why is there much less of an outcry regarding this as opposed to what Imus said?
Why is there much less of a link for this story?
Because it wasn’t racist, and that’s Opie and Anthony’s schtick, and because it smacks of being a manufactured outrage next to the spontaneous seeming manufactured outrage that was Imus.
In short. The outrages are not sincere, they are about tittillation. The American public has had its quota of being upset at shock jocks for being shock jocks. No one really cares, they just like feeling the emotions and being part of a gestalt.
Here is a link to the broadcast if it really helps you…
It would be much more helpful if you linked us to a story reporting on the broadcast. What are we going to do with this? We don’t yet know what our opinions are supposed to be.
Technically, I think it was a homeless person who said this, not a paid staff memeber. I know, it can be said that Imus’ sidekick made the offensive comment, Imus just agreed with it. And surely they have a delay button and chose not to use it. If you use the Imus argument, the difference would be that she is a public figure who should expect such things. And it was on satellite radio, so no FCC issues. And people don’t like her anyway.
I was thinking more along the lines of a news article with some sort of cite to your assertion that there is “much less of an outcry”, so that we might actually have an informed discussion about your topic. Apparently that’s a little too much to ask of you.
The better question was why this incident got zero media interest, even though the dj’s (JV and Elvis of the Dog House) were fired as a result- where is the Asian equivalent to Al Sharpton? 
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On April 21, 2007, the show rebroadcasted a six minute-long segment of a prank call to a Chinese restaurant (that was first broadcasted April 5). The call featured a computerized voice using racial and profane language (examples include “Chinese man, tell me about your tiny egg roll… your tiny egg roll in your pants”, “Should I come to your restaurant so that I can see you naked… that way I can see your hot Asian spicy ass”, and “You are a very nice Chinese man… probably can’t drive for shit, but who cares.”) Several Chinese American advocacy groups, including the Organization of Chinese Americans, were outraged by this segment, describing it as “racist, vulgar and sexist.”[8]. As of April 23, the duo have been suspended indefinitely without pay. One of the hosts, Jeff Vandergrift, apologized on Monday’s show[9].
The show was later cancelled, with CBS Radio spokeswoman Karen Mateo stating, “The Dog House with JV and Elvis will no longer be broadcast.” Jeanette Wang, an executive with the Organization of Chinese Americans, stated that the cancellation was “a victory not only for the Asian American community, but for all communities who find themselves constant targets of racist and sexist programming,” said .[13]
Well in lieu of an actual informed discussion, I will say that I listened to the clip, and that is the first time I have ever heard Opie and Anthony, and that they are the unfunniest two men on the planet. (And I even include Adam Sandler in that comparison.)
No idea - I personally found it just as offensive. A homeless person might’ve made the actual remark, but the best face I can put on Opie and Anthony’s comments is that they were egging him on. Sure, fire their asses.
Any idea when this aired?
Fire them for being stupid and unfunny, but not for this particular thing. Imus, sure, but this just was someone ranting about wanting to violently violate a public figure. If he had said the same about Paris Hilton, would anyone have cared?
Adam Sandler is two men?
I guess that explains how he’s able to get so much Suck into each of his movies.
I didn’t read a story reporting on the broadcast. A friend emailed me about it and I went to look for media coverage on it, found very little and wondered why Imus got nailed for something that seemed relatively tame compared to this…
I didn’t read a story reporting on the broadcast. A friend emailed me about it and I went to look for media coverage on it, found very little and wondered why Imus got nailed for something that seemed relatively tame compared to this…
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I could care less what a couple guys who make a living offending people say. Much ado about nothing, just as with Imus.
Although personally I think jokes about raping high-level politicians are just as unfunny and offensive as racist/sexist slurs directed at law-abiding basketball players and restaurateurs, I do acknowledge that there’s a case to be made for putting them in different categories as far as public discourse goes. Politicians and celebrities have to some extent chosen to be public figures, and are thus natural targets for all the nasty things the public likes to say. It may be revolting and inexcusable, but it usually goes unpunished.
For example, have any of the myriad public commentators who have made disgusting and offensive jokes about Hillary Clinton ever been fired on that account?
Using a media entertainment outlet to heap bigoted abuse on inoffensive private citizens, on the other hand, is generally seen as much less tolerable than similarly abusing public figures. Thus I’d argue that both the Imus “nappy-headed hos” remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team and the Dog House slurs against the Chinese restaurant staff deserved the severe chastisement that they got.
One important difference:
Condi Rice is a professional in the public spotlight.
The Rutgers team was not. They were “innocents”.
Anyway, fire 'em if you wanna. I don’t listen to those morons anyway, so my opinion doesn’t care much weight about this matter.
So college basketball which is the last step before Pro for most people doesn’t count as figures in the public eye? Can I make a racial slur about Shaq and it be ok?
I stopped the clip at 23 seconds. I’m sorry, but that’s despicable. Quite beyond the pale. To that point race had nothing to do with it.
“The last step before Pro for most people”? Gosh, I was nearly a professional basketball player and I never realized it!!! :smack:
Come off it—playing college basketball is definitely not anywhere close to being Pro for “most people”. Certainly not for most members of the Rutgers women’s team, even if they are Division I. So no, the Lady Knights don’t count as “figures in the public eye”.