but I'm sure I'll be hearing ads for his show on XM,  on the same station as Opie and Anthony or something like that.

Great for CBS.

A few weeks ago, Ann Coulter called John Edwards a disgusting name.

Is she still being asked onto news shows for her "analysis"?

  I'm still extremely pissed at Katie Couric for interviewing Rush Limbaugh!  She sucks in other ways too.  Word is, she's not going to last much longer anyway.  Ha ha!

"I am left to wonder: how many more conservative pundits can lose their jobs with "legitimate" news organizations if civil rights groups protest against their racist remarks? It could be a very long list."

Here's a start:

1.Fred Savage
2.Bill O' Reilly
3.Rush Limbaugh
4.Laura Ingrahm
5.Ann Coulter
6.Michelle Maulkin

I can smell it.  The Left is back.  After a fucking thirty-year absence, we have no found our way.

Congrats to all involved, Al Sharpton, and the people who called CBS and the advertisers.

See what can be done if we just grow a pair and ACT!!!

Against radio indecency:

"With its swift decision to cancel the show and suspend the station supervisors, Infinity did exactly what I and many others have been asking of the entertainment industry -- they drew a line, and made clear that this kind of abuse of the public airwaves is unacceptable."

Wait.

That was about Opie and Anthony in 2002, not "his friend," Imus.

Joe will be the first guest on his satellite radio show, I'm sure.

The right-wing wants to use the firing of Don Imus to attack the left for political correctness. Fox News can't shut up about rappers and their dirty language and usage of the terms "nigga" and "ho". To hear them talk poor Don just was using terms he heard while listening to rap music. Our resident troll "Mary Gallan" implies Imus is the victim of political correctness run amok. From her diary:

If Imus was black and said the exact same thing he said about the Rutgers women's basketball team would anyone be complaining?

Seems we are all hypocrites to the right-wingers. Let me repeat here what I told "Mary".

Although Fox News, "Mary Gallan", and other right-wingers want to deflect the attention from Imus and onto how African-Americans talk amongst themselves there's no getting around the fact that Don Imus is a white racist pig. Right-wingers seem determined to blame rappers for Don's mouth but it's clear from his history of racial and gender based slurs that he is a bigot pure and simple. Please note that the link only gives bigotry emanating out of the mouth of Don Imus himself and does not include the many other vicious slurs uttered by his sidekicks that have been broadcast on his show.

Don't take my condemnation of Imus to mean I like rappers talking trash about women. But Imus and his sidekicks regularly attack Jews, women, and especially blacks. That's outrageous and has nothing to do with what other fools may have to say whether they be white or black.

Furthermore, black Americans do not have a history of oppressing other blacks as do white Americans. Blacks didn't invent white-only restaurants, bathrooms, or turn firehoses on other blacks for trying to march with Martin Luther King. Whites did that. The fact that some black Americans may themselves be bigots or demonstrate misogyny, while regrettable, certainly cannot excuse an open bigot such as Don Imus being given legitimacy by national networks such as MSNBC or CBS.

Don Imus is getting exactly what he has so long deserved.

Rush the Limbaugh out of the air!

or so Spidey said. This is a trigger that should very rarely, if ever, be pulled. Performers need to be able to perform.

Thank God for WOMEN.

It was the pressure of the public, but the pressure of many women who work for NBC and CBS, that these managers let Imus go.

Also, yes, the advertisers.  Thank you for not looking at the bottomline, GREEN.  After that press conference @ Rutgers, advertisers started peeling away from the Imus in the Morning Show.

But the biggest thing out of this the CBS firing.  Firing for a pointedly sexist and racist comments, or conversation over the airwaves.  At this juncture, anyone with a radio show better watchout because why should the public tolerate this, at all.

Time to be watchdogs for these Limbaugh, Hannity shows, and when they are out of line, time to hit these advertisers up big time and put the words out to the media for everyone to hear. And demand action from the FCC and action from their EMPLOYERS to do the right thing.

I've personally always thought of IMUS (likes it capitalized I think) as a kind of kind hearted bigot that leaned Democrat but went after anything that reeks of sensationalism.  As Senator Clinton recently noted, she and her husband have been the targets of his jabs for many years, and so his constant lambasting of clinton during his 8 years in office is best explained without referencing his political leanings.

Most of the people in the blogosphere and on cable news have seen/heard maybe two of his shows ever.  It is definitely a circus act if I've ever seen one, but it's not a bastion of conservatism.  He wears cowboy hats, pimps country western albums, and calls anyone slightly to the left raving communists, yet I know that he doesn't mean that.  Countless times he has admitted that he's basically part of the upper westside culture he makes fun of on constant basis.  Trust me, it might not be all an act, but it's damn close though.  However, he has been incredibly sincere about the walter reed scandal, the idiocy of Donald Rumsfeld and the rest of the loons in the Bush Administration, many of which he declares war criminals, and genuinely cares about the environment and the kids he cares for at his ranch for the terminally ill.

That being said, his show has, since as long as I can remember, been dominated by an abhorrent white male attitude (i'm one of them) that denigrates about every minority you can think of.  His producer Bernard does an impression of Ray Nagin which gains almost all of its humor because it is an absurd stereotype of black speech.  It's safe to say a lot of his humor caters to the blue collar comedy demographic.  Although, his satirists on the show, if they can be called that, also go after the personalities of the right just as much.  I'm not making excuses for him.  If his show had not been cancelled, and he had gone ahead with the idea of recruiting a black person for a character on the show, I'm sure they would have either had to fire him immediately because the jokes were too repugnant, or censores themselves so as to become completely different from their previous personas.

Just sayin though, not a conservative.

Josh

I also completely concur with the idea of putting the conservatives' feet to the fire so that they may reach their due downfall as well.

Yuck.

As soon as us progressives think we taste a little power, the knives come out for our political opponents?  Let's throw Limbaugh, Beck, etc. off the air too?  Why not just throw them in jail?

Two issues are completely sailing over everyone's head.  It's frustrating to watch people miss the boat so completely.

First, there's a fundamental difference between comedy and commentary.  Imus playing "the I-man" is going to say racy things because that's what he was paid to do.  It's not exactly the window into his soul that it might be with Limbaugh and Beck, although you can certainly argue that those people are playing characters on-air as well.  My point is that a history of "that kind of comments" doesn't prove Imus is a dyed-in-the-wool racist.  It proves that that act has been successful for a long time.  

Second, even if he was a racist, so what?  How does being a bigot equal "deserving" to be fired?  Making a joke about hairstyles is not illegal hate speech.  Using the ubiquitous word "ho" is not illegal hate speech.  (If that makes you cry yourself to sleep at night, grow a pair.  Sorry.)  I don't understand why people can't just say that if they're offended by something, they won't listen anymore- not that, to a person on this board, they were listening beforehand- why does the lynch mob have to form?  

I'm not a fan of Imus so this doesn't ruin my life personally, but I'm terrified by where this is going.  Bring on the thought police!

Imus was fired because he is NOT a movement conservative.  Look at his guest list ... way too mainstream and balanced right v. left.  Compare it to Rush's guest list.  That my friends is the difference.  Imus comes from the world that responds to "society's" pressure ... Rush comes from the world of the Neanderthals who see society's approbation as a compliment (c.f. Ann Coulter).  Thus, this is not the beginning of the end for the rightwing broadcasters.  They go merrily on.  And, yes, Imus should have been fired ... he is an as*hole, and no one has the "right" to use the public airwaves.  He is, however, perfectly free to dribble out his thoughts to everyone within earshot.  That's enough ...