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Dan BrettaIt happened well before Don Imus...Bill Maher said something politically incorrect on the show aptly titled "Politically Incorrect" in 2001 and ABC fired him. Same thing goes for the Dixie Chicks and Clear Channnel...I'm pretty sure OJ Simpson was canned from NBC and lost all his endorsements well before he went to trial. There are plenty of examples prior to OJ as well. Companies have to protect themselves from bad publicity and there's nothing wrong with that. Could you imagine the backlash Avis car rentals would have gotten had they stood behind OJ throughout his trial?