Don Imus' job was to be controversial and get noticed. That's why he makes those comments all the time. He also used the same terms that many in the "African-American" community use quite regularly. He just happened to be "picked" as the one to get the 10,000 lb weight of the hypocritical liberals (probably because he is white).

Washington was simply stating a personal opinion that everybody is allowed to have in this country. We have a guarenteed right of freedom of speech, there is no right that guarentees freedom from offense.

Neither one of these gentlemen deserve to lose their jobs because some people are upset with them.

Frank,

I've got to tell you that I find you to be a huge disappointment at this website. Given your well-above average writing ability, it seems reasonable to expect great logic and reason out of your comments. Instead, yours are as full of mindless, vitriolic, netroots talking points as the folks who can't spell, punctuate, or compose a consistently intelligible written remark.

Why is that? Can you please explain, because I've watched this nonsense for months and don't get it.

Take this detritus above for example. It was in Imus' contract to be controversial, and, as even you admit, he'd been doing this schtick for decades. As such, when CBS and MSNBC hired him, they knew exactly what they were getting.

In reality, your point here would only hold water if prior to Imus signing with CBS and MSNBC, he had been pure as the driven snow, and he suddenly changed this modus operandi after being hired. As this isn't the case, your comment here though well-written is thoroughly devoid of logic. How truly sad.   ns

How about this. If the privately owned and operated companies want to fire them for looking at them funny. I support that right. I would have not fired them, but that's my preference.

The market works. If it impacts their bottom line, and firing those who are the cause of that impact will help improve the bottom line, then it's goodbye Sally!

Bal, I'm for freedom. I'm for the freedom anyone has to turn the channel. The freedom to NOT buy a product they see supporting the thing they find distasteful. But mandating someone be fired, or someone be disciplined when you don't employ them is going too far. Exercise your liberty by boycotting their product. Don't try and take away someone else's liberty by helping to further the PC mentality that has already started to unravel the fabric of our society.

People can't talk any more! People can't speak their minds without the fear that they'll be turned in to the PC Police or that someone nosey will demand they lose their job or they'll sue. Holy crap people.... who ever said that you have the right to 'not' be offended. You don't have that right! You do however have the right to walk away. To not read what I write or to kick me off your property. But you don't have the right to shut me up.

A quick caveat here; I believe that those who are actively and openly bashing our country and pretty openly supporting our enemy should be shut down and shut up. There are sometimes that the worse thing that can happen is the loss of the only country that actually guarantees more freedom than any other country in the world. And this must be prevented. The second part is that if you talk to me in private about the same things, and our enemy cannot read it or hear it... I would not think you treasonous at all. In private, it's between Americans and that is what America is about... but if you openly show our division to our enemy and let them believe they are winning... you are an enemy of the State and an enemy of me.

Anyhoo, the PC environment that is being created in our country will soon be a very wide net, and it will catch as many liberals as it does conservatives, and while liberals will get forgiven more often, because of the new information age, the PC zealots will soon not even let that happen without causing a stink. Don't you think it's time we take that one lesson from Kindergarten which actually meant something and apply it to our daily lives???

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me!" ~ A very wise person.

And all I have to say to the offended is - grow up and get the hell out of my face!

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"We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities." ~ Thomas Paine