Posted on 04/11/2007 3:29:52 PM PDT by NickatNite2003
Tucker just read a news flash, announcing that they will no longer simulcast Imus at all, anymore.
What does this have to do with freedom of speech?
What about it? Is his jaw being wired shut or something?
How much outrage will happen to the leftyblogger detailed at LGF, FR link here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1815756/posts
Give it a few hours. CBS will whack him too.
Imus should have just said it was a joke and moved on. I do not hate freedom. You’d better back off.
Gee, would they do that?
I know it’s tough to keep all their statements straight, but wasn’t the “hymmietown” comment from the other “Rev”? Believe it or not, his name escapes me.
That’s a distinct possibility.
Check out the hypocrisy (NewsMax actually did a decent job for once):
Two years ago, Penn Jillette [of the comedy team Penn and Teller] went on ‘Showtime’ calling Mother Teresa ‘Mother F***ing Teresa’ and called the nuns who worked with her ‘f***ing c**ts.’ ‘Showtime’ is owned by Viacom and that is why I wrote to its chief, Sumner Redstone, to register a complaint. He wrote back extolling the merits of ‘artistic freedom’ and ‘tolerance,’” Donohue stated.
“Last year, on Viacom-owned CBS radio, Jillette said Mother Teresa ‘had this weird kink that I think was sexual,’ compared the saintly nun to Charles Manson and said she ‘got her [sexual] kicks watching people suffer and die.’ Again, nothing was done about this.
Donohue then quoted an episode of comedian Bill Maher. “In 2005, Bill Maher went on HBO at the time of the death of Pope John Paul II and said, ‘For those who could not make the funeral, the Vatican has asked that in lieu of flowers, just stop touching your d**k.’ He also said that the whole story of Jesus, the Virgin Mary, and the Resurrection was ‘grafted from paganism’; he ended by mocking the death of the Pope and the upcoming conclave. The letter I received from HBO said that ‘it’s a free country, and people are free to say silly things—even on HBO.’
http://www.newsmax.com/archives/ic/2007/4/11/160828.shtml?s=icp
Imus is a Liberal, so let him go. Sharpton is ALLEGEDLY a MINISTER as in REVEREND. What happened to his forgivness? I loved it when IMUS in one of his apologies called Rev. Sharpton, Rev. Hargass! Whatever, Sharpton should be excommunicated from the First Church of the Gooey Death and Discount House of Worship.
A tangential question is what kind of content will MSNBC use to fill the void?
Maybe they can rerun shows on who is the father of Anna Nicole Smith’s baby?
His employer fired him. How is that a violation of the 1st Amendment?
Yay!
that’s exactly it
Once the sponsors started leaving, this was bound to happen.
Does anyone remember what Imus’s view was on Trent Lott when had to resign over his Strom Thurmond comment?
This isn’t free market.
This is extortion by Jesse and Al. And those limpwristed CEO’s caved.
Oh, maybe it was Jesse Jackson?
bttt
You seem to act like it though.
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