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I think part of the problem is that in this case the specific target seems particularly undeserving. Hilary Clinton puts herself out there and the really stupid crap comes with the territory. Same with most of the other specific people that have been his targets (as I read it around the webs, I've never heard his show).
But you wonder just what the hell kind of dark inner demons leads a man to look at a happy group of young, athletic, ambitious, and successful women and decide that "nappy headed hos" is the way to go.
I also hate the "but rappers do it!" First, a lot of people complain about the rappers doing it and maybe it is hypocritical for CBS to can Imus while selling rap CDs but that doesn't clear Imus of wrongdoing. But even then it is equally disingenuous to pretend that there is no such thing as reserved vocabulary and that some words are more acceptable when said by certain people than when said by others.
When a white person says ****** it has a different history, intent, and context than when a black person says it.
All that said, I'm more bothered by the ho half (misogynist) than the nappy (racist, perhaps) half. Nappy, regardless of its reserved use, is descriptive (though I noticed this morning that more than half of the players have relaxed not "natural" (the more acceptable term) hair. But I just don't trust or like a person who uses any version of "whore" as a synonym for "woman."
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