Comments on: MSNBC fires Don Imus

By: erikvilius.blogspot.com

erikvilius.blogspot.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I guess the republic can rest a little easier now.

By: erikvilius.blogspot.com

erikvilius.blogspot.com — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t like this slippery slope… BUT i gotta think justice would be served if douche bag Limbaugh was made to walk the plank… splashhhhhhhhhhh

By: Wayne K Dolik

Wayne K Dolik — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I have a whole lot of mixed feelings about the firing of Don Imus. Has this last few days of the Imus attack been cover for Speedy Gone-Zalez? Or perhaps this all was cover for a few botched wars? Perhaps the Main Stream Media along with itâ€™s Spenders has taken to eating itâ€™s own!

Anyway I have had it with the adhominim attacks non-stop on Imus. Kiss free speech goodbye. Oh, well we have lost most of our freedoms anyway. Have a nice day. I havenâ€™t heard much real news lately, have you?

By: Sandy Price

Sandy Price — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am stunned that a combination of Sharpton and Jackson and Fox News decided freedom of speech is limited to agreements between Fox and the Reverends Sharpton and Jackson. I am sick! I am insulted! and this must be the end of another of our freedoms. This is just another push by the Religious Right and NBC should ashamed of themselves.

By: Mitch Santell

Mitch Santell — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

This is a very sad day for the radio business. This is another nail in the coffin of free speech. Michael Savage will be next just watch. Howard Stern left traditional radio to Satellite Radio.

Regardless of your political views, Ann Coulter says really bad things all the time in very poor taste. The reason she has not been run out off the air is that she refuses to apologize.

Several years ago I met Don Imus at a radio convention. Met his wife too. They seemed like solid people and I used to get a kick from time to time watching a talk radio show on MSNBC.

If you look and read very carefully you’ll notice that most media outlets are part of the “entertainment division” of their news agencies. So in other words, it’s about focusing what’s entertaining.

When I attended the FCC hearings in Monterey California in 2004, I was impressed and amazed at how young people, between the ages of 16 and 20 faught hard to keep small radio stations and independent thought on the air.

It’s only a matter of time until the blog’s are attacked the way syndicated radio is. Just watch.

By: Hiflyer

Hiflyer — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Yes..Imus put his foot in it…egged on again by that bald headed b**tard of a producer…again. However, the reaction from Sharpton, Jackson, and every other group of ‘color’ is to hang Imus for every piece of racism in the last 10 years…they got a target and NBC is willingly being used in this huge mea culpa. A 70 year old white man is going to be the black caucus effigy hanging for rap…so that they can get face time in an election year.

By: wminot

wminot — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

I am delighted that Don Imus was fired. I don’t believe my right to free speech was altered in any way. His misogyny and hate filled speech has polluted the airwaves for far too long. Also, I question the character of a man who says at least 4 times a day what a good person he is. His judgment is clearly uncolored by humility.

By: Judy Bodnar

Judy Bodnar — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Around the time he signed his new contract with MSNBC Imus said he was telling his wife Deidre, to not go around thinking that he had a millions if influential friends because he didn’t and the minute that he was off the air she would find that nobody would be calling him , and raising the money for the Imus Ranch would be far more difficult if not impossible. The man knew that he had power and influence ONLY as long as he was a host with an popular show that could promote his guests or their interests. I will miss the parade of authors, historians, politicians, editors and news journalists that I could watch/ listen to and gain insight from. The unique thing about his show was that he had only one guest at a time and you were able to hear and digest what that person was saying as well as having learned something new and interesting from most shows. Though I have always despised the degrading and abasing comments made on the show, that was the price one paid if they wanted to watch/listen to it. Don Imus was ultimatly responsible for allowing any of it..but I have noticed over the last several years that most of the filth spewed actually eminated from and started with his producer Bernard McGuirk….and almost nothing has been written about him.

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

So as a follow up to all the apologies that Imus has made to the black community, I guess we can now expect the Revs. Jackson and Sharpton to apologize to the Duke LaCrosse team…

By: andreea360

andreea360 — Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 +0000

Don't be so harsh.. it's not really goodbye freedom of speech, at least I'd prefer to be said goodbye to cigars! Those are really harmful.