Don Imus – Free Speech?
April 12th, 2007 by 
Randy
Don Imus shot off his mouth. He literally opened it and crammed in his foot! His comment was derogatory and reprehensible. He apologized. I won’t listen to his program either way. But……
Does he have the right to speak freely? Even though he has a public venue and a commercial audience, does free speech still apply? Sure it does. Just like the folks who are so vocal about the comment have the right to speak their mind. That’s what this country is all about. Free Speech.
I guess that I’m tired of having to listen to everybody’s opinion over and over and OVER again. Say it once and get on with you life. Should Mr. Imus be called upon to apologize. Sure. But, his apology should be to the nice people he made the comment about. He doesn’t owe anyone else anything. The injury is with the Rutgers Womens basketball team. Not the world.
It’s a squeaky wheel thing. Anybody who wants press and has any agenda will use their free speech to chime in on the subject. That’s great. That’s democracy. We have, at some point, to quit beating a dead horse and use the media for some more worthwhile purpose. That purpose isn’t to ride some ignorant rascal until we’re all sick of hearing about it.
Find something else to bitch about. Something that lifts us as a society. Not about some knucklehead’s off the cuff, insensitive comment. Get over it and move on.
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