It is not a one time mistake. 60 minutes is dedicating a show to Imus and his callous remarks over the years. He has been pulled up many times and a lot of people were sick of him. He had a strong following among mid-west America though, and certainly brought in a certain demographic for CBS and MSNBC. But it is the same CBS that fired one of his co-anchors.
I too cannot understand the view that 'Everyone's doing it, so why should the public care about what Imus said.' . That's never a defense, except apparently in this case for certain people. As for what the 'majority' of America thought, they voted with their pocketbooks and he was fired. As for the charity drive? They supported the Charities, not necessarily Imus. Imus wasn't raising funds for himself. Comparing him to music, or comedy, or satire is just ridiculous and akin to frantically clawing for an excuse for the man. Again, no one removed his freedom of speech. They just enforced the consequences of that speech. On 4/16/07, Dana Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also, that Kelly Minogue thing pretty much argues against this being a > one-time mistake. What a horrible thing to say. The woman is fighting a > serious, possibly fatal illness, and she is supposed to worry about whether > some nasty little man finds her attractive???? > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create Web Applications With ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2. Build powerful, scalable RIAs. Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJS Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232681 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
