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To: mph who wrote (57554)	4/12/2007 12:12:55 PM
From: Ichy Smith	Respond to of 90947

And you might well be right. The fact that individuals were targeted made his comment more inappropriate. Yes i can see where a culture that seems to include all black women as Ho's and all black men as pimps and playa's is less harmful than an obviously silly remark. If blacks are not getting the respect they deserve, they need to look at the artforms they produce to show us their culture.

To: mph who wrote (57554)	4/12/2007 12:16:34 PM
From: Sully-	Respond to of 90947

O'Donnell on Imus: 'Thought Police' Leads to Guantanamo Bay Media Research Center In a leap of logic too bizarre for even Joy Behar, on Wednesday's The View, in a discussion about Don Imus's racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, Rosie O'Donnell warned that "it's not a freedom if you outlaw certain words or thoughts, because then the thought police come and then before you know it, everyone's in Guantanamo Bay without representation." O'Donnell's leap from Imus to Guantanamo prompted Behar to exclaim: "What a jump!" A bit earlier on the April 11 show, O'Donnell had fretted about how the Imus controversy is distracting the public from all the deaths in Iraq: "He made that comment on April 4th and it's been all over te news, it's been the top lead story everywhere. Well, since then, 24 American soldiers have died and over 90 have been wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan. My point is, look how we're distracted. Howard Stern said a bad word, Anna Nicole's baby, well don't pay attention to the fact that we're in the middle of a war." [This item is based on a transcript the MRC's Justin McCarthy created for a NewsBusters.org posting: newsbusters.org ] mrc.org