Originally Posted by nuttyjoe

I think you are both correct. Again, I can't speak about Imus personally. It would be wrong for me to morally judge a man I have never met or spoken to.
I can however; state my opinion on the situation as I know it. Were his comments inappropriate and objectifying? Yes.Does this mean he should have been fired? Like it or not, politics aside; your employer has every right to fire you for inappropriate behavior. All the more so when it costs them money, as clearly started happening when sponsors started jumping ship after this incident.
People, I still am wodering if this all wasn't a ratings ploy. Stations whether television or radio will do almost anything to boost ratings so they can charge more fees for commercial time.I have nothing concrete to point at in this assumption; I just wonder why CBS and MNBC have not apologized for this publicly.
As far as the politics of this unfortunate incident; without a doubt Imus was wrong in his choice of words. I really believe that what has inflamed the African -American community was that a white man used what is mostly a African-American colloquial. Imus couldn't have been much more offensive if he had referred to the women's basketball team as "nappy-headed n-----s. I'll leave everyone else to draw their own conclusions.