free don imus

poor don imus!
after he apologized for calling the rutgers girls basketball team, "nappy headed hoes" and "jiggaboos" the former king of morning political talk was fired by both m.s.n.b.c and c.b.s. radio.

the really shameful part of this whole incident is that most of the men and women that went on his show faithfully to promote themselves, their books or their political points of view ( meet the press' tim russert, the new york times' david brooks, congressman harold ford, jr.) never went on his show or any other to come to his defense. he was just too toxic. with friends like these who needs enemy combatants.

someone help me out with this, was don imus god?

his critics are behaving like him spewing some school yard insults was truly damaging to those girls on rutgers. if these girls were so smart and full of grace why should they even be bothered by what don imus and his cronies on the air said about them? if they aren't clinical depressed after they lost the national championship game, why would they be more affected by the words of a 66 year old fossil?

to be fair, the girls team has shown they are full of dignity, class and compassion but their coach is a different story.

have you been watching the way that the coach of the team, c.t. vivian stringer has been recruiting new girls for her squad?

instead of going door to door to parents, explaining that her school is a great place where girls can get an education and play sports she's using a different technique.

the press conference.

every time she's on telelvision she's giving another one of her "i have a dream" speeches. can't someone just say to her, "please, coach strongface could you just sit down and be quiet, we really don't want to hear from you again, we want to hear from the tall slightly attractive girls that all seemed to have gone to the beauty shop before their press conference to get their hair done so no one will be justified in calling their hair nappy".

if anyone should be angry at this incident it should be the citizens of new jersey. on the way to be a part of the apology don imus was going to make to the rutgers girls, new jersey governor jon corzine was almost killed in a traffic accident. does anyone see how far and quickly this has gotten out of control?

imus lost his job, the girls were turned into sypathetic victims and a governor was almost killed. say it with me: worst week ever!