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Originally posted by sebastian_dangerfield
b. It matters whether he's racist because the comments were not really all that incendiary unless you bought into the notion that he was making them in a racist fashion or becuase he is a racist. The only way Sharpton could make the comments a controversy was by labeling them racist. Advertisers weren't going anywhere until the word "racism" came into the picture and Al and Jesse got involved. Jesse called Proctor & Gamble, threatened the company (as he's done before) and they yanked ads. Then all the other advertisers followed suit. Imus never got to make the "I was offensive, but not racist" defense in any meaningful forum because Sharpton moved the controversy at a hyperfast speed, knowing he had little time in which to nail Imus before the public lost interest. Again, Al and Jesse were masters of their trade here.
They should hang people for doing what he did. It's that wrong.
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I find it really, really interesting that the race angle was hugely played on the Imus thing, but the sexism wasn't even brought up at all. I was offended by the "hos" part alone, but the feminists just aren't that organized.
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