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To: pissant

This is a very dark day, and not just because I am a big fan of Imus.


74 posted on 04/11/2007 3:40:17 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny
I suspect that his firing had nothing really to do with Sharpton or public outrage. In most cases the networks love the publicity. There is no such thing as BAD publicity and publicity equals higher ratings (hence The View)

The problem is the advertisers were deserting the show. The news today was that major corporations were taking away their sponsorship money. Lower revenue = bye bye Imus.

127 posted on 04/11/2007 3:46:56 PM PDT by Republican Red (America is our home team, if you don't want to root for the home team then get out of the stadium)
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To: leadpenny
Were you listening the day he made these comments? If so, what was the context, why was he calling these young women "ho's?"

I am not a fan, but the double standard is appalling.

171 posted on 04/11/2007 3:54:47 PM PDT by CremeSaver
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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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