Exactly junkernaut! BTW that slight wobbling that you feel is the earth preparing to spin out of orbit at the thought of us agreeing on something.

Another way to say what you seem to be saying is this:

Not only does NO ONE in this country have a "right" not to be offended but the first amendment was designed to protect OFFENSIVE speech (polite speech needs no protection).

We don't have to wait for the doomsday scenario you specify in your post. We ALREADY have Race Pimps number 1 and 2 (Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton) deciding what WORDS are permissable!!! I submit that one would be hard-pressed to find ANYONE more racist than these two shake-down artists. And they are our moral arbiters on race????

You know I disliked Imus. Mean -ass grumpy old liberal!!! But I hope he takes MSNBC to the cleaners and I'll bet money he does because they are going to have a hard time arguing that he breached his contract given that he REGULARLY said more shocking things (guess that's why they call him a shock jock) and MSNBC and all the liberals who turned on him didn't give a shit until Sharpton started making noise. Imus will argue that when MSNBC negotiated his contract they KNEW what they were getting (he's been in radio for like forty years).

I hope he wins and I hope it is covered although the drive-bys don't like to revisit their victims!!!!