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...politicians are not to blame. They are saying things they regret at approximately the same rate as in the past. Just the other day, even after all that we have gone through over Imus, implausible presidential candidate Thompson, former Governor of Wisconsin, told a Jewish group that making money was part of the Jewish tradition. Thank you, Governor. Thanks to all the politicians. Ladies and gentlemen, keep...
...when Don Imus, host of CBS Radio’s “Imus In The Morning” program, referred to the “nappy-headed hos” of Rutgers women’s basketball, his equally egregious remarks were met with an unusual amount of public disdain and, in the end, dismissal. It remains impossible to predict which instances of insult will stop being benign to American audiences and begin to offend. Amid the furor over Imus’s own misstep, we must acknowledge that the onus of accountability extends well beyond the shoulders...
...Imus was, somehow, the highbrow incarnation of what has come to be known as the “shock jock,” the radio host whose flimsy moral fiber and gleeful coprolalia earn him the respect and adulation of the common folk. It took a handful of references to Hillary Clinton as “Satan” and “that buck-toothed witch” (epithets people across the country invoke daily for no reward at all) to win him 1.6 million listeners a week and the sponsorship from Bigelow...
...there is no bottom to the barrel of radio’s lurid modern history; purveyors of still more odious dross regularly garner more success than Mr. Imus. Take the example of his longtime rival and colleague Howard Stern, who inked a 500 million dollar contract with Sirius Radio for five years of gallivanting with porn stars and teasing a handicapped man he calls “Gary the Retard.” Meanwhile, Rush Limbaugh made his name when he referred to the NFL as “the Bloods and the Crips without any weapons...
...while we may be tempted to join the moralizers, we should realize that Don Imus and his ilk are little more than the trained apes of the public, locked in a screeching contest for our attention. It’s an ignoble pursuit, but they know that better than anyone. Ultimately, the potency of their voices is buttressed only by the existence of a satisfied audience...