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Bob Grant: Imus Firing Long Overdue
Don Imus has been getting away with slandering people for years and it's a wonder he wasn't fired years ago, legendary radio host Bob Grant says. "Don Imus has been on the road to this conclusion for all his career really, and it's amazing that he has lasted this long because what he said the other day about the Rutgers women's basketball team he's been saying similarly bolder and idiotic and hate filled things all his career," Grant told NewsMax.com. Grant, who was fired in 1996 by ABC/Disney from his show broadcast in New York on WABC for remarks about the late Ron Brown that the network considered intemperate, said that although he didn't like to see Imus fired, he thinks that it is very serious that "somebody like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton could wield so much power that they are going to be emboldened as a result of taking Don Imus down. It leaves me with a very ambivalent feeling: on the one hand I didn't think much of Imus, but I think this is going to be very serious in terms of how the racial hucksters like Jackson and Sharpton will get away with it. "I think there's an obvious double standard - if you're Rosie O'Donnell you can say any damn thing you want, which in some ways is worse than what Imus said. Apparently, if you are not politically correct you are a dead duck. And the best way to be politically incorrect is to sound as though you are not being intimidated by by the black power structure. "People like [respected black columnist] Thomas Sowell don't buy into this, but they're called 'Uncle Toms.' It's a very serious situation. The hip-hop guys can say anything they want, and then some, but Imus can't.
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"How is this all going to play out?" he asked. "That's what a lot of people have been asking, and I think we're going to see the repercussions of this in the time to come." Asked if this will have a dampening effect on political commentary, Grant said: "A lot of people used to talk about the book '1984' by George Orwell. In many ways '1984' is very much with us today. What they're doing is saying, 'Yeah we believe in the First Amendment but we don't like your views and we want to destroy you.' It's a double-edged sword here." © NewsMax 2007. All rights reserved. Editor's note:
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