1. He certainly had a right to say what he did.
2. People also have a right to react to said statment in any manner they choose.
3. This was a non issue until Jackson and Sharpton along with the media made it one. Without each of these three, I bet the Rutgers team would never have heard/thought much about it.
4. The networks who employed Imus are/were well within their right to fire him.
5. Their explaination for the firing (We had internal meetings and decided that it was injurious to our other employees etc.etc) was total BS. The firings were a result of sponsers droppping their ad $$$.