Not an Imus fan. The little I heard from him was unimportant to me. He is insulting to our intelligence.
Rutgers team 'offended' by remarks of Imus. Really, just what were his remarks? Did he dwell maliciously on and on? No! Then why the was he fired? He made an offhanded remake in bad taste. That is all. Americans are just too sensitive to media hype. Radio would be pretty dull without some controversy. RAP music insults all Americans especially black women. Is the Rutgers team 'offended' by RAP stars? Or is it just expected and tolerated because of a double standard. No! Will they meet with them to state their objections and indignation? ( Selected indignation) Isn't RAP music played over the air by CBS and NBC? Apparently Imus was singled out by a crowd of race baiters without substantial cause. Sorry this doesn't cut it with me.

You, on the other hand, come to an opposite conclusion based on actual facts that you state yourself then ignoring them. Hanged, quartered and buried without a trial. Can't lose by following the crowd?

Why does everyone keep saying that this is a "free speech controversy?" It has nothing to do with that. Imus was being paid by some rather large corporations to entertain. Under such circumstances, there are always restrictions.

Its not black and white that turns the world its green. Joe-blow is pleased having an opinion, but its about nothing but money. If no sponsors pulled out, he would still be on the air.

In following the controversy a little- it's almost impossible to avoid anyway- I note that many people expressing outrage did not know what "nappy headed" meant or the various connotations associated with that- it's like they are "deeply offended" by it whatever it is.

I don't agree with allowing racial slurs in any context and I never watched Imus much but the other side of this situation is the Imus case has the feel of a mob reaction. It's true that he brought it on himself but that doesn't necessarily make it a proper response.

I would like to know where were the WHITE GIRLS on the team when pictures where pasted all over the news papers. All I seen was the Black Players. Was those picturs to show they only had Blacks on the team or did the White Girls not count as part of the team. I do not belive that emus should had been fired. So now I will not buy any sponsors products. and THAT ROSIE NEES FIRED MORE THAN HE DID.

I am of the opionion that for the african-americans to create racial harmony it may want to ask their culture to stop throwing racial slurs at other cultures, including latinos. And do as the european-american do when when slandered, Laugh and think of the idiot who said it. This entire world needs to LIGHTEN UP!!!

as a woman i was offended...as a black woman i would imagine one would be deeply offended..it just shouldn't have so easy to slip and make such comments..but should he have been fired..i think there are worse offenses on a daily bases that should be causing more concern such as the prosecuter in the duke university "mistake"

I am so sick of hearing about the poor african americans. You know what,the only people who sit around and dwell on these types of incidents are YOU. You don't see the white people having a huge controversy, EVERYTIME we hear white trash or cracker in one of your rap songs do you? Instead we laugh about it and go on. Sometimes I think Jesse Jackson and Sharpton sit around and WAIT for someone who is white in the entertainment buisiness to slip up. But is alright for a black person to sit on the Oprah show and make cracks about a white person. You know what happened in the past is the Past, you really need to get overit. Jesse and Sharpton are supposed to stand for "Everyone to get along" . If you ask me those are two of the most racist people on television.

Why does the Rutgers' player have to wear a large bandage on her arm to appear on national tv? What is under the bandage? I feel as sorry for Epiphany Prince as she did for the opposing young ladies when she humiliated them last year on her way to setting the national record for poorest sportsmanship, ie. most points in a Ladies high school basketball game.

I think it's very important to remember a couple of things here. One is, I think it's safe to say that most black people were mildly offended, and agree that the whole thing is now rediculously overblown. Most black people are secure and strong enough not to worry about what some old white man says about them. They laugh it off and move on. The problem is Jackson, and that buffoon Sharpton getting involved. Everyone is aware of their characters and their agendas.
The second thing to remember, is that the liberal media is a bigger problem than anyone. With all their "white guilt", and political corectness, they adore a story like this. It gives them a chance to prove how "openminded", and "non-racist" they are. They just can't control themselves. I think a lot of educated black people are getting quite a laugh out watching the media trip all over each other to be the "most outraged". Truly comical.

I feel Imus's remarks were not something that should ever have been said, but, to fire him is so crazy. The mayor of New orleans said he wanted a chocolate city again. and there was no outrage over it. Dusty Baker made fun of whites about baseball, no outcry over it. So, I guess the only outcry is when a white says something about blacks. it is considered racist, but if black say anything, its there opinion....Double standards never work in a society..

Get rid of that a-hole ,racist, troublemaker AL(not a reverend) Sharpton then i'll listen to what is fair and right.How fast they forget about Tawana Brawley yet no apology from Sharpton about that fiasco ,right? You want to talk racism!

J. BERR..youare just another conformist that's afraid to be labeled "A RACIST" unless you jump on the bandwagon and condemn Imus. I don't listen to Imus but I do know what he said was wrong, but nothing more racist then black people on t.v., radio and cd's. I also believe Sharpton needs to be fired .OH, thats right , he doesn't have a job. Maybe the IRS should should find out where he gets his income from!

Everyone needs to take a chill pill, and as for Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton they need to move on to other issues. Everytime the black race has been slander by the white race everyone is upset. I don't see the white race asking for comdeians to get fired or to meet with them in person for a personal applogie. When will the black race grow up? I know you are not the only race on earth, you would like to think so, but you're not!! I do not think that there is any harm to the girls basketball team, because they will keep on playing the game no matter what name the world is calling them.

Bad move on CBS and MSNBC I put a lock on them on my TV ..How could listen to those two racist pigs sharton and jessie .what is wrong with you and GM, I traded my Caddy for a german car because it was a lemon all 56000.thausand dollar worth ..shame on the firing Sorry Iman we all know this world has a lot of jerks

I'd like to hear about some of the good things this guy has done! I understand that he raises alot of money for childrens charities. Should he have been fired, no way, what will it take for us to move on from this. Perhaps some compenstation for all those so deeply hurt and dramatized by those three words would help. Maybe congress should take the next 12 months to debate the issue and of course screw it up more, or better yet, maybe the sponsers and CEO's who's moral compass suddenly appeared could dig deep into their own pockets and make it right. I know that would help me sleep better tonight. We will never eliminate racism in this country until guys like Sharpton and Jackson quit profiting from it. There is such a double standard in this area that it makes my stomach turn.

1987: Sharpton spreads the incendiary Tawana Brawley hoax, insisting heatedly that a 15-year-old black girl was abducted, raped, and smeared with feces by a group of white men. He singles out Steve Pagones, a young prosecutor. Pagones is wholly innocent -- the crime never occurred -- but Sharpton taunts him: "If we're lying, sue us, so we can . . . prove you did it." Pagones does sue, and eventually wins a $345,000 verdict for defamation. To this day, Sharpton refuses to recant his unspeakable slander or to apologize for his role in the odious affair.

1991: A Hasidic Jewish driver in Brooklyn's Crown Heights section accidentally kills Gavin Cato, a 7-year-old black child, and antisemitic riots erupt. Sharpton races to pour gasoline on the fire. At Gavin's funeral he rails against the "diamond merchants" -- code for Jews -- with "the blood of innocent babies" on their hands. He mobilizes hundreds of demonstrators to march through the Jewish neighborhood, chanting, "No justice, no peace." A rabbinical student, Yankel Rosenbaum, is surrounded by a mob shouting "Kill the Jews!" and stabbed to death.

1995: When the United House of Prayer, a large black landlord in Harlem, raises the rent on Freddy's Fashion Mart, Freddy's white Jewish owner is forced to raise the rent on his subtenant, a black-owned music store. A landlord-tenant dispute ensues; Sharpton uses it to incite racial hatred. "We will not stand by," he warns malignantly, "and allow them to move this brother so that some white interloper can expand his business." Sharpton's National Action Network sets up picket lines; customers going into Freddy's are spat on and cursed as "traitors" and "Uncle Toms." Some protesters shout, "Burn down the Jew store!" and simulate striking a match. "We're going to see that this cracker suffers," says Sharpton's colleague Morris Powell. On Dec. 8, one of the protesters bursts into Freddy's, shoots four employees point-blank, then sets the store on fire. Seven employees die in the inferno.

And yet this racist pig gets to keep his "job" and refuses to apologize for anything.

You know I am sick and tired of the Africa community raising cane any time a white person say anything remotely related to raceism. How about all the things the African community says about white people?? We're not suppose to say anything about it??? Every time I turn on the T.V. or radio thats all you here is racial slurs towards whites!!!!!We're the minority now, and you sure don't see us crying everytime or thew blacks getting fired or sued.

If not for Sharpton the phony minister (ordained at 10, give me a break) these girl would never have heard of these remarks as I am sure they are far too intelligent to listen to Imus. This is nothing more than Sharpton using these girls to further his own personal agenda (read $$$$$ for him).What you don't get is that whitey is sick of the double standard in this country. If it had been Eddie Murphy said this every black would be laughing instead of screaming. Whitey is also sick of the self effacing phoney white liberals that jumped on this bandwagon, including the white liberal politicians that used Imus show to further their agendas. Now get this...today it's Imus, tomorrow it's Snoop, the next day it is comedy central. As for these girls being scarred for life by this, give me a break. If you are going to let the curmudeonly rantings of a cranky old fart scar your life, you are one hypersensitive person. And again, had it not been for Sharpton, the whole remark would have vanished two seconds after it was said. He is responsilbe for any scarring here, using these innocent girls for his own personal pleasure.

imus got railroaded...yeah, what he said about the rutgers basketball women's team was inane, but it was apart of his "schtick" and everybody knows it! msnbc and cbs shot holes through the 1st ammendment...let's try to fix it before we have more damage to our constitution!!!!