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| Posted By | Discussion Topic: "Sports Guy" Sid out on his ass again. | ||||
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| DiamondDust | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 12:02 PM |    | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00  | NY POST June 6, 2001 Don Imus' new sports reporter was fired yesterday after calling Venus Williams an "animal" and saying she and sister Serena have a better shot at posing nude for National Geographic than Playboy. Sid Rosenberg got the boot from Imus' WFAN show just hours after his outlandish remarks about the famed tennis queens. The tasteless blasts came as Imus and his crew reported on the French Open tournament, in which Serena was defeated by Jennifer Capriati yesterday. Rosenberg said he couldn't stomach either sister and called Venus an "animal." A stunned Imus briefly silenced his sports man, screaming "You're a moron! You're a degenerate!" But Rosenberg defended his remarks. "I can't even watch them play anymore. I find it disgusting. I find both of those, what do you wanna call them . . . They're just too muscular. They're boys," Rosenberg complained. "One time my friend . . . he goes, ‘Listen, one of these days you're going to find Venus and Serena Williams in Playboy.' I said, ‘You got a better shot at National Geographic.'" Private eye Bo Dietl, a regular on the show, said: "Sid, why don't you take my gun and put it in your mouth?" The Brooklyn-born Rosenberg insisted his quips were not racist. "Nothing could be further from the truth . . . When I see women that are that muscular, classically boys, then that's how I refer to them . . . It has nothing to do with the zoological sense of the word," he said. WFAN general manager Lee Davis confirmed the firing. Rosenberg could not be reached for comment. The Williams sisters were also unavailable, but a source close to the famed athletes said: "It's outrageous, what he said." _____________________________  Just another observation of insanity. | ||||
The sky is blue | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 12:11 PM | | |||
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| Unicron | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 12:12 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Mar. 01 | At least he is kinda known around the country now. poor guy..they really weren't racist remarks, it was kinda like Coselle saying "look at that lil' monkey run" refering to the nimbleness of the reciever, not his race. Venus is an animal, and a racist looks like back to Florida for Sid  This message was edited by Unicron on 6-6-01 @ 12:14 PM | ||||
| hornygoatweed23 I've Got A Vagina With Teeth. G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Dragoon Battalion My friends call me Weed | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 12:12 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | I didn't hear these comments or the show, but if he really said that from a purely non-racist standpoint, could he not see that a comment like that could easily be taken as racist?? Not a smart move by Sid. | ||||
| hammersavage | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 12:52 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Oct. 00 | Why didn't he just say, "Yaddle, Doodle, apoloooooogggiiizzzee. Bone Dry." **Official Painter of Billboards** Opie and Anthony: The thinking mans Beavis and Butthead -Playboy Mafia Mob Lieut.--Darippa Serious posts only | ||||
| King f-tard | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 1:08 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Feb. 01 | Too bad for sidney. He just came across wrong, and that isnt a good thing. Oh well, I guess he can always get a job slinging burgers with Patti... | ||||
| Yoshii D. Porkman | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 2:18 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | The article says he's gone from the Imus show. Does that mean he loses his Saturday shift also? | ||||
| Tony Metropolis | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 4:32 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Feb. 01 | "Y'see, Mr. Imus uses characters." Maybe Sid should have done a Greaseman impression so he wouldn't be a homeless hobo... again. "I am a sophisticated sex robot sent back in time to change the future for one lucky lady."-The Shermanator | ||||
| SpiritOfDirt | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 4:57 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: May. 01 | Sid does have a point though........ (crickets) Only kidding  THE ROOT OF THE PROBLEM HAS BEEN ISOLATED I am a budding product of Spitfire421 | ||||
| Angelo from da Bronx | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 5:38 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Dec. 00 | What is this country coming to when you get fired for saying basically that a couple ugly girls are a couple ugly girls. -------------------------- E-Mail me HERE AIM ME AT : OA AfdB | ||||
| o&aswallow | posted on 06-06-2001 @ 6:53 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Jan. 01 | quote: So True, so true. It's the words you use. Skank, dogface, coyote, ugly bitch will get you in trouble. You have to say things, like "she has a nice personality" or, "I would say she'a average looking". I still prefer the Fox Sports Net, brutally honest approach that Sid used. It just isn't quite mainstream yet.  o&aswallow Recognized His Destiny Early. Too Many Hotties, Not Enough Horny Goat Weed Now accepting foster children applications. Cash only, no checks. Email at [email protected] Currently teaching TwatGunk how to walk. If he stumbles contact me with the gory details. God have mercy on his soul. It at first you don't succeed, keep on sucking till you do suck seed. - Curly Howard. | ||||
| SSJ3 Goku | posted on 06-07-2001 @ 12:28 AM | | |||
| Hanger-On Registered: Jan. 01 | There is reason why Sid should of gotten fired. He was just exressing his opinion. If you can't do it on the radio where can you?!?!?!? | ||||
| skitchr4u G.O.O.F.B.A.H.G.S. Xtreme Skiing Assualt Force | posted on 06-07-2001 @ 8:25 AM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Dec. 00 | If that is what he said to get fired, then society is so far gone that I don't think it can get back! All he did was express an opinion that he thought they were ugly and he gets fired...whats next? | ||||
| NewYorkDragons80 | posted on 06-10-2001 @ 4:55 PM | | |||
| Psychopath Registered: Nov. 00 | Sid definitely should've gotten fired. I'm all for freedom of speech, but this is something that will negatively affect the Imus program (Not that he needed Sid's help.) If Sid was taken away in handcuffs, then I would say something is wrong in this country. But he made a clearly racist remark and was fired for it. His comment left Viacom and CBS with a black eye and when you do that to your company of course you should be fired. If not, then what does it take to get fired? You really can't compare this with Cossell because he said "Monkey" once. Sid said "animal" and she "Belongs in National Geographic" and called them "disgusting." Cossell's remark was a one-time thing and the difference between this and a one-time thing is Cossell could've talked his way out of it. Sid Rosenburg got fired for being Sid Rosenburg, the bitchy angry whiner he is. His voice is like a drill that digs into your skull. You can get away with those kinds of remarks when 11 people listen, but when your show isn't in last place, people notice hatred and see right through it. This was obviously just a way for Sid to get his name in the paper and so far it ain't working too well if it was only in the NY Post. | ||||
| DiamondDust | posted on 07-05-2001 @ 5:31 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Oct. 00 | Ever think that the Willimas sister's are "disgusting" and do look like animals? Not because they are black, but because they could probably hunt and kill a gazelle with their hands just as good as a cheetah. There are worse things then calling manly women out for what they are. Just another observation of insanity. | ||||
| Filzy Stand up straight Stomach in Shoulders back SOUND OFF!!! | posted on 07-05-2001 @ 5:54 PM | | |||
| O&A Board Regular Registered: Sep. 00 | Let's see here... Sid gets fired for a comment that has either been blown out of proportion, OR It was meant as a racist remark and Sid went ver the line. I don't know nor do I care. Make your own judgement. It's baeball season, move on, nothing to see here.  OA.com's headhunter and big brother to a select few One sucessful graduate: whichwaymediumorrare And a brand new headhunter in training: Short hills mall | ||||
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