Imus was fired. Though he was a racist asshole, and probably deserved to be fired for being so, the fact that it was apparently done at the behest of the likes of Rev. Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson.
Al Sharpton himself is a horrible bigot and race baiter. There is the Tawana Braley case and the riots in Crown Heights and Freddy's Fashoin Mart.
What makes me scared is that public opinion is swayed and a man loses his radio job because of remarks that people like Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton find distasteful.
What happens to the political commentator who upsets the sensibilities of a person who disagrees with that? Can I lose my blog or my job for saying that I believe that illegal immigrants should be kicked out of this country in handcuffs?
Just because you don't like a certain speech, doesn't give you the right to silence it. You can choose not to listen to it, or say your own piece, but the 1st Amendment gives us the right to say what we want, even if we make fools out of ourselves.
Posted by psugrad98 at April 12, 2007 07:16 PM | TrackBackI agree with you sir. What he said was terrible, but we should not take away his right to say it. If the company made the decision on it's own, i say more power to CBS. However, it was only because of the media circus around Jackson and Sharpton that this got out of hand. They should be ashamed of themselves.
Posted by: Mike Sassman at April 15, 2007 09:54 PM
