You are in the right, and it is your Right!

Every indication is that Don Imus has just been Nifong’ed. His case is a little different in that it occurred without evidence of a crime having been committed, or for that matter even alleged. Allegations of racial insensitivity were recklessly fired into the air by an ultra-activist liberal watchdog group (Media Matters For America) without any regard for personal injury. On April 4, 2007, Media Matters for America was monitoring the 'Imus in the Morning' broadcast when Don Imus was heard to refer to the Rutgers University women's basketball as "nappy-headed ho's." Two days later, the organization posted this information on the Internet and sent out a bulk emailing to individual journalists and to the National Association of Black Journalists. Everyone in the liberal media jumped on the bandwagon - just as what occurred at Duke University. CBS Radio and MSNBC subsequently cancelled the Don Imus program.

Don Imus has been paid by his suited CBS network zoo-keepers to be controversial, outrageous and insulting for more years than anyone can count – arguably since before dirt. Nothing has changed and nothing is new. Don Imus has legions of fans that for some inexplicable reason gravitate toward his lack of civility. The most notable of Don Imus' achievement swas that he was the only liberal radio talk-show host remaining on the air. The Don Imus media persona was created to fill a market niche. In the racial malestorm that began on April 4th, it shouldn't be lost on anyone that the liberal corporate suits at CBS Radio were willing to ignore Don Imus' inflamatory rhetoric - for years - for profits.

Don Imus’ firing was the probable result of two factors. First, the corporate suits wanted to make absolutely sure that responsibility for their choice of tasteless shock-jock, and politically incorrect “jokes,” wouldn’t accrue to them. Secondly, hidden in the shadows, in wouldn't come as a surprise to learn that the Democratic Party's paid operatives (Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson) went after Don Imus with incredible venom because of Don Imus' unrelenting on-air criticism of Hillary Clinton. As for the liberal suits at CBS Radio, a new oxymoron has been coined to describe their actions, “socially responsible cowardliness," but that doesn't change the probable reality that Don Imus was politically assasinated.

In the real world, those who disapprove of Don Imus don’t listen. The same can be said for detractors of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Those who disapprove of Al Sharpton also do their best to ignore him in order to avoid involuntary projectile vomiting. Arguably Al Sharpton, with his history of racial epithets, combined with those of Jesse Jackson and Louis Farrakhan, have inflicted more harm to American culture than the Crusades did to all of Europe and Asia. Those who disapprove of the Dixie Chicks and Nancy Pelosi go about their lives. The same can be said with those who dislike the international beacons of virtue, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton and Madonna. But not Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson, our nation’s premier rap culture aficionados and defenders of debasement and degradation.

Notice that Don Imus’ only sin was that his remarks lacked “racial sensitivity” and “political correctness.” How dare Don Imus make critical remarks! Who does that old white man think he is? Ok, so what? Al Sharpton, and his misguided followers, would do well to get their proverbial thumb out of their mouth.

Americans would also do well to remember that any man or woman, who feels the need to be politically correct in their speech, cannot by definition be telling the truth. Whether Al Sharpton and his ilk like the truth or want to hear the truth is the entire basis for political correctness.

Who will be next to be Nifong’ed? Ann Coulter? Make no mistake, the Don Imus imbroglio (an embarrassing personal or political misunderstanding often bitter in nature) is but the opening salvo in an ongoing culture war to silence conservatives in general and talk radio in particular using the subject of race as a sharp-edged weapon.

Until the day that Americans of African heritage pull rap music off the record stands, blackball movies depicting African-American themes of feminine degeneracy, repudiate sports figures whose rap sheet is longer than most resumes, and widely support ending institutionalized discrimination, the rest of the United States should concentrate on reality. The reality is that it was not the rest of America that created this culture that mere mention of which caused Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to go into offensive overload.

How much will CBS quietly have to “pay” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson to stop creating an ongoing public spectacle? When the day comes that there are enough dollars in Al Sharpton’s pockets attributable to only the latest in a string of manufactured racial incidents, he will publicly and reluctantly extend feigned forgiveness to Don Imus.

If all men and women were truly created equal in this wonderful nation, why are so many still on welfare? Why are so many of Don Imus’ vocal detractors intentionally illiterate, systemically unemployable, terminally irresponsible and pathologically degenerate? In stark contrast, both Rutgers University and the Rutgers basketball team members seem to have retained a remarkable semblance of class and reasoned awareness. They chose not to be victims!

A non-scientific poll Internet poll of more than 110,000 people by NewsMax concluded that 91 percent believed Don Imus’ comments about the Rutgers basketball team was bad humor as opposed to racism, 88 percent thought MSNBC overreacted, 89 percent thought Don Imus should not have been fired, and 95 percent believed Al Sharpton had no credibility in personally attacking Don Imus.

It seems that we’re left to wonder if Al Sharpton has a moral compass. Is Al Sharpton simply the nation’s biggest and most outrageous racist profiteer, the African American’s cultural equivalent of David Duke? If Al Sharpton is the role model for the African American gene pool, it is no wonder that Don Imus’ criticism is perceived by African Americans as stinging.

Don Imus is obviously not afraid to tell the King that he has no clothes. If only Al Sharpton cared about cleaning up his own “house,” he wouldn’t have to worry about what others think of the condition of his “house,” or endure their criticism. Al Sharpton has made a career out of attacking the messenger of cultural criticism, while defiantly refusing to address the fact that too many in his “house” are neither free men and women nor wearing clothes.

Unless the United States has transformed itself into the Union of American Socialist Republics, Don Imus’ freedom of thought, opinion, and speech remains his inalienable right. Those who would willfully deny him the right to free speech are the same ones who work tirelessly to deny all private property rights embodied in the Bill of Rights. Yes, Toto, every one of the Bill of Rights is a form of private property rights.

Mr. Imus, we support your right to be tactful or offensive, according to your choice, and we support the concept that the free market (not CBS Radio) should determine if you remain viable as a talk-show host. Yes, your employer has the right to fire your sorry ass for statements unbefitting their standards of broadcast decency, but for CBS Radio to claim standards of decency, after having ignored any and all standards of decency for years until it served their purposes, the behavior of the suits at CBS Radio is far worse than your verbal transgressions.

Hang in there Don Imus! You are in the right and it is your Right.

Red State Patriot

Posted April 14, 2007 01:35 PM
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