Quack quack.

I support Don Imus.


CBS certainly has the right to fire him, but it's a cowardly, scary thing for them to do. Caving to pressure like that is just going to embolden all the myriad First Amendment haters out there, letting them know that corporate media doesn't have the spine to stand behind the people they pay to shock us. And who will come calling to CBS's door next asking for content to be deleted? The current administration? The religious right? The New Yorker reading, latte swilling Brooklynites?

Imus said an awful thing, and he should be disciplined, called out, and made to apologize....but not muzzled.

Firing Imus because of his three mischosen words accomplishes nothing valuable. It heals no rifts, cures no ills, and only sweeps another very important topic in America under the rug. This incident should be an opening for a conversation about race, not a witch hunt. But now the witch hunt is over...or is it?

Rev. Al Sharpton said this: "It is our feeling that this is only the beginning. We must have a broad discussion on what is permitted and not permitted in terms of the airwaves." I'll wait a second while you shudder at that thought.

If it's going to be left up to the likes of the good Reverend (or Pat Robertson, or George W. Bush, or Hilary Clinton) to determine what's worthy of being broadcast on the American people's airwaves, all I have to say is: thank goodness we have the internet.