It's not just Imus

No, it's not. He stood on his pecker and got run over by a truck, and rightly so, but he is not the only on-air personage that spews racist, sexist, hateful shit. He's not the worst of 'em by a long shot.

Media Matters:

[...] But as Media Matters for America has extensively documented, bigotry and hate speech targeting, among other characteristics, race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, and ethnicity continue to permeate the airwaves through personalities such as Glenn Beck, Neal Boortz, Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Michael Savage, Michael Smerconish, and John Gibson.

That's an incomplete list of course, but MMfA lists a good selection of their trash talk. Just for fun, hook up a blood pressure monitor and watch it explode as you read through the article.

My conclusion? IOKIYAR.

Freedom of speech is a Constitutional right, but the impetus to watch what you say has been lost due to a complete lack of consequences. A coupla good punches in the nose would shape these clowns right up.