Hannity & Colmes transcript below. Armstrong does not call for Imus to be fired.
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ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS, COMMENTATOR: Well, listen, what he said was disgusting. It was abhorrent. It was terrible. It’s very offensive. But the sad news is, is that this is what Don Imus does.
He said things about Venus and Serena Williams. He said things about Gwen Ifill. He said things about others...
HANNITY: Should he be fired?
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WILLIAMS: He’s talked about Jews. He talks about everybody. This is what he does.
ALAN COLMES, CO-HOST: Armstrong, it’s Alan. Welcome back to our show.
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: ... I did not interrupt you. I did not interrupt you. May I finish?
COLMES: Yes, sir.
WILLIAMS: Thank you. He talked about all of these people. They have allowed this to go on. I don’t believe in censorship. I believe in the ultimate freedom of speech. I think the marketplace should decide.
Certainly, CBS Radio and everyone else has a right to suspend him, to send a message that, after many warnings, they will not tolerate this any longer. But firing him — and another thing we’re doing, we’re setting another precedent. Don Imus is not the only shock jock who used this kind of terminology and racist remarks. They are other people that use it.
You set a dangerous precedent when you say that someone like Don Imus should be fired, because there are a lot of people who happen not to look like Don Imus. It’s easy to fire...
COLMES: Armstrong, hold on.
(CROSSTALK)
WILLIAMS: ... but we’ve got to hold everybody to the same standard.
(CROSSTALK)
COLMES: Hold on, Armstrong.
HILL: Let’s fire all of them then. I have no problem with that.
O’NEAL: And then what?
I think we should all e-mail Sean Hannity the following about Sharpton:
1)In 1989, a young woman jogger in Central Park was viciously raped and beaten by a gang of youths. Sharpton led a mob outside the court which claimed, without a shred of evidence, that “the boyfriend did it,” and screamed that the victim was a “whore.”
2)At a rally in Harlem, Sharpton denounced a Jewish small business owner as a “white interloper,” and then stood by approvingly while one his associates incited the crowd to violence. Later, a listener killed seven people in the store. Sharpton then lied and claimed he had never been at the rally.
3)Sharpton helped incite a murderous anti-Jewish pogrom in Brooklyn when he gave a speech at a funeral of a black child who had been accidentally killed by a Jewish driver. Sharpton announced, “If the Jews want to get it on, tell them to pin their yarmulkes back and come over to my house.” He also organized a boycott of small grocery stores owned by Korean immigrants. He called New York City’s first black mayor, David Dinkins, “that n-—— whore turning tricks in City Hall.”
4) In 1994, Sharpton explained black cultural superiority: “White folks were in caves while we were building empires. . . . We taught philosophy, astrology, and mathematics before Socrates and those Greek homos.”
http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/opinion_columnists/article/0,2777,DRMN_23972_4494836,00.html
And let me add something: For noticing the hypocrisy between what blacks can get away with saying and what whites can get away with saying, a freeper friend had the KKK/white sheet taunt thrown at her. So expect the worst in discussing this. Even on Free Republic.