Letters to the Editor
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Published Letters: 149 Editor's Choice: 1
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Why the surprise, Joan?
[Read the article: Black rappers made him do it!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Apparently, it is the fault of black rappers, Sharpton, and Jackson for poor Don Imus's unfortunate gaffe. Not that he is an adult with working brain and responsible for his own actions. And oh, this is really a civil rights issue for poor white men and their right to use derogatory words - as they so eloquently did in your emails. Kinda makes that civil rights movement in the 60's seem so silly, huh?
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Bravo, Emily!
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I wonder if some of the Imus defenders actually know anything about the 1st amendment. Imus can scream all the racial invectives he wants on his ranch, but he does it at work and suffers consequences for his actions, too bad, so sad! The 1st amendment is not an omnipotent clause that protects you from personnel action by a private company, it protects you from government action. If I wanted to come into my office and go around and call people derogatory names and those people complained and I got disciplined by my management, I doubt my screaming about my 1st amendment rights will cut it.
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Dissendz
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]I agree on the unlikeliness of a real discourse. I have read a ton of posts on this matter on different posts and am amazed by the lack of understanding of history and constitutional law. Plus, the ugliness of some self identified white posters who seem to want a green light to use derogatory words because "a rapper used them". There is this victimization vibe about being able to say anything without consequence. I just do not understand where the responsibility and respect for other people's dignity has gone. It seems that we are more concerned about the bomb thrower's feelings than we are about the damage done.
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Sugarman... SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO?
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]The issue will be determined by the people not in the room: the sponsors, the money men, the bean counters. Is that alright with you?
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Beautifully put, Joe
[Read the article: No more whining excuses]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]My thoughts exactly! You would think Imus was Jesus Christ on the cross for all the wailing and breast beating going on. If people were serious about this, they would want to use this incident to jump start a long overdue honest dialogue about race in this country, instead of rushing to this fossil's defense and offering abbreviated, inaccurate 1st amendment lessons and giving Al Sharpton way too much credit and power in this mess. That huckster does not speak for me, but this issue speaks to me and it should not be pushed back in the corner to never see the light until the next incident.
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Huh
[Read the article: Firing Imus was the right thing]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Every once in a while you have to kill a chicken in front of the monkeys to keep them in line.
-- Ghingis Can
And every so often you have to ask... "What the fuck are you talking about?" We are not discussing your dinner choices...
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Can I ask a question, King?
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why is it always incumbent for someone to always turn the other cheek, to always rise above a bully? How about a little accountability for your actions? No, the world is not a better place, but I bet there are people in it feeling a little better about exercising their rights to protest and say enough is enough. And no one died or was jailed.
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Jameslow
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Why you don't have the comedy clubs sold out is a mystery to me. I bet the skit about your grandmother or mother getting raped would bring down the house, right? Quick, MSNBC, sign this wit up!!
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King, as you can read here...
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]This is why people are angry - read the letter of Mike Pace. The kind of twisted logic that is being used to defend this fossil is amazing! "All the black people I know..." "what's so racist about this?" I have to read paragraphs of racist justification for this nonsense - sweeping generalizations of an entire race of people by those whose entire contact with anyone outside their race is a brief nod to the security guard, who are surprised that we do not all speak in ebonics, who act like the entire black history is slavery....Martin Luther King and the 60's...Cosby show...50 cents. Who think we all think in a monolith. My entire life has been spent in one way or another interacting with whites both professionally and personally. To work in my profession and to live how and where I do, contact with white people is my reality. I am grateful for it, because at least I know that they do not think in a monolith, that there is a coming together. What is so sad about all of this is that this drip, drip, drip of viciousness by white posters makes any reasoned discussion impossible. How do you begin when your opening question is "since I do not have a problem with this, why should you?"
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MarieA
[Read the article: King Kaufman's Sports Daily]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah, if the KKK burns a cross on my lawn, I will be laughing harder than a def comedy jam audience...
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Bravo uncommon sense
[Read the article: Is Rush Limbaugh next?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]No need for me to add, just applauding a thoughtful letter I read twice because I enjoyed it. Conservatives, please!!
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Dry drunk Glen's "analysis"
[Read the article: Yeah, but did Hitler invent the Internet?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]What is with the Hitler comparision obsession with these right-wing clowns? Poor ole Glenlivet Beck - where can I get a job where my delusions inspire a network to give me airtime?
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mizbinkley
[Read the article: Valerie Plame, covert after all]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Wow, I read your post and the "I LOVE BUSH OH YES I DO" one that followed it. You are the victim of a literary drive-by shooting. Get thee to a hospital! :)
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Honestly,
[Read the article: Don't run, Al. Don't!]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Can we talk you out of writing another "aren't I a clever duck" ramblings, Camille? Do we really need another one of your self-satisfied, smug political op-ed pieces that just proves that yes, Virginia, there is a such a thing as dull-witted lesbian. Why don't you go back to your sharp observations about sex and leave the politico stuff to others with more insight. Yes, we know you hate Al Gore and Hillary Clinton - and we don't care...