As to the double standard “we can say it but you can’t”…Yes it does exist..I am not defending it but let me give you an analogy because I think we all do this to a certain extent. I had a friend who live next door…he was a chubby kid so he got the nickname Gordo..which in Spanish means fat..now this nickname was given to him by his family and we all called him that. Being called fat in itself, is degrading but was ok coming from us (his family and close friends). If any one else outside of that family/friend circle called him fat we were all there to defend him. A lot of groups do the same thing. They have nicknames/sayings that outside of that family/racial group/club/group of friends, context comes across as degrading and hurtful. Again I am not defending it but it runs along the same lines “we can say it but you can’t”…I firmly believe Rap artist’s lyrics are degrading and they need to be stopped….but it won’t happen until the record buyers pull out just like the sponsors pulled out on Imus and the networks…And as for Imus he got what he deserved…..

Here’s the AP story:MSNBC said Wednesday it will drop its simulcast of the Imus in the Morning radio program, responding to growing outrage over the radio host’s racial slur against the Rutgers women’s basketball team. This decision comes as a

Can anyone point to where the responsible leaders in the black community have not rallied against the negative lyrics of some raps songs? Just a side not the largest consumer of rap is suburban white teenagers. But lets not let facts form our opinions just let opinions do it.

It’s easier for them to attack Don I’m-an-Ass rather than address aspects of cultural rot within the Rap/Gangsta “community”…

…The redneck way of settling this would have been to give the Rutgers Women’s basketball team 5 minutes alone with…

To get on to the Piscataway campus, where the basketball arena is located, you need to take one of two main roads running off NJ Route 18. One of the roads is Metlars Lane.

The other one (I kid you not) is named Hoes Lane.

Maybe Imus can backtrack and claim he was just making a bad joke about the local roads. Hey, John Kerry would give that kind of approach a try, no?

It seems to me these women need some off-court counseling and personal growth seminars to toughen them up and help them to stop feeling like victims. I think the best response that any of the team members could have give to the press and their questions would have been, ” Don Imus – who?”.

I’m guessing though, that there may be more members on the team that could care less about what Imus said, than the news media will portray. It’s much better news to portray victimhood than strength. Too bad. Again, congrats to the team.

“I’m not a ho, I’m a woman. I’m someone’s child. It hurts a lot.” – Center Kia Vaughn

“Our moment was taken away, our moment to celebrate our success, our moment to realize how far we’d come on and off the court as young women; we were stripped of this moment by a degrading comment made by Mr. Imus.” – Forward Heather Zurich

Kinda of puts everything in perspective. Forget about Imus. I don’t care what happens to him, but I’m not going to listen to him ever again. Forget about Sharpton. I’ve never listened to him and I’m not starting now.

Instead: Look at these women, and how their dream season was snatched from them not by
the superior Tennesee team, but by this ugly incident.

Can’t get enough impact with the race card anymore, so let’s brand Don Imus’s comments as sexist, too. Which, I suppose they were, but I hear people say blatantly sexist things about women all the time…literally. No one’s hollering for their resignations.

I post so little about this sort of insanity anymore, but I felt compelled to yesterday.

A perfect picture of this whole Imus sillyness.  Michelle Malkin paints an even better picture of this idiocy today by pointing out the top songs on the hip/hop charts today.  Songs with lyrics such as: This is why I’m…

Following that, though, he took a sharp turn left, cooing with the likes of Bill Bradley, Chris Dodd, Bill Clinton, John Kerry, and their MSM stooges like David Gregory and Mike Barnicle. I changed the dial about a dozen years ago and never went back.

That said, the hypocrisy here is huge, if not particularly surprising. As ST points out, you don’t see the Sharptons or Jacksons or other race hustlers going bananas over rap song lyrics that make Imus’ remarks look tame. In fact, if I recall correctly, some of the labels that market this trash are owned by the same corporation that’s now suspending Imus. Wonder if they’ll apply the same standard there in the future….yeah, riiiight.

He made this bed, he can sleep in it. He should just go away.

Not surprisingly, Rush nailed him and NBC today for exactly what they are.

Hey, ST. Can we get a Sharpton icon? Oh…wait….I see it….here…