As we all know Don Imus got fired from CBS last week from his insensative comment towards the Rutgers womens basketball team. If you don't remember or haven't heard, he referred to them as "Nappy headed hos" this was mindless and just stupid.
Over his 30 plus years he has continually used racist, anti-gay, anti-immigrant and anti-Semetic humor. He has been doing it to everyone and now they want to pull the plug on him. Is it because of what he said or something much different.
Why was it ok all those years? Well the truth of the matter was that these insensative comments has made lots of money or lets just say millions. Let just say that Jesse Jackson and his righteous counterpart Rev. Al Sharpton had little to do with his firing. Even though may insist it was because of thier persistance on having Imus fired. Lets face it these are some of the biggest hippocrits out thier. Again it all boiled down to money. All of the major advertisers pulled thier labels, so therefore they yanked Imus.
What about CBS's responsibility? I felt from the being that what Imus said was wrong. However, I firmly believe CBS should be responsible for thier actions as well. It took this long for them to fire him, when everyone knows that he has said much worse things in the past. To be perfectly honest CBS should be ashamed of what they were willing to do to make money, even if it was unethical.
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