Props to FOX News for hiring Don Imus, a well-known bigoted misogynist for his own morning news show, "Imus In the Morning." Imus is being dubbed "older and wiser" by the press, although personal reform and transformation seems unlikely. For full coverage of the new program, see the Washington Post.
Imus was the center of a lawsuit in 2007 , and subsequently fired from his previous post with CBS. The lawsuit, for slander and defamation, was filed by Kia Vaughn, a relatively well-known player for the Rutgers Women's Basketball team in response to Imus' reference to some of the players as "nappy-headed hos " in a broadcasted discussion of a Rutgers game. The comments were met by protest from Rutgers' students, and public condemnation from then Senator Barak Obama. Unfortunately, the law suit was subsequently withdrawn , thereby allowing Imus to ecshew personal legal accountability.
So to FOX News-- Bra-f-ing-o. We appreciate another egregious example of the network's lack of support for social justice.
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It's not that Fox doesn't support social justice so much as it is they actively work against it. And then consider themselves iconoclastic and noble for it.
I used to watch Fox, since I'm a republican and because it was the only news channel that didn't kiss Obama's feet.
But lately the shit they've been pulling turned me off completely, and now I just roll my eyes when I flip through its usual propoganda.
And now they're hiring this POS sexist pig. It seems like all of their hosts are old white men with dried-out, misinformed, hateful opinions.
Fox is worse than the other news channels, and that's saying something. I recommend people don't watch TV at all if they want the full story, especially not Fox.
I'd also like to comment that HOLY SHIT HE LOOKS SO CREEPY IN THAT PICTURE.
He looks like Jigsaw if you paint his face with white and draw swirls on his cheeks.
As they say, he's got a face for radio. Not surprising that Fox would hire him, he fits n perfectly.
His hair.....
Eeeww!!! I am disgusted about FOX. My Mom only watches this channel occasionally because she wants to be reminded about why she doesn't vote that way.