Sharpton the sanctimonious skunk

[DesertFox]

Fired shock-jock Don Imus' longtime producer ripped the Rev. Al Sharpton last night, blaming him for blowing out of proportion the I-man's infamous "nappy-headed ho's" comment and unfairly driving their show off the air.

"The media treated him like he was Nelson Mandela, for God's sake, without asking him about his past comments, this sanctimonious skunk," Bernard McGuirk said on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes."


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[Rhino]

Imus Producer Bernard McGuirk Speaks Out

Friday, April 27, 2007

This is a partial transcript from "Hannity & Colmes," April 26, 2007, that has been edited for clarity.

ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Welcome to "Hannity & Colmes." I'm Alan Colmes.

And we get right to our top story tonight. The controversy that led to the dismissal of Don Imus began with this exchange on his radio show with his producer, Bernard McGuirk.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DON IMUS, FORMER RADIO HOST: That's some rough girls from Rutgers. Man, they got tattoos.

BERNARD MCGUIRK, FORMER IMUS PRODUCER: Some hardcore hos.

IMUS: Those are some nappy-headed hos, I'm going to tell you that right now. Oh, man, that's some — woah. And the girls from Tennessee, they all look cute, you know, so — kind of like — I don't know...

MCGUIRK: A Spike Lee thing...

IMUS: Yes.

MCGUIRK: "Jigaboos vs. the Wannabes," that movie that he had.

IMUS: Yes.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COLMES: Well, Imus' former producer and the man heard on that tape, Bernard McGuirk, joins us now for his first exclusive interview since the controversy began.

Bernie, very good to see you again.

MCGUIRK: Alan.

COLMES: You, I and Imus worked together at WNBC a number of years ago.

MCGUIRK: We certainly did, a number of years ago. Absolutely. And I want to apologize, Alan, for characterizing you as we do on the program, insult people, characterizing you as looking like a ferret in a suit.

COLMES: No, it's badge of honor honestly.

MCGUIRK: I want to apologize.

COLMES: To be mentioned on Imus' show is a bad of honor.

MCGUIRK: And, by the way, I apologize for not wearing a tie tonight. I mean, if John McCain can announce for president in a sweater...

COLMES: Well, you know what? I'm glad you came with material. That's great. So what happened?

MCGUIRK: Well, you heard what happened. I mean, we were...

COLMES: From your vantage point, what happened?

MCGUIRK: Well, first of all, I want to just say that I'm here to represent myself. I do not in any way speak for Mr. Imus, who, by the way, conducted himself with dignity and class, one of the few people, along with the Rutgers basketball team, the women there.

COLMES: Who, by the way, forgave him, in spite of the fact that his corporate masters did not.

MCGUIRK: His corporate masters and some of the other, you know, the terrorists out there. You know, the mob.

COLMES: Right. Well, we'll get into that, but I'd love to know, from your perspective, how this all came down?

MCGUIRK: Well, I mean, we were just — we were having a discussion on the air, as you heard. And, again, the context is comedy. It's not a serious sports discussion show nor is it "Meet the Press." You know, it's all fun. I mean, that's what we do. We dwell in sort of locker room humor. That's what we did, anyway.

COLMES: And you've been doing it for 35 years, that kind of a show.

MCGUIRK: Doing it for 35 years, and nobody took the brunt of some of the savage humor more than Mr. Imus himself. And so, as I was the bald- headed stooge and he was, you know, pardon my language, a scrotum-faced old dope or whatever it was, and that's just the kind of — you know, in that realm that we dwelled, you know, we would do politics and all of that. But that was one element of the program. So this conversation came up, as you saw, and you just played the tape.

COLMES: At the moment that that happened, now — you actually said the word "ho."

MCGUIRK: That's right. I did say the word "ho." And, again, you know, I mean, it's not a word that people in radio and in the pop culture do not use. You know, it derives from the hip-hop community, and we appropriated it. You know, we're trying to be — or I was trying to be cool.

By the way, I came from the streets myself. I grew up in the South Bronx in a housing project. I drove a taxi at night in the ghettos and Yonkers and the Bronx. And that was my language. My language is a street language. So I'm not some, you know, rich, white kid from the suburbs trying to sound — you know, that's what I did. I spoke that way. I could roll this way, that way, whatever.

COLMES: At the moment that happened, the moment that those few words got said, was there any sense, "Oh, no, this was a mistake"? Or was it only later that this kind of mushroomed and became something other than what it was at the moment that it took place?

MCGUIRK: Well, I think it took off. Mr. Imus apologized and, you know — but then, of course, Al Sharpton got involved. You know, he picked up — he dusted off his bull horn.

COLMES: But what I'm trying to get — at the moment that that took place, though, was there any sense, "We've gone too far"? Or was that not a thought at that moment?

MCGUIRK: At that particular moment, no, no, not at that particular moment. That wasn't — because, again, we engage in this type of humor all the time. And, you know, we have people like, say, renowned authors Mary and Carol Higgins Clark. They would come on the program, and we would refer to them as the Higgins Clark hos, you know, for fun. They'd come on, they'd laugh about it.

So the use of that word — and it's so prevalent in today's society, and it doesn't mean, you know, a woman who is, you know, promiscuous. It's just a pejorative, slang term for a woman. Unfortunately, and, you know, I didn't get the memo that it was elevated to the status or lowered to the status of the n-word. I hadn't gotten the memo thus far.

SEAN HANNITY, CO-HOST: Bernie, by the way, welcome to the show. Thanks for coming on.

MCGUIRK: Thank you, Sean. Thanks for having me.

HANNITY: Appreciate you being here. He apologized. Now, in light of all that's happened, you know, what do you think about what you said in this thing? You've been fired.

MCGUIRK: Well, again, I'm here just to speak for me. And I think, obviously, it was wrong. I mean, I've been doing the same sort of stuff for years, for 20 years. And, you know, I was getting pretty much patted on the back, and encouraged, and re-signed, and re-signed with raises. I had just signed a long-term contract with them. And everything was great. And, you know, the type of humor we engaged in was similar to the Trump-Rosie exchange, animals, fat slob, pig, comb-over creep...

HANNITY: You guys had a few names for me over the — or Imus did over the years, though.

MCGUIRK: Well, yes, OK, sure.

HANNITY: I deserved it. Look, I'm a public figure.

MCGUIRK: He had Alan marrying a Filipino bride for her green — so she could get a green card, you know?

COLMES: How did you know about that?

MCGUIRK: I mean, of course. I mean, that's just the — I mean, Imus, we characterize him as looking like somebody who survived a partial-birth abortion or, you know, stuff like that. But I'm saying that is the level of humor.

HANNITY: But let me — was it then — should he have — was it right for him to apologize?

MCGUIRK: Of course it was. Of course. Of course. No, there was initially legitimate anger. And it was absolutely, you know, some — I mean, who knew? I didn't know anything about this Cinderella team, the girls. You know, when they found out about it, when somebody wanted to use it to further their own career, or because maybe Barack Obama was getting too much press or something, when somebody jumped in to do that, to get his face. But, you know, then that's when it started to take off in a mob frenzy, in that direction. But before the apology, absolutely, anger was legitimate. The apology was appropriate, and that was fine, you know?

HANNITY: You never spoke publicly about this in any way?

MCGUIRK: No, I didn't, no. No, I haven't.

HANNITY: Do you think you should have apologized to the girls? If you had an opportunity — you have an opportunity now.

MCGUIRK: I would have, sure. I mean...

(CROSSTALK)

HANNITY: You can now. Do you want to say anything to them?

MCGUIRK: I apologize. You know, I have a daughter who's an 11-year- old girl. She plays on a basketball team. And if anybody characterized her directly as, you know, the h-word, you know, I'd kick their teeth in, you know, if I saw it happen in real time.

You know, but we dwell in a world of comedy, ridicule. And at that time, it was just an abstract group of women. Of course, in retrospect, that wasn't the case. But, you know, and, again, so the apologies, all of that legitimate and necessary.

But, again, then, afterward, it took on a mob frenzy, a media frenzy. And you had Al Sharpton, who, you know, is the kind of guy who would park in a handicap spot or, you know — this guy all of a sudden is leading the charge, this guy who'd bring a wheelchair to an amusement park so he could jump the lines, because it's all about him. And he......http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268970,00.html

[Pennville_Bill]

"They caved to this guy with that record," he said, referring to CBS axing Imus on April 12 after Sharpton demanded the firing. "They appeased this terrorist here. Its almost like free-speech surrender."

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START-->Sorry Bernie, but I'm not buying it. People are responsible for their actions and part of that responsibility includes assuming the consequences of ones actions. The "nappy headed hos'<!--EZCODE ITALIC END--> comment was over the line and this time you got nailed. And the fact that Al Sharpton, racial arsonist that he is, exacerbated the incident doesn't mitigate your participation in the chain of events that cost you your job. So quit sniveling and move on............

[DesertFox]

:roar: ... Imus, we characterize him as looking like somebody who survived a partial-birth abortion :rotflmbo:

I don't think they went over any line. They were using street lexicon that blacks in high school long since publicly accepted and adopted as their own.

"Nappy headed hos" is no worse (or better) than scores of things that that scrote Imus has uttered. The disgusting thing to me isn't that he didn't get away with saying this particular offensive bit of crap, but that he's been on radio all these years saying just such garbage and nobody ever said much about it but conservatives.

Imus shoulda been off the air at least 15 years ago.

[Rhino]

<!--EZCODE ITALIC START-->Sorry Bernie, but I'm not buying it. People are responsible for their actions and part of that responsibility includes assuming the consequences of ones actions.He agrees with you. Read the transcript. The point he is making is that the consequences didn't match the action, and that Sharpton is a hypocrite. He's got a good point.

[Rhino]

I don't think they went over any line. They were using street lexicon that blacks in high school long since publicly accepted and adopted as their own.

"Nappy headed hos" is no worse (or better) than scores of things that that scrote Imus has uttered. The disgusting thing to me isn't that he didn't get away with saying this particular offensive bit of crap, but that he's been on radio all these years saying just such garbage and nobody ever said much about it but conservatives.

Imus shoulda been off the air at least 15 years ago.Yep. I don't like Imus either, but in this case an apology was all that was called for, and they got that.

[DeclinetoState]

McGuirk (McGuirk? McGuirk? What a name. Ahem) has now insulted skunks. I hope he can live with himself.

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I reezemble l'insult, non?

[MrsJacks]

While I was never a fan of Don Imus, I feel this situation was blown way out of proportion. I hate double standards. Last night I was watching Hannity & Colmes. I wish I could remember the name of the man they interviewed about the McGuirk segment, but he had worked with Al Sharpton in the past and was also involved in the firing of Imus. Alan was asking him if he thought the punishment was excessive, especially since Don apologized for his comment. The man said he did not think it was at all excessive. Then it was Sean's turn to grill the guy. Sean asked him why he felt firing Imus was not excessive. He said something to the tune of "I found his comments offensive". So, Sean asked him about some of Al Sharpton's racist comments toward white people and asked if he found those offensive and he said, "no, I'm offended by the degrading things people say about my people". And then he went off on how he speaks out against anyone who offends and degrades the women of "his people" and how even though he wasn't offended by Al Sharpton's racist comments, he kept insisting that his comments didn't go without consequences. Sean asked him what sort of consequences were rendered and he responded with, "well, he wasn't elected president". He said that no one should ever use public airwaves to offend "his people". Sean asked about gangster rap and he said, "rappers don't use the public ariwaves to be offensive" and Sean said, "excuse me, sir, but what do you call the radio stations that play their music?" and he said, "well, people choose to listen to those stations". It was so funny watching these double standards unfold during the discussion. Damn nappy headed ho.

[BuckeyeMike]

What I don't get is that if all this was so damned "offensive", why does everybody keep running the friggin' tapes over and over and over again?
The sanctimonious asswipes that spew their "I'm so offended" bullshit seem to enjoy hearing it played so they can make their accusatory comments and let everyone know what level they and everyone else are supposed to be offended........if it was as geedee offensive as all these bastards let on....you'd think they'd never EVER want to hear it again!


edit: about the only thing I can see accomplished by this bullshit is that I now have three new words added to my vocabulary!

[DesertFox]

Al Sharpton is more, and much worse, than a sanctimonious skunk. As far as I'm concerned he's a murderer.

[Wyatt_Junker]

If Imus hadn't apologized and hadn't gone on air with Sharpton he'd still have his job.

But beyond his job, he shouldn't have apologized on principle. Whatever happened to sticks'n stones'n stuff? That little schoolyard chant had more ballsack in its last line than in the media's entire wimpy lifespan.

And if someone was offended? Perfect opportunity to tell them to nut the fuk up.

Hell, people NEED to be offended. Its a great ego adjuster.

[DeclinetoState]

What Imus should have done was played one of Sharpton's acerbic speeches on his show. They're not hard to find.

[Wolfcounsel]

Meanwhile, Sharpton announced plans to lead a march through Midtown next Thursday as part of a campaign to clean up rap lyrics. --from DesertFox's link


Oh yeah. This will go over well with the rap crowd.

[Gonzo67]

Yep. I don't like Imus either, but in this case an apology was all that was called for, and they got that.


I'll have to disagree with ya here Rhino. I don't think anyone, Sharpton, the Rutger's Team, or the little black woman sitting at the bus stop, deserves an "apology". None of them.

I'm still waiting for an apology from every nappy headed nigger that ever uttered the racist label "Cracker".

That's right, I used the dreaded "N" word. I didn't say "Black Person", because only a Nigger refers to white people as Crackers. I'm still waiting for the "head in the sand White people" to get off their ass and follow suit. Hell, half the "white people" in this country want to bow and scrape and mimic these "street niggers" so much, when are WE going to get an "emissary"? When are WE going to get a "protector". Our own personal "Apologize Post"? We need to pick the Whitest, Cracker-est, Tight Ass-ed, Stick in the butt white person we can find to be OUR appointed "Apology Receiver". And every time one of the "Rap Star Thug Niggers" slanders a white boy, they should be in that office kissing that lily white ass, begging for forgiveness. Every time Pimp Daddy Sharpton and his gang of Nigger Protectors harass someone for practicing "Freedom Of Speech" or daring to have a thought THEY find offensive, he can march his over payed black ass into that office and "tongue swab the white boy's brown eye".

I live just outside of a town that I have personally renamed "Little Africa". They walk around all day, calling each other "Nigger" all the time. They blast rap "songs" that "shout out to all my niggers". They put black professors on pedestals that write "poems" asking "can you kill the white man Nigger?" They refer to their friends as "My Nigger". Honestly... How offensive can that word REALLY be to them?

They wear that word like a badge of honor. They use that word as a term of endearment, they accept that word as their own "brand". But then get pissed if I give them what they want? They act like one 95% of the day. So I'm not supposed to call them one?

No apology was owed to anyone. Imus is an asshole. He's a dumb-shit cracker. But you know, even a dumb-shit cracker has "freedom of speech". White people, crackers, black people, niggers, Asians, chinks, Jewish, kikes, Italian, deago's, ALL in America enjoy "freedom of speech". And yes, I agree that "speech" comes with "consequences". Call a black man a nigger, he might try to beat your ass. Call a Jew a "kike", and he might sue you (ok, racist I know.. but honestly, it was just an interjection of humor to lighten the mood), call an Italian a "deago" and some I.B.M. with a violin case might be knocking on your door wanting to take you for a "ride" (again, see the Jew remark). But point me to a race of people that have an "official apology receiver" like the Black's have in "Sharpton". You can't. Because there ISN'T ONE! Apparently in America, you can say what you want about ANY race, ANY people, except blacks. Nope. We have to apologize to them for every word we utter. We must attach a disclaimer to every thing we say in fear that we may bruise the feeling of some poor, under-privileged "nigger" who has no hope of succeeding in life because of the "evil white man and his horrible word"!

Can you tell me how Sharpton became the "Emperor" of the black race? Did I fail to read an issue of Ebony or Jet magazine that announced the elections so that black people can vote? They CAN vote now can't they? I mean, we did start letting them didn't we? How many votes did Sharpton receive? Who did he run against? I assume his "Vice Emperor" is Jessie Jackass, they must have elected HIM to something, because he's received his share of apologies as well.

Well, I don't know. Seems pretty silly to me. To all you poor, oppressed, and down trodden "black people" who believe that slavery is holding you back, please tell me...

How many bails of cotton did a white man make you pick today?

How many times were you forced to give up your seat on a bus so a white man can sit down?

How many times were you arrested for using the "Whites Only Drinking Fountain"?

How many times were you told you were no long "Maleek Shaquil Jumbwaba", that your new name is "Toby"?

Now, once you answered all them questions HONESTLY (you know, thats why you DON'T lie), and then total up all them numbers (you can add can't you? I mean, we let you into the white schools so you could learn to add).

If your answer totals up to "ZERO", then I'm afraid it's time for you to start taking responsibility for your OWN situation. No white man came to your house and put a gun to your head saying "the job search is called off for today nigger!". No white man came to your door to tell you that you might as well take your black ass to the welfare department and get on government assistance, because we're not letting you better yourself an move out of the ghetto.

If you want to be rid of that dreaded "N" word, here's what you do....

Come over here. See this area that's somewhat clean? Where cars aren't turned over and burning, and no one is standing on the corner selling crack? Yeah, we call this "Decent Society". Look over there, we have people of every color there. We have black people that refer to another black person as their "friend". They ever refer to the white people here as their "friend".

Now look back over where you're living... the "people" have different names... "Nigger", "Cracker", etc. DO YOU SEE?

Now look back over here... see those black men walking down the side walk? You know what they're doing? That's right... they're "going to work". Say it with me, it's easy... "going.... to.... work....." Now you're getting it. See the white people walking next to them? Yeah, they're going to work too! Now look... this is REALLY important.... See that black man, walking behind that white man? Now, what do you think that's about? No... he's not about to "jack that cracker". Look again... think... why would that black man be walking BEHIND that white man? No... he's not being forced to "know his place" and walk behind his "white superior".... Ok, I'll tell you.

That black man is walking BEHIND that white man simply because he left his house a couple seconds later than the white man left his own hose. Yep, thats it! There's no "sinister plot", there's no "secret agenda". They're both equal. Just one of them left a little later than the other. See there? There's a white man walking behind the black man!

Now look back over where you live. See how all your "people" group themselves together? Yelling "this is OUR store", and "this is OUR corner"? Do you see any white people telling them they can only use "that store" or only stand on "that corner"? No... their segregation is what we in "Decent Society" refer to as "SELF IMPOSED".

You starting to understand now? You starting to see that if you want to be called a "person", you must first start ACTING LIKE ONE? You see now that if you want to crawl out of the slime you have to put a little effort into the attempt? You understand now that you too can be a member of "Decent Society", but first you must walk out of the "Ghetto"? Are you starting to understand now?

Good, good... Well, the lesson is over now. So be a good little nigger and run over there and get me some fried chicken.

Just kidding... I wanted to see if you would do it, or if you really understood the lesson and worry about improving yourself, rather than what someone that doesn't even know you thinks about you.

So, how did you do?

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[DesertFox]

It ain't black people who enforce political correctness -- and this is very much an issue of political correctness -- it's white liberals who enforce it. Negroes like Sharpton merely abuse it. Sans those whites, Sharpton and Jesse and their like wouldn't get away with it and America would long since have passed this silliness by.

[MrsJacks]

Fox, I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that when white people jump on the NAACP/Rainbow Coalition bandwagon it's supposed to be some sort of shaming finger wag in the face of other white people. It's like the libs are trying to say, "look at us. We're white-skinned and we can have fun with Jesse Jackson so what's your problem? Are you some sort of racist?" Then they win the ethnic minority vote. Tell me one really tremendous, turning of the tide measure a Democratic president has ever done for the black community (and Kennedy passing Affirmative Action doesn't count as it has done more of a disservice to the black community) And having dinner with Al Sharpton doesn't count. Are they still living in poverty? Yes. Are they still committing acts of crime against their own race? Yes. Do they still have a high rate of teen pregnancy, school drop-out and HIV? Yes. Yep...those libs really have their backs. :rolleyes:

[DeclinetoState]

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Jesse (thinking): "Would somebody get this ho off my back?"

[MrsJacks]

Why does Cindy Sheehan remind me so much of Peter Tork from the Monkees?

[Longhorn_Platinum]

MrsJacks:
Why does Cindy Sheehan remind me so much of Peter Tork from the Monkees?

:unsmile: I dunno. He certainly wasn't a media ho.

[DesertFox]

Cindy hittin' on ole Jess. Don't she know he gots a youngah ho?

[GOP Woman]

Peter's better looking...

[BuckeyeMike]

Damn, she doin' her impression of Stan Laurel or what?

[DeclinetoState]

Another caption for the pic:

Jesse (thinking): I wish this ho would go bother Sharpton.

[DesertFox]

Ain't no ho as ugly as an old blonde ho.