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<blockquote data-quote="Sara PA" data-source="post: 35930" data-attributes="member: 1498"><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: witzend</div><div class="ubbcode-body"></p><p>I have to qualify my response to this by admitting that I don't watch Don Imus, Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al. I just find them to be generally too aggressive for my taste and it upsets me. </div></div></p><p>I don't watch or listen to Howard Stern, Shawn Hannity or Rush Limbaugh though I have enough to know that I don't like them. I occassionally watch Bill O'Reilly. Imus doesn't really fit in with that group. Imus's show had much more substance to it than Stern and he was a far less aggressive interviewer than Hannity or O'Reilly. Imus let people talk. And while he was opiniated, it wasn't the same constant tirade of his thinking that Limbaugh is noted for. </p><p></p><p><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As far as listening to what interests you and ignoring what offends you ("ignore" mind you, not "leave the room"), I think that is telling the people producing the programs that what offends you is just fine as long as it entertains someone else. And indeed, people have free choice to listen to what they want to hear, and not to what they don't want to hear. (Just as I get to have my opinion about it.) And more power to people if they can sit in the room and totally and objectively ignore the vicious garbage that spews from these people's petty minds and filthy mouths. What about everyone else in the room around them who can't filter it out because they are too young or they have never heard anyone speak with compassion for fellow man before?</div></div></p><p>Well, I watched the show alone and ultimately quit watching it because I got tired of his comments....until the network morning shows went through the All Anna Nicole Smith All The Time phase, something I found enormously intellectually offensive, by the way. But the fact remains that people didn't sit by in the Imus case. He's not on anymore.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sara PA, post: 35930, member: 1498"] <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: witzend</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> I have to qualify my response to this by admitting that I don't watch Don Imus, Howard Stern, Bill O'Reilly, Shawn Hannity, Rush Limbaugh, et al. I just find them to be generally too aggressive for my taste and it upsets me. </div></div> I don't watch or listen to Howard Stern, Shawn Hannity or Rush Limbaugh though I have enough to know that I don't like them. I occassionally watch Bill O'Reilly. Imus doesn't really fit in with that group. Imus's show had much more substance to it than Stern and he was a far less aggressive interviewer than Hannity or O'Reilly. Imus let people talk. And while he was opiniated, it wasn't the same constant tirade of his thinking that Limbaugh is noted for. <div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">As far as listening to what interests you and ignoring what offends you ("ignore" mind you, not "leave the room"), I think that is telling the people producing the programs that what offends you is just fine as long as it entertains someone else. And indeed, people have free choice to listen to what they want to hear, and not to what they don't want to hear. (Just as I get to have my opinion about it.) And more power to people if they can sit in the room and totally and objectively ignore the vicious garbage that spews from these people's petty minds and filthy mouths. What about everyone else in the room around them who can't filter it out because they are too young or they have never heard anyone speak with compassion for fellow man before?</div></div> Well, I watched the show alone and ultimately quit watching it because I got tired of his comments....until the network morning shows went through the All Anna Nicole Smith All The Time phase, something I found enormously intellectually offensive, by the way. But the fact remains that people didn't sit by in the Imus case. He's not on anymore. [/QUOTE]
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