Outspoken KFI-AM (Los Angeles) talk-show host Tammy Bruce, who came under fire from management on August 19th for "unfounded, mean-spirited and simply inappropriate" remarks she made about Camille and Bill Cosby in early July, will not be returning to the station. A KFI spokesman said Wednesday in response to an inquiry from the Los Angeles Times that "as of August 31, KFI decided not to renew her contract."

Bruce's remarks were directed at an incredible essay printed in USA Today, written by Camille Cosby. Mrs. Cosby was venting (to be kind) about a racist America that could teach a Ukrainian immigrant (such as her son's convicted killer) to hate Blacks.

Before we look at Cosby's essay, consider that talk radio can be routinely offensive to nearly everyone. What limits have been put on Howard Stern? Does Laura Schlessinger get penalized for being misogynistic and cruel on a daily basis?

For a talk-show host to be fired for content is inconceivable these days--but I guess that's where the problem lies.

Now for a few of Camille Cosby's gems with my comments:

"Presumably, Markhasev did not learn to hate black people in his native country, the Ukraine, where the black population was near zero."

***Wow! If you have to be around blacks to learn to hate them, there must be something to this here racism stuff. How would she explain that in homogeneous Japan dwell some of the most racist people on Earth? Does she think that Muscovites opened their arms to the rare black students who came there from Africa in the 1960's? Shades of Paul Robeson's twisted ideas. Oh, and what about the recent Russian Olympic protest that American teams had an unfair advantage because of the presence of blacks?

"African-Americans, as well as all Americans, are brainwashed every day to respect and revere slave-owners and people who clearly waffled about race ... several slave-owners' images are on America's paper currencies: George Washington ($1), Thomas Jefferson ($2), Alexander Hamilton ($10), Andrew Jackson ($20), Ulysses Grant ($50) and Benjamin Franklin ($100)."

***Most scholars would disagree that Hamilton and Franklin (whose last act was to file an anti-slavery petition to Congress) were slave-owners. In any event, what American since the Civil War has been taught to revere the fact that some of these men owned slaves? As far as waffling about race, Camille should ask Louis Farrakhan and Jesse Jackson their thoughts on slavery still existing in Africa, 125 years after it was abolished in this America, founded by her supposed racists.

"The Voting Rights Act signed by President Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 will expire in 2007. Congress once again will decide whether African-Americans will be allowed to vote. No other Americans are subjected to this oppressive nonsense."

***This is rich!! What majority in this country, and exactly which elected official is going to attempt to deny African-Americans the right to vote (which is, after all, a constitutional right)? In fact, the only African-Americans so denied in the past resided in the American South, a region whose major cities today are run by African-American elected officials, and where black legislators like Rep. Cynthia McKinney, (D-Ga.), are elected in majority white districts.

But, enough of Cosby's rant. What were Tammy Bruce's crimes?

She criticized the Cosby article and also made derogatory comments about Camille's mental state and her husband's fidelity. If you were to read the entire essay in the July 8th issue of USA Today, you just might conclude that Mrs. C was a little "off," as well. And as for Bill's fidelity, he has admitted publicly to having an affair or two.

Apparently, Bruce had the gall to take on a big powerful media family, and her management was afraid of the consequences. It's really as simple as that. And hey, no racism needed!