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Wednesday, April 11, 2007 12:00 AM

Firing Imus was the right thing

Years of racist, sexist and anti-Semitic jokes took their toll, and MSNBC finally saw the light.
Joan Walsh

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007 05:04 PM

    Ooh, we are SO politically correct!!!

    I heard the tape. It was funny. I'm not an Imus fan but he was shafted. This is another piffle to keep any read news from soiling the virtual front pages of news sites.

    Say, did anyone other than me read that the Duke lacrosse team was completely cleared? Is that not news? Anyone read about the two white kids who were kidnapped, tortured, raped and murdered by blacks? One of those stories that just doesn't seem to merit any ink, eh? Anybody notice the 19:1 ratio that blacks murder whites?

    "Nappy headed hoes"? THAT makes your blood boil?! Could I borrow your rose-colored glasses? I seem to have lost mine along the way.

    Oh, and that "Hymietown" comment from Jesse Jackson in 1988? Did HE resign from the campaign? Or is that somehow different?

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