A post by Maynard
It’s been only a few weeks since CBS re-signed Imus for another five years in a contract reputed to be worth $50 million. Now the suits are shocked, shocked, to find that Imus is controversial.
I’m flashing back to the film classic, Casablanca. In this scene, the Nazi boss orders Claude Rains to shut down Humphrey Bogart’s troublesome café.
way way OT, wow.
Menu Foods Exec Sold Half His Shares 3 Weeks Before Recall
The CFO of Menu Foods, Mark Wiens, sold about half of his shares in the company three weeks before the poisoned pet food recall was announced, Canadian insider trading reports show.
In Canada’s Globe and Mail, Wiens called it a “horrible coincidence.”
Here’s another horrible coincidence: Menu Foods also waited three weeks after discovering the kitty and doggy deaths before announcing the recall.
Wow, so that means Wiens sold his stocks at the same time the contamination was discovered, but before anyone else knew about it.
Where was that “how to” on hacking Menu Foods’ phone tree… oh wait here it is. — BEN POPKEN
Maynard, perfectly stated..with a clip from the best movie of all time. WEll said!
Yep – Imus is off the air, and the cost is basically nominal in the discussion of race relations. He is no longer returning to his show on MSNBC due to a regrettable one-off comment that turned him into a pariah. In the long run, nothing will be furthered OR rolled back in the world of race relations. It’s just a three-ring circus.
Isn’t it interesting that someone like Rosie O’Donnell still has a job on a network TV show (not a cable show – an ABC show) despite the continuous controversial, idiotic, ill-informed vitriolic garbage that spews forth from her fat, pudding-filled head on an almost regular basis. You should see some of the hundreds of complaints that come in almost daily about Rosie (I have)…yet she still has a job (and has yet to be so much as reprimanded or suspended, thus encouraging her to continue to be a moron).
Yet we have a politician that is not only a former Exalted Cyclops in the Ku Klux Klan, but is a U.S. SENATOR. This is a guy that once uttered the following phrase, “Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds”. This guy is a US Senator. HE has a job. HE’s been “forgiven”.
But a guy like Imus, who agreed is an idiot for not thinking before he speaks (and far from a favorite of mine) is being thrown under every bus on the road, having every quote he ever said dissected and is being hearalded as no less than the second coming of David Duke and Adolph Hitler for saying something about “nappy headed ho’s”. Should he have been ostracized for this? Of course. To the extent he HAS been? Hard to say when there’s not really any bar set at all. All things considered, his “apology tour” should have begun and ended with the Rutgers basketball team – but that’s not how things work anymore.
Sadly, more than ever before, we live in a society where double and triple standards are no longer the exception – they are the norm. Shake the right hands and say the right things and whatever you may say and whatever you may have done in the past will be all forgiven. But if you get in the way of the hungry vultures in the media on a feeding frenzy and any so-called ‘activists’ with an agenda to further and you’re finished.
Again – you may think Imus is dead wrong. But in a world where punishments should fit the deed, it’s obvious that we’ve gone way out of whack.
Is it constructive to take anyone, Imus included, this seriously if he’s part of a three ring circus?
Maybe we make assumptions that the MSM is more influential than it is…after all it only has the amount of power we give it. Maybe the energy we put into analyzing and discussing the Imus event could be put to better use elsewhere.
The brightest people I know don’t have television and don’t read the New York Times and don’t have time for the BS…they’re actively looking for and finding the truth where it exists…elsewhere.
Maybe people who are allowing themselves to be influenced by the MSM don’t want the truth and we should move on and focus on helping someone who does.