...is a bore.
(sips from her 4th glass of wine, so no soapbox or claws tonight)
He plays the ignorant redneck for effect. I dated boys who, though they had never heard of Imus, thought that his kind of person was what they wanted to be, the "City Cowboy". Matt calls people like him "all hat and no cattle", which had to be explained to me. (So far I am not really becoming Japane...uhh Texan)
I don't follow sports at all, (to my frequent embarrassment here) and didn't know the whole story at first. What I know now is that he was mad at them for losing, and for that he made crude remarks about a very young group of women who had done some amazing things. Remarks about their gender and some team members' race. (I saw the pictures, it's a mixed race team)
Having a fit over an imagined slight and lashing out- This defines "tantrum".
They are a WOMAN'S (they're not girls) College basketball team, and didn't have the ability or resources to defend themselves publicly. Attacking someone who can't defend themselves- This defines bullying.
I NEVER listened to Howard Stern, and didn't really know anything about Imus. But he attacked these women as a bully throwing a tantrum would.
The government needs to stay away. The Constitution mandates this is not their concern. The goverment is not supposed to address every little grievance anyway. What matters is that his sponsors said, "We don't care about how high his rating are, we don't want him speaking for us" and dropped him. No sponsors, no job.
Bye Bye "Mr" Imus.
About his charity work. Leigh once pointed out to me (on another subject,) that even the Klan wears clean white sheets.
He's a millionaire. Let's see if he is still the same charitable person now that his income has been reduced. Charity is supposed to be hard. That's what makes it special.
Funny, I don't know anyone who does, or ever did listen to either Stern or Imus. So who says "they're popular"? Makes you wonder how acurate the ratings are, doesn't it?

WW - goes to bed. alone.

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