As a Canadian I can't understand why Imus is the devil, but Glen Beck is innocent. ?????????

[Harper_is_Bush]

Imus was nothing compared to what Glen Beck says all the time.

His vitriol goes completely unexamined.

[villager]

1. As an American -- as a human being -- I can't understand it either.

n/t

[Critters2]

2. I don't understand it either. I do think Beck, Limbaugh, et al

will have to watch themselves, at least for a while, precisely because corps can easily be called on their hypocrisy. But then again, maybe corps don't give a damn.

[magellan]

3. I got nothing.

Throw in Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Coulter, Savage...I was never an Imus fan at all, the shock jock thing never appealed to me, but if he's guilty of abusing the airwaves (and I believe he is) the others are ten -- nay, one hundred times over. At least.

:shrug:

[Ecumenist]

4. As far as I'm aware, noone has said anything about that

son of a bitch being innocent. As far as I'm concerned, both of these pricks, in addition those boils on the butt of humanity, limpbaugh, weiner savage and hannity need to be dragged by their eyeballs to a courtroom and made to answer for the lies that assisted the morons squatting in the Whitehouse in kill thousands of Americans and hundreds of thousands of innocents overseas.

[Rosemary2205]

5. Who said Glenn Beck is innocent?

Did I miss something?

[Harper_is_Bush]

7. The Court of Public Opinion, Apparently. N/T

[NormanYorkstein]

12. no one asked the Court of Public Opinion

In case you didn't realize there are people here trying to get him off the public airwaves as well.

[Rosemary2205]

13. How do you figure that?

There have been plenty of public outcries against the usual suspects, including Beck. Thus far their employers have seen fit to continue to employ them, as is their right. Generally their listeners are the small minority of Americans who agree with them and their sponsors appearantly see the controversy as a positive in keeping that select audience.

It's just my humble opinion, but I believe what happened to Imus happened partly because his audience and sponsorships ARE more diverse, less narrow minded than "the other guys". When the public outcry hit a certain point they were unwilling to continue Imus's employment. --- where they others, Rush, Beck, Savage, Boortz, etc have a much narrower audience and sponsorship less likely to be affected by the outcry.

But make no mistake, there has been plenty of outcry.

[Erika]

6. Their day is coming n/t

[orleans]

14. i hope so. i really hope so. n/t

[sutz12]

8. Keith Olbermann has been attacking this one.

He has been asking almost every guest about Limpy, Liely, and Preck.

Keith rocks!

[Rene]

9. Anyone that thinks Imus' firing was about the remarks is deluding themselves.

Who reached out that quickly and had the power to have his advertising yanked, by so many large scale companies.
Ask yourself who Imus has been railing about ---- the war criminal VP. and bush administration all the way up and down the line.
cheney/Rove saw an opening and went after him to pull that administration critic off the air. We're left with NOONE of that capability to reach millions....who is speaking the truth about the administration's criminal activity every day----raising that awareness.
Sharpton, Jackson.....are the vilest of hypocrites. The community that endorses those rank hip-hop entertainers and their lyrics are also hypocrites.
Imus should have NEVER given Sharpton the time of day.....just dealt directly with the NJ players.

I may not like what a person says, but I'll always defend his First Amendment right to say it.

[WiseButAngrySara]

11. Good points, but I really hope you're wrong on this one. ....n/t

[Raine]

16. Interesting and

I wouldn't put it past that crowd to do something like that to divert attention from their own rotten scandal ridden MISadministration.

[Sadie4629]

19. Imus' remarks were--

--repulsive, disgusting, reprehensible, sickening, and a whole lot of other adjectives it's too early in the a.m. to think of. EVERYONE thought they were horrible.

There is a very fine line of acceptability. Limbaugh, O'Reilly, Hannity dance along the line, but don't go nearly as far as Imus did. When Limbaugh did cross that line, on ESPN, he was also gone within days.

Imus made those remarks on his own, with no help from Cheney, Rove, or anyone else. People reacted with outrage, and CBS and MSNBC made a reasonable decision to can him--for their own benefit.

He's gone. Good riddance. And he has no one to blame but himself.

[WiseButAngrySara]

10. He is repulsive! I never watch him, but this was posted tonight in

GDPolitics, and I couldn't believe that these comments were allowed to be aired. Below are just a few samples. Media Matters has compiled a huge list of worse offenders that Imus.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3213526

http://mediamatters.org/items/200704120010

On the March 21 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, Beck called Rosie O'Donnell, co-host of ABC's The View, a "fat witch," claimed that O'Donnell has "blubber ... just pouring out of her eyes," and asked, "Do you know how many oil lamps we could keep burning just on Rosie O'Donnell fat?" On the March 23 edition of his radio show, Beck said, "I'm a little ashamed" for calling O'Donnell "a fat witch" -- then added, "But she's so fat."

On the March 15 broadcast of his nationally syndicated radio show, Beck said: "Hillary Clinton cannot be elected president because ... there's something about her vocal range." He went on to say, "There's something about her voice that just drives me -- it's not what she says, it's how she says it," adding, "She is like the stereotypical -- excuse the expression, but this is the way to -- she's the stereotypical bitch, you know what I mean?" Beck subsequently qualified his statement: "I never said that Hillary Clinton was a bitch. I said she sounded like one."

On the April 27, 2006, edition of his radio program, Beck claimed that there are three reasons that an illegal immigrant "comes across the border in the middle of the night": "One, they're terrorists; two, they're escaping the law; or three, they're hungry. They can't make a living in their own dirtbag country."

On the August 24, 2006, edition of his CNN Headline News program, Beck claimed that Braille on walls (used to identify rooms for blind people) "drives me out of my mind." When he made his comment, Beck was discussing the "politically correct world we live in." He then said, "Just to piss them off, I'm going to put in Braille on the coffee pot ... 'Pot is hot.' "

[lligrd]

15. Imus Spoke Against Bush

Bushies were just waiting for a chance to jump him. And he gave them the chance. If not for the "loud crowd" going after him, you would barely have noticed the Sharpton and the Dems that fell for this going after him.

Don't get me wrong, what he said was totally wrong. He's an old white guy who surrounds himself with bigots and says shocking comments all the time and he probably believes a good part of what he says but it has worked pretty well for him for all these years and there are plenty of others who say and believe a hell of a lot worse. And Imus does do a lot for charity which I seriously doubt Rush does.

And don't forget how it took the heat off of the lost emails, Iraq Occupation Failure, Attorney General scandal and the rest of this administration blunders for a while.

[Sadie4629]

20. Limbaugh fundraises for leukemia, or something

[LittleClarkie]

17. I'm wondering if it's a matter of who Imus has pissed off

in his life. Perhaps he's not one to "play the game" as it were, whereas perhaps Beck is.

[Garbo 2004]

18. To top it off, Anderson Cooper's 360 had CNN Headline News' own Glen Beck on a few

days ago to opine on the Imus matter! And he wasn't introduced, as he should have been, as "Here's our own in-house bigot Glen Beck..."

[mmonk]

21. You're correct.

It's time to call out the hate spewing rightwing that the media has given legitimacy to.