Imus

[ThomCat]

I was thoroughly enjoying Imus on the hot seat until I saw some remarks last night. He was totally wrong and deserves whatever lies ahead for him but to watch two of the most transparent hypocritical phonies in the world, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton, take shots at this guy was painful. The two "reverends" who could not more clearly define "people who live in glass houses....." grandstanding to use this inexcusable offense to further there own agendas was absurd. In my humble opinion these two, who have numerous disgraceful indiscretions of their own to recognize & be accountable for, would be wise to spend as much energy in keeping their own house in order as they do trying to incite and exacerbate an ultra-stupid, maximum irresponsible, insensitive & hurtful comment made in a lame attempt at humor. Make no mistake, I don't by any means condone or take lightly the gravity of these moronic statements or suggest letting Imus off the hook but the word "racist" is not exclusive to one particular group.

[Bronko]

Originally Posted by ThomCat

I was thoroughly enjoying Imus on the hot seat until I saw some remarks last night. He was totally wrong and deserves whatever lies ahead for him but to watch two of the most transparent hypocritical phonies in the world, Jesse Jackson & Al Sharpton, take shots at this guy was painful. The two "reverends" who could not more clearly define "people who live in glass houses....." grandstanding to use this inexcusable offense to further there own agendas was absurd. In my humble opinion these two, who have numerous disgraceful indiscretions of their own to recognize & be accountable for, would be wise to spend as much energy in keeping their own house in order as they do trying to incite and exacerbate an ultra-stupid, maximum irresponsible, insensitive & hurtful comment made in a lame attempt at humor. Make no mistake, I don't by any means condone or take lightly the gravity of these moronic statements or suggest letting Imus off the hook but the word "racist" is not exclusive to one particular group.

I agree.

[Raven]

it was a disgusting .... show of racism against whites for saying something that the blacks fondly say to themselves same as callin each other "Nigger" ..... (that word's root means black) and which is considered a "term of endearment" when they use it.
(as long as a black says it....it's not racist) a double standard!

Grandstanding was the most perfect WORD ,,,and one i expressed mentally to myself while hearing the interview....

the USA has bent over backwards and bitten its own butt in the name of politically correctness in my opinion... to the point its ridiculous.

[vanstaal]

if everybody fish there be a shortage of fishing poles

[Swimmer]

Remember the hymietown and white interlopers comment. That was free speech and so wasn't Imus's words free speech.

Fox had three Americans of African decent on last night and only one considered outright racist. One didn't think much of it and the comic whose name I don't know thought it was hillarious.

[Mike P]

Imus does have a right to free speech--in his own living room, on his ranch, on a public street corner, in the halls of Congress or in any other public forum.

However, CBS, MSNBC and Infinity Broadcasting do have every right to dictate what he can and can't say while he's sitting behind a microphone that they own

Letting two race hustlers like Sharpton and Jackson call the tune is disgraceful, but again, the folks who own the radio stations can dance to whatever tune they want.

Imus has the cash to buy his own station, if he wants to. He has a broadcast studio at his ranch. He can buy the equipment to air his own show and if he can find enough advertisers, and enough stations willing to syndicate it, he can say whatever the hell he wants

Imus isn't the first guy in NYC to get in hot water by saying something stupid. Bob Grant was fired by WABC after publicly celebrating the death of Clinton's Commerce Secretary, Ron Brown, in a plane crash. He moved right over to another station and kept on saying the same things.