Cancelled in the Morning
April 11th, 2007Don Imus recently called the girls from Rutgers University’s basketball team “nappy-headed hoes” and said that they looked like mean girls with a bunch of tattoos. The predictable outcry occurred, politicians say they’ll never speak to him again, he’s offered to take the girls to dinner speak to them and apologize; they’ve accepted, and MSNBC will now stop airing his radio show on TV simultaneously each morning.
That’s okay, Imus. Nobody watches MSNBC anyway.
What bothers me about is all is that he said, “I’m sorry, it was a lame attempt to be funny,” basically, but the public is going crazy and are all the activists and he’s accepting their wrath. Look, man, you don’t have to apologize over and over for something. Once is enough, more than enough, but I don’t think you should have to apologize for a joke unless you say something like, “That dude’s got Weapons of Mass Destruction. We know where they are.” [Pause for punchline. Wait for it, wait for it…]