Imus works for broadcasters. They are free to hire or fire him if he gets out of line and makes them look bad. Imus is "free" to say what he wants on HIS OWN DIME!.
Let him personally finance his OWN show if he wants. MSNBC has NO OBLIGATION to keep him on the air. No more so than they are obliged to give me my own show so I can put down White people. (which I am not inclined to do!)
Imus' rights are intact. He has done nothing illegal. And is even free to join the KKK and say whatever he wants as long as he can find the financial means to broadcast his filth.
Free speech doesn't mean his bosses have to pay for it to the detriment of their bottom line.
Basically, he's an employee who crossed the company line and got canned. Don't like it, get your own damn network and say what ever you want. Problem is, no advertisers will want to associate with you if you spew racist garbage.
So Imus is still free to stand on a corner and call people "jiggaboos" and "nappyheaded hos".
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2007-04-12 08:12:24 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
P.S. - Imus and his wife are registered Republicans. Surprise, surprise!
2007-04-12 08:13:31 · update #1
squawk_squawk_chickenh...- and what's your citizenship? You didn't say either. As for me, I'm one of the rare Americans who actually listened and took notes during civics class. Too bad you can't say the same.
2007-04-12 08:29:21 · update #2
Eliot B - Right you are. How Ironic. Here are some young smart and talented Black girls, going to a good school, achieving, advancing, and they STILL get put down by bigots. That's what pisses people off. Sad. Very sad.
2007-04-12 08:38:52 · update #3
Factually correct.
You get a star from me!
2007-04-12 08:15:27 · answer #1 · answered by Bad Samaritan 4 · 5⤊ 2⤋
I actually agree with your main point entirely.
Bottom line,freedon of speech does not mean freedom to host a radio show.
You lose serious points however, with the silly Republican jibe.
In the first place, Imus is a dyed-in-the-wool liberal - regardless of what political party he registers with (I have no idea if that is even true, but we will presume it is for the sake of this discussion).
The Imus incident is already redundant - the issue now is the campaign on the part of Sharpton and Jackson to shut down speech that THEY determine is inappropriate.
How laughable!
The two biggest race-baiters and poverty pimps in the country are now setting themselves up as the arbiters of offensive viewpoints.
If Al and Jesse want to be taken seriously, perhaps they should apologize to the innocent victims of the rape charges at Duke University for their inflamatory and wholly inaccurate and inappropriate remarks...those young men are victims of a REAL denial of their civil rights based on false accusations by an ACTUAL 'nappy headed ho'.
Perhaps the Reverends will leap to protest the civil rights abuses perpetrated on those inncent men.
And perhaps monkeys will fly out of my butt.
2007-04-12 08:58:42 · answer #2 · answered by Garrett S 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Well, the same people screaming about global warming are the same people from the 70s that were screaming about the impending ice age by the 90s. Read a book by Dixie Lee Ray called "Trashing the Planet"; it's highly footnoted and pretty much exposes looney radicals like Gore. The sky isn't falling.
2016-05-18 02:33:31 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree with much of what you say.
However, I don't believe people like Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson should be given license to coerce Imus' ouster. Sharpton himself is a racist, yet he's still around. He needs people like Imus to survive.
As for Imus' contract, he probably gets paid a lump sum if they fire him, unless he's got a moron for an agent.
I don't listen to Imus and am not about to start.
I'm not so sure about Imus being a registered Republican. If you have a link to it, I'd appreciate you posting it.
2007-04-12 08:20:13 · answer #4 · answered by MoltarRocks 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The issue most people have isn't that Imus can't say what he wants, but that he picked on College Girls. These girls did nothing to him, and deserve respect, not to be made fun of.
2007-04-12 08:27:15 · answer #5 · answered by Elliott Ness 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Why does everyone always make race a issue in every thing if you think about it you can not make a joke with out offending someone. No one says that if you hate people who smoke that you should be fired or if you hate athiest any thing like that. Race is the same its just like character thats all. People don't choose to be ugly or Hot it just happens its the same with race.
2007-04-12 08:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Help 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Not ALL Americans are ignorant. Don't generalize & sound as silly as IMUS did! I hope you feel better after all of this ranting & raving you got out of your system! Tomorrow there will be a new controvery for you to comment on! Enjoy!
2007-04-12 08:20:34 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
To the people saying he was fired, please see the below link. As of 56 minutes ago, Don Imus was still employed. He will be suspended for two weeks and his TV simulcast was cut off, but he did still host the radiothon.
2007-04-12 08:30:29 · answer #8 · answered by mikehunt29 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Who really cares what this guy's opinion is?
I don't. Why let him bother you now, when he has been saying such things for years? It's not worth my time to protest something so trivial; use your ways for a bigger cause like taking the derogatory remarks against women out of rap music, then we can talk about freedom of speech.
2007-04-12 08:17:57 · answer #9 · answered by Peach 2 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I don't disagree with you entirely. However, your last little dig was totally unnecessary. Who cares what political party he supports? Funny how you can't even make a point without slamming someone.
2007-04-12 08:27:59 · answer #10 · answered by rosi l 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Imus is paid to be controversial. Why do you think he wasn't fired? (And he wasn't; he was given a two-week paid suspension.)
He did his job. His employer is mollifying the public by suspending him; in the end, they're really happy he did what he did.
2007-04-12 08:16:04 · answer #11 · answered by Bush Invented the Google 6 · 6⤊ 2⤋