Here is a roundup of the latest Imusgate news:
Hoe Manufacturers Pondering Name Change for Popular Garden Tool
The National Association of Hoe Manufacturers said that Imusgate has prompted it to consider changing the name of the hoe, a common gardening tool. “We want to be sensitive to the connotations that the word hoe, however it is spelled, have in our national, multicultural life,” said Foster Clodman, the association’s executive director. He said several possibilities for a new name were under consideration, but that “dirt dragger” and “loose soil puller” were the favorites among members of the NAHM’s board of directors.
Imus Plans 10,000 Additional Apologies
Sources close to Don Imus said yesterday that the radio shock jock plans to visit his old high school in Prescott, Arizona in the next few days so that he can write “I’m sorry, Miss Wilson” 10,000 times on the blackboard of the classroom where he frequently dozed off during civics class in the 1950s. “Don has already apologized several times for his remark about the Rutgers University athletes, but he feels that this supreme act of blackboard contrition will finally make everyone realize he is sincere,” the source said. One Prescott legend about its famous son holds that Imus was disciplined by his civics teacher, Miss Wilson, who kept him after school and made him write repeatedly on the blackboard, “I will not sleep during class.”
Rapper Defiant about Use of “H” Word in Hip-Hop Lyrics
“A (censored) is a (censored) is a (censored) and I ain’t no way gonna stop sayin’ (censored) when a (censored) is what a (censored) is,” said Sooba Shakhar Grillman, whose album “A (censored) Is a (censored)” went platinum in 2005. “This a free country, Y’all, and if a (censored) wants to be a (censored) then she can be a (censored) and I’m gonna call her a (censored), if you know what I mean.”
Congressional Democrats Call for Special Prosecutor to Probe Imusgate
Democratic leaders in the House and Senate called yesterday for the Bush Administration to name a special prosecutor to investigate the “continued existence of misogamy and racial and sexual stereotyping in American society.” A spokesman for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said a special prosecutor was needed to get to the bottom of why people say unkind and even mean things about one another and “bring the perpetrators to justice regardless of their ethnicity, political affiliation or the square footage of their primary domicile.”