb1]

Sorry to tell you but EVERYONE in this country has a right to express their opinion. And GUESS WHAT??? Jesse and Al WON! Too bad, so sad for Imus.

Calling a group of people that someone does not know a racist, sexist name on the public airwaves is OPINION? Thank you, Archie Bunker.

Decency in America won, for once.

Read this as to what we need to do...http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=55163

 

[XM RADIO]

Get over it girls , Imus made a mistake, no white guy has that much power to ruin these girls lives, He made his appology, Im hoping that XM picks him up, after the merger goes thru!! Whos next Al?

 

[missterled01]

Somebody want to tell me that Tom Joyner isn't doing the same thing with his bunch saying plenty of negative things against white people. And lest we not forget a certain Stevie Wonder song from 1976 called "I Wish". Think of how HE talks about himself in the first two lines, in particular.

 

[Lando Griffin]

Remember, Al Sharpton NEEDED to make a big deal out of the Imus comment... DO you think all of this sudden rage and media campaign was a conincidence on the SAME WEEK that the D.A. who wrongly continued to prosecute three amateur (non-public figure) athletes he KNEW were innocent? Remember -- Fat Al was there chastizing these defenseless young men because they were WHITE and the LYING plaintiff was BLACK. Al also knew these boys were innocent but still sent them to jail to keep his face on camera. This story is flying under the radar now thanks to his "outrage" over a racial comment...

Recap: Al Sharpton has a history of fueling racial hatred by destroying the lives of innocent people for his own gain (see: The Rosenbaum family, Steve Pagones, Fashion Freddy to name a few)... He wanted to make sure hsi involvement in the Duke Lacrosse case went unnoticed and the media was happy to oblige.

 

[LinoNYC]

...now that you have Don Imus off the air, start going after rap and hip hop artists and ANYONE else who is a 'racist' or a 'bigot'.

They'll be a flurry of press conferences to gain more exposure for sharpton but no action.

Why....? Because neither Sharpton, Jackson, dukes etc. want a bullet from the henchmen of Kenneth McGriff or "Suge" Knight.

The rap industry is foul to it's core but cleaning it up is a job for law enforcement.

 

[warm590]

I disagree that Imus isn't a shock jock....he is the original shock jock who started in the mid 70's on WNBC in NYC; then Stern came on the station doing PM drive and they were trying to outdo each other with who was the most shocking. Slewing garbage on the air has made these 2 clowns filthy rich. And make no mistake about it, Imus probably already has a job offer. Just like offensive rap so called lyrics degrade anything resembling human beings. These rappers are very wealthy. Go figure...sleaze sells.....and average working slobs like us struggle each day trying to pay our bills....

live by the sword.....yeah u know the rest

fire away

warm590

 

[lalumia]

Al Sharpton

Sharpton is an ambulance chaser, plain and simple, and he loves the spotlight; he's also a big ham, when given the opportunity.
When not given the opportunity, he creates the opportunity.
He's too old and out of shape to do a 'sex tape', so he does this pontification stuff instead...
THE FABULOUS JIMI LA LUMIA!