...I think he is and was an insufferable over-aged adolescent foisted on an American people too stoned to care about higher order thinking skills and proper public education.

Glad the overgrown piece of cowboy hat wearin' hard tack is off the airwaves. I feel sorry for his rocking horse.

But I'm not changing my mind about Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson. What an insufferable duo of shake-down conmen. Their CIA handler should be taken out to lunch at a patio restaurant in downtown Baghdad. If there are any left.

I'm with Imus on this one.

...of blowing Don Imus' career out of the water because we've suddenly decided his free speech has crossed the line (nevermind the other 29 years of his career where we tolerated him just fine), is precisely what happens when the country gets polarized.

"Us" versus "them" is a bullshit excuse for creating and then galvanizing an angry mob to do your bidding.

Either your position is rationally justifiable, or it is not.

I blame the neo conservatives who've been trying to whip this shitstorm up since 1980. They weren't satisfied with simply declaring social welfare programs flawed, they had to completely destroy them and create corporate welfare programs, instead.

Either you believe in giving a hand to those who have been wronged by our past democratically established mistakes, or you do not. You can't reasonably steal the welfare from one place and put it in another.

I believe in a certain amount of social or corporate welfare, but with a nod towards what my conservative fellows have taught me about the danger of too much of a "good" thing. I think moderation is important.

Swinging from one extreme to another just keeps us all off balance and unfocused as to where the problems actually lie.

The problem is not that Don Imus showed his racist ass off in public; the problem is that the rest of the country fails to accept their own racism unless they are somehow a favored race du jour. It's easy for white people to accept their racism because it's like acknowledging that you've won a stupid argument. Minorities of any stripe who are oppressed by a strict majority rule system, have the dual problem of first legitimizing the argument and then acknowledging that they've lost that same argument.

Until an individual knows what it's like to try to legitimize their point of view whilst also acknowledging that their point of view establishes that they have lost the argument before they have even begun, you need to sit down, shut up and listen.

Societies can be fractured and fragmented into two or more pieces along any number of fault lines, race just happens to be the favorite of a few agitators at the moment.

I'd like to know where these agitators stand on the issue of young versus old, mentally ill versus mentally healthy, war versus peace, rich versus poor or victims versus victimizers.

Hypocracy abounds in the human condition. Don Imus made a good living exploiting these fissures, but now he has had to pay the piper as things have swung in the opposite direction.

You can't buy low and sell high all the time. Sometimes you just get it wrong and the higher up you are in society, the higher the price you pay for your mistakes. Knowing when to quit or get out is an art form.

So be careful about nurturing your own ambition. The balance is not harder, but you do have farther to fall. As Karl Rove and Dickless Cheney are about to learn the hard way.

or a purple people eater

I've always wondered whether this means it's a purple thing that eats people or a thing that eats only purple people. I mean, this is really important, because if it's the former, well, watch out for giant purple things! But if it's the latter, well then I feel quite safe, seeing as I'm not personally purple.

But it's soooo confusing!

For heaven's sake, please learn to use some punctuation to make yourself clear!

There, I feel better now.

I am sad, confused, and angry all in one. As a white person my rights are no different than a black, cuban, or a purple people eater. Racist starts within any family. Children learn it from there parents. The cycle never ends. Lets face it blacks have more rights now then they ever did. What more do you need these days. This power you have over racist jokes is way out of hand. You take others jobs without asking yourself how will this person make a living. How will this person support there family. Im not sticking up for Imus Im sticking up for everyone. I have lived for 50 years in this world. And Im sick to death of it all. As a white person Ive had black's call me horrible names. Omg grow up. Sry revern you always stick you nose were it doesn't belong. You stir this kettle up. As you always do. Stick to helping those out who aren't rich like you with your mouth. Give some of your wealth to these needy families.

Im sry but I belive this Racist garabge needs to be out lawed

Everyone has equal rights, If a comment is made geezzzzz get over it. Imus was only repeating a old saying way back then. No frigging harm was made over it.

This is one law I would so love to see go into this world cause this racist BS has gotten way out of hand. Black, White or and color or creed have any rights as others. This isn't in the older days were you were treated badly so get over it.

Dragging this into the mud is really gotten old. GET OVER IT

If I'm half-white and half-black and say that, am I only half racist?

Reminds me of a great line from "The Simpsons": Krusty the Klown finds out he's not really Jewish because he never had a bar mitzvah. He says, "And here all this time I thought I was just a self-hating Jew. Now I find out I'm really an anti-semite!"