Mr. Imus was fired not so much because his comments were deplorable, but because he's AGGRAVATING to the corporate dictum.

They had to spend the last week fielding firebombs lobbed at them on acount of Imus's bullshit. Their publicity department had to spend their days and evenings explaining Imus's continued presence. Their advertisers pulled the plug, some really BIG advertisers in a very tight money market. Those advertisers not only fed the Imus machine, but also the MSNBC bigwigs down to the cleaning service.

The Rutgers' ladies was the tipping point for Imus (see his greatest hits that I've attached). Yep, it only LOOKED as if Imus was getting away with "being offensive to everyone". But just like the "funny uncle" who's been feeling up the kids at every family event until one kid loudly calls him out on (it)and the adults remember their rubdowns and ban him from every future family event, Imus doesn't get (IT) because "I've been doing the same (crappy) act for years and no one came after me". Well, he had his day, and now it's over.

This whole defense that he shouldn't be removed because of free speech? What about the public's right to be insulted and call for his head when he goes too far? What about the right of public dissention and community decency standards? Those conservative voices that defend him are only pissed off because there's one less altar where they can hear themselves talk. One less microphone taking in their drone. Last week those same "freedom of speech folks" (hello, Michael Medved and Dennis Prager) wanted Rosie O'Donnell's head and firing for her declaration that Building 7 in 911 was blown up by the US government. She's a dingbat and bomb thrower just like Imus, so what's the difference - except one's a drinking buddy and shares their ideology.

Good riddance to Imus. I'm an African-American female. I could give a damn if MSNBC kept him around or not. But as a business owner, if I had to spend my days and evenings defending his "right" and then having to quickly find the money to cover the income lost on account of his big mouth, then he's gone, I don't care what he said.

>>Well, if heterosexuals don't even want to get married, how can anyone defend the institution of marriage from homosexuals?<<

Well, as a divorced herterosexual woman, for whom the process of a divorce that was steepd in sexism and racism, and basic human injustice, I must say, I don't belive in gay marriage - because I don't believe in straight marriage.

The institution has not changed in 40,000 years. It has always been about women being chattel, to be bartered off to the most lucrative suitor.

The bottomline: if a woman cannot maintain a successful marriage, she finds out quickly in divorce court what she (and her children) are simply NOT worth. Ironically, no-fault divorce and legal abortion have been a boon for the men-folk.

Marriage as a legality should be banned - completely. Marriage is an intimate decision and should rest in those that want to define their family structure on their terms, not on the terms of a messed up, hypocritical society.

He is half black. His mother is white. Why does everyone say he's black? He's just as white as he is black.

--thingswesaid

ook, you white folks many years ago made laws that said "if you've got one drop of black blood, then (youse) a ne'gra". And you held onto that legally until the last decade. We were denied the right to inherit from our white biological fathers with these laws - "a white man couldn't be your daddy/granddaddy/great grandaddy - you're a ne'gra by law".

Race is social and myopic. What do you look like? then that's what you are. My daughter's father is white, and she is perceived as white because of her caucasian-like complexion and hair, and then I walk into the room and say "I'm her mother", and you so-called "what does race matter and why is Obama more black than white" white folks mark the box as "black". It's knee-jerk with whites, and stop playing games like its not. Barack says he's "black". His wife is black. His children are black. The MSM obsesses over his blackness. Learn to deal with his definition.

Oh and BTW, Hilary-ites (you to Ms. Walsh): Hillary CANNOT win. She will not get the white female vote because republicans will remind everyone what she and her feminists girlfriends did to Paula Jones. And, their "negro" base - it's gone. She and Bill pissed on it over the last few weeks. Just go look at some of the black blogs, like bossip.com and afronerd. Black folks are done with them and their coonin' friends Bob Johnson and Andrew Young. Might not vote agaisnt her at the polls, but we'll vote against her at home - we'll stay in them on election day.

To all aspiring democrat politicians thinking about national office - perhaps you should save the sermons and the "I marched with Dr. King" rememberances and start paying your debt to black America for sticking with your losing ways. There's a new generation of "black folk", and they will tell YOU what you will PAY them for their vote.

Just as white America has done from the very beginning.