Imus: If I Made Bill's Jesse Jackson Comment, "I'd Be Talking To Al Sharpton"

FishbowlNY:

Don Imus got into an animated discussion this morning about former President Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama's South Carolina primary victory over Senator Clinton to Jesse Jackson. ''If I had made that comparison to Jesse Jackson,'' I have a feeling that I'd be talking to Al Sharpton again,'' Imus told Michael Graham of Boston's WTKK.

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Comments

[dax49]

03:59 PM on 01/29/2008

don't you wish this corpse in a cowboy hat would just go away

[workingboy]

02:56 PM on 01/29/2008

Why waste time with Sharpton? Why not speak with Tawana Brawley and the Duke U Stripper? They are people with standing, who elicit respect.

[Kundera]

01:28 PM on 01/29/2008

why did Imus have to talk to Sharpton in the first place?
By doing that you just add to the illusion that he is some moral arbitrator, when in fact, he's just a guy who roots for racism, because that's how he gets noticed and paid and the media elite simply buys into it.

[TruthLives]

12:54 PM on 01/29/2008

Imus was always a little jerky... take that any way you want...

[OxyCon]

11:06 AM on 01/29/2008

Bullcrap Imus.
There wasn't one thing racist in what President Clinton said.
The fact is that Barack Hussein Obama and Jesse Jackson both won South Carolina by carrying almost all of the balck vote.

[OlongapoEd]

10:01 AM on 01/29/2008

No, Imus almost certainly wouldn't be talking to Sharpton, but people like Imus sure do love to feel sorry for themselves, and they know how to pander to those who only approve of collaborationist blacks such as Clarence "Uncle" Thomas.

[LeftVetPatriot]

09:52 AM on 01/29/2008

Don, Dude. Simple. If you'd said it, it would BE a racist remark.

[rabun666]

09:11 AM on 01/29/2008

Imus was fired because his advertisers dropped him, not because of Al Sharpton.

[itsnotmyfault]

08:50 AM on 01/29/2008

Why, on a liberal website is Ms Huffpost compelled to feature this confirmed racist, misogynist radio hack. The reason Imus would be in trouble is he is a racist and should not be on the air. He should not be given a platform here either for that very same reason.

Huffpost didn't refrain from an appropriate outcry when the times hied Billy Kristol.

I would also really like to know what exactly was over the line Bill bad behavior? The closest I can identify is his statement on Obama's win in SC and JJackson. If you want to spin a horrible beat down as not being that meaningful, an analysis that says a state with an anomalous racial distribution, that supported by a wide margin a black presidential candidate in two previous primaries, was not a predictor for future races... Is that being racist? No. Can it easily be construed as having race baiting intent. Yes and it has been inaccurately construed that way.

Obama's campaign made the calculation to inject race into the campaign. Just look at their 4 page memo on how to turn a fundamentally accurate statement by Hillary about MLK and LBJ into a racist slam.

Everyone new the "fairy tale" comment by Bill was regarding Obama's self portrait as the great anti war candidate. Michelle Obama, with intent , stated that Bill challenged the whole notion of a credible Black candidate. And everyone couldn't line up behind that total fiction fast enough.

And then after agitating the press and public into the Clinton racist mythology, Obama plays the victim. Is this really presidential fodder?

[Seafarer61]

08:30 AM on 01/29/2008

Obama won SC with 82% of the black male vote. Seems to me Clinton was making a point of historical reference that was absolutely factual. A state that blew off one of its sons (Edwards...an otherwise fine nominee) to support the black male who was running. You can wordsmith it all you want but Bill was correct. A white woman was NOT going to win the state and his reference to SC voting habits backed it up. Not all factual comments about race are racist. God...how thin skinned we have become, especially white america who feel compelled to walk on egg shells when anything is discussed about race. White guilt is surely in abundance these days though I'm not so sure that is defined as progress.

[Stella1]

07:09 AM on 01/29/2008

nuppy hair hoe is a racist comment.
Comparing Obama to J. Jackson is not.

[Tator]

05:14 AM on 01/29/2008

Liberals always get a pass. It how they live on all issues. Do as I say not as I do. Ask AlGore.

[traveler501]

02:51 AM on 01/29/2008

Sure you would, Don...and then you'd be in court suing for lots of money again. You just wish you'd thought of it first LOL

I'll grant you my comment is completely inane...but Imus just annoys me.

[theillusion]

01:25 AM on 01/29/2008

Personally, I agreed with Imus in this case.

[DRaymond]

12:36 AM on 01/29/2008

Frankly I found the comments to be more insulting to the people of South Carolina than anything else. It was like 'oh, those South Carolinians, they'll vote for all sorts of losers'. (Oh and also insulting of Rev Jackson.)