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What killed Imus in the end is that he has been an [censored] on and off the air for those 37 years. There are a lot of people who hate him. This was much, much bigger than some comment he made about the Rutger's team. This was agendas pushed and muscles flexed like something I have never seen before.

I find this hugely effecting the way I do my job. Having to change where I have set boundries for myself. Not that I am known for racially insesitive comments, but sexually insensitive comments sure, politically incorrect comments sure and I'm a guppy where one of the big fish just got taken out.

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Welcome to 1991. It amazes me that people still don't understand that there is a difference between private speech and public speech. It's amazing that people don't understand that you can't use ethnic slurs unless you are a part of that ethnic group. It is just sad that people get so pissy when someone is held accountable for their speech.

Imus was done as soon as this story made it past day 2, he didn't help himself by trying to stay in the spotlight with his apologies. He should have issued the standard public statement apology and dissapeared for 2 weeks. I think instead of putting on the tin-foil hat and looking for some master plan to remove him you should look to cable news channels. 24 hours of content is a lot of air to fill and Imus came along when nothing better was going on, so his story stayed on the air.

I would be more concerned about this if he was some edgy news guy doing real investigative reporting and was silenced because of some dark secret he was getting close to, but he wasn't. He was a loud mouthed shock jock who said something stupid. Too many of them around any way.