Mo Rocca has appeared on a bunch of shows, including 'The Daily Show,' 'I Love the 80s,'...
Posted Apr 12th 2007 8:44AM by Coates Bateman
Filed under: Don Imus
H/T to FishbowlDCDON IMUS: When will Al Sharpton be apologizing to them? [the Duke lacrosse players]
(LAUGHTER)
CARLIN: I'm unaware of such a press conference.
IMUS: I'll be darned...
The Sound of a Smoke-Free Barack...
Mo Rocca appears on a bunch of shows, including CBS News Sunday Morning (with the indescribably wonderful Charles Osgood), The Tonight Show on NBC, and NPR's Wait Wait... Don't Tell Me! He's a sometime judge on Iron Chef and was featured on Telemundo's Amore Descarado. Last year he starred on Broadway in the 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee. His expose "All the President's Pets" was published by Crown in 2004.
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2281. I thought "Nappy Headed Hoes" was the name of the new Nappy Roots album comming out this summer?
Brian at 8:19AM on Apr 18th 2007
2282. if your white and have a voice your the bad guy...but the black voices can be heard all over the place and thats ok...humm??? Well i think its ok for a white person to say what he or she thinks...just as the black people can spew terriable things about white people and its all ok..theres nothing wrong with being white and proud...why cant it be the same standard as the blacks have to say whatever it is they choose to say...why the backlash...
Terri Baker at 9:01AM on Apr 18th 2007
2283. Racism is still very alive! Imus shows that fact, regardless of comments from other racial groups.
I have never heard any hiphop or rap song that depicts woman (any) as "nappy-headed hoes"! That just goes too far!! I, a black female(although my grandmother is white(Irish)/Native Indian) also was a victim at my job! A white woman said the word "nigger", and in our government office, when management held a meeting with both of us about the incident, she said the word "yes, I said nigger", but when I questioned her "are you a racist?", I was written up and told I could not say that to her, but she wasn't written up! Ok, that is so-called American justice!!!!!!!
Yeah, racism is still alive and going on, and the idiot Imus comment just proves that fact! Keep on the good fight for what is right Mr. Al Sharpton!
And unless you're living in a black person's world, you will never know what it is like to feel like the "underdog"!It's been going on since slavery!And if WHITE people truely want to stop racism, of any color, teach your kids the TRUTH about history!
Andrea at 9:49AM on Apr 18th 2007
2284. I fined it difficult to beleive that a 67 year old man what ever race he maybe lets young people dictate his behavior and remarks. Imus has a history of racist and sexist remarks. People such as Imus create a very unpleasant work atmosphere. CBS and MSNBC should get rid of that program director also. Lets keep it real if a Black cometator would have made a remark directed toward White ladies white males whould have got angry as hell.
Rickey J Thompson at 12:31PM on Apr 18th 2007
2285. Imus made the comment once ..... the medi has repeated it how many times?
Denise at 3:27PM on Apr 18th 2007
2286. AL SHARPTON AND JESSE JACKSON ARE THE BIGGIST RACIST THERE IS.WHEN ARE WE GONNA HAVE WHITE HISTORY MONTH.OR WHITE PRIDE DAY OR THE WHITE COLLEGE FUND. WHATS WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE
THERE TEACHING OUR KIDS ABOUT GREAT BLACKS
IN OUR SCHOOLS.AND WHEN I ASKED ABOUT TEACHING MY KIDS ABOUT GREAT WHITE PEOPLE IN HISTORY.THEY ALSO SAID I WAS RACIST.WAKE UP PEOPLE BEFORE WE HAVE NO WHITE RACE LEFT
ED at 1:02PM on Apr 18th 2007
2287. DIDNT SEE AL SHARPTON GIVING ANY APOLOGIES WITH THE TAWANA BRAWLT CASE, DEFENDED TILL THE END. IM IRISH I DONT GO NUTS WHEN SOMEONE CALLS ME A MICK. ALSO WHY DO I NEVER HERE PEOPLE ASK TEHSE AL SHARPTON TYPES ABOUT, BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELEVISION. DAMN HE WOULD BE FIRST ONE ON MEDIA SAYING WHITEY'S RACIST.
george at 1:16PM on Apr 18th 2007
2288. BLACK ENTERTAINMENT TELIVISION SAY'S IT ALL, GOD FORBID WHITEY HAD THERE OWN SHOW
george at 1:18PM on Apr 18th 2007
2289. I cant stand when people make racist comments, whether it be a white person toward a black one or black one toward a white one. I cant stand it. It creates so many problems for us and so much controversy. Imus shouldnt have said the stuff and Sharpton and Jackson should be forgiving men of God instead of fighting Imus 'fire' with their own 'fire'.
raisuke17 at 2:11PM on Apr 18th 2007
2290. I need to get a "Reverend" Title. Imus was going to apologize to those girls personally until the bucket mouths started and got him fired. When is America going to do another head count on who the minority really is. Why can "They" Say whatever they please and no other race can say anything?
RFR at 1:48PM on Apr 18th 2007
2291. I would like to know what Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpten do for a living. They seem to be all over the country trying to make blacks hate whites. I do not think Mr. Imus should have said what he did but to fire him was wrong. They need to put topse two other guys out of whatever business they are in and it seems as if there jobs are tostart racial hatred. I have many black friends and they even agree that these men are wrong for how they stur trouble between the races. So will they be Fired from Trouble Making.
Adams at 2:39PM on Apr 18th 2007
2292. I am a young black college student. I'm not really into the news but I've heard about the comment. I think it was wrong for him to say what he did at least if it was a joke he could of kept it to hisself. The fact that he got fired that's not my problem but after reading everybody else's comments and seeing how people think this is more than just the comment by Don. It is not ok for anybody of any color to make a racist comment but what can you do as a individual to stop it. Reading one of the comments really made me mad because yes there are drug dealers, gansters, people who do wrong but they aren't all black and it shouldn't be about color it should just be about people needing help with direction in their lives, but everyone has their own opinion but I'm really hurt that we can't move on from the difference in color. When i finally have kids what will life be like because it my eyes not to much is changing to stop racism.
nae at 4:11PM on Apr 18th 2007
2293. Straight Imus derserved what he got, forget about Sharpton and Jessie, their action really didn't play much, they are aswell sour Racist and should be judged as wise as Imus.
But fact is, that Comment Imus made on Live AirWay was disturbing to the whole African American Nation, and even for our Nation here over in Europe which I call , ManKind/Human Race.
We aint's living in the 1940's anymore, you got that right, JUDGEMENT for all Racist.
The world should learn to live together as one.
1 Love
1 Heart
Fell Allright !
ShawnShao at 8:10AM on Apr 19th 2007
2294. EVERYBODY FORGETS..."ITS ALL ABOUT THE MONEY". IMUS STAYED B-C HE BROUGHT IN RATINGS FOR THE STATION= BIG $$$!THERE WAS A PROTEST. SPONSORS TOOK THEIR EDVERTISEMENTS= LESS $$$!WE GET CAUGHT IN THE WHOLE GAME, FOCUSING ON THE PLAYERS. THE PROBLEM ISN'T IMUS, JACKSON, OR SHARPTON. THE PROBLEM IS THE STATIONS...ALL OF THEM!"IT'S ALWAYS ALL ABOUT THE $$$" TO COMMENT ON IMUS AND HIS COMMENT, I WILL NOT. THE SAME JESUS THAT JUDGES HIM, IS THE SAME JESUS THAT JUDGES ME, AND BY THE SAME BOOK. GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!!
Shay at 3:01PM on Apr 18th 2007
2295. Who elected Jackson and Sharpton the leader of the black people?They are worst than Imus they are shamful shake down artists.Do peole ever wonder how Jackson and Sharpton can aford five thousand dollar suites and Rolex watches?They dont have jobs.
Aaron at 6:50PM on Apr 18th 2007