Was Don Imus Treated Unfairly?

Before I venture out onto the limb of whether it was right to fire Don Imus, let me say unequivocally that I did not approve of his racially and sexually biased insults against the Rutgers female basketball team.

Then again I am a bit of a prude. I don't like shock jocks, gangsta rap or for that matter Victoria's Secret commercials.

Now that the event has apparently run its course and Don Imus is gone from the airwaves and cable TV, I can't help but have a queasy feeling over how it went down. Does anyone of us want the content of free speech on the airwaves dictated so swiftly by operatives like Al Sharpton (or perhaps a Karl Rove next time) and corporations like Proctor and Gamble?

If this was a consumer driven media coup, this one particular consumer is feeling a little buyer's remorse.