Bigelow Tea & the rest of a variety of Anus sponsors who finally jumped-ship today ALSO have a first amendment right to not-spend money on the Anus radio/TV show. Which means Anus gets to either go find even stupider ad spenders or he must "retire" and go away. My money's on "retire." Anus is fired. Money talks.
JMR

What Behar joined in with Hasselbeck?

....somethings happening here...

LOL!

Money = Speech

I'm Tellin' ya

Imus, Sharpton and Jackson are all three gone.  When the Slanted view is emboldened to say the same things we are saying, we can read the words together

Mene, Tekel, Upharsin

The NBC  Nightly News has now succeeded in accomplishing true Tabloid TV Status.. I have seen recently, product placement, advertising reported as news, more advertising reported as news.... And now almost a full 10 minutes about the ho's on the hardwood!  Give me a break, nothing deserves that kind on press!  Back to PBS

First of all, this whole Imus thing has been blown way out of proportion. It was wrong for him to be brash and disrespectful in a public forum. But rap and R&B artists regularly use the same type (and worse) language and they have a much larger audience. Imus ran awry for saying those things in the wrong forum.

Censorship. Ha!

As an employee or representative of a company or organization, there are certain things you cannot say and then still expect to keep your position with the company or organization or to not expect some sort of reprimand.

Why is it so hard for ROD to understand that freedom of speech is the freedom to express political beliefs or criticisms without government reprisal? Companies, organizations, and even private individuals can set speech limits within their own jurisdictions. For example: If someone says the F-word in my home, they will be escorted off of my property (if they don't leave when asked to). Is that stifling their 1st Amendment right to freedom of speech? No, it isn't. They can say the F-word as much as they feel like saying it, they just aren't going to say it in my home.

Should Imus be able to say what he wants to? As a representative of a broadcasting station, he needs to keep in mind that the station's interests and ultimately his bottom line depends on him not crossing certain lines. ROD would be wise to keep that in mind also.

"I'd rather be bald than to pretend that I'm not!" --Mean Gene Dr. Love on comb-overs.

What free speech? The first amendment doesn't apply to employee-employer relationships in cases like this.

Imus works for GE. GE can tell Imus what he can or cannot say any day and its perfectly legal. What exactly does she think corporate EEO policies are? They tell GE's employee's what they cannot say or do, which is just what Imus violated. I think he should be treated just like any other person who violated their corporate EEO policy. In a big company like GE these issues come up regularly, so it wouldn't be the first time they've ever disciplined anyone for making improper remarks. If some senior-level manager was turned in for making a similar comment, how would GE handle it? Treat Imus the same way and it would be fair.

If I was a Disney/ABC employee I'd turn Rosie in for some of the comments she's made as a apparant violation of their EEO policy. It would be interesting to see how it would be handled.

Wonder what Rosie O. would say if Imus had called the team members a bunch of 'dykes'?  Maybe she'd find out SHE'S the Nazi.   Would love to see Rosie O. and Ann Coulter duking it out.  We know Rosie has the biggest mouth, but does she have the biggest testies?   I picture Rosie slinking away from it ,whimpering, with her tail (I bet she has one) between her legs.    That would be so much fun to see! 

Rosie...

Shut up and eat!

The liberal MSM has become an enemy of the USA.

We should run with this stunt of Rosie's.

I would love Rosie's comments on the following:

Obama just showed what he is really about. It was on ABC's evening news. Obama said that Imus should be fired.

Debra...

Okay Rose bud (dude), when are you will you get the difference between “freedom of speech” and speaking freely.  The Constitution of this United States gives you the right not to have your speech silenced by the Government.  You are responsible to those who employ you and to the public you make your statements too.  If you get you’re a** fired for your statements you should learn two valuable lessons.

1. How to keep your big mouth shut.
2. And do some REAL research before opening it if you have too.

Reduce the U.S. Carbon Footprint.  Send Rosie to Iran.  Airforce_5_O 04/04/2007

I couldn't care less about Don Imus but the people who think his career is over are wrong. All it will take is for Brad and Angelina to adopt an orphan from Zimbabwe or for Britney and some guy that should be working at McDonald's to get matching tattoos and this country of reality tv watchers that think this is hard hitting news will forget about it. Al Sharpton is going to make as much money from it as possible and he will find a new "outrage" that he has to address. Maybe he and Jesse can grab Tawana Brawley and go down to "Hymietown" and find some new racism to jump on. In a month Imus will still be on the air and I would be willing to wager that because of all this uproar over what a boring shockjock said that he will probably have a larger audience than ever.

Well, at least he doesn't have to waste time meeting with the basketball team to grovel some more.  Did I say 'team'?  I meant to say....what were those words '50 cent' uses?  Anyway.  Imus got away with being 'anti-Catholic' for years.  His 'Cardinal O'Malley' (or O'Hara or whatever) bit was way more offensive.  But I guess the thought police thinks it's okay to slam Catholics.  Imus needed to be put out to pasture a long time ago.

Sharpton and Jackson are both fraudulent imposters shaking down the man for fiascos like Tawana Brawley [remember her?] and the Duke "rape" accusations.

But media hypocrisy is craven and cowardly. Aside from yelling "fire" in a crowded theater, speech should be free, even if it's on-air, as long as there is not malicious intent. Imus's comment was more just an over the top aside rather than a racist rant by that ex-Seinfeld nobody.