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...does not dignify a response. Daniel J. Graeber, GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN, U.S. Many Imus admirers are asking, whatever happened to the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution and freedom of expression in this country? Well, we all believe in free speech, but that doesn't give anyone license to insult someone else's ethnicity, religion or gender. I am not a fan of Imus', but I believe he is a decent, compassionate and complex man who was badly in need of a refresher course in tasteful humor. Isa K. Mushahwar, ST PETERSBURG, FLORIDA...
...mean, it’s flat-out now. We say it’s ‘sports entertainment’ so that we don’t insult the audience’s intelligence...
...firing of Don Imus makes me cringe. Through all the talk of the shock-jock’s insult to Rutgers’ women’s basketball, the meaning of his words for women’s sports has somehow been woefully lost. The networks’ knee-jerk response—silencing Imus —fails miserably to deal with the question at hand: why are women’s sports still a joke...
...nearly one week after the gruesome rampage, Kim and her relations remain very distraught over the ordeal, and at a loss to understand how Seung-Hui could have committed such an atrocity, bringing so much shame to his family. "In our family the children don't insult their parents," says Kim whose well-groomed family burial ground sits on a low rise at the back of her property and is visible from her front door. "I don't know how he could do this to his parents. I also feel terrible for the victim's families...
...Morning” program, referred to the “nappy-headed hos” of Rutgers women’s basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders of one desiccated fake cowboy, brought up in a world where grime is money...