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

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dude is the crypt-keeper. he's pushing 70. should have retired 20 years ago.

http://www.newyorksocialdiary.com/partypictures/2005/11_03_05/images/bam/Best-of-Brooklyn-12.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:56 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.johnmcolumbus.com/fotos_b/ConMag_IMUS_Crop9815.jpg

― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 15:59 (nineteen years ago)

"we know what a nappy head is because of the Fugees tune innit?"

The only place i've heard it is "I Wish" by Stevie Wonder

― Frogman Henry, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:01 (nineteen years ago)

Haha, he's wearing the Connecticut state uniform!

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:02 (nineteen years ago)

First awareness of nappy = School Daze.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:03 (nineteen years ago)

i would like to say that his wife's cleaning products are excellent and i use them every night. in fact, i waxed the floor in the operating room last nite using her floor stripper and wax. they are designed to be safe enough and green enough to be used in pediatric oncology units and they are way less harsh than heavy-duty industrial cleaners.

http://www.dienviro.com/index1.aspx?BD=17866

so, um , hat's off to the idiot's wife!

― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:06 (nineteen years ago)

Leave it to TownHall.com to try and accentuate the positive:

http://townhall.com/columnists/KathleenParker/2007/04/11/don_imus_via_dolorosa

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:10 (nineteen years ago)

I saw Imus at a Broadway show once. The camera flatters him.

― Dr Morbius, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:13 (nineteen years ago)

Why stop with imus when you can go after him & al sharpton at the same time?

― kingfish, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 16:55 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha oh let's all pile on, and quote Top 40 hip hop lyrics now!

― kingfish, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:05 (nineteen years ago)

I heard nappy first from one of my Mom's friends, who for a time used it to describe anything unattractive or unpleasant. Like, "Do the dishes, the kitchen is getting nappy." One day she said to me, "You know what that means, don't you?" I admitted that I did not. She whispered, "Nigger-haired!" and then beamed, clearly proud of herself.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:08 (nineteen years ago)

Your mom sounds fat

― Mr. Que, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:09 (nineteen years ago)

actually, she's tiny. that story wasn't about my mom, though.

― kenan, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:12 (nineteen years ago)

I'm wondering what the role of the media has been in escalating this and making it such a huge deal. As far as I can tell Imus has said way worse stuff in the past, so either this is wrong place/wrong time or a sort of built-up payment for years of being an asshole. Seems like it could have just as easily been a non-story.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:13 (nineteen years ago)

I was thinking the same thing -- this seemed like a typical Morning Zoo half-minstrelsy.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:18 (nineteen years ago)

Zazzier than reporting on boring old war, climate change, and attorney general shenanigans, i guess

― kingfish, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

I have pretty conflicted feelings about the comments and reaction. While he has clearly said worse, his statements are such a neat encapsulation (I'd almost say a microcosm) of rich white men denegrating blacks (and especially black women), which is more or less the story of American race relations for 200+ years. I almost want to minimize and maximize them at the same time. And while I'm certain the Rutgers women weren't nearly as shattered as they're making out to be, he absolutely did detract from their moment and tarnish their effort somehow. And yet, the media outcry/coverage helped that happen.....gah.....it's confusing.

― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 17:32 (nineteen years ago)

Imus is a hack and always has been. That so many people have knelt before him is shameful. What a fucking tool.

― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:04 (nineteen years ago)

i think it was just out and out MEAN. jeez, that team is the coolest and some of them are just kids. fuck him. hope he goes and rots on his ranch. props to his wife and her excellent floor-wax though. he should stick his throwaway lame-ass comment about people ten times cooler and more talented than him up his ASS.

― scott seward, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:09 (nineteen years ago)

He's been an asshole for years. I don't know what in the hell compels so many people to go on his show.

― Dandy Don Weiner, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:12 (nineteen years ago)

quoting the rich boy song doesn't even make sense, bitch refers to the car in that case.

is townhall a left or right wing site? i've never seen it before.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:13 (nineteen years ago)

right

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:15 (nineteen years ago)

cynical interpretation: sharpton's ensuring hillary doesn't have to go on the show

cynicism justified?

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:21 (nineteen years ago)

What reason could anyone have to oppose him being fired? If some brand new morning talk radio personality was hired by a major network and broadcast nationally over public airwaves, and on his first day on the job he made that same comment and it was met by the same response, what are the odds he would end up staying? Is there some grandfather clause that allows talk veterans to get away with this sort of stuff?

― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:31 (nineteen years ago)

The only good thing to come out of all of this is Scott's link to the cleaning products.

― Nicole, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 18:32 (nineteen years ago)

http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_101052815.html

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:03 (nineteen years ago)

What a bold move, to go on record as a powerful white male in the United States, and say that you believe in one of the fundamental tenets of Christianity/Bob Marley.

― iiiijjjj, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:12 (nineteen years ago)

man sharpton owns him on that radio show.

― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:18 (nineteen years ago)

The Obama campaign declined to comment yesterday on its handling of the issue. One adviser pointed out, however, that Obama issued a public comment before the other major Democratic candidates -- including Clinton and former senator John Edwards of North Carolina.

lol double standard lol

― deej, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 19:35 (nineteen years ago)

I first heard "nappy" in middle school, from classmates.

― jaymc, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.scene-stealers.com/images/uploads/bulworth2.jpeg

― gabbneb, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 20:03 (nineteen years ago)

The "but, but RAP" excuse is terrifically funny for all sorts of reasons -- I mean, even conceding that ever since McCain dropped that guest verse on The Massacre, the language of political talk radio is legitimately comparable to the language of music, it'd seem pretty clear that the black people most critical of these comments (like NAACP leaders or Sharpton) are not exactly huge defenders of misogyny in pop music. But I know conservatives have trouble telling black people apart like that.

One great subtextual irony of the athlete's press conference is that they all had their hair pressed nice and flat for the event.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:32 (nineteen years ago)

Pardon me: athletes'.

― nabisco, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 22:33 (nineteen years ago)

P.S. I am really sick of people who are all like "black people call each other nigger all the time" -- this is a severely fucked-up perception based on people getting their information on What Black People Do All the Time pretty much solely from hip-hop videos and The Wire and shit, and I seriously wonder if people who say that honestly believe that the middle-aged woman in the next cubicle at work seriously goes home to her kids and says "what's up, my niggas, we're having Applebee's tonight!"

-- nabisco (nabisco), Monday, November 20, 2006 2:09 PM (4 months ago)

― river wolf, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

he's been dropped by msnbc

― deej, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:13 (nineteen years ago)

imus that is, nabisco is otm

― deej, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:14 (nineteen years ago)

I'm coming to hate the way these things get so drawn out in the media. Dude is a racist asshole and he sucks anyway, and same is for Michael Richards, and neither should be expressing their hate over the airwaves, and that ought to be it. Why does there have to be all this dramatic public self-flagellation, press-conferencing, summit talks between parties, "public debate" (created by more racist assholes who are angry that their right to be racist assholes is severely threatened), etc.? Wah.

― Hurting 2, Wednesday, 11 April 2007 23:30 (nineteen years ago)

I am really sick of people who are all like "black people call each other nigger all the time" -- this is a severely fucked-up perception based on people getting their information on What Black People Do All the Time pretty much solely from hip-hop videos and The Wire and shit

people = white people, I assume

I get what you're saying, but I'm not really sure what the solution to the problem is.

― Dandy Don Weiner, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

The solution is turn off the tv go out of your fucking house once in a while.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:03 (nineteen years ago)

http://i15.tinypic.com/447ziug.jpg

same is for Michael Richards,

Whoa hold on, Michael Richard has done this... once and you can say he was provoked whereas Imus has done this multiple times and is, in some respects, a journalist/member of the media/whatever.

I am really sick of people who are all like "black people call each other nigger all the time" -- this is a severely fucked-up perception based on people getting their information on What Black People Do All the Time pretty much solely from hip-hop videos and The Wire and shit

The funny thing is that the rhetoric of these people is often as offensive, profane and violent as what they criticize.

― JW, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:04 (nineteen years ago)

Whoa hold on, Michael Richard has done this... once and you can say he was provoked whereas Imus has done this multiple times and is, in some respects, a journalist/member of the media/whatever.

Yeah but Richards' rant was outright hateful!

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:07 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah Richards went on and on enough that there's not much that can explain it except outright hate, short of maybe a severe nervous breakdown or paranoid episode.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:14 (nineteen years ago)

When you tell your mom and dad you wish they would die, do you really mean it?

xpost

― JW, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:17 (nineteen years ago)

Which is all the more reason why these apologies are so ridiculous, ESPECIALLY coming from Imus, who is an experienced jock and is very calculated in his "telling it like it is" barbs. The only thing he really feels he did wrong here was to miscalculate. It's like a four-year-old apologizing because mommy got madder than he thought she would. (xpost to self)

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:18 (nineteen years ago)

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― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:20 (nineteen years ago)

I think we're on the same page.

― JW, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:23 (nineteen years ago)

heh, was out of country when story broke, am late in stating the obvious, I suppose.

My only other reaction is that the whole thing says almost as much about the nation's prejudice in favor of athletes as it does about racial prejudice. By which I only mean I don't think the story would be as big if Imus had denigrated Henry Louis Gates or something.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:31 (nineteen years ago)

Yeah, I can't see the current ruckus happening if he had called Angela Davis a nappy headed ho.

― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno, all of nyc calls a-rod a giant purse swinging homo and no one raises an eyebrow

― rps, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:43 (nineteen years ago)

In fact I've heard WABC jocks say borderline racist things about black politicians and intellectuals plenty of times.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 12 April 2007 00:44 (nineteen years ago)

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