Editor,
It's nice to hear that CBS and MSNBC took the appropriate action by firing Don Imus for his recent on-air racist remarks. But I don't feel they went far enough, as the current mavericks of the talk-show radio networks continue to fill the airwaves with hateful and divisive rhetoric and stereotypes. I'm talking about Rush Limbaugh, Bill O'Reilly, Ann Coulter and all the other folks who are so full of themselves and spiteful to anyone who disagrees with their opinions.
While being liberal isn't a race or religion, I find it tremendously insulting to listen to them trash my values and say that I'm whiny, un-American, traitorous, in league with the terrorists, unintelligent and hateful of America, among other things. Talk like this is just as bad as what Imus was fired for. It divides our country with bigoted remarks, gives a false impression that all liberals think and act alike and promotes stereotypes. If a radio host were to slip during a show and replace the word "liberal" with "Hispanic," "Negro," "Jew" or "woman," he or she would be fired immediately. If bigotry applies to race and religion, why doesn't it apply to politics?
Doug Flynn
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