One thing that bothers me about this is that Sharpton has stated it was time to talk to broadcasters about what would be permitted to say and what would not be permitted to say. That sounds remarkably like censorship to me.

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The FCC has many things you can't say.

It used to be seven words, I think they have dropped a few in the last year or so Its getting to the point that the language at a biker bar is cleaner when TV

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I make the distinction between political speech and commercial speech (things like strip clubs and false advertising claims). I do not have any qualms about regulating commercial speech.

But, since you cannot be an airwaves broadcaster in this country without getting the government’s permission (the FCC), we do not have freedom of speech in any broadcast media. Whether or not this is right or wrong depends on whom it is that owns the broadcast airwaves. I would be more inclined than not to say the airwaves are not public property and thus cannot be legitimately regulated by the government. But that does not negate the fact that Imus was being paid to speak and thus could not exercise total freedom to say whatever he wanted to say. His advertisers and the people that gave him access to a broadcast facility and airtime are certainly within their right to regulate what he says.

The companies made a business decision.

They also bowed to the poverty pimp nigger.s

Hey you little inbred racist fucker! IMUS got canned/fired b/c of the COLOR GREEN, the shareholders and corporate advitisers and indorsers! If Imus's 1st and 2nd amendements were violated, it was violated by wall street and corporate America!

In essence, Imus was fucked and pimped by the very enities paying his 7 figure salary. The hypocracy came from WALL STREET AND CORPORATE AMERICA!!!!!

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Joe Biden said that people who work in 7/11's are all dotheads.

I think that founding fathers was being hyperbolic.

What is Rasta's problem? Is he a "inner-city" ghetto dwelling poverty pimp? Or what?

What does Bidden have to do with IMUS. You are comparing Apples and Oranges.

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AMERICA LAND OF THE FREE HOME OF THE BRAVE--BECAUSE OF OUR CONSTITUTION.

Hillary Clinton said that Gandhi should have been a gas station attendant.