Comments on: Imus In The Mourning

[mjrasmus]

I can't believe what a bunch of cowards run CBS. This is a good man who said a stupid thing. He has probably done more for others than 99% of the people on this planet and you are willing to crucify him for one stupid comment. I have lost all respect for CBS and plan to not watch them anymore. You thought Katie Couric's ratings were bad before. Wait until this backlast hits. I think it is very sad that we are now living in a society that is so completely unforgiving. One ignorant comment and you are totally vilified! And I guess he shouldn't be able to work anymore either. It is also too bad that he wasn't even allowed to finish his telethon - disgusting! He raised $1,000,000 in five hours this morning but I guess that doesn't matter since he made one stupid comment! Pathetic state of affairs in this country.

[packergal48]

Shame on CBS! But I'm not surprised. CBS has been leaning to the left for a long time. Once again they have proven that impartial and independent are not a part of their vocabulary. Don Imus is a good man. He has walked the life of a good man and has done so much for the disabled children in this country. What have Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson done for this country. If you're not black, they do not give a hoot who insults you or what is said. Bigots both of them! And, now, CBS Radio the same applies to your management. Bigots all of you!! I'm deleting your radio stations from my media list! I've already stopped watching any of your news programs. Dan Rather already accomplished that for you.

[subteach206]

Good God, Mr. Moonves, a little bit of over kill, ya think? I guess you sleeping with the Rev. Al (Tatwana Brawley)Sharpton and Jesse (Hymietown) Jackson will do it to you. I guess it took too much courage to at least let Imus finish the radiothon as you had promised. No, I guess the Rev. Al might have disapproved. And gee, weren't you going to at least wait until the Rutgers basketball team had at least had a chance to talk to Imus before you lowered the boom?

Well, Les, before you go to bed tonight I hope you give Al a nice kiss goodnight. It's too bad that when you get up tomorrow morning and look in the mirror, the word "coward" will be written across your face.

Signed,

A former listener and viewer

[design54-2009]

I don't condone what Imus said, nor do I condone what the "righteous" revs Sharpton and Jackson vehemently espouse on a regular basis. These gentlemen, for the sake of healing do more to INCITE a division between the races. Face it, if they didn't, how would they make a living? I've been the butt of hurtful remarks all my life and I'm still here, nor do I return those same type remarks because I believe those that perpetrate them are simply hiding their own shortcomings. I also believe that those who whine about off-color remarks should unlatch themselves from mom's breasts and become mature adults.

To CBS, you're not only cowards, you're also dangerously coming close to constitutional anarchy.

To revs Sharpton and Jackson, let He who is without sin. . . . Clean-up your own house!

To the Ruger's girls basketball team, I'm sorry adults don't know how to be adults. Maybe you'll come out of this BETTER PEOPLE.

[tvlqueen]

It is apparent that CBS and MSNBC have spines made of "jelly." Where are the MEN who used to run these networks?
While I totally disapprove of the comments made by Don Imus, two weeks suspension should have been plenty.
Where was all the "yelling" "ranting" and "raving" and "picketing" when Jesse Jackson referred to New York as "hymietown" and when Al Sharpton made anti-semetic remarks last November? Yet THESE TWO are shooting off their mouths the most. Photo Opps are what they want and can only get it this way - certainly through nothing they have accomplished on their own.
What is this "double standard" that you obviously support wholeheartedly.
Free speech, whether we agree or disagree, used to be what the United States was all about.
Now YOU want to flip the switch for the final "death blow."
What will it be next?

Stephanie Laney
Atlanta, Georgia

[kcl1984]

Ye who have not sinned cast the first stone...looks like CBS and MSNBC are blameless. Lets also include Al Sharpin and Jesse Jackson...oh please!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I don't understand this at all!!! It's all words!!! Al Sharpin and Jesse Jackson have all said racist things in the past...who's going to fire them?

Give me a break CBS and MSNBC. Stop trying to protect your earnings. We all know it's about money.

[rburnich]

What a wonderful example of corporate hypocrisy.

[memphisrb]

The REAL nappy headed hos are CBS and the Reverands Sharpton and Jackson.

[corpknot]

I usually do not like to repeat myself, but I feel that my posting from Monday is appropriate:

What a vulgar display of CBS's hypocritical, one-sided agenda that serves well to promote further racial polarization and resentment. It is perfectly obvious in their treatment of the story and the content that is published here, that their approach to Imus is curiously similar to a lynch mob in the Old South. They will drag this out, beat it into the ground and then stand righteously on the steaming pile of hypocrisy that they try to pass off as the news. The condemnational editorial nature of what is presented here is no more news, then Bush is Eisenhower. And if all goes the way they intend it to they will celebrate their execution of Imus and declare themselves a champion against racism, while most of what they have accomplished simply fanned the flames. That being said, they will in all likelihood continue to ignore the duplicity of racism in this country and will repeat this charade as soon as another opportunity arises, that is as long as the alleged offender is Caucasian.

CBS Fires Imus

Moonves concluded: %u201CI want to thank all those who came to see us to express their views. We are now presented with a significant opportunity to expand on our record on issues of diversity, race and gender. We intend to seize that opportunity as we move forward together.%u201D

Their record?

[cbsiswrong2]

This has gone too far. The two week suspension was reasonable. Now you're just cowtowing to the Sharptons and Jacksons of the world. Free speech? Where?!

You are WRONG to take this action.

"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

Voltaire

[sbintnusa]

As they say in the south. You have done Joe McCarthy PROUD.

[shochbrunn]

Cowards you are, CBS. What a way to stand by the man who's made you so much money over the years. But that was it, wasn't it? The defection of some advertisers (make that clear, it was some, not all, by any stretch) meant he'd make you less money in the future. What you hadn't calculated was how much this man and his show meant to so many of us, who now have lost all respect for CBS and will never again watch or listen to any of your programming. You sent a very good man and his program to the ash heap for a comment that he couldn't possibly have apologized more for. He stood up like a man to his critics, and turned the other cheek as they took their swings at him. Don deserved more than this. He deserved a chance to show he would change his ways. I hope you now get what you deserve--a backlash in the marketplace from those of us who are deeply disappointed in you.

[wfhall49]

CBS has shown again their true colors. I grew up watching the network and have respected it for years, however ridiculous situations like this have undermined CBSs' integrity.

[stuartborden]

I%u2019m a racist.

You%u2019re a racist.

We%u2019re all racists, regardless of gender and ethnicity. We repress it or deny it or act on it or, more typically, deny and act on it, according to our particular circumstances of nature-and-nurture.

Before thinking Rutgers think Duke. Has either Sharpton or Jackson apologized for his rabble-rousing in that instance? Is it worse to be labeled forever as a rapist or as having a nappy head?

Then there are the rappers and the hip-hoppers and Rush %u201CThe Medicine Man%u201D Limbaugh and Bill O%u2019Riley and *** Cheney--whose sulphuric language has scorched the world--and, most of all, the news commentators on CNN, MSNBC ad nauseum. For this conga line a request: may we review your credentials before hearing your opinions? Or perhaps you don%u2019t know the difference between opinion and news, even the expurgated, manipulated news--call it yellow journalism--you ultimately provide. Or, worse, perhaps you believe opinion is news.

Lords and ladies of the crumbling fourth estate, aren%u2019t there bigger, badder people to go after than Don Imus, whose charitable actions on behalf of children and veterans of every race and creed fly in the face of his occasional, if troublesome, slips of the tongue? Wash out his mouth with soap, have him write Nevermore! a thousand times on the blackboard and ground him for two weeks.

Good night and good luck.

[wfhall49]

This 'controversy' over the Imus statement is an example of the news media allowing a SMALL minority of outspoken critics to take charge of a situation that should have been handled by CBS internally. Caving in to the demands of a small group of people empowers them to forge into new territory and I believe will lead eventually to the loss of many freedoms that we are guaranteed by our Constitution and Bill of Rights. I thought our country was still free. Americans need to realize that we have free speech and though we may not like what someone says we don't have the right to prohibit them from saying it. If people wanted to protest Don Imus they could simply turn off their radioes and it wouldn't be long before he would be off of the air because money drives our society. I don't think this would have happened however since in my conversations with my friends and co-workers no one in my part of the country was as offended by his statements as the vocal few have indicated. As was said on CBS news the nation was outraged at his comments. I don't think that statement could be further from the truth.
With all of the problems in our country that need our attention the liberal media is hell bent on continuing to stir the racial pot.

[ypsisis]

I think you are all hiding a yellow streak under your clothes.The ONLY people who were owed an apology,because they said they were hurt over it...are the Rutgers team. Everyone else needs to sit down and be quiet.All the CBS execs are cowards, and caving into 2 of the biggest racists that exist out there...Sharpton, and Jackson. A joke is a joke, and unfortunetely was pushed too far, but unintentionally, which last I heard would be considered a mistake. When any one of you can come forward and honestly say you have never said anything you wish you hadnt...Then I think you are all a bunch of cowards. I am a mother/female/sister/daughter, with 3 Nappy headed children...and I was not offended. GET OVER IT PEOPLE!!!!

[boochy22]

you spineless back stabbing ***. you've crumbled to the lowest depths of humanity bowing down to Rev? racest al sharpton. cbs is a discrace.