You know, this whole Don Imus mess reminded me of this story about the hypocrisy of groups like the NAACP:

Not known for his eloquence, Richard Riordan became the center of a media circus, due to a remark made July 1, 2004 to a 6-year-old girl, Isis D’Luciano, in Santa Barbara. During a children’s library event, she asked Riordan if he knew what her name, Isis, meant. Riordan responded, “it means stupid, dirty girl,” laughed with several others in the crowd, and then asked her what it really meant. She then replied, “It means ‘Egyptian goddess’,” to which Riordan stated, “That’s nifty.” He later explained it as a failed attempt at humor. Although Governor Schwarzenegger continued to support him, Riordan’s resignation was demanded by State Assemblyman Mervyn M. Dymally, citizens’ rights groups, and civil rights groups, including the NAACP and LULAC. The NAACP, however, rescinded their insistence after learning that the girl was white.

And let’s not forget the ridiculous fact that Al Sharpton is still allowed to appear on news shows and spew off random things after his horrible history of attempting to incite racial warfare:

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent — the crime never occurred — but Sharpton taunts him: “If we’re lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it.” Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin’s funeral he rails against the “diamond merchants” — code for Jews — with “the blood of innocent babies” on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, “No justice, no peace.” A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting “Kill the Jews!” and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy’s Fashion Mart, Freddy’s white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. “We will not stand by,” he warns malignantly, “and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business.” Sharpton’s National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy’s are spat on and cursed as “traitors” and “Uncle Toms.” Some protesters shout, “Burn down the Jew store!” and simulate striking a match. “We’re going to see that this cracker suffers,” says Sharpton’s colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy’s, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

And of course the recent Duke lacrosse team fake rape allegations. Sharpton immediately jumped on the Duke players and pronounced them guilty and racist and all kinds of terrible things, just trying to promote himself and stir up people into some grand race war. Now that justice prevailed and we know that the Duke players were innocent, Sharpton just had to jump onto some other non-issue. Maybe this is all because of the Duke case and he just desperately needed something else he could shout “RACISM!” at to take the attention away from the embarrasing bit of justice from the Duke case?

Then there’s this hilarious bit that showed up recently where some rappers decided to go on the record as being complete not racist at all, no matter how racist their lyrics may actually be:

Hip-Hop Summit Action Network Heads Talk Imus
POSTED: 12:55 EST, April 13, 2007

Russell Simmons and Dr. Benjamin Chavis of the HSAN have released an official statement regarding Don Imus’ racist statements and how they relate, or don’t relate, to hip-hop. The statement reads as follows:

“Hip-hop is a worldwide cultural phenomena that transcends race and doesn’t engage in racial slurs. Don Imus’ racially-motivated diatribe toward the Rutgers women’s basketball team was in no way connected to hip-hop culture. As Chairman and President of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN), respectively, we are concerned by the false comparisons some in the media are making between Don Imus and hip-hop. We want to clarify what we feel very strongly is an obvious difference between the two.

“HSAN believes in freedom of artistic expression. We also believe, with that freedom, comes responsibility. Don Imus is not a hip-hop artist or a poet. Hip-hop artists rap about what they see, hear and feel around them, their experience of the world. Like the artists throughout history, their messages are a mirror of what is right and wrong with society. Sometimes their observations or the way in which they choose to express their art may be uncomfortable for some to hear, but our job is not to silence or censor that expression. Our job is to be an inclusive voice for the hip-hop community and to help create an environment that encourages the positive growth of hip-hop. Language can be a powerful tool. That is why ones intention, when using the power of language, should be made clear. Comparing Don Imus’ language with hip-hop artists’ poetic expression is misguided and inaccurate and feeds into a mindset that can be a catalyst for unwarranted, rampant censorship.”

Has a bigger issue ever been made out of 3 stupid little words before? Seriously, what’s wrong with America? Is it the immigrants? Have they messed up our free speech by openly flaunting the way they violate the laws of the country by staying here illegally?? After the crazy liberals went and opened our borders to the Mexican invaders, every other tenet of this country goes by the wayside, including free speech.

Well, it’s sad. Bring back our free speech!

Well, it finally happened. CBS cancelled Don Imus’s radio show over three words that Don Imus said. If anyone ever tries to make the claim that America’s liberal media supports free speech and all that, all you have to do is remind them of this unbelievable and outrageous injustice against an innocent radio talk show host to prove them wrong.

But no, people are rejoicing in the streets as if they had just found out they were the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby:

“What a tremendous victory for the guys and gals in the white hats,” said Richard Prince, who writes about minority issues for the Web site of the Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education, which promotes diversity in newsrooms.

That’s messed up.

Any station who hires Imus to give an old man his job back doing a radio show will be my hero.

By the way, where’s the ACLU in all of this? If they were so high and mighty about free speech and all that like they claim, shouldn’t they be coming to his rescue and standing up for him? No, of course not, this just reveals them to be the liberal Communist shills that we’ve always known that they were. Actions speak louder than words.

“Nappy-headed hos”? That’s it? Really?

That’s rediculous.

I kept hearing bits and pieces of the story on the radio and on the news yesterday, and never caught anybody saying what Don Imus said to upset everyone so badly that it became such gigantic news. And now I finally track it down in an article about advertisers running away from the show:

General Motors Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp. suspended advertising on Don Imus’s show, joining at least four other advertisers in protesting the radio host’s racially charged comments.

The companies were the two largest advertisers on Imus’s MSNBC simulcast, spending more than $1 million combined last year, according to New York-based researcher TNS Media Intelligence.

GM, the world’s biggest carmaker, halted advertising indefinitely, spokeswoman Ryndee Carney said. Sprint, the third- biggest mobile-phone company, did the same. The companies follow Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., TD Ameritrade and Bigelow Tea in refusing to advertise after Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on April 4.

Wow. I thought he had said something really offensive and racist and unforgiveable by the way people were reacting according to the news yesterday. But that’s it? Nappy headed hos? What’s wrong with this country that a man can’t just go and say that on the air? Sure its not nice but its not the kind of thing that should cause this kind of uproar. What ever happened to freedom of speech, or is the liberal media too in love with Communism to uphold that?

“We do not want our advertising associated with content which we, our customers and the public find offensive,” Sara Krueger, a spokeswoman for Reston, Virginia-based Sprint Nextel said in an e-mail.

Well I find it offensive that you’re so offended and pulling your ads. See if I ever use Sprint or Nextel again.

Civil-rights leaders including Rev. Al Sharpton have called for Imus’s dismissal. U.S. Senator and presidential candidate Barack Obama, a past guest on the show, told ABC News today he won’t return and said he hopes Imus is fired.

Bruce Gordon, the former head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and now a director of CBS Corp., told the Associated Press today that he hopes Imus is fired.

“He’s crossed the line, he’s violated our community,” Gordon said, according to the Associated Press. “He needs to face the consequence of that violation.”

He’s violated their community? Three little words and suddenly Imus is the worst racist in the history of the world and should be fired and burned at the stake? Give me a break, people. Black people say much worse stuff about both black and white people all the time and I never hear anybody raise a stink about it. In fact, you’d be labeled as a racist if you dared to complain. So what’s the big deal about these three words that make it so horrible?

It’s not nearly as bad as Michael Richards, but the reaction seems to be even stronger. I don’t get it. People will just complain about any little thing, won’t they?

There’s just no escape from the liberal media. I should have known that but I guess I just forget for a few minutes.

I was sitting at home, trying to watch the new Planet Earth series on the Discovery channel. Everything’s fine, I’m watching animals and stuff, and then all of a sudden I’m blindsided with some ultra liberal claptrap about global warming.

They’re trying to go on and on about how polar bears won’t be able to hunt or have any place to live when their ice starts melting and getting too thin to walk on because of global warming. Are you kidding me? Democrat fabrications about global warming stuck right into a nature show that never warned us that it would be some far left wing propaganda session?

Can’t Congress make broadcasters warn people ahead of time if a show is going to be pushing some liberal agenda down our throats like that? What if my kids were watching the show with me and got exposed to that kind of Communist thinking? The thought scares me to death.

Please let’s do something about this, if not for us then for the children!