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I am certainly not an Imus fan, but I sense a huge amount of disingenuousness in this whole controversy.
The man is and always has been a moron and said stupid things. He is crass and an equal opportunity degrader, slurring Jews, Christians, African-Americans, everyone. So why is this such a big deal? I believe what he said was stupud, racially motivated, and completely inappropriate, but so is much of everything else he says.
There are so many different angles to this. First, and admittedly I'm not one of those players, but how "damaged" can they really be by this? Someone who doesn't know them called them "nappy headed hos". This damages you to the point of having a two hour press conference? So what if your feelings are hurt?
Doesn't most of the hip-hop world embrace artists who have things worse than that in their music?
Who is Al Sharpton to demand an apology from anyone?
It is no secret that Imus has said many other stupid things. Now for all of the media personalities and politicians that have previously gone on his show to be denouncing him is too little too late, if you ask me. They wanted his audience regardless of what he had said previously and now they choose to act as if they didn't know who he was previously?
I don't mind how this has played out with various sponsors pulling out and MSNBC dropping him. Let the free market work.
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