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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...
Better yet: If a shock jock radio talk show host is fired but nobody’s listening, does it really matter...
...doubt, the temptation offered by the hypertrophic art market can also promote institutional laziness. Why come up with other ways to raise money when whatever paintings you have in hand are a potential and easily accessed gold mine? Jock Reynolds, director of the Yale University Art Gallery, says Fisk could have explored other ways to keep or share the entire collection and still make some money from it. "Why not look into co-ownership with Mrs. Walton?" he asks. "Or they could offer the collection under some kind of partnership arrangement to another historically black university...
...That context is not as kind to Imus. He comes out of the shock jock tradition, but all shock jocks are not created equal. If Opie & Anthony or Mancow had made the "nappy-headed" comment, it wouldn't have been a blip because future Presidents do not do cable-news interviews with Opie & Anthony and Mancow...
...there are people. We draw and redraw them by constantly arguing them. This is how we avoid throwing out the brilliance of a Sacha Baron Cohen - who offends us to point out absurdities in our society, not just to make "idiot comments meant to be amusing" - with a shock jock's dirty bathwater. It's a draining, polarizing but necessary process...