Wow. I had the chance to see Joan on Scarborough Country last night. Often women come across as so emtotional, but Joan you really took it to another level! Not only were you emotional, but you were a complete IDIOT!!!!!! A blind viewer could tell from your comments that you were an old white woman working for the man. If you are going to talk rap darling, get it right. Hearing you mention "GZee" more than once brought you so much credibility - NOT. It's JayZee!!!!! Who in the world doesn't know that. And since you said it more than once - it was obvious that you truly believed it. UGH! You couldn't answer the simple question about whether offensive rap music should be pulled from the airwaves. You did your little white chicken dance around it. My God of course it should. You didn't have the knowledge or balls to realize what you were or were not saying. If Imus is going to be the beginning of the end of offensiveness then let's get this thing rolling full steam ahead. The term "ho" is tossed around as almost a term of endearment. Yes it use to mean something bad, but so did fat (phat) and bad. Hmmm, so is bad good or is bad bad? I'm not saying it's right, but it's a fact of modern culture. So yes Joan, if Imus gets yanked, then so must everything else. Grow some will you!

I saw you on Scarbourough Country and you are either a hypocrite (most likely) or perhaps just stupid. But if you really think Don Imus with his .3 rating has a bigger platform and more influence on African American values and culture than rap, hip hop BET and MTV, than maybe you should be fired. Of course, it's more likely that you are just piling on to the "controversy flavor of the week" to promote your own pathetic views and career. I'm a Democrat, but to see bleeding hearts like you dismiss the real causes of mysoginy and racism in society demostrates to me that you are just part of the problem. Maybe you should actually listen to John Ridley, the African American commentator, who has more invested in how his culture is portrayed in society than guilt ridden,hypocrites like you.

I feel sorry for your daughter.

I totally disagree with the firing of Imus, on Free Speech grounds. He is an idiot whose trademark is to insult and demean every possible group -- women, blacks, gays, Asians, Anerican indians, etc...

His remarks about the Rutgers basketball team were crude, offensive, and gratuitous. Imus is a major league asshole. He is also perfectly ridiculous. At his age, going on like an obnoxious teenager is downright pathetic. But no one is forcing any one to either listen to his stupid talk show or to watch him on TV. Just as no one is forcing people to listen to a slimebag like Limbaugh. Where is the outrage about Limbaugh? Ann Coulter? Glenn Beck?

Let the moron keep on making a fool of himself.

I would like to agree with Joan about the grace to deal with people like Barry Bonds and Nut Gingrich, but if grace means giving them a pass for the things they do that are clearly immature and self-centered (Bonds' chronic surliness), or outright disgusting and hypocritical (short definition of Gingrich, the Republican Party, and the devil they serve, namely the Christian Right), then screw grace. Waterboard Gingrich. Indict Bonds, and revoke Alberto Gonzales' citizenship and put his punk ass on the other side of the fence. It's not like they need us to see God in them. God knows we've tried to. It's about goddamned time they showed God to us! If they were acting in a godly manner, Gingrich would drop out of politics entirely and work on the nasty business in Darfur, Bonds would shut up about the "cream" or the "clear" for his arthritis, and just play baseball, and Alberto Gonzales would resign as AG after telling the truth about his role in not only the US Attorney firings, but EVERYTHING ILLEGAL he did in the Bush Administration, and naming names before the Senate Judiciary Committee. That would be truthful, humble, and just. For all of us. While we're at it, let's give thanks that the Democrats have grown a spine and are telling Bush what he and his war can go do with each other. Let's also give thanks that the SF Giants didn't re-sign Moises Alou but allowed him to leave as a free agent and sign with the New York Mets which has the most terrifying line-up in the National League.

Yes. Shameless Mets plug here. What do you want? I live in the Northeast.

Lonewolfy, I'm confused. What more would you like me to do besides say, as I did in the post, that I will do my best to stop pointing to racism as a reason people bash Bonds? And then to reply to people who bashed Bonds by saying they're entitled to their opinion about Bonds? I think I'm doing what you're asking; what am I missing?

...I was ambivalent in my opinion of Barry Bonds until he made the following statement:

"...I don't wanna hear y'all talk about Babe Ruth any more. I got his home runs, I got his RBIs..."

WTF?!? It's one thing to say you are as great as the Bambino - it's another to actually BELIEVE that baseball fans around the world will forget about Babe Ruth because you've put up similar stats, Mr. Bonds.

Barry has no class, Joan. And he will be forgotten by every non-Giants baseball fan in a couple years....can you say the same about the Babe?

One more thing - as a minority progressive, I'm a so sick of fellow "liberals" playing the race card everytime a public figure who isn't a WASP get scorned and vilified. Jackie Robinson was a classy, talented player who experienced racism.

Bonds? If he were whiter than John Tesh, I would still despise him and his disdain for the game and its fans.

So Joan - in the interest of TRUE equality and civil rights - I ask that you please stop sullying and demeaning the people in this country who experience true prejudice and discrimination by knee-jerk reflexively crying racism to defend your baseball idol.

{After all, you wouldn't, say, lambast anyone who criticizes Ann Coulter as being automatically misogynist, would you?}