http://adage.com/mediaworks/article.php?article_id=116041

Take CoT for example.  Denman says some rough stuff, we move on, live our lives.  We don't calls Denmans ISP or the FBI or any of that mess.

Denman?  ward runs this place like the f'ing gestapo

Ve haff vays uf makink you post!

Actually, you can't say what you want and keep your job as a corporate mouthpiece.  There's a subtle difference.

Of course, other sorts of speech can get you disappeared by Homeland Security, so you're right, but your rationale is wrong.

making us post?  Do you mean making us not post?

for example, did someone take the piss out of ward in this thread....

http://www.crazyontap.com/topic.php?TopicId=17441#202084

... oh, deleted.  CoT is shit and you're the main reason.

I was listening to that rap song, recently; "Going to the strip club, I get love for about $500, ....everything I need for about $500".  Well they cant say strip club.  So they edited out "strip" Going ....club, I get love about $500...

what a bunch of pansies we are raising up.

Telling kids that they can buy love for $500 is fine, but putting the words "strip club" in a song is profane. What a bunch of morons we have for rulers.

Denman doesn't say his stuff on a national radio show, nor a nationally televised program.

This makes a difference.

So CBS is dropping Imus's show because he is a racist for saying a basketball team is nappy heads.

Anyone want to take a wild guess what percentage of CBS's executive board consists of African Americans?

Also, see this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/03/20/national/20blackmen.html?ex=1300510800&en=57e0d1ceebcbc209&ei=5090&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss

50% of the black men discussed are unemployed.

Yea, but IMUS also didn't call for the extermination of the Jews or whatever Denman says.  Imus put three slang words together and directed them at a women's basketball team.  Should his show and probably a large part of his life be taken away?

If I called my manager (female indian) something deragatory, I guess I would probably be canned in a second.  So, maybe it isnt just Imus's program, but the corporate world in general.

Just a guess, here, but maybe it's that people don't like hearing derogatory things said about them or their friends.

But here is the crux of the whole thing.  I am sure these girls here all kinds of taunts of the basketball court all the time from all kinds of different races.

In the middle of a basketball game, do they stop the game and get on the phone with Al Sharpton, "I have been offended, I think we should have this girl kicked off her team".

s/here/hear/g

Conjecture and possible Dirt plot:

His show was about to be cancelled anyway, and so he decided to go out with a bang, and his firing is the corporation helping him out with free publicity to jump-start his next adventure.

I wonder why boortz didnt get much flak.  He has 3.75 million listeners and calls blacks thugs all the time.

http://mediamatters.org/items/200512140007

It helps if you have sufficient political clout to sway nervous politicians:

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/shock-and-awe/2007/04/13/1175971273202.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1

spot the Parrot:

http://www.crikey.com.au/Politics/20070412-Singo-and-the-Parrot-spit-it-as-ACMA-spoils-a-potential-pay-day-.html

fortunately there is an "off" switch.

----"Telling kids that they can buy love for $500 is fine,"-----

Certainly not; encouraging profligacy. $30 is more than enough.

Not everyone is in lanka, Jones.

He said something questionable, they fired him.

This is a problem for America because....?

> This is a problem for America because....?

It's not a problem, but it's news, fuckwit.

And it's news because.....?

3...2...1...fire:

http://wwww.tmz.com/2007/04/12/don-imus-fired-by-cbs-radio/

Imus means 'lowest' in Latin. Opposite of supremus.

I heard that clip last night for the first time.

The shocking part was not Imus, but his cohost or whoever who started out with the line "bunch of ho's", which shocked me.  Then, Imus, acting like I've gotta support my bud in this joke, follows up with what he said.

The way I see it, they are not cancelling "Imus", but the show itself, or at least I would hope not just Imus.  I doubt he would have said anything if that other guy, a cohost or whoever, hadn't got the ball rolling.  Sounded like one of his cohosts.

sounded to me like it got cancelled because every single advertiser pulled their ads.

Yeah, *I* thought it was more an Advertiser issue than a free-speech one.

Though Les Moonves (sp?) the head of CBS has folded pretty quickly in the face of FCC threats in the past.  He'd have a MUCH greater incentive for folding in the face of advertiser threats.