IMUS AT IT AGAIN
ProFootballTalk.com —
Less than 15 months after losing his gig on WFAN and MSNBC for making racially charged comments regarding the Rutgers women’s basketball team, radio icon Don Imus has danced dangerously close to, and arguably over, the line again. On Monday, Imus had the following exchange with Warner Wolf: Wolf: “Defensive back Adam ‘Pacman’ Jones, recently signed by the Cowboys. Here’s a guy suspended all of 2007 following a shooting in a Vegas night club.” Imus: “Well, stuff happens. You’re in a night club, for God’s sake. What do you think’s gonna happen in a night club? People are drinking, they’re doing drugs. There are women there, and people have ...
Don Imus: Still Not Being Too Friendly To The Black Folk [More Nappy-Headed Ho-dom]
Deadspin —
Regardless of where you sit on the whole Imus/"nappy-headed ho" spectrum, it was pretty apparent that Imus did at least acknowledge how something like that could be considered offensive. Sure. That's his job: Be an old hillbilly crank and sometimes be the voice of the ignorant truth, for whatever purpose that serves. He did end up losing his job over it and it was mostly do to the perception that his commentary on the Rutgers' women's basketball team was more racist than comical. So, once again, Don Imus has seemingly thrust himself upon the frontline of that losing battle after he made this remark about Adam "Don't Call me ...
Don Imus Makes Racist Comment About Adam "Pacman" Jones
FanIQ Blog —
I think anyone who remembers Don Imus getting suspended for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy-headed hoes" figured that after he got back on the air again, it'd only be a matter of time before he said something dumb again.
And if you had June 23rd marked on you calendar, then you win a prize.
Imus today had what I'd call a very questionable comment when he was talking about Pacman Jones today on the air.
Newsreader Charles Warner Wolf: ...[H]e's been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005... ...
