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He needs to release an album...he will win a Grammy. Call him the 4th Dixie Chick. |
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I have little interests in stories like Imus, or the Duke case or even OJ Simpson. But this society has reached a point where it seems everyone plays the gotcha game — watch for one mispoken word or ill advised joke, and then jump on that person without regard for the context. Absurd. Oh well, Imus will probably end up on satellite radio. |
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Scott Erb
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If only Imus has stuck to Bush-bashing, he’d still be the darling of the left...
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"I have little interests in stories like Imus, or the Duke case or even OJ Simpson." That’s because you simply don’t have the conceptual capacity to see that far. You just don’t know what’s going on: you think they’re about Imus, the Duke case, or OJ.
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Billy Beck
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Real racists are laughing at this whole thing. Anyone REALLY think any of black america’s problems were solved (or even addressed) in this whole thing? |
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shark
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That’s because you simply don’t have the conceptual capacity to see that far. You just don’t know what’s going on: you think they’re about Imus, the Duke case, or OJ. It’s sensationalism. BORING. Except the Imus case is troubling; say one thing out of line and you get pounced on by the PC police. That just ain’t right. |
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Scott Erb
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Except the Imus case is troubling; say one thing out of line and you get pounced on by the PC police. That just ain’t right. Welcome to the every day reality of the white conservative male. I’m not complaining though, it’s even worse for the conservative person of color. |
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This has been going on for 20 years. Anyone remember Al Campanis? Jimmy "The Greek" Snyder? What they said was tame compared to Imus’s remarks, and they both lost their jobs.
But Latrell Spreewell can choke his coach and still play basketball.
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steverino
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Let’s put away this liberal ideological need to censor an individual, because of the color of his skin, while we allow others to go unchecked and unchallenged, because of the color of our skin. Let’s use this opportunity to stand against the use of this kind of language from any and all people.
I agree. Let’s allow people to make fools of themselves. Let’s realize that no matter how much we protest it, how much we try to legislate about it, we can not stop fools from being fools.
Respect for liberty demands that rather than trying to find a fair balance of whose language to take a stand against we need to allow language that we disagree with or find objectionable.
Liberal ideology is certainly fair game, but if it comes at the expense of free speech we will have paid too high a price.
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Let’s allow people to make fools of themselves. Let’s realize that no matter how much we protest it, how much we try to legislate about it, we can not stop fools from being fools.
Respect for liberty demands that rather than trying to find a fair balance of whose language to take a stand against we need to allow language that we disagree with or find objectionable. It’s very hard to offend me, and I see it as a kind of admission of weakness amongst some groups that they are so easily offended. Being offended is to give the other control over your emotions. So they retaliate by going after the other person’s employment in this case. It’s ridiculous. There are fools and there are a**h***s. That’s their problem. The Rutgers players would have been most classy if they had said, "What Imus said is his problem, not ours." |
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Scott Erb
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"It’s sensationalism. BORING." My oldest brother knows a lot about a lot of this — like; a lot more than you — and he and I had this discussion this evening. He thinks it’s a news cycle. I think he’s wrong. I say it’s a real cultural event.
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Billy Beck
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First they came for the racists . . . |
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Bilwick
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My oldest brother knows a lot about a lot of this — like; a lot more than you — and he and I had this discussion this evening. He thinks it’s a news cycle. I think he’s wrong. I say it’s a real cultural event Well, Billy, on further reflection I have to admit I think you’re right on this point. |
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Scott Erb
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I think he’s wrong. I say it’s a real cultural event. Billy, it easily could be. I’m just trying to decide if it’s going to be a positive cultural event, that we stop allowing ourselves to be held hostage for our speech, or a negative event, that hostage taking can really pay big dividends.
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"...on further reflection..." Well, professorboy, you ought to think a bit more before you wave-off that frilly-cuffed, "Oh, well," which I’ve seen you do enough to last a lifetime.
Idiot.
"Scandalously stupid." Just like I said.
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Written By:
Billy Beck
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Looker —
There’s an old story about Lyndon Johnson, involved in a tight congressional race in his early years. In a head-session with his staff, he idly tossed off the idea that they should intimate to the press that his opponent had had carnal knowledge of barnyard animals. They looked at him aghast.
"Lyndon!..." said one. "We can’t get away with calling him a pig-f*cker!"
Johnson said, "We can make the sonofabitch deny it."
You get it?"I’m just trying to decide if it’s going to be a positive cultural event, that we stop allowing ourselves to be held hostage for our speech, or a negative event, that hostage taking can really pay big dividends." Don’t bet on it.
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Written By:
Billy Beck
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