Just saw the news: Don Imus has been fired from his CBS radio show! This comes a day after MSNBC cancelled their cable TV simulcast of that same show.

I'm trying to figure out who Al Sharpton is working with. It really seems to me like he was on the payroll of someone who had an agenda to get Imus off the air. I say this because I remember well when Sharpton was a guest on one of Howard Stern's early `90's cable TV shows (was it E! or WOR? Can't remember.) The exchange went something very much like this:

HOWARD STERN: So where did you get the name Al Sharpton?

AL SHARPTON: Al was my father's name and Sharpton, I don't know where that came from.

HOWARD STERN: Probably from your white slave master. Can you imagine owning a plantation and having Al on it? I'd just put him right on the auction block and say, "Here, take him!"

I've always remembered that exchange clear as day because on one hand it was so shocking, and at the same time, so...funny! And there was Al, only three feet away from Stern, failing to throw a punch, failing to rally people in the streets. Now because the host of a radio show he probably rarely, if ever, listened to said "nappy-headed hos" he's crapping his shorts?

Just a few years ago I also recall Howard also seized on some cheesy `70's R&B song called "Every Nigger is a Star" and would play it all the time and sing along! Yet for some reason, as he always has, Howard Stern has got a pass.

Looking for traffic news this morning I happened across Neal Boortz, who was talking about the Imus incident. Boortz said he couldn't imagine himself saying anything like "nappy-headed hos." Really? Well, he may not say that, but I do remember when he was talking about being mugged by some Mexicans at a ATM while he was in Las Vegas for a Mike Tyson fight. That went like this:

ROYAL MARSHALL: How do you know they were Mexicans?

NEAL BOORTZ: They were wearing sombreros. They were probably on their way to Gainesville to rip the heads off chickens. That's a respected profession in that community. If I'd been licensed to carry a gun in Nevada I would've shot `em all in the kneecaps!

Howard Stern, Neal Boortz and any number of other hosts have certainly said things just as "bad" as Don Imus and didn't get bulldozed off the air so quickly. Maybe some of it is that Imus has got to be way up in his 60's, maybe even 70, so...heck, I think even CBS themselves might be behind this! NBC encouraged Dana Carvey's lampooning of Johnny Carson to help budge him out of his host chair, so maybe CBS sees this as a win-win. "We're seen as socially conscious and sensitive, and we're rid of a guy who was past his prime."

I think it's a load of crap. Never was a fan, but long live Don Imus.

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