[ComfortEagle]

Bottom line. He shouldn't have been fired for this. I don't agree with what he said, but I don't think it was that big of a deal at all and the Constitution gives him the right to say anything he wants on the internet.

10 years ago this would have not made any national news.

alfus, he didn't say it on the internet, he said it on his show which is carried by CBS I believe, and MSNBC on the radio and televised.
Who knows, it may have been broadcast on the internet as well, but it was much more widespread.

Sure, the Constitution gives him that right, he's not going to go to jail for it, but the Constitution does not protect him from losing his sponsors and public outcry.

That show lost a lot of money from sponsors backing out from the show, and the stations that did carry the show did not want to be seen as supporting racism either.