CBS fires imus

I completely disagree with it but it had to happen once the sponsors pulled out of the show. Then it became a business decision.

Who needs freedom of speech anyway. Everyone should boycott CBS, NBC and all the sponsors that backed out. The United States is coming closer and closer to being a scary place everyday.

The next step comedians get censored so they don't offend anyone. This is America?

was the joke even funny?

The things people decide to get outraged about in this country...

onelongsong wrote:

he's famous now. someone else will pick him up. maybe satellite radio.

You are probabaly right.

Like a few people have said I can't fault MSNBC or CBS for firing him. It was a pure business decision. Once all of his sponsors pulled out he was no longer going to generate the revenue necessary to keep him on the air. You also can't blame the sponsors either. It's their dollor and their right to decide where to use that money and whom to attach their corporate identity to.

I've heard people, on here and on the radio, attach Al Sharpton, attack Imus, attack the black community, attack the girls on the Rutgers team, attack women over this for numerous reasons but what about the media. Had last week not been such a slow media week we probabably would never have heard about his comments. The media had nothing else going on so they took it and plastered it all over the headlines. Warrented, what he said was stupid and offensive, butwas it necessary for the man to loose his job, did it warrent all the national attention that it has received. Now because of this we have the FCC getting involved. Now we are going to have the government deciding what is offensive. Now that is truely an offense on us all.

you sure as hell can blame MSNBC and CBS for firing him. Turn on VH1 and MTV right now. There are videos of scantily clad women in bikini's, women are demeaned, questionable language is left to stand. Its a double standard.

Racism should be dealt with in a swift and strong manner. It should be condemned and discontinued. Racism shouldnt exist and it should be stamped out.

Yet MSNBC and CBS have no problem being funded by GE, which makes planes and arms that are being used in Iraq and Afghanistan. They have no problem haveing ads on tv and the radio by corporations with unfair labor practices and anti-union stances. They have no problem with refusing to apologize to the public post invasion of Iraq about how they shirked their duty and part of the blame for iraq rests on MSNBC and CBS's lack of reporting and investigation into the claims by Bush about WMD's. They should have done their duty, yet they refused to do it, and 3,000 plus youngsters are dead in part because they didnt do what reporters should do "ask questions" and "investigate". They have no problem with using airtime to talk about inane crap like whose the daddy of Anna Nicoles child, and the Michael Jackson trial and the Kobe trial, and OJ and Britney and Lindsay and Britney. That crap has no usefulness to us. Instead of filling the airtime with information about how the president and the congress lied us into war and how kids are getting killed, they allow airtime to be used by "entertainment reporters" who talk about where britney was last night.

Imus deserves punishment, but he doesnt deserve to be fired. His comments were way off base, and disturbing and show racism still exists in america. But the real people who deserve to have their head on a plate, are those reporters who took an oath to do their duty, and refused to do it, and thus cost us thousands of lives in Iraq.