More About Imus

I really don't want to talk too much about him, because it seems like everytime I get in the car and flip between Air America and ESPN Radio, Imus is all those guys can talk about. It's as if all the famous rich white guys in radio suddenly are shocked that one of their own got s--tcanned for some naughty talk. But I digress.

This diary on Daily Kos is long, but worth it, and it does a pretty good job of summing up how I feel about Imus. Also, here's a quote that relates to a conversation I had with my wife about Imus a few nights ago:

Similarly, from that period to this, I half wonder whether there is a storm over the utterly enfranchised Imus now where there wasn't before in large part because of the underlying anger and skepticism at the media in general that is pervading many, many of these discussions -- the feeling, once again, that we've all been duped, and that these figures that appear on our television sets not only aren't as smart as they keep telling us they are, but that in actual fact they're pretty damn hollow, and pretty damn narcissistic, and pretty damn mean, and pretty damn dumb. Except this time, the media figures that America is angry at aren't some low-class televised hangers on, it is the uppermost rungs of our discourse, the people who decide life and death and taxes and war. And Imus, we have been told, is one of their rulers? No, seriously -- are we fucking kidding?

You can tell, viscerally, when the American public is collectively in a foul mood and looking for a little payback -- it happened to the Republicans last November, an election of intended retribution pure and simple, but the anger at the media itself for many of the same faults has not been sated. It's a broad-based anger that we've been taken advantage of, snookered by hollow people who have been leading America into directions that have been empty at best, and intentionally destructive at worst, and worst of all filling the airwaves with narcissistic self-promotion over how great they've been to do it.

Under this broader premise, Imus certainly isn't the only gopher in this hole, he's just the dumb bastard that happened to stuck his head out first?

I'd say that's about right. Americans are fed up, with a lot, and they've had enough, and no, they're NOT going to forgive and forget this incident, thank you very much.

Seriously, though, take 5 minutes to read the post, it's worth it. Then stop talking about Imus and move on.