Don Imus

I'm not really keen on writing about this, because it gets us into questions of race and I always feel like I'm on shaky ground writing about race. I'm a middle class white guy who grew up in the suburbs.

But it's the topic of the day, and the subject of numerous articles over at Townhall. So let's look them over.

Mike Gallagher tries to go the even handed route and for that I would like to give him and even hand right across the chopper. Wait, that's a slap isn't it? I don't slap people.

Anatomy of a scandal: Don Imus spends years developing a talk radio career where his cranky, always-irritated demeanor turns into revenue gold for his employers; on one particular morning he makes a stupid, bigoted remark about a bunch of young, talented college athletes; a liberal watchdog-type website blasts the remark all over the internet, prompting the media to turn it into a firestorm; Imus makes a bunch of clumsy, cranky, always-irritated attempts to apologize; and before he can even begin to start serving his self-described “two week suspension with dignity”, he loses it all. First, his cable news employer cans him and then, his bread and butter, the radio network, says good-bye, I-Man.

So there you go. But the real story is that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are just as racist and yet we all look the other way. Apparently.

Patrick J. Buchanan, who you can always depend upon when it comes to racial matters, titles his piece "The Imus Lynch Party."

Imus threw himself on the mercy of the court of elite opinion -- and that court, pandering to the mob, lynched him. Yet, for all his sins, he was a better man than the lot of them rejoicing at the foot of the cottonwood tree.

A little flowery there. But the real story is that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are just as racist and yet we all look the other way. Apparently.

Lorie Byrds article is entitled "How Long will Democrats and the Media continue to enable Sharpton and Jackson." Not much else to be said, but here's a quote anyway.

Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson will continue to exploit race issues as long as there are no "officials" willing to call them on it. In this case, those with the responsibility to do so are the Democrats and the media.

Obviously the real story is that Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton are just as racist and yet we all look the other way. Apparently.

Rich Lowery goes for the evenhanded route as well, making sure we all know that Imus was a liberal and that we went easy on him compared to how we would go on a Conservative.

So there you have it: Offensiveness now, offensiveness tomorrow, offensiveness forever. No liberal would make that kind of stand on behalf of anyone else. Imus got an exemption because his guests could feel as though they were part of the in-crowd and that they had done something wild and naughty by parleying with him.

Yep; we Liberals are just hypocrites when it comes to race, apparently. But the real story is that Al Sharpton is just as racist and we all look the other way. Apparently. Also Lowry lets Jackson off the hook.

I'm already tired of this shtick. But yeah, Limbaugh and Hannity were both making this point yesterday as well. The real bad guys are Sharpton and Jackson and will be forever. Apparently.

I'm already drained from this; maybe I'll try to hit a few more later in the morning. There is a fascinating one about how our young White Males are the most persecuted group in America I know you wall want to read.