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To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 8:42:22 AM
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Michael Ramirez Editorial Cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily ibdeditorial.com

To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 8:51:17 AM
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But Sully, Don Imus is white. The Culture of "Bitches, Hos, and Niggas" By Michelle Malkin TownHall columns Wednesday, April 11, 2007 Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed hos." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus's misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus's show should take responsibility for enabling Imus -- and should disavow his longstanding invective. But let's take a breath now and look around. Is the Sharpton & Jackson Circus truly committed to cleaning up cultural pollution that demeans women and perpetuates racial epithets? Have you seen the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart this week?

To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 9:45:21 AM
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The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed hos." No woman deserves that. Not even the actual nappy headed hos?

To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 10:58:39 AM
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Thank god my two teenage boys hate rap.

To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 12:46:25 PM
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Al Sharpton: Nappy Headed Race Ho? By Mike S. Adams TownHall columns Wednesday, April 11, 2007 As you can see from the title of this column, I’m not too crazy about Al Sharpton. There are a number of reasons for the dislike, which has finally spilled over in light of his recent insistence on the firing of Don Imus – although, for the record, I want it known: I don’t like Don Imus either! When the present controversy broke out, I was initially confused over which part of the phrase “nappy headed ho” had set Sharpton off. After all, two years ago at one of my speeches I was called a “Little Milky” by a Pakistani professor at Monmouth College in Illinois. Rather than calling for her to be fired, I just made fun of her in a very public way. After finding out that a fan of mine had recorded my speech – including the “Little Milky” remark - with a digital recorder, I transcribed and published the professor’s racist comment in a column. Next, I had a student post my column on her university’s electronic bulletin board so others – including her own students! - could make fun of her, too. But I never lost my sense of humor by slipping into a state of Sharpton-like faux outrage. In fact, I even adopted “Little Milky” as my new nickname on www.FaceBook.com. I’m not going to let the anti-white racism of this professor (whose name, by the way, is Dr. Farhat Haq, which is pronounced “Far Left Crock”) ruffle my little white tutu. Oh, and I almost forgot the best part. Al Sharpton, whose job it is to monitor racism, never came to my defense after I was victimized by the racial epithet. In fact, Sharpton doesn’t even know who I am. But we could change that in a second if I were to simply call Dr. Haq a “Little Brownie.” But because I am white and don’t hurl racial epithets, I’ll never meet Al Sharpton. And that’s enough for me to conclude that Al really isn’t opposed in principle to racism. He just selectively discusses it in order to get free stuff including, but not limited to, free media exposure. So, perhaps Al Sharpton is angry about the word “ho” instead of the phrase “nappy headed.” But when I think back to the Tawana Brawley episode I quickly realize this couldn’t be so. To be dubbed a “rapist” or even a “rape victim” is far worse than to be dubbed a “ho.” Think about it. The proper way to analyze the Brawley episode and, in the process, judge the absolute moral bankruptcy of Al Sharpton is to first imagine you have a teenage daughter or sister. Imagine further that someone had concocted a false story that she had been gang raped and sodomized by a group of adult men. Clearly, the charges would be defamatory and would cause inestimable harm to your daughter’s (or sister’s) reputation and emotional well-being. And that is the under-discussed problem concerning the Brawley episode. We all know Sharpton defamed (and was sued by) people he falsely accused of raping and sodomizing Brawley. But look what he did to Brawley. She was merely a teenager – a child, in fact – who obviously suffered from severe emotional and mental problems. She would not claim to have been raped, sodomized, and covered with fecal matter had she been mentally stable. So when Sharpton continued to advance the false rape story (long after it was debunked) he was still defaming Brawley. And he still is today. It is senseless to say that Brawley consented to the dissemination of the story. She hadn’t the mental or emotional capacity to do so. She was just a very sick child living in a very sick country that treats anti-Semitic/anti-Caucasian bigots with greater respect than its war heroes. So, shame on you, racist Reverend. And, shame on you, Don Imus, for consenting to an interrogation at the hands of Al Sharpton. He might not be nappy headed. But he certainly is a whore. Mike Adams is a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and author of Welcome to the Ivory Tower of Babel: Confessions of a Conservative College Professor. townhall.com

To: Sully- who wrote (57462)	4/11/2007 2:32:22 PM
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Imus And Andy By INVESTOR'S BUSINESS DAILY Editorial Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007 4:20 PM PT Political Correctness: Former Virginia Sen. George Allen lost his seat and a chance at the presidency for a racially insensitive remark. Is a two-week suspension for Don Imus enough? It depends on whose ox is gored. We won't repeat what the "Imus in the Morning" host said about Rutgers' women's basketball team. Unlike the dust-up over President Bush's observation that Sen. Barack Obama was "articulate," or Newt Gingrich's advocacy of English immersion, it was genuinely offensive and deserved condemnation. What struck us was that his most vocal accuser, the Rev. Al Sharpton, on whose show Imus begged forgiveness, is hardly the poster child for racial sensitivity. Big Al rose to fame back in 1987 by charging that New York prosecutor Steve Pagones "on 33 separate occasions" had "kidnapped, raped and abused" Tawana Brawley. Al Sharpton is in no position to accept an apology from Don Imus. Brawley was a 15-year-old black girl who went missing and was found four days later covered in dog feces with racial slurs written on her body. She claimed six white men, one of them carrying a badge, had raped her repeatedly in a woods in upstate New York. Sharpton accused Pagones. Pagones sued and won a $65,000 judgment for defamation. In 1988, a grand jury concluded Brawley "was not the victim of forcible sexual assault" and the whole thing was a hoax. In 2002, when Sharpton was asked if he'd apologize to Pagones, Sharpton replied: "Apologize for what? For believing a young lady?" In 1991, a 7-year-old black child was killed in a Crown Heights (Brooklyn) traffic accident when a car driven by a Hasidic Jew went out of control. Sharpton showed up to lead protests, calling Jews "diamond merchants" and saying, "If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house." A young Talmudic scholar would later be surrounded by a mob and stabbed to death. Sharpton paid no lasting price, but then liberal Democrats rarely do. On Feb. 11, 2005, the day before he was elected party chief, Howard Dean asked a gathering of black Democrats: "You think the Republican National Committee could get this many black people into a single room?" To roaring laughter, the former governor of Vermont, a state with a black population of 0.05%, delivered the punch line: "Only if they had the hotel staff in there." Har, har. Imagine if Sen. Trent Lott, R-Miss., had made such a remark. As it was, he got into enough trouble for trying to humor former segregationist Sen. Strom Thurmond on his 100th birthday, and lost his leadership role. Considerably less hostility has greeted the repeated use of the phrase "white n***" by Sen. Robert Byrd, D-W.Va., a former KKK Grand Kleagle. In 1994, USA Today columnist Julianne Malveaux got away with saying on TV regarding Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas: "You know, I hope his wife feeds him lots of eggs and butter and he dies early, like many black men do, of heart disease." In 2004, at a fundraiser for a Missouri senate candidate, Sen. Hillary Clinton quipped: "As I introduce her, I want to end with her favorite quote, because I love this quote. It's from Mahatma Gandhi. He ran a gas station down in St. Louis for a couple of years. Mr. Gandhi, do you still go to the gas station? A lot of wisdom comes out of the gas station." Derail her presidential ambitions it did not.** Also assigning demographic stereotypes to this ethnic group was Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., who opined last July: "You cannot go to a 7-Eleven or a Dunkin' Donuts unless you have a slight Indian accent — I'm not joking." And we're not laughing. We wonder if a two-week suspension would have been enough had a Rush Limbaugh or a Sean Hannity said what Imus or Malveaux said. Why is a Trent Lott or a George Allen judged more harshly than a Byrd, Biden or Clinton? Maybe they should have begged forgiveness from Al Sharpton. ibdeditorials.com