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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.

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  • Wednesday, April 11, 2007 05:02 PM

    Joan stop embarrassing yourself

    And it wasn't his first trip into the realm of creepy, racist humor: Just a few weeks ago McGuirk ridiculed Sen. Hillary Clinton for African-American inflections that crept into her speech in Selma, Ala

    Joan, did you miss "Hillary vs. Obama: It's a drawl!" ?

    Her aping of a black Southern accent from the pulpit was so inept and patronizing that it should get a Razzie Award for Worst Performance of the Year.

    Christ. Either eat your cake or have it. You are seriously going to make the argument that mocking Hillary's drawl is "creepy" when you ran a featured article that made that very same point?

    Have you totally lost any ability to look in the mirror? Your criticisms of Coulter, Malkin, Imus - they all apply to your own columnist.

    You've lost the right to complain about these sorts of things.

    The more you blather about Imus and Malkin the more it betrays your own hypocrisy. Your line of reasoning is completely disingenuous as you steadfastly refuse to apply the same standards to your own little provocateuring troll.

    Your newfound respect for research and careful argumentation, your tut-tutting over ad hominem attacks - it gets old fast when you clearly don't believe a word of it.

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