{"id":1451,"date":"2007-04-13T06:18:10","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T11:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-imus-thing\/"},"modified":"2007-04-13T06:18:10","modified_gmt":"2007-04-13T11:18:10","slug":"the-imus-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-imus-thing","title":{"rendered":"The Imus thing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t muster up much energy to write about Imus&#8217; firing. I&#8217;m not a listener, so I can&#8217;t characterize his show and &#8220;what he meant&#8221; or offer any other context-creating remark. I feel bad that this whole event has helped Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson consolidate their roles as Kings of All Black People In America, since they&#8217;re a couple of charlatans.<\/p>\n<p>I do marvel over the fact that, while he got fired for making a dumb comment about female athletes, his comment had nothing to do with the <a href=\"http:\/\/girlinshortshorts.blogspot.com\/2007\/03\/pokey-chatman-lesbians-in-college.html\" target=\"_blank\">most prevalent stereotype about female athletes<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I can&#8217;t muster up much energy to write about Imus&#8217; firing. I&#8217;m not a listener, so I can&#8217;t characterize his show and &#8220;what he meant&#8221; or offer any other context-creating remark. I feel bad that this whole event has helped Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson consolidate their roles as Kings of All Black People In &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/the-imus-thing\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Imus thing&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,18,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1451","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-basketball","category-politics-implicit","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4C7K-np","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1460,"url":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/jesus-take-the-seatbelt","url_meta":{"origin":1451,"position":0},"title":"Jesus, take the seatbelt","author":"Gil","date":"April 17, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"Welcome to NJ, dear readers! 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