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MSNBC: Imus Fired! (Vanity)
Tucker on MSNBC | 4/11/07 | NickatNite2003

Posted on 04/11/2007 3:29:52 PM PDT by NickatNite2003

Tucker just read a news flash, announcing that they will no longer simulcast Imus at all, anymore.


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To: Moleman
I hope the Freepers who put their hatred of Imus above the 1st Amendment, sleep well tonight.

THANK YOU, WORTH REPEATING

Will some of you PLEASE read and understand the First Amendment? It has nothing to do with this case.

Hint: The amendment starts out "Congress shall make no law..." He wasn't banned from the airwaves by Congress people.

221 posted on 04/11/2007 4:07:52 PM PDT by TomB ("The terrorist wraps himself in the world's grievances to cloak his true motives." - S. Rushdie)
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To: leadpenny

It’s still the employer’s right to fire an employee for something the employee says on the job. The employer gets to make that judgment.


222 posted on 04/11/2007 4:08:05 PM PDT by HaveHadEnough
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To: bfree
"Time for Imus to shut down his phony ranch and retire."

I don't see 'hatred of free speech' anywhere in this post....

Let's recap:
1. Imus is a jerk.
2. His ranch/home based charity is being investigated.
3. He should have been pulled long ago based on lack of talent and socialization.
4. He has been given a pass by the left, presumably because he generally beats up on conservatives.
5. Nevertheless, he has never avoided racist comments.
6. Free speech HAS taken a hit but the man's employer DOES have every right to fire him.
7. Major issue is that this LOOKS like Obamasama and the book-end reverends won out - if only because of the timing.
8. Yes, rosie should be next but she won't be next (unless she 'resigns' on her own following some back room negotiations).
9. Yes, Rush was fired for far less and conservatives in general are held to different criteria.
10. Yes, the motive for firing was loss of sponsorship regardless of WHAT partisan observers might prefer to believe.

I could go on but my main point is that this was OK as business but it sucks culturally and politically in many ways. To many of us it is marginally comforting in other ways - like seeing Imus brought up short.

Just maybe we should stop treating each other like having a slightly different perspective is tantamount to drowning puppies.

223 posted on 04/11/2007 4:08:12 PM PDT by norton
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To: NickatNite2003

224 posted on 04/11/2007 4:08:40 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Elections have consequences.)
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To: mhking

Gives him more time to pose for the iodine bottles


225 posted on 04/11/2007 4:09:15 PM PDT by Cyman
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To: Txsleuth
The coach from Rutgers is on MSNBC now...said that Imus’ remark has “hurt recruiting”!!!

Well, this could be true, considering the speaking ability of those college-level girls.

They did not exactly promote their school's educational prowess.

226 posted on 04/11/2007 4:09:18 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: leadpenny
First they came for the Jews
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for the Communists
and I did not speak out
because I was not a Communist.
Then they came for the trade unionists,br> and I did not speak out
because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for me
and there was no one left
to speak out for me.

Pastor Martin Niemöller

227 posted on 04/11/2007 4:09:36 PM PDT by DCPatriot ("It aint what you don't know that kills you. It's what you know that aint so" Theodore Sturgeon))
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To: TomB
There you go Nit, looks like your TV gig is history. And all for calling Jim Tressel "Cheatypants McSweatervest".

All that time, and I had no idea sweatervest wearers were a protected class. Oh well...maybe I can head to XM.

228 posted on 04/11/2007 4:09:52 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: mhking

MSNBC, no doubt, was flooded with angry calls by all seven of their viewers.


229 posted on 04/11/2007 4:10:42 PM PDT by Tall_Texan (Whoever first portrayed the Democrats as braying jackasses was an exceptional judge of character.)
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To: NittanyLion

This could have involved the government. The FCC started an investigation and MSNBC may have caved because of it.

Nice try, teach.


230 posted on 04/11/2007 4:10:46 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Peach

To be fair, that was Jesse Jackson.


231 posted on 04/11/2007 4:10:54 PM PDT by TypeZoNegative (".... We are a nation of Americans. We are DECENDED from legal immigrants"- johnandrhonda)
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To: Argus

‘’Gee, Obama speaks and they jump.’’..... Don’t forget about the ‘’upstanding’’ Jesse Jackass and Al Sharpton!LOL!


232 posted on 04/11/2007 4:12:24 PM PDT by Bush gal in LA
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To: 4yearlurker
This is soooooo wrong! Freedom of speech. Where is she?

Hasn't moved an inch. Imus has the right so say anything he wants. MSNBC has the same right not to carry it.

233 posted on 04/11/2007 4:12:30 PM PDT by ReignOfError (`)
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To: NittanyLion
Today an employer fired an employee who had become a liability. That's a perfectly legitimate action, no matter how melodramatic some may act.

Ah, but should we ignore the reason WHY Imus BECAME a liability in the first place? Personally, I don't think so.

234 posted on 04/11/2007 4:12:31 PM PDT by Chena (I want a President who will also be tough against liberalism. (Kevin McCullough))
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To: Pukin Dog

LOLOLOL


235 posted on 04/11/2007 4:12:49 PM PDT by Txsleuth
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To: leadpenny
It wasn't the FCC that caused this. GE dropped the hammer on MSNBC, because advertisers were bailing.
236 posted on 04/11/2007 4:12:49 PM PDT by Pukin Dog (Sans Reproache)
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To: leadpenny
This could have involved the government. The FCC started an investigation and MSNBC may have caved because of it.

Nonsense. The FCC is investigating whether federal regulations were violated - that is their proper role. In this case, Imus was canned because advertisers pulled their support. Nothing more to it than that.

237 posted on 04/11/2007 4:13:21 PM PDT by NittanyLion
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To: HaveHadEnough

230 for you.


238 posted on 04/11/2007 4:13:24 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
I hope the Freepers who put their hatred of Imus above the 1st Amendment, sleep well tonight.

Amendment I

Congress shall make no law ... abridging the freedom of speech


I don't see the part of the First Amendment that prohibits MSNBC from firing Imus for saying something stupid on their channel.
239 posted on 04/11/2007 4:14:15 PM PDT by conservative in nyc
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To: NickatNite2003

Anyone still think that there is “freedom of speech” in the USA?


240 posted on 04/11/2007 4:14:24 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (Free Speech: a fairy tale about something that existed in the USA a long time ago)
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