Is it Just Me?
For some reason, since the blow up on Don Imus, I find I'm watching more Fox programs. Not that I supported what Imus said, I just didn't like his crucifixion. Don chose the wrong people to lambaste, honorable women who certainly didn't deserve it. And women without a soapbox from which to defend themselves.Imus was like zero based budgeting, you came in with no value and had to not only stand your ground but had to take as much gorund as you could. Everyone had to. And who hasn't had a boss that wasn't exactly the same?
It wasn't that Imus was a bigot. He was just very confrontational and that's how he got the best interviews out of people. Attacked from the start people were immediately pushed off balance and didn't have time to get behind their regular speaking points wall.
Watching Sharpton was sad. Just who is it that he speaks for? Saying the black community is a single voice behind Sharpton is just as bigoted as offering chitterlings to a black person.
Gwen Ifill, someone I admire greatly, took her time on Meet the Press to work out all the anger she'd kept in since being called a Whitehouse cleaning lady. From there it went to worse as she claimed the right to decide what all Americans can and can't listen to.
MSNBC, who hasn't found a fight it can't run from since they cancelled Donahue, finally conceded and cancelled the show.
They had little choice once all of the sponsors pulled out, perhaps the one thing about this I can respect.
While the touchy feely liberals cried and held vigils, pretty much forgetting the women themselves and wailing loudly just to hear themselves, the conservatives decried the message while also rejecting the punishment. Okay they said, if you're going to limit Imus, limit everyone that says the same thing.
But no, only wasp male republicans can be excoriated for this offense. Not rappers, poets, or comedians. Er, other comedians.
So are things already tipping the other way? Have the right moved to the middle and the left to the extreme left? Are Republicans actually starting to remember that thing the Bush administration has tried so hard to strip away, civil liberties?
So goes the pendulum. So goes life.
>Save the bees.
posted by don1one @ 6:01 PM
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