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iluvroadrunner6) wrote2007-04-13 04:50 pm
iluvroadrunner6) wrote2007-04-13 04:50 pm
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You know what, Richard L. McCormick--you suck.
For those of you not in the Jersey area, or who may not know (I don't know how much press this has been getting), Rutgers Women's basketball came in second in the NCAA championships this year, and this DJ, Don Imus, made some bastard-worthy comments about the team on his news show. (Racist and Sexist are the tems being used, but I like bastard-worthy better.) There's been this whole big controversey about it, and frankly, the Rutgers community was pissed. There was a nice big press conference, Imus apologized, and he was fired from both his positions at MSNBC and CBS radio. So Richard L. McCormick the President of Rutgers, just issued this nice statement about how he hoped that Imus getting laid off was a sign of positive change in the world, blah, blah, blah. That's all well and good.
The reason why he sucks is that the governor of New Jersey, John Corzine, was driving to the RU press conference when he was in a very serious accident on the turnpike. He's got multiple broken ribs, his sternum is broken, collar bone is broken--as far as I know, he can't breathe on his own. Does President McCormick make any mention of the governor in his little statement to the students, and how we should keep him in our thoughts?
No.
I was told that the Governor of New Jersey getting into a freakin' car crash was added in a little side note after the fact that Imus was let go from his position at CBS. I'm sorry--I was just as pissed off that this guy said what he said--but there's something wrong with that. Like Corzine, hate Corzine--the fact that he's going to be out of commission for a while, and that Richard Cody is governor again should be more than a little blurb after a piece on Don Imus's job security. And considering that he was in this accident coming to a Rutgers press conference, the least President McCormick could do is acknowledge that in a letter to his students.
...OK, I'm done now.
For those of you not in the Jersey area, or who may not know (I don't know how much press this has been getting), Rutgers Women's basketball came in second in the NCAA championships this year, and this DJ, Don Imus, made some bastard-worthy comments about the team on his news show. (Racist and Sexist are the tems being used, but I like bastard-worthy better.) There's been this whole big controversey about it, and frankly, the Rutgers community was pissed. There was a nice big press conference, Imus apologized, and he was fired from both his positions at MSNBC and CBS radio. So Richard L. McCormick the President of Rutgers, just issued this nice statement about how he hoped that Imus getting laid off was a sign of positive change in the world, blah, blah, blah. That's all well and good.
The reason why he sucks is that the governor of New Jersey, John Corzine, was driving to the RU press conference when he was in a very serious accident on the turnpike. He's got multiple broken ribs, his sternum is broken, collar bone is broken--as far as I know, he can't breathe on his own. Does President McCormick make any mention of the governor in his little statement to the students, and how we should keep him in our thoughts?
No.
I was told that the Governor of New Jersey getting into a freakin' car crash was added in a little side note after the fact that Imus was let go from his position at CBS. I'm sorry--I was just as pissed off that this guy said what he said--but there's something wrong with that. Like Corzine, hate Corzine--the fact that he's going to be out of commission for a while, and that Richard Cody is governor again should be more than a little blurb after a piece on Don Imus's job security. And considering that he was in this accident coming to a Rutgers press conference, the least President McCormick could do is acknowledge that in a letter to his students.
...OK, I'm done now.