(2007-04-12) — Apple Inc. stock dropped seven percent in early trading today on news that the controversy surrounding racial remarks by radio personality Don Imus would delay release of Apple’s new digital gangsta rap player, dubbed the iMus (pronounced eye-myooz).
The iMus features Apple’s signature pure white design on a player specifically tuned to accentuate the heavy bass, brutal racial epithets and graphic sexual content of some of today’s most popular music.
An unnamed spokesman for Apple said, “It’s unfortunate that the bad behavior of one man would deprive so many music lovers of a device that could increase their enjoyment of today’s most important artists.”
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1 upnorthlurkin // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:00 am
God Bless America!
2 upnorthlurkin // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:01 am
Yeah, the bad behavior of one man….
3 Scott Ott // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:02 am
Shock Jock Flap Delays Sales of Apple iMus Rap Player…
by Scott Ott(2007-04-12) — Apple Inc. stock dropped seven percent in early trading today on news that the controversy surrounding racial remarks by radio personality Don Imus would delay release of Apple’s new digital gangsta rap player, dubbed the…
4 conserve-a-tips // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:11 am
This whole thing is nuts. I could care less if this guy was fired or not. I don’t like him and don’t like his politics, but the fact that creepy Al Sharpton can take any credit for this just turns my stomach. What a pot calling the kettle black (pun intended)…where’s Bill Cosby on the subject???
5 Fred Sinclair // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:18 am
c-a-t - if’un alSharpton is fur it, then I’m ag’in it.
Heirborn Ranger
6 Shelly // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:27 am
Now this is a tragedy. It’s hard enough to be a teenager in this culture, but to have to do so without “brutal racial epithets” and “graphic sexual content?” What is society coming to?
7 Darthmeister // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:33 am
This is parody? Buwhahahaha!
Here’s some mindbloggling “logic” from the likes of Snoop Dogg on MTV:
“It’s a completely different scenario. Rappers are not talking about no collegiate basketball girls who have made it to the next level in education and sports. We’re talking about ho’s that’s in the ‘hood that ain’t doing sh**, that’s trying to get a n***a for his money. These are two separate things. First of all, we ain’t no old-a** white men that sit up on MSNBC going hard on black girls. We are rappers that have these songs coming from our minds and our souls that are relevant to what we feel. I will not let them mutha****as say we in the same league as him.”
Actually, I’d say you’re a cut below Imus and that’s sayin’ a lot, Snoopy baby. Like, dude, you actually have a higher regard for the sexuality of young black women who’ve “made it” to college than the those it ain’t makin’ it in the hood? Buwahahahahaha. What a liar you are, sir, because its obvious to anyone who cares to deconstruct your lyrics that that’s your general attitude toward all young black women if not women as a whole.
Engaging in the same ol’ double standards and whining about differences with no distinctions is rather insulting on your part. I guess because it comes from the “minds and souls” of you rappers it makes it alright, eh Snoopy? I suppose one could argue what came from Imus’ mouth came from his “mind and soul”, too. Sheesh, “progressive thought” truly is a mental disease.
8 Ms RightWing, Ink // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:41 am
To repeat a Chicago tune from the 70’s-Does anyone really know what time it is.
More later when my “time clock,” allows. Boy are we nuts here in America or what???
9 JamesonLewis3rd // Apr 12, 2007 at 8:58 am
The implication that it is just rappers-and not most every American black alive-that talk like that is simply ludicrous (no pun intended).
Gimme a break.
The superior, holier-than-thou, self-aggrandizing attitudes of the blacks I saw being interviewed on this topic yesterday was beyond sickening.
“I’m better than you, so I can say this disgusting filth but you can’t.”
Bah.
10 camojack // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:12 am
iMus…t be imagining things.
11 camojack // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:12 am
Oh, we11…
12 RedPepper // Apr 12, 2007 at 10:16 am
Ah, the joys of Schadenfreude !
The activist industry is now in full swing aided and abetted, as always, by those useful idiots in the press.
The National Organization for Women is running a signature drive to get Imus fired. “We want to make sure he’s no longer on the air,” Hazel Dukes, president of the New York State NAACP, said of Imus. “He’s outlived his usefulness.”
Outlived his “usefulness!”
Irony in Indignation Over Imus by Brett Arends, at the Boston Herald.
Too bad, I-Man ! Lie down with hypocrites, get up with (Snoop Doggy) Doggs …
13 Old War Dogs // Apr 12, 2007 at 11:33 am
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14 Bill's Bites // Apr 12, 2007 at 11:35 am
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15 GnuCarSmell // Apr 12, 2007 at 11:58 am
I had me own Imus moment recently whilst a-sailing on the briny. Spotting a speck on yonder ‘orizen, I shouts “Land ho!” at the top of me lungs. Arghhhh!
16 hovig // Apr 12, 2007 at 4:47 pm
In breaking news: CBS has fired Don Imus from his radio program, despite being in the middle of a million-dollar charity telethon. CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said: “There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society.”
In other news: CBS Records has announced the signing of new rap talent Don-i Mus, whose first release will be entitled [song title censored - ed].
17 Darthmeister // Apr 12, 2007 at 9:00 pm
Here’s the videoclip of the editors of Popular Mechanics taking on the 9/11 conspiracy theorists who put together the “Loose Change” crockumentary. It’s pretty easy to spot the real moonbats. Listen up, Rosie and Charlie!
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