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Wow. At least the Imus story isn't big anymore. Don't get me wrong, it's a horrible tragedy that transpired at VT and the students and family are in my prayers. I'm just tired of seeing Imus' old mug on TV.

With that being said, let me make a few comments on this. Imus called the girls on the Rutgers Women's Basketball team "Nappy-headed hoes(sp?). I would be willing to bet my left testicle that if it wasn't for the good "Reverends", then none of these women would have been offended, they probably would never have known he existed. Imus has said some crazy things over the years, but people still listened. They still tuned in to hear what he had to say, so advertisers would still pay tons of money to get slots during his show because it would get them more exposure to the listeners than going with, say...Air America. So after his last comment, the Reverends heard about the "nappy headed hoes" and decided this would be their crusade. Now honestly, I think they would've been better off if they had waited for the right time and gone against, well, a conservative. That way this at least made some sense, but NOOOOOO, they don't want to make sense. That's because they DON'T make sense. It's not an option for them.

Imus profusely apologized after being told of his mistake. He even agreed to meet with all the girls on the basketball team and let them individually and collectively "rip him a new one". The players accepted his apology and the offer to meet him and where satisfied when the meetings were finished. But no, that wasn't enough. The studio had suspended Imus for two weeks, Imus raised over one million for a charity fund raiser AND he apologized in person to the girls on the team. They said "Nope, we want him fired."

They're reverends, or so I assume from the "Reverend" moniker. I'm pretty sure they believe in forgiveness as they have asked for others forgiveness in the past after they have made mistakes. They were forgiven and were able to continue with their jobs/shows with no issues. Now when Imus says something that just gets their goat, well, it's time for him to be fired. They raised such hell that the advertisers pulled out, hence, Imus was fired. No show without sponsors, no Imus with the show, it's that simple.

I can't think of a bigger case of hypocrisy, at least, not right now. I'm sure people will point out several in an effort to prove that I'm retarded, but, oh well. What about all the rap songs that talk about hoes? Ludacris has a whole song about them, he probably uses the word "Ho" at least 30 times in the 3-4 minute long song. How many other rap songs repeatedly talk about "bitches" and "nigga (supposedly okay because they misspelled it; the logic defies me)". I don't buy the argument "Well, white people gave us that word when we were slaves, so only we can use it but if you do, it's racist, and we are offended." That's bullshit. It's...ludicrous?

I'm starting to ramble, sorry. My point was, if you're lobbying to have a radio show host fired because he said something you didn't like, you need to do one of two things. You could fire him and Rosie O'Donnell (recently made fun of the Chinese saying things like "Ching chang chow" and making wild gestures) and all the rappers and...EVERYONE else who has ever said anything that could offend anyone. "What about free speech?", you say? Good question. Apparently they want to throw it out the window to avenge someone they've never met and to make a point. My goal was to show the idiocy of this viewpoint, I think I succeeded.

The second option would be to turn it off if we don't like it. Be mature. If you don't like the Fish sandwiches at McDonalds, you don't have to eat them. You ESPECIALLY don't have to lobby for weeks on end to have McDonalds completely remove the Fish Sandwich from their menu just because you don't like them, just eat something else or stop going there. Eventually, if enough people stop going to their restaurants because they smell like old fish ass, then McDonalds will probably stop selling it. Otherwise, maybe some people do like those fish burgers. They might be legally insane for eating fish at McDonalds, but, to each his own.

That was way too long of a metaphor, but it's my blog and I'll use metaphors when I want to. I hope this all makes sense to someone. I probably could've made it about 200 words shorter, but who DOESN'T like beating a dead dog?

Or is it just me?

Last thing, I'll be posting on the VT incident soon. I feel like I have to since it is a fairly significant event, it's just been covered so much in the last few days, it's hard to come up with anything that hasn't already been harped on over and over and over and over and over and over...