WTF?: "Seinfeld"'s Michael 'Kramer' Richards in Weird-o-Rama Onstage Meltdown

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― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:35 (nineteen years ago)

motherfucker

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erFaoqLwod0

lolz @ "tags: offensive"

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

For the record, it was Imus's producer who first introduced the word "hos" into the conversation:

IMUS: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos ...
McGUIRK: Some hardcore hos.
IMUS: That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that.

Note the black-English verb conjugations he's employing in his effort to drop some vernacular -- haha his best defense might actually be to pretend he just kinda clueless about what these words actually signify.

P.S. for the inevitable person who comes along and doesn't see what's wrong with this, here's how the conversation might have gone in a better world:

IMUS: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos ...
McGUIRK: Some hardcore hos.
IMUS: OMG, McGuirk, don't call them PROSTITUTES, WTF is wrong with you?

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

A world where Imus isn't a racist is a better world, true, but a world where Imus isn't on the radio would be still better.

― J, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

I get the "nappy-headed" as standard racist rhetoric for "black" but is there a stereotype about black women all being "hos"? Or basketball players?

― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:43 (nineteen years ago)

It would be helpful if there was an encyclopedia of stereotype, I think.

― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

"helpful" in an odd sense.

― max, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:45 (nineteen years ago)

at the end of the day, we should all just be thankful that british people don't know who imus is.

― ghost rider, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

is there a stereotype about black women all being "hos"?

uh... there's is if you're an ass-headed racist.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Alternate excuses:

1. Broke really expensive vase at friend's house, has been moonlighting as a Hot 97 DJ to pay him back, lack of sleep made him confused about which job he was working

2. Was running late for work and asked good friend Akon to cover for him

3. Was distracted by episode of Scooby Doo on monitor, actually said "Scrappy threatened ghost"

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

Was distracted by episode of Scooby Doo on monitor, actually said "Scrappy threatened ghost"

WIZARD

― J, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

According to Imus:
Bill Rhoden = "New York Times quota hire"
Gwen Ifill = "cleaning lady"
Arabs = "ragheads."
Contessa Brewer = "fat skank [that] has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning."

of course then there's Imus sports dude Sid Rosenberg who called Serena and Venus Williams animals better suited to pose for National Geographic than Playboy and that Palestinians mourning the death of Yasser Arafat were "stinking animals" upon whom the Israelis "ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now..."

yep, just one "slip of the tongue" riiiiiight

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

and yet michael savage will still be on the air somewhere over the next two weeks

― rps, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

(thx wikipedia I couldn't remember all that on my own x-post)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:49 (nineteen years ago)

i don't um follow imus at all, but, that's just, wow.

if you want to fuck with gwen ifill you've got to go through me. just sayin'

― gff, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:50 (nineteen years ago)

"that" = shakey's list right there

― gff, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

i somehow missed what he actually said and have only heard the media fallout (watched in snippets late last night at the hospital) until reading this thread: jesus h.

i'm curious to see what the rxn is on campus here (in the greater west), assuming anyone knows or cares. my bet is i'll hear at least a few assholes pull out the "but THEY call their women hoes all the time!" and my second corollary bet is that i'll have to stop myself from strangling them.

lotta beartraps

― river wolf, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

and the worst thing is that Imus is such an intellectual who is to be taken seriously as a deep thinker

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:51 (nineteen years ago)

I was just xposting about the Ifill one -- probably the worst and most blatant / vicious of the bunch, on top of which IT'S GWEN IFILL!

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:53 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/opinion/10ifill.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

― J, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

yeah she's awesome!

― Mr. Que, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:56 (nineteen years ago)

Imus is a miserable fuck, wanabe cowboy with no idea on how to talk to or about people in the real actual living world.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 17:59 (nineteen years ago)

this album: c or d

http://www.bsnpubs.com/nyc/bang407.jpg

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:00 (nineteen years ago)

gross

― rps, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:03 (nineteen years ago)

Also, he is not Howard Stern. While Bart Simpson is listening to Howard Stern, Lisa Simpson is listening to Imus. That's the difference.

...

― latebloomer, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

oh see i didn't realize that he self-applied the label "honky." That changes everything. He can racially insult other people all he wants, because hey, he paints himself with the same brush.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

he's ripping off richard pryor

― m coleman, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:06 (nineteen years ago)

http://static.rateyourmusic.com/album_images/19800.jpg

― m coleman, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

That's not funny, Kenan, I've seen firsthand the hurt and the feeling of dehumanization white people experience when they get called honkys. Joking about that trivializes a long painful history of awful sunburns and having to sit in the fronts of buses.

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:08 (nineteen years ago)

While Bart Simpson is listening to Howard Stern, Lisa Simpson is listening to Imus. That's the difference.

WHA?

― J, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:10 (nineteen years ago)

I guess ilx ate my previous post, but who listens to Imus? Retirees? I don't really know who his market is.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:11 (nineteen years ago)

Does Imus really get "better guests" than Howard Stern or do lame politicos know that he'll happily sniff their butts?

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

As much as Howard discusses/ jokes about race and white/ black relations he would NEVER bust out and call a team of young girls nappy headed hos. fo real.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

Howard gets good guests if you're into comedy and celebrity coke stories from the 70s.

― chaki, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

my dad used to listen to Imus before he got fed up with all the namecalling sorta bullshit. My dad had a strange predilection for talk radio in the late 70s-80s, although he seems to have given up on it altogether now.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:14 (nineteen years ago)

man what is with the avalanche of white supposedly-left wing celebrities standing up to defend this dude? disgusting

also, lol @ mccain's straight talk express

― deej, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:17 (nineteen years ago)

I guess ilx ate my previous post, but who listens to Imus? Retirees? I don't really know who his market is.

playas - 15%
ballas - 4%
roughnecks - 3%
chickenheads - 5%
hood rats - 8%
redbones - 3%
herbs - 62%

― nabisco, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

wait till the onion gets a hold of this

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:18 (nineteen years ago)

man what is with the avalanche of white supposedly-left wing celebrities standing up to defend this dude? disgusting

money talks man. Book deals!

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

lolz @ nabisco demographics

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:20 (nineteen years ago)

They still do Nixon, Patton, and Perot imitations on there? That show is the epitome of old white men sitting around making tasteless observations while thinking that they're still somehow "with it". Anybody who excuses a rich white cowboy-hat-wearin' Connecticut native (sound familiar?) who complains about the shocks in his limousine for making racially insensitive comments about female college student-athletes is a complete and utter moron.

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:40 (nineteen years ago)

Imus is from Riverside, CA.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:45 (nineteen years ago)

(and let me tell you how EXCITED I am to share a birthplace with such a loser)

― Shakey Mo Collier, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 18:46 (nineteen years ago)

I have on occasion watched his show on MSNBC while readying myself for work. I always found him to be a pretty agreeable guy. I guess he's an ass. I hadn't heard enough of him to see this side of him.

Dude called Cheney a war criminal, which I thought was pretty cool.

useless post. sorry

― Benjamin H, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:02 (nineteen years ago)

Can I delete that previous post? Dumb

― Benjamin H, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

nope sorry it's on the internets forever and ever.

― kenan, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:04 (nineteen years ago)

Connecticut resident then...

x-post

― Pleasant Plains, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:05 (nineteen years ago)

Stern did plenty of similar shit in the '80s (esp re faggots), but the cultural consciousness was a bit lower then and I'm sure you won't get tapes of it from HS.

― Dr Morbius, Tuesday, 10 April 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

doug ireland's classic takedown of sharpton (just shows that anybody can achieve respect in politics if they stick around long enough)
http://www.laweekly.com/news/news/a-prayer-for-rev-al/1974/

― gershy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 02:51 (nineteen years ago)

i don't dispute, nabisco, that sharpton's a good small-time organizer and big-time loudspeaker but he's well-assisted in the latter dept (and by extension in the former) by two new york tabloid newspapers that, you recall, are GOP and at least centrist/moderately neo-con in orientation. also, am i the only person who knows right-leaning white people of, say, mort zuckerman's age who totally disagree with sharpton but experience a little thrill from his speech/appearance/manner?

i also wonder why we didn't question the image-making utility (for either blacks or the Dems) of his calling blacks old donkey-riders at DNC '04. and if he's such a leader, why in that regard did the repblican share of the black vote increase?

meanwhile, someone who may or may not have leaked to drudge would like you to know that imus illustrates that obama may not be there for black people like hillary/sharpton. i suppose it doesn't matter whether hillary can keep the black vote and therefore the nomination, though. i mean, she would be a "formidable" candidate. even john mccain and newt gingrich have said so.

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 11:01 (nineteen years ago)

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