Reply from Denny Hatch

Reply from Denny Hatch
Current mood: calm
Category: Life

This is my reply to him the second time:

I'm not saying that Don Imus is a good person. I think he's a dolt and should have been corrected a long time ago. But to fire the guy after 40 years over a collection of words used in everyday America is silly.

It's silly for so many reasons. I think this is a bit of an attack on elderly or older people who hold long-term positions of power or employment. I think this is an attack on free speech and I think this is an attack on an individual simply based on his race.

Its not who said what - it's the agenda behind it and the lengths some Americans are willing to go to to simply bring them down and make examples of them.

~Samantha


Denny Hatch wrote:

Thanx for writing.

I am not fan of Howard Stern. Nor an admmirer of Trash
and Gangsta rap. All these forces diminsh the quality
of the lives they touch.

Imus said, "I am a good person who did a bad thing."

He is not a good person. All you can say in his favor
is that he is an equal opportunity bigot. Here's
Slate.com's take on Imus's history of meanness.

Cheers.
= = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = =
CHATTERBOX: GOSSIP, SPECULATION, AND SCUTTLEBUTT ABOUT
POLITICS.
The Wit and Wisdom of Don Imus
A GUIDE FOR WASHINGTON'S POWER CROWD.
By Timothy Noah
Posted Tuesday, April 10, 2007, at 6:59 PM ET
Don Imus' long-standing acceptance by the political
establishment is a contemporary illustration of 1940s
socialite Perle Mesta's famous advice about how to
draw Washington's power set to a soiree: "Hang a lamb
chop in the window." Politicians like John McCain and
Barack Obama, and famous TV journalists like Tim
Russert and Cokie Roberts, are no more standoffish
than their predecessors; the only difference is that
the lamb chop has been replaced by a microphone. For
some years now, the broadcast industry has conducted,
via talk radio and reality TV, a series of experiments
to gauge precisely how much personal humiliation the
species Homo sapiens will consent to endure. The most
surprising finding is that even people with constant
access to the media will make themselves available to
interviewer-comedians like Sacha "Ali G." Baron Cohen
or Stephen Colbert*—performers whose sole aim is to
get laughs at these celebrities' expense. If there's
an outer boundary to what a famous journalist or
politician will put up with, science has yet to find
it.
In the direct-humiliation department, Imus falls well
short of Colbert or Ali G. Imus in the Morning is a
variation on the experiment, wherein the belittling is
indirect. Here, the research question is how long
respectable journalists and politicians will associate
themselves with a radio host who spews continual
invective based on race, ethnicity, and religion.
Without exception, every political and journalistic
celebrity who appears on Imus' show is diminished. Yet
they keep coming back. Is it because they don't know
what Imus says when they aren't around? That's what
they tend to claim. "I don't listen to the show,"
McCain told journalist Philip Nobile in June 2000. In
an April 9 appearance, Tom Oliphant told Imus,
"Solidarity forever," but later covered his ass by
saying, "I don't know beans about hip-hop culture or
trash-talking or, what do you call those things where
you run on forever? Riffs." One person who can't claim
ignorance about Imus is Evan Thomas, who on April 9
told the New York Times' David Carr that it would be
"posturing" for him to refuse to go on Imus' show
after Imus got dinged for calling the Rutgers women's
basketball team "nappy-headed hos." Thomas puffed Imus
in a 1999 Newsweek cover profile ("The Ringmaster").
"With his quick takes and sense of the absurd," he
wrote, "Imus is the perfect voice for an age that
prizes irony over solemnity." The Newsweek piece made
only glancing reference to Imus' penchant for uttering
racial and ethnic slurs on the air, overlooking, for
instance, the shock jock's admission the previous year
on CBS News' 60 Minutes that he'd once told a
colleague he hired producer Bernard McGuirk to tell
"nigger" jokes. ("That was an off-the-record
conversation," Imus protested to Mike Wallace.)
In the unlikely event that McCain, Oliphant, and
others don't know who they're dealing with, let's
review some of Imus' remarks (if you prefer, riffs)
from the past. This stuff isn't hard to find. Many
thanks to the Web sites Media Matters for America,
Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting, and TomPaine.com
(where Nobile tracked Imus' show) for the quotes that
appear below.


On blacks:
"William Cohen, the Mandingo deal." (Former Defense
Secretary Cohen's wife is African-American.)
"Wasn't in a woodpile, was he?" (Responding to news
that former black militant H. Rap Brown, subsequently
known as Abdullah Al-Amin, was found hiding in a shed
in Alabama after exchanging gunfire with police. Imus
is here alluding to the expression "nigger in the
woodpile.")
"Knuckle-dragging moron." (Description of basketball
player Patrick Ewing.)
"We all have 12-inch penises." (After being asked what
he has in common with Nat Turner, Malcolm X, Minister
Louis Farrakhan, Latrell Sprewell from the New York
Knicks, and Al Sharpton.)
"Chest-thumping pimps." (Description of the New York
Knicks.)
"A cleaning lady." (Reference to journalist Gwen
Ifill, possibly out of pique that she wouldn't appear
on his show. "I certainly don't know any black
journalists who will," she wrote in the April 10 New
York Times. The Chicago Tribune's Clarence Page used
to appear, but after he made Imus pledge not to make
offensive comments in the future, he was never asked
back.)
On Jews:
"I remember when I first had [the Blind Boys of
Alabama] on a few years ago, how the Jewish management
at whatever, whoever we work for, CBS, or whatever it
is, were bitching at me about it. […] I tried to put
it in terms that these money-grubbing bastards could
understand."
"Boner-nosed … beanie-wearing Jewboy." (Description of
Howard Kurtz of the Washington Post, a frequent
guest.)
On women:
"That buck-tooth witch Satan, Hillary Clinton." […] "I
never admitted it when I went down there and got in
all that big jam, insulting Bill Clinton and his fat
ugly wife, Satan. Did I? Did I ever say I was sorry
for that?"
On Native Americans:
"The guy from F-Troop, Sen. Ben Nighthorse Campbell."
(This is a reference to the zany Indian characters on
the 1960s TV sitcom F-Troop. They had names like
"Roaring Chicken," "Crazy Cat," and "Chief Wild
Eagle.")
On Japanese:
"Old Kabuki's in a coma and the market's going up. […]
How old is the boy? The battery's running down on that
boy." (Reference to Japanese Prime Minister Keizo
Obuchi, who died the following week.)
On gays:
"I didn't know that Allan Bloom was coming in from the
back end." (The homosexuality of the author of The
Closing of the American Mind became widely known when
Saul Bellow published Ravelstein, a novel whose
protagonist was based on Bloom, who by then was
deceased.)
"The enormously attractive [NBC political
correspondent] Chip Reid, I can say without being
accused of being some limp-wristed 'mo."
On the handicapped:
"Janet Reno's having a press conference. Ms. Reno, of
course, has Parkinson's disease, has a noticeable
tremor. […] I don't know how she gets that lipstick on
(laughter) looking like a rodeo clown."
Every one of these statements came directly out of
Imus' mouth on his program. That's striking because
Imus usually leaves it to other show regulars
(especially McGuirk, the aforementioned point man on
"nigger" jokes) to say the most offensive stuff, with
Imus feeding them straight lines. It's safer that way.
*Correction, April 11, 2007: An earlier version of
this column misspelled Colbert's first name and
referred erroneously to "Sacha Baron 'Ali G.' Cohen,"
which suggested the comedian's last name was "Cohen."
His last name is "Baron Cohen." Click here to return
to the corrected sentence.


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> Comment: Mr. Hatch - I''m outraged that you took the
> opportunity to use your newsletter to tear down a
> fellow American. Howard Stern has been a sexist,
> degenerate pig for years, rap music and the urban
> groups ENCOURAGE and make money off of the same
> types of things Don Imus said.
>
> The only reason he is being attacked is because
> he''s a white man.
>
> I''m outraged and have opted out of your newsletter.
> I didn''t subscribe to get the news from you or your
> comments on it.
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> Thank You,
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1:27 PM - 2 Comments - 2 Kudos - Add Comment
Baboon Rising


Great blog Smantha. You hit th enail on the head with this one too. Good job!!

Posted by Baboon Rising on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 6:01 AM
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Nevada Lights


A comment from a friend.I'm posting it for him:


----------------- Original Message -----------------
From: Had
Date: Apr 15, 2007 3:54 AM


This is my opinion, from reading your letter. I almost did not send it, but what the hell, I still have freedom of speah , today i do anyway, so Im spilling it.

for the record. I do not except Imus, or howard stern, or the rev al or jessie jackson, I think that these people are low class, and should be straped to a pole and horse whipped, I hate these mother fuckers. I always have.

Does Denny Hatch know Imus?
if so then maybe he could say something but if he does not know him personnaly, then denny should shut his mouth,
no he should shut his Fucking Mouth,
this is an attack on our freedom of speach, when did it become ok for a black man to be rude and racest? all in the name of "ART expression" ???, I personally heard Jessie Jackson call jews, Haimmies, I know for a fact the the good Rev Al has used racest words against whites, no one has called for them to resign, why? in fact. there are many many many many blacks who hate whites. this was simply an attack on women. period, and this imus fella, just choose to use words we all hear everyday, the fact is he was singled out because he is white. Its ok for the black man to use and say whatever he wants, but not whites. in fact growing up in a black community and high school and jr high school, I was beat, because i was white, I am a red headed white man, the country has forgotten that whites in this country were slaves as well, the Scots and Irish, in fact my desendents were slaves. mother fucker. they called them indentured servents. but the fact remains, every culture of people have had slaves. but its still the white man fault for everything that happens to the poor black man, oh whitey has put him down, well the fact is, the Black man has let the black man down. dads that run the streets mothers on drugs, and its not the white forcing the black man to drink, and use drugs. it comes from with in there own people. it is ok for the black person to say anything they want, simply because they are black and the white man "owes" them. but not ok for anyone else. the song that won the oscar two years ago, was, Its cool to be a pimp. when did it become cool to be a pimp? no i say fuck you and leave me alone. I hate , hate and I hate self rightous people like the Rev, Al and Mr, Jackson. and Imus, these men only care about themselves., they do not speak for all Blacks and Whites. Did you know that just before the civil war, in new orleans that over 25% of slave owners were Black? and the richest man, who owned a sugar plantation, he had over 100 slaves, Antonio De Boulie, He was a black man. but you NEVER hear about that do you.
this really funking pisses me off. so I am not going to read this funking bull shit anymore. The media in america is the worst violater because they permote race wars because it is good news. and they sway people, the media is americas greatest enimy, and America will fall because of the media, giving our possission away, to our emimies. Religous people, who believe it is there job to bring all human into there religion, if you do not believe then your going to hell. the place of torment, to me, I think i am going to be supprised as to whom I see in heaven and who I don't. "IF" there is a God then its up to GOd who God lets into Gods heaven. just the other night I heard the host of last comic standing, i cant remember his name, but all in fun he made a racest remark and no one persecuited him. Why? its all Bull shit. So I say to you mister Denny. Fuck you. I will personally say what I want, its america and speach is free. Fuck you denny.

Had Hagerd.
send this to him if you will, in fact mister denny I would like to meet you face to face and Ill say it to your face. you are not going to take away my freedom of speach. I'll fight you and all people like you. until I drop and you will have to kill me to stop me from kicking your God Damn Ass you mother fuckin ass hole anti american. there you go. America at its finist FREEDOM OF SPEACH< FREEDOM OF PRESS< FREEDOM OF RELIGION< FREEDOM ass hole Freedom.

its not silly to fire imus, its a shame on america and our freedoms. i do not condone hat he said , just like i dont endorse Rap music. but if you take it away, then whats next,? before you know America will be socalist, do you want to be told what to do what to say, how to act, how to live because that is the way it is heading because of people like you Denny. Fuck you ass hole

Posted by Nevada Lights on Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 3:48 PM
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