Do you think its fair that imus got kicked off?

Question

Please forgive him

Answer 1

Don Imus committed the only sin left in America...he was boring.

A boring commedian has no other option than to kick a hornet's nest, and this is what Mr. Imus did.

He will now go to XM Radio, and can there say and do things without much censorship at all.

I never found him to be humorous, and so, will not listen to him beyond his first day or two, in all likelihood.

What occured this past week is illustrative of the insanity that now is common in America.

I suggest you all do as I am doing, and make arrangements to leave the country that used to be a moral titan, an inspiration and a blessed country.

Today, America is the #1 drunkard, hypocrite and terrorist nation of the earth.

If the truth hurts, I apologize. Good luck.

PS - Many will try to leave when the microchipping begins. Why do you think they're hardening the airports and Passport regs? The National ID Card is scheduled for May 2008. See the cameras everywhere? Wake up, folks. Fascism isn't cool. The food supply is getting controlled and the future agenda will use the force of human nature to corral you into steps you'd not think possible, before.

Look and learn, then tell others: http://www.spychips.com/
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Answer 2

If Imus was black.. would it have been the same reaction?
Honestly.. America has a thin line in between funny, and offensive.. and Imus unfortunately got picked to be an offensive one. It wasn't fair.

Answer 3

First of all Imus is forgiven (at least by me).

But let me tell you about fair:
Fair used to be called separate bathrooms (white/colored).
Fair used to deny children of color adequate education
Fair used to be called allowing people of color seats at the back of the bus...
I could continue with more striking examples, but I won't... This is in the past, this used to be FAIR. So please let's discuss something other than fairness.

The point is - he brought racism back to the forefront of the minds of many people by the words he spoke. (Even if he did not mean any harm.)

I truly think that he spoke before he really thought about what he was saying. But now the damage is done (admittedly by him). There are certain derogatory words about every ethnicity that should never be said by anyone outside that group. The problem is that he crossed that line.

When you are a broadcaster (radio/television) - you have to be very careful about what you say. It comes with the territory. Everyone in this business knows the rules. Also, this is not the first time he crossed the line which is why his ultimate fate was harsher than some expected.

Answer 4

No it is not fair. I agree with some of the things that Imus says, and other things I totally diagree with, just because he makes a coment that isn't "politically correct" he gets fired, it's a load of bull. We have all said something mean about someone else, no matter what color, sex, religion we are. We all say stuff about people in our own race, and in others does it make us racist, no. We are just expressing who we feel. It doesn't mean we hate a race or sex. It just means we are saying what we think, and I think more people should stand up and say what they think, more crap in the world would get solved and more opinions would get heard.

Answer 5

A bunch of righteous people who can do no wrong and have never stuck their foot in their mouth protested and some other spineless idiots just had to satisfy those saintly people by terminating him and putting an end to his career. We now live in a society filled with these idiots who have nothing better to do with their time. I wonder how many of them put any time into helping the less fortunate as Imus does.

Answer 6

Fair, it was stupid and very unfortunate for all the sick children who are not going to get all the help and MILLIONS OF DOLLARS in charity. Mr Imus was a good man for doing this kind of work with sick children and did not deserve to get fired for comments heard every day on a city train or just turning on the radio....i guess it another case of the sqeaky wheel gets the oil! No, it was not fair to him and the children

Answer 7

Man, you people are just clueless.

It has nothing to do with "freedom of speech" or "fairness".

"Free speech" is never entirely free, especially in the realm of commercial speech. Sure, you are free to say whatever you want, but that doesn't mean there won't be consequences. And in the corporate world speech that harms the company's bottom line is pretty much gonna get you canned.

Fairness? Was it fair to the companies who write Imus' check that his speech lost them revenue? They write his check, they determine whether he is a liability or not. And if he costs them too much, bye bye. End of story.

It really has nothing to do with what's "fair".

Answer 8

I hate imus and racism, but I thnk it was an overreacton. The 2 week suspension was good I think.

Also I'm afraid of the fallout:

1) That the right-wingers will use this to attack the left as lacking perspective and reason.
2) That people will think that real racists like Michael Richards or Mel Gibson or George Allen are equal to Imus, in reality they are much worse and our discourse has to have room for that difference.

Answer 9

Absolutely not.

What he said was incredibly, incredibly stupid and superficially insulting, but it was not racist. He was trying to depict a single group of people as being tough women using hip-to-the-streets lingo. He's been making cracks at all kinds of people for thirty years, and he's only gotten in trouble for it now because he's white and Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are race-bating poverty pimps who must create headlines to maintain their own significance.

If a black person had said the same things or they were said about Condolezza Rice, it would've never been an issue.

It is despicable for those Jackson and Sharpton to demand that anybody be fired.

Were they punished when they ruined two peoples' lives by falsely accusing them of raping Brawli or however it's spelled?

Did Jackson apologize when he incited a mob to burn down Freddy's Fashion Mart killing a number of people trapped inside?

Did either apologize for the damage done to the innocent Duke players?

Did that woman in the Duke case ever got the scholarship she was promised?

What happened when Sharpton lied about being there when Martin Luther King Jr. was shot? What happened when he extorted money from his charitable organizations to buy himself nice crap?

Answer 10

No, I don't think it is fair that Imus got kicked off. If it is fair --then alot of other people need to be ousted.