I agree 100 with everything you said. To an extent I blame the various people surrounding this complete load of crap for making it what it is.
The fact that Al Sharpton is involved just makes it all the more obvious that something is wrong with the entire situation. I'm seeing things in various places now calling him a racist, he may be sexist, but I still don't understand how the comment was racist. Is it because he made an ugly comment about a team that was made up of mostly black women? Does a word change meaning based on the race of the person you are using it against? Was the statement rude? Yes. Is Imus rude? Yes. Now from the CBS perspective I can understand if they would prefer not to have a DJ making sexist comments, and fired him after multiple complaints and reprimands. But this is CBS we are talking about, Howard Stern was on the air for years degrading women, and well just about anybody else he could find. CBS didn't seem to have a problem with that until the FCC started to fine them. Now Al Sharpton and Hillary Clinton are involved, and the race card is being played and two different Broadcasting giants fire him. The very people who are supposed to have the balls will not stand behind the man, not for the comment, but for his right to say it. Even ABC kept Bill Maher on the air until the season was over even after sponsors had pulled their ads and affiliated dropped the show. > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Davis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > So here's the issue: we've got a guy that spews mountains of crap > everyday. > He's paid highly for it and has hordes of fans that eat it up like candy. > Now we're focusing our national attention on one statement that he's > already > apologized for? Nothing he said was illegal or subject to FCC fines. > He's > admitted he was wrong, there's no evidence that the remark was racially > motivated or that he himself is a racist... he's definitely an asshole > (again, that's why he has the job) but from what I've heard (I'm not a > fan) > he's at least an equal opportunity asshole. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:232420 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
