Not only is the attack on Imus a small part of a larger move by the Soros Gestapo to silence talk radio as quickly as possible before the 2008 primaries and election, it is a reflection of the rank hypocrisy of the men who make money hand over fist objectifying and denigrating women (of all colors) with so-called rap or hip-hop, also known as “urban music.”

Imus is a straw man in this culture war; a war with an agenda to silence those who are unafraid of the left, who cannot be intimidated into pledging allegiance to the Soros/Clinton/Sharpton agenda of victimhood, hopelessness and malevolence.

In a column for the New York Post, Kinky Friedman has one of the most salient assessments of the situation so far, comparing Imus to those who attack him, and what his firing says of the people who advocated for it. Here’s a snippet, but obviously, read the whole thing.

COWARDS KICK AWAY ANOTHER PIECE OF AMERICA’S SOUL

…There’s no excusing Imus’ recent ridiculous remark, but there’s something not kosher in America when one guy gets a Grammy and one gets fired for the same line…

Political correctness, a term first used by Joseph Stalin, has trivialized, sanitized and homogenized America, transforming us into a nation of chain establishments and chain people.

Take heart, Imus. You’re merely joining a long and legendary laundry list of individuals who were summarily sacrificed in the name of society’s sanctimonious soul: Socrates, Jesus, Galileo, Joan of Arc, Mozart and Mark Twain, who was decried as a racist until the day he died for using the N-word rather prolifically in “Huckleberry Finn.”…

Speaking of which, there will always be plenty of Al Sharptons and Jesse Jacksons around. There will be plenty of cowardly executives, plenty of fair-weather friends, and plenty of Jehovah’s Bystanders, people who believe in God but just don’t want to get involved. In this crowd, it could be argued that we need a Don Imus just to wake us up once in a while.

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  1. ltlme says:

    It irritates me the level of hypocrisy that we have in this country in regards to what counts as racial slurs and what does not. I am not condoning the use of racial slurs, so please don’t get me wrong. I just find it interesting how when a Caucasian person uses a racial slur, Jessie Jackson and Al Sharpton are standing in front of the media calling the set person a racist and demanding an apology within mere minutes.
    However, when an entertainer from a non-Caucasian background uses the same words against his/her own racial group, or others, to include derogatory words for Caucasians, no one is knocking down their door asking for racial tolerance. It is sickening to see how the same rules do not apply for everyone in this country. We have gone from affording equal rights, liberties, and treatment to all racial groups in the late 60’s, to instilling racial inequality even more today than we did, in my humble opinion, fifteen years ago. I find it to be more of devolution in our society than anything else. The longer that that groups, such as the Rainbow Coalition, permeates our society screaming out every time a “Racial Injustice” against the set minority group occurs, the longer the racial tensions will exist in this country.
    Just think if a group of Caucasians got together and screamed at every incident where a racial slur or epitaph was used against them, they would be labeled as a racist group for the act of pointing out “Racial Injustice.”
    The only way we will move on and grow, as a nation where race is not an issue will be when we get rid of the special treatment and the special groups. Until then, this country will continue to feel the unwarranted racial divide.

    I suppose I should go seek some “Sensitivity Rehabilitation” for thinking this way.

  2. pat_s says:

    The Soros Gestapo doesn’t want all talk radio to sound like NPR, they want it to sound like Radio Moscow. Oh, yeah…never mind.

  3. botg says:

    Just wait, Imus will be used as an example of why we need the ‘fairness doctrine’ enacted by congress. Never mind that the Imus has been left leaning and this has nothing to do with a ‘fairness doctrine’ type issue, its good talking point reasoning devoid of substance.

  4. ashleymatt says:

    Tammy,

    I noticed “FIRST AMENDMENT” as one of the tags you used for this post. Unfortunately, the first amendment does not apply here. Free speech and freedom of the press only applies to the spoken and written word, not to broadcast media. If broadcast speech was protected, the Federal Censorship Commission—oops, I mean the Federal Communications Commission—could not fine you for saying words that the government doesn’t like.

    When you speak at colleges or write your books, you are free to say what you want (including the swear words) without government retribution. But when you get behind that microphone Mon-Sat, you are speaking through a medium licensed and controlled by the federal government. They get away with this by saying that the airwaves belong to the “public” (instead of rightfully to the business people who purchased them) and, therefore, “the public” through the government can decide what you can and cannot say and punish you when the majority (read: mob) deems you offensive. The “public airwaves” tripe is also how the Federal Censorship Commission got away with implementing the Fairness Doctrine in 1949. Ah, the joys of our rights being subject to the masses instead of protected under the Constitution. Keep that in mind as you have to get an updated list from Don every day of government-banned words.

  5. ashleymatt says:

    Tammy: Reading over my post, I realized that some of it comes across as being angry with you and a little patronizing since I was probably repeating a bunch of facts that you already knew. I was angry when I wrote it but at the ridiculous FCC entity, certainly not with you. It just kills me how we assume that we live in a free country and can speak our minds when, in so many ways, we cannot. Thank you for continuing to advocate true freedom of speech, even the kind not protected by the First Amendment in its current form.

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