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...with Simmons is that he had claimed to oppose the censorship he’s now proposing. Ten days before requesting the deletion of the three reprehensible words, Simmons defended hip hop artists from critics who claimed that what they say about women in their songs is just as vile as what Don Imus said about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. “Sometimes their observations or the way in which they choose to express their art may be uncomfortable for some to hear,” he said of rappers...
...Vatican wasn?t laughing, and on Tuesday its official newspaper L?Osservatore Romano went further, lashing out at the remarks as a ?vile attack? and ?terrorism.? "It's terrorism to stoke blind and irrational rage against someone who always speaks in the name of love,? the paper wrote...
Imus' attack on the Scarlet Knights was was just as vile as his insult directed years ago at distinguished PBS broadcaster Gwen Ifill. When the New York Times assigned Ifill to cover the Clinton presidency, Imus remarked, "Isn't the Times wonderful? It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House." As far as Imus is concerned, a black woman like Ifill should be emptying the President's trash cans, not interviewing him. That casual slander reminded me of an e-mail I once received from a reader who asserted his view of a black woman's proper place...
...trepidation less vile or more worthy of gentleness...
Words alone cannot possibly convey the degree to which experiencing such squalid slums assaults the senses. In fact, the first thing one notices is the vile smell; An unholy concoction of industrial pollution and human excrement languishing in the sun yields a nauseating odor...