Don Imus fired by MSNBC/CBS

[Rickey Roux]

Thanks Dave, I will try and steer clear of these companies and their products (although P & G might be hard).  He has done too much good to be treated like this.  Those corporate assholes.

[skalnbyc]

Censorship via intimidation by the P.C. fascists is a growing and alarming trend.  Even if Imus stated a fact about black people (example - 70% of black babies are born to single moms), he would still be castrated for "hate speech".  

Shame on the advertisers for jumping on the bandwagon - neglecting that most Americans are likely not offended by Imus or his remarks.  

The same people who are calling for his dismissal likely also claim to be champions for free speech - the protesting types who frequently open their big, fat, perverted mouths whenever/wherever they please and are always antagonizing others in public (those who choose not to listen to Imus can change the channel, whereas those targets who are subjected to the rants of radical public protests cannot do the same).  

Going on Sharpton\'s show was a bad move that leveraged the campaign against him.

[FrankZappa]

Not me though,I don\'t listen to any one sided talk radio. Just Rush Limbaugh in the afternoon followed by collin on wtic, npr at night and bbc world feed in the early morning. All of which is 100% middle of the road non-offensive.

that may be a joke, i\'m not sure, but if not, i just want to say that imus really isn\'t one-sided at all, and this just goes to show that people know absolutely nothing about the man.

all sarcasm. Like I said, I\'ve never listened to him, so I have nothing bad to say. I know Dave\'s been listening to him for years, so he must be really pissed by this.

<-for free speech in all of it\'s horrible beauty. If you don\'t want to listen to the kkk when they come to town to march, protest by NOT GOING/NOT LISTENING, but they have the right to say their views on things same as any other group does. That\'s extreme, but the point is the same. If you don\'t like what he said, fine, but he has the right to say it, and you have the right to say he\'s wrong and explain why you think that, and I have the right to say you\'re both crazy and I don\'t want to listen to either of you, but I\'m not going to have the KGB come throw you in jail for it! That\'s why I love this country. :flag:

[davepeck]

not sure how accurate that list is, as the president of bigelow tea is on the show right now..

[FrankZappa]

see, explain this to me, because cnn just intro\'d the segment with "msnbc shock-joc Imus was pulled..." :hscratch:

[kindm's]

This has nothing to do with free speech or freedom of speech

Don Imus works for a company. They have every right to hire and fire who they please. I don\'t necessarily agree with their decision but this is the USA and the company has every right to look out for their bottom line and their stock holders as they should.

Don Imus is not being arrested for what he said and the government isn\'t the entity who fired and or dropped him.

If any one of you were in a corporate job and said something similar you would likely have to answer to HR if someone complained and very well could be terminated for it.

I think it is silly when Black America puts this kind of effort in to take down a white guy when what he said wasn\'t all that bad and many more hateful hurtful things are said about women of color everyday on radio and in music or TV etc. Many of the people doing it are also people of color so the hypocrisy runs deep.

Here is a great article about this whole mess
http://sports.aol.com/whitlock/_a/time-for-jackson-sharpton-to-step-down/20070411111509990001

[casinokid]

I listen to Imus on my way to work in the morning.  He rips everyone,
I can see why the Rutger\'s b-ball team would be offended, but it should not be blown out of proportion like this.  
Imus does good for many people, he was the first to break the news about the veteran\'s hospitals unsuitable conditions.
Whenever race issue comes up- here comes Al and Jackson.  They should watch themselves, they are no saints.  
a lot of people are bringing up Tawana Brawly(sp).

Did you hear that Jesse Jackson was going to pay for the stripper\'s college education.
The stripper that lied about the 3 Duke lacrosse players?

If Howard Stern said this, I wonder what would happen?

Did anyone catch snoop dogs response to this...I cannot believe he was given air time for a quote on msnbc last night.

I SUPPORT IMUS!!

[ChrisPitch]

An outrage and an embarrassment. Long live Imus!

[davepeck]

horse shit.

(imus has been fired by CBS)

[ChrisPitch]

Well the good news is now that Imus has been fired, racism in America ceases to exist. In other words, one of the biggest mounds of bullshit in our country\'s history just got a cherry on top. I hope everyone who caused this to happen is happy. And I know they are.

[antbach]

horse shit.

(imus has been fired by CBS)

better get that sirius subscription started/renewed, he\'ll be on howard 101 within a couple weeks.

[davepeck]

good read:

Imus isn’t the real bad guy
Instead of wasting time on irrelevant shock jock, black leaders need to be fighting a growing gangster culture.
By JASON WHITLOCK
Columnist

Thank you, Don Imus. You’ve given us (black people) an excuse to avoid our real problem.

You’ve given Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson another opportunity to pretend that the old fight, which is now the safe and lucrative fight, is still the most important fight in our push for true economic and social equality.

You’ve given Vivian Stringer and Rutgers the chance to hold a nationally televised recruiting celebration expertly disguised as a news conference to respond to your poor attempt at humor.

Thank you, Don Imus. You extended Black History Month to April, and we can once again wallow in victimhood, protest like it’s 1965 and delude ourselves into believing that fixing your hatred is more necessary than eradicating our self-hatred.

The bigots win again.

While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

I ain’t saying Jesse, Al and Vivian are gold-diggas, but they don’t have the heart to mount a legitimate campaign against the real black-folk killas.

It is us. At this time, we are our own worst enemies. We have allowed our youths to buy into a culture (hip hop) that has been perverted, corrupted and overtaken by prison culture. The music, attitude and behavior expressed in this culture is anti-black, anti-education, demeaning, self-destructive, pro-drug dealing and violent.

Rather than confront this heinous enemy from within, we sit back and wait for someone like Imus to have a slip of the tongue and make the mistake of repeating the things we say about ourselves.

It’s embarrassing. Dave Chappelle was offered $50 million to make racially insensitive jokes about black and white people on TV. He was hailed as a genius. Black comedians routinely crack jokes about white and black people, and we all laugh out loud.

I’m no Don Imus apologist. He and his tiny companion Mike Lupica blasted me after I fell out with ESPN. Imus is a hack.

But, in my view, he didn’t do anything outside the norm for shock jocks and comedians. He also offered an apology. That should’ve been the end of this whole affair. Instead, it’s only the beginning. It’s an opportunity for Stringer, Jackson and Sharpton to step on victim platforms and elevate themselves and their agenda$.

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed.

Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had.

Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season. Had a broadcaster with credibility and a platform in the sports world uttered the words Imus did, I could understand a level of outrage.

But an hourlong press conference over a man who has already apologized, already been suspended and is already insignificant is just plain intellectually dishonest. This is opportunism. This is a distraction.

In the grand scheme, Don Imus is no threat to us in general and no threat to black women in particular. If his words are so powerful and so destructive and must be rebuked so forcefully, then what should we do about the idiot rappers on BET, MTV and every black-owned radio station in the country who use words much more powerful and much more destructive?

I don’t listen or watch Imus’ show regularly. Has he at any point glorified selling crack cocaine to black women? Has he celebrated black men shooting each other randomly? Has he suggested in any way that it’s cool to be a baby-daddy rather than a husband and a parent? Does he tell his listeners that they’re suckers for pursuing education and that they’re selling out their race if they do?

When Imus does any of that, call me and I’ll get upset. Until then, he is what he is — a washed-up shock jock who is very easy to ignore when you’re not looking to be made a victim.

No. We all know where the real battleground is. We know that the gangsta rappers and their followers in the athletic world have far bigger platforms to negatively define us than some old white man with a bad radio show. There’s no money and lots of danger in that battle, so Jesse and Al are going to sit it out.

http://www.kansascity.com/159/story/66339.html

[delfunk1]

Horrible, ok how about they fire Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for their comments about the Duke Lacrosse thing!  They didn\'t even appologize!  Bullshit!

[Rickey Roux]

Dave, thanks for find this one.  It\'s a very good read.

[skalnbyc]

Did you hear that Jesse Jackson was going to pay for the stripper\'s college education.
The stripper that lied about the 3 Duke lacrosse players?

Those shitbags never do the required due diligence and leap to the black side of things every time, no matter how bogus the situation is.

Horrible, ok how about they fire Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson for their comments about the Duke Lacrosse thing!  They didn\'t even appologize!  Bullshit!

Imus should take his troops (likely much larger a support base than Sharpton and Jackson combined) and mass protests against their sleazy, has-been behinds.

horse shit.

(imus has been fired by CBS)

Since his core audience has gone nowhere (all the outrage is from non-Imus radicals and race-baiters), hopefully he\'ll resurface on an independent network.  Though many here would probably despise Michael Savage (a very conservative radio host), he is independently syndicated to 360 stations nationwide.  I\'m sure Imus will land on his feet, though the crusade and pony show to oust him cannot be easy to digest.