Imus: FIRED! - AND Racism In America - The Reality

New York Times:

CBS brought a weeklong confrontation over a racial and sexual insult by the radio host Don Imus to an end yesterday when it canceled the “Imus in the Morning” program, effective immediately.

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David Karp/Associated Press

Don Imus left his apartment building in Manhattan Wednesday after learning that CBS Radio, his longtime employer, had dismissed him.

The move came a day after the cable television network MSNBC, a General Electric unit that has simulcast Mr. Imus’s radio program for the last 10 years, removed the show from its morning lineup. The two moves, taken together, mean that Mr. Imus, who has been broadcasting the program for more than 30 years, no longer has a home on either national radio or television.

And now we get to see how far the hypocrisy of the left wing goes!

Don Imus has never exactly lit the world on fire with his radio show. Those of us who don't get him, don't listen long. His racial slur on the air - referring to the Rutgers Atheletes as "nappy haired hos" - was far from appropriate. However far more has been tolerated on the air than this which in reality is not that much.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are a couple of bats in the belfry. Both are responsible for racism becoming a black on white issue and this smoke screen of targeting rap artists next is just filler.

The issue of racism has switched sides, and white people are supposed to live in constant pennance of an act carried out 130 years ago. I for one, being Irish, refuse to apologize since my people were the target of discrimination during the early 1900's. "Irish Need Not Apply" - remember those signs? My family were not slave owners, we were actually fellow victims of discrimination. Alas, our skin is of pale pursuasion, so therefore, the bigots of the black world had deemed us part of the problem.

Racists.