Hannity Yesterday on the Imus Firing

[benld74]

I hit the wrong radio button yesterday and wound up on the
Hannity Insanity show.  After cringing, and trying to hit
another button, I realized he and his caller were talking
about the Imus firing. He went into one of his lengthy
diatrbes, about freedom, freedom of speech, how all of us want
to live the dream, have the best for our families, etc.  Then
he let go with the stinker - how the firing was wrong and
"mark my words caller, the conservative talk shows will
be next". The liberal media is out to make sure of it. 
Why do you think the Democrats did not want to debate on Fox?
I just smiled and turned the nut case off, shaking my head in
disgust.

[MemphisTiger]

1. I hope he's right that the conservative talk shows are next

they are the most hate filled shows on the air.

[MADem]

4. They are also, unlike Imus, pro-war. And that, IMO, is the real standard they use, not

any decency in language or acceptable remarks.

So long as you support the BushCo war, you can insult anyone, regardless of race, creed, color, national origin, gender, or sexual orientation. And you can do it blatantly, hideously, and repeatedly. Without consequence.

[MemphisTiger]

9. No matter how much they complain about the liberal media

conservatives are BUYING media outlets therefore controlling the media not the librul reporters.

[underpants]

2. As usual this isn't new-the RW echo chamber is scared of the Fairness Doctrine

repealed by Reagan in 87 opening up the possiblity of what we know as political talk radio today.

[MADem]

3. Hannity must not have ever listened to Imus's show, otherwise he wouldn't be supporting him.

They are on opposite sides of the Iraq war, and Imus thinks BushCo is full of incompetent criminals.

Unless of course, he fears that Rush won't be allowed to sing minstrel tunes about Barack Obama anymore...

Rush sings about Magic Negroes, here: http://colorado.mediamatters.org/items/200703230002 Offensive audio clip, accesible within that link

Imus and Tweety rip the shit out of Bushco over the "bullshit" Iraq war: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpzyMp2pQk8

[primative1]

10. Hannity is Supporting Himself

Censorship can work both ways ...

[yellowcanine]

5. "mark my words caller, the conservative talk shows will be next." I certainly hope so.

But I doubt it. Their sponsors seem to be perfectly happy with the programming.

[cullen2382]

6. He's not the only talking head saying that

I've also heard Boortz say that as I'm sure so is Limbaugh and all the rest of them.

[Justice]

7. gosh if Imus is such a liberal, why are only conservatives crying about his demise?

[Felix Mala]

8. A person on O'Reilly said there's a list of radio hosts being targeted

by the left prior to '08 election. This person said Imus was the first.

She didn't elaborate as to how the liberal plotters got Imus to utter his hateful slander.

[MADem]

11. Why would the left plot to get rid of the ONLY antiwar Republican on the radio??

That doesn't make much sense.

But that said, this is a circle-the-wagons whine by the right. Against the day that the corporate media is backing the Democrats instead of the GOP...

[primative1]

12. Plot? What plot ?

This was a spontaneous outpouring of outrage from the general public

[MADem]

13. Actually, I think the corporate sponsors ensured that the media covered the event to fan the flames,

which created the less-than-spontaneous outrage. If the media had not covered the mess all day for a week, it wouldn't have "caught on." But they gave anyone who wanted to complain a microphone and a camera, and encouraged the story. They chose to cover it, too, even when five million emails were missing, a bridge blew up in Iraq, and Parliament itself took a huge bomb too...hardly any coverage of those stories in that mix.

I'm not saying that what Imus said wasn't reprehensible, but I am saying there was an orchestrated aspect to his ouster, and it may have had something to do with the fact that he was the only antiwar Republican on TV and radio who reached millions of fellow Republicans every day.

If it were really about human decency, Rush would have been hectored into the sea for his minstel show about Obama last month, that went totally unnoticed.