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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 04:55 PM

    I think the headline is misleading

    By reading the headline, I thought Imus had been fired from his job. He has not. MSNBC can't fire Imus. They don't employ him. They dropped his radio program. CBS employs him and they have not fired him (at least not yet, according to the latest news), though they have suspended him for 2 weeks.

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