Comments on: Imus In The Mourning

[dgmtas54]

I guess Imus was wrong, the executives at CBS are not money grubbing Jewish ***, his comment, not mine. If you don't fire him for that you confirm you are nothing but spineless girly men.

[gatorboy62]

You allow yourself to be manpuliated by a bunch of terrorist and instead to standing on principle you bow down to two thugs that have no criticability or moral authority. How long to we have to site back a watch the likes of Sharpton and Jackson threaten, and extort public companies?

[batt62]

CENSORING YOUR OWN BLOG!?! You keep deleting my posting. Interesting.

I AM SO FIRED UP THAT CBS FIRED IMUS! WHAT is happening in America?????????

You know what is going to happen next? The very thing that keeps us healthy - FREE SPEECH - will be a papery shadow of what it once was, and the slurs will escalate to outrageous levels because people will start - as if they haven't already - feeling MORE oppressed. I am so enraged that if I were an advertiser I would pull MY ads from CBS FOR firing Imus and being a bunch of wimpy-a%%ed COWARDS.

I am not watching CBS again. My TV has an On/Off switch. So does my radio. I must be the only one with a TV and radio that work that way. AND for the record, I don't listen to Imus. Never have. Sure - what he said was stupid. I am a woman and couldn't care less if he use the word 'Ho'. He's a SHOCK JOCK - HELLO????

I work overseas and am an American Diplomat. I am proud to be an American and try to continue to walk with my head held high every day. But your actions have made America look weak and twisted. What else is new? Keep up the fine work CBS. Which in my vocab now stands for Canned Bull Sh*t. First Katie Couric. Now this. Congratulations.

[simondodo]

Sharpton has once again shown why he is the world biggest ******. Was he accountable for the fraud that he committed in the Brawly case? Wasn't he quoted as saying "I'm gonna be the biggest n***** ...." during that trial? Martin Luther King would be disgusted at him if he was alive today.

CBS is the lowest of all media company and I hope their stock sells off. What a joke that company is. I would be ashamed if I was an employee of that company. That said, I am not excusing what Imus said, but what CBS did is they made the matter worse. If they have the GUTS, yes, GUTS, take BET off the airways too!! I hope people will protest in front of CBS's office and demostrate the existing of BET for some of the nonsense stuff they put on.

[howvideo]

Jesse Jackson called all the Jews hymies a few years back? No one fired him! I%u2019m sure al Sharpton has made his fair share of racist comments too and he still has a job.
If Jay-Z or 50 Cent had made the same comment ,no one would be pressuring them to ruin their career.
What Imus said is a result of what black people think and call themselves, if Sharpton and Jackson don%u2019t like it they should attack the source not the results. If they don%u2019t like things like the N WORD they should attack those who use it vividly, not IMUS. The public perception of Blacks in America is based on what they think of themselves and how they treat themselves. RAP MUSIC brings them down as a people and had added a new low in negativity toward public perception of blacks.
Maybe Rap Labels should be morally responsible for the results of the music on the community. Cigarette companies were made to pay for health care maybe rap record labels should pay for education and welfare.
CBS & MSNBC are no longer a viable reliable news source. They have catered to the lowest form of public opinion.
Sharpton has never apologized to anyone for his part in the Tawana Brawley business. Al Sharpton is one of the people who continues to keep racism alive..He is every bit as racist towards white people as some white people are towards blacks. Only the ignorant or racist will actually take his claims seriously. This man is a media *** who will use any chance to pull the race card for attention.

[bridgenj]

This whole Imus comment has been completely blown out of proportion. It's ridiculous how these women are handling themselves. 1st they stated they were unable to celebrate Easter, & were so stressed because the media was harassing them, yet they've been on a different news program, Oprah, etc. everyday since.
These women are "scarred for life" because some man called them a name? Get over it. How weak are these women? What's really going on is that these girls are attention-seekers & love the media attention & the attention they are receiving from their peers. If they didn't want the attention, they would've ignored what Imus said.
Are these women scarred for life after listening to rap music calling women hoes? Are they scarred for life after hearing comedians calling women hoes among other things? No. Reverse discrimination & hypocrisy is SO prevalent these days & equal rights is diminishing.
It's sad that news agencies are beginning their broadcasts with this Imus meeting-NOT the fact that NJ Governor was injured in an accident on his way to this ridiculous meeting... NOT the Iraq war.
I love this country & love the freedoms we have here, the freedoms our fathers died for, including the right to FREE SPEECH. This is just a step backwards for all Americans-black, white, male or female.
These girls need to have more dignity, self-respect, common sense, and truly need a reality check.

[dgmtas54]

Would anyone know who the advertisers for Al Sharpton's radio show are?
How is it in 2007, that there is a Black Entertainment TV network, a Miss Black America contest? Where is the outrage to this blatant racism?

[mstivala1]

I have been a part of the Don Imus show since he came to NY. I have hated and enjoyed his show and his rants and ravings. I have supported his sponsers, and my car radio's have been turned to "66" for as long as I can remenber. Now that Don is gone, so am I. I will not listen to or watch any CBS program. Free speeech is a great right, and you should be protecting it, not caving in to special interest groups that for years have been the target of Imus truths, the rev AL, the Rev Jackson, what a joke. You have now proved to me that your stations have NO creditability. good luck I can only hope that don end up on Sirus radio, I will now buy it.

[rglr-2009]

CBS has showed what I always knew was its true colors--Cowardice. Extreme Cowardice.
I certainly don't condone the comments of Mr. Imus, but by aligning itself with Sharpton, CBS has embraced the racistist hatred constantly spewing from this individual. This individual has spent years skimmming money from the African-American community in order to stand on street corners in his $4000 suits, feigning outrage and insult, accompanied by the predictable scream of "racist." Problems with race relations will never be solved by Sharpton or CBS, since they are both part of the problem.

[dgmtas54]

Where was the outrage from CBS when Al "interloper" Sharpton or Jesse "hymietown" Jackson spewed their venom?
What Imus said was tasteless, no doubt, especially since these women were not in a public forum. Does CBS own any recording labels featuring hip hop? The lyrics of rap are dispicable in their treatment of black women, but nobody complains, double standard, why?
There is a reason I don't watch CBS TV and now I have no reason to listen to CBS Radio.
Good job.

[chancie3]

I'm still waiting for an apology from OJ Simpson! Oh, that's right, he's black and his crime was against whites. Therefore, I apologize.

[mvw111]

Congradulations! You have just contributed to one of the biggest GROWING problems this country now faces. You have bowed down to unreasonable demands from a community that calls racist at the drop of a bucket. This community is not deprived in this day and age of ANY of the rights EVERY citizen has in this country. But, EVERY day thanks to the media support we hear ...RACIST, RACIST, RACIST. WHAT HAPPENED 400 YEARS AGO HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH TODAY. TODAY WE all HAVE THE SAME RIGHTS NO MATTER WHAT COLOR WE ARE. IF ANYONE IS SO CALLED RACIST, I THINK ITS ALL THESE PEOPLE IN THIS COMMUNITY CALLING RACIST ,AND USING IT AS UMBRELLA TO JUSTIFY ANY AND EVERYTHING THAT DOESN'T SUIT THEM. IT'S TIME, IN TODAYS WORLD, TO STOP THIS NON SENSE. EVERY SINGLE CITIZEN OF THE USA HAS THE SAME RIGHTS. I THINK YOU DID A GREAT INJUSTICE FIRING IMUS. HE'S A SHOCK JOCK, YOU HAVE MADE PROBABLY MILLIONS BECAUSE OF THAT, YET YOU FIRE HIM BECAUSE HE WAS DOING HIS JOB. SHAME ON YOU, WE ALL CAN CHOOSE NOT TO LISTEN TO HIM IF WE DON'T WANT TO HEAR THINGS LIKE THAT , AS I HAVE. ANYONE WITH COMMON SENSE KNOWS HE MEANT NO HARM, THAT'S HIS WAY OF TALKING. SHAME SHAME SHAME ON YOU!!!!!

[posey51]

Once again CBS caved in. Where is the outrage over the three Duke students and what happened to them? Oh I forgot they are white. What did happen to free speech? Is it only for certain people? Apparently so.

I am very disappointed in your decision to fire Don Imus. I will not be watching CBS or any affiliated station after your decision.

[eppurse]

CB$ radio and M$NBC has long since lost its Murrows and it Cronkites and has replaced them with thi$ idiosy.

In six months this clown will be on Sirius Satelite and Foxnews spouting off again. But to me that's where this social disease should be quarrantined. I hope Glenn Beck, Coulter, Limbaugh, Medved (who ineptly defended Imus), John Carlson, Nancy Grace etc etc would kindly follow suit?

People want their radio and TV news back. One trillion spent, 3500 Americans killed, thousands of wounded veterans on an illegal invasion, hundreds of thousands of Iraqis and Afganis dead and injured, and we get two wars failing, indications of extensive illegalities in the White House-you underreport these events and you dedicate air time to these hatemongers.

I'm glad America is slowly waking and saying "no more hate". Is free speech working when it works to demean and humiliate?

Justice Holmes said that its not free speech to falsely yell "fire" in a crowded theater. Isn't it just as ill-conceived to allow these puerile men to foment hate? America says no.

[Rbojangles]

Thank you CBS for doing the right thing. It is time someone put a stop to the hate talk. Gibson blamed the Jews because he was drunk. Richards blamed a black man because he isn't a good standup comic. Imus has been allowed to degrade people for years, enough. There has to be a limit somewhere.

[mr.gator]

shame on you for giving in to a bunch of phony preachers, know it all jackson called jews in NY himetown, sharpton want blacks to arm them self against police, these phony preachers are just out for headlines they dont speak for everyone, they just get the blacks up in arms about anything whites say, even in very bad taste, just to keep there face in the news, tell rev. jackson go back to his misstress and leave people alone, he doesnt speak for everyone, just the ones that will pay for his 1000 dollar suites, get a real job and read the bible,
al

[abbygail3]

If a program comes on your radio, you have the option to turn it off, but when you are going thru a drive thru or standing on a street corner and the rap/filth is blaring, if you reach into a car to turn that off you violated some ones rights. Starting in preshcool the teachers say "sticks and stones can break our bones but words can never hurt us". Rutgers University must not teach this.(grow up babies) We first heard the term hoes from blacks on CBS, NBC,and ABC. In other words if this offends you people you should boycott same. Even David Letterman can't have a show that part of it isn't bleeped out.By the way you holy people how bout telling me where in the bible it says vengance be mine sayeth Al Sharpton.And be sure to tell him Its a Dry Heat

[ypsisis]

It is amazing to me that it was clearly stated that the actions taken by msnbc and cbs,had nothing to do with pressure from sponsors,money,and the likes of the 2 biggest racists in the country...when it is clear to me, that the posts right here on the cbs page show that its not what the "majority" of americans were calling for. 16 pages of comments(or blasts against the cowards of the networks) and only 7 or 8 lonely comments commending your actions. Imus will have the last laugh on you, when your networks cave in due to lack of an audience. Boycotting works both ways. How many of jackson, and sharptons followers do you think really buy from your advertisers? As you have heard on tv tonight..many black people find them to be a disgrace. When it seems that things cant get much worse for your network...remember all these pages of viewers that you lost , due to your own cowardice stupidity.

[chas943]

Wow. Mainstream media again with nothing more than a knee jerk PC decision, bowing to pressure from the likes of a Sharpton and Jackson, who's intigurty and political motives are far from reproach.

Imus apolized for his comment. Revs should understand the meaning of forgiveness. The Revs need a little more Jesus and less TV face time. The double standards across media outlets is more than I can bare. When will vilgour and hateful black on white, and black on black speak begin to be regulated or censored. CBS has started a free speech firestorm that will not be soon put out.

To think a radio icon like Imus, who has raised 10s of millions to help hurting childern of all colors, can be fired for a radio comment or opinion. I'm beyond words and sick to my stomach. If a person like myself has taken the time to register at CBS, and never written a blog, I can only imagine the millions of others like myself who are turning off CBS. CBS will only continue their decline in the aftermath from this illfated decision.