Well its official....CBS, who has been scrambling due to severe loss in sponsors and extreme public outcry, have fired Don Imus. Now this i must say is way way out of line. Imus who is almost at the same rank as Howard Stern, slips the tounge once and BOOM he is gone, I have heard far worse things on the radio and TV and all they get are a "slap on the wrist" fine, and suspension. How and Why should CBS fire Imus for this, and lately I've heard there arent too many people up in the morning nor listening to him in their cars or homes. He was good in the past but now is just another talk radio deal. Give the guy his job back for god sakes

Note what Sharpton said. He said the only people listening to Imus in his time slot were people like Imus. So the coke dealing rev. struck out at white folks he believes don't like him. Well he was coorrect on that charge.

It isn't once, it wasn't twice, he's been making these 'slips' for 30 years.

And, yes, Imus has the right to say whatever he wants, and guess what? CBS has a right to fire him if they want.

Meanwhile "White Men Can't Jump" never raised a murmur

Another indication of the gross inequality in American life

Seriously, you people should really read this article:

The Ugly Truth About Imus, Power and the Press - Newsweek Business - MSNBC.com

I felt like 'Big deal' before I read it.

"April 11, 2007 - The fallout from Don Imus’s racist and misogynistic remarks about the Rutgers women’s basketball team has led to one of those periodic and quintessentially American paroxysms of disapproval, contrition and repentance. But the response of the mainstream media—and CBS radio and MSNBC, in particular—is as hypocritical as it is revealing.
Using stereotypes—about blacks, Jews, women, and gays and lesbians—has been a part of Imus’s act for decades. I first listened to his show when I moved to New York in 1989 as a 22-year-old writer for NEWSWEEK. His comedy skits were often the subject of water-cooler discussion, so I felt Imus was must-hear radio. But I soon discovered his blatantly racist skits made my skin crawl. His “jokes” in the 1980s and ‘90s included skits in which the radio host and his sidekicks mimicked African-American public figures with deeply offensive stereotyped voices or called them racial names—like “bugaloo” for Johnnie Cochran, or “cleaning lady” for reporter Gwen Ifill.
Former Newsday columnist and editor Les Payne began writing about Imus’s racist invective as far back as the 1970s. And the liberal Web site TomPaine.com’s archive is full of “Imus Watch” items detailing his racist, sexist and homophobic remarks over the years.
In a May 23, 1993, column, when Imus was “on the verge of national syndication,” Payne wrote: “No advice on good taste breaks through the studio din, where, like David Koresh in his tower, Imus works surrounded by a choir of white male sycophants doing backup singing ... Black female celebrities, such as Oprah Winfrey and Aretha Franklin, are invariably put down as ‘black hos.’ Funny? I don’t think so. Rumors of a relationship between Whoopie Goldberg and Ted Danson struck [producer Bernard McGuirk], to the roar of the white male locker room, as ‘jungle retardation.’ Upon hearing his boss cite a black woman defending Imus against my criticism, McGuirk, in his best Amos ‘n’ Andy voice, mocked, ‘You ain’t no racist, Mister Imus, nah suh. No, thank you, I don’t want no watermelon!’"

I'm not trying to defend Imus. I'm just wondering why certain comments are considered offensive slurs, and others pass by without a murmur.

Ever watch MadTV? They do skits against Asians, women, whites, anyone.

No outcry.

And Black rap artists spew hatred against women continually.

Such a double standard.

Protected classes include blacks, Jews and homosexuals.

UNprotected classes include politicians, whites, asians, Mexicans, illegal immigrants, the obese, etc

How extraordinary

Are you suggesting that it's much better in Britian in regards to gross inequality?

Yes.

Which is not to say Britain doesn't have its racists, but we never had slavery nor legalised apartheid policies like you did in the Land of the Free

I'm not talking about the past. I mean the way things are now. Are you saying that the inequity among people is not as pronounced in Britian than in the US?

Yes

And I don't think the rampant political correctness is as bad either