I don’t defend what he said — I defend his right, under the first ammendment, to say it. Just as I detest Rosie and what she says every day of the week.
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The First Ammendment protects free speech only from GOVERNMENT prosecution. That’s why John Rocker wasn’t hauled off in handcuffs. There is no law in America against making a Horse Tooth Jackass of yourself and saying stupid things, otherwise we would all be under arrest and there would be nobody to guard us in jail.
Imus is still a free man and is not under Gubmint scutiny (unless the FCC gets involved in which case all bets are off and forget what I just said about free speech) It doesn’t protect anyone from Al Sharpton and others who want to use their right to free speech to call him what they want and pursue their own agenda.
But I agree with you and others who point out that Weird Al Sharpton and Jesse “the philanderer” Jackson are guilty of saying and doing much worse yet the liberal media won’t touch them. In a matter of fact, Imus has said much worse than this and nobody made a stink before.
I guess you can call people as many ugly slanderous names that you want on the air, as long as Jesse and Al say it’s OK or don’t notice.
This my point, really... what I'm most angry about is once again Jesse and Al are all over the networks playing the poor us routine.
Wasn't it Jesse who was all over the Duke case last year and now it turns out the girl lied -- but always call the white man the lier... never consider your own may have lied... I, for one, am sick of this double standard.