Didn't Imus' comments get him fired?

How then, is it that one of the premier liberal sites on the ENTIRE internet takes up his cause? Show me specifically where it was reported; commented upon, noticed...ridiculed, caused righteous indignation that Imus' "defense" was further abuse.

He also went on to comment how he had apologized enough.

His whole defense was nothing short of using code words to rally his mob. A mob that still exists because this country communicates through a lack of civility. Not with a lack of civility, through it. I wish I had time to go on to mention that no one noted, too, that his comments referred to another haloed event that exploits the African-American community. The NCAA Basketball Tournament is without a doubt a money making plantation that exists solely because of young African American male's athletic success. So much success that it has led to a women's tournament. So much success that college president are now being hired on the basis of whether or not they know sports!

You don't hear about positive African American males and the dedication that is supporting major universities though.

That's ironic as hell; and it's racist too!

The issue here is a simple one. How did an AM Radio, and, therefore, backwater, B List Level Disc Jockey, become an outlet for political, social and cultural ideas? Don Imus was anti-intellectual to the nth degree and celebrated for it, that's how. Obama, McClain, Giuliani...you name it, they all did Imus. The culture is being debased by its leadership. That's the issue. But you won't hear that in this country based on free speech in order to attain its highest goals.

That's the issue!

Free speech my ass. Speech is being driven down to a base level rooting out truth itself, and has been since Reagan. And asking where are the balls to consistently call out the abuse of that principle is the only addendum to Imus' conduct. Publishing a round table asking how to bring speech to a higher level would have much more appropriate to Imus and what he represents.

Please consider doing so.

It took what? Her fourth try before Paglia did what she was hired to do?

Bring an Arts and Humanities perspective to these pages...

Finally she dished from A - Z on events that mattered, and then gave them a perspective beyond the mundane. Prior to that, though, I was beginning to wonder if AM Radio hadn’t brainwashed her.

I'm sure she objects to editing. Who, after all, is in her class? But let's be real. When Pagilla "holds forth" she is at her worst. When she's telling me about Democrats being losers because they aren't Republicans I'm being cheated. When's she's outside of such an either or framework I'm educated.....entertained even.

By the way, The Young & the Restless is a soap opera of cutting edge velocity. It stays relevant on many of the pressing issues confronting the young, and our relationships, while at the same time making sure it bends our emotions in a perverted, yet necessary way.

Also, pleased as hell that we finally have a perspective on the V Tech tragedy that doesn't wrap itself in the flag. After all, we have an anomaly, i.e., random acts of mass violence occurring too frequently to be dismissed as random acts of sole psychotics. Somewhere in the day-to-day of our YOUTH seeds of destruction are being sown and then harvested. Is it our educational system? Perhaps? Another culprit though is child rearing itself. Children nowadays are taught to act like they know everything on the one hand. And that this will produce a happy ending on the other. We've talked repeatedly about Rap Music and its poisonous messages. Why can't the same apply to the culture at large?

Interesting that no one wants to touch that notion with a ten foot pole.

That, of course, leaves the door open to the Right Wing Whackos to tell us about family values.

Thanks for letting me weigh in Salon.

Peace!

I cannot believe this shit!

A company whose efforts toward being innovative always lean toward merging to gain more market power now wants to play COP.

What a bunch of bullshit!

The nerve of a company that has as a strategy making sure wireless communication doesn't cut into inefficient land lines and cables they want the public to subsidize is absurd, disgusting, abusive, and, immoral!

What's next?

What the fuck is next?

I know.

Charging more for services they'll help restrict!

This story should have listed the individuals who made the decision on removing AKON from tour. Please do if you have the time. I'd very much like to write them a letter telling them what scum they are!

PS (Just in case the Right Wing Weirdos think people can't read between the lines let me add that IMUS ain't coming back. No matter how many African-Americans are blamed for his failure IMUS is done....and that's a good thing!)