If the MSM put as much effort into impeaching Bush as they do Imus, we'd have a new president by now

[BigBearJohn]

The world is ready to blow up and all
our airwaves are consumed with are
the words of one phrase uttered by an
idiot.

[givemebackmycountry]

1. Damn Right....

Anything to avoid discussing the crimes of the BFEE.

[IChing]

12. genocide , torture, and rape of a nation

an illegal invasion, that has killed hundreds of thousands of people
including the people of New Orleans, built on lies will never compare
to what Don Imus did,

He is just part of the problem but not the cause of death and destruction
of this nation and this planet.


I want war crimes and crimes against humanity.
for the real powers that make Imus legitimate.

[ShortnFiery]

2. If as much as Anna Nicole, The Unitary Executive would be on trial at The Hague by now. n/t

[wisteria]

3. You have that right. n/t

[BlueStateModerate]

4. And that president would be Cheney

Progress!

[jobycom]

5. Or Terrel Owens, or Mel Gibson... The problem isn't their coverage of these issues

it is their lack of coverage of Bush.

[BigBearJohn]

6. BINGO!

[pnwmom]

7. I think we should be happy when a bigot with a national media pulpit

is exposed.

He should be fired.

[B Calm]

8. Funny.. I was saying the same thing to my wife last last night..

[Major Hogwash]

9. Imus never even called Gwen Ifill "a cleaning lady", yet they keep repeating that.

Gwen Ifill wrote in her article in the New York Times yesterday about trash radio, that a reporter from the New York Daily News told her nearly 9 years ago that Imus had said that about her.

Quote from her article in the NYT -

It was not until five years later, when Mr. Imus and I were both working under the NBC News umbrella — his show was being simulcast on MSNBC; I was a Capitol Hill correspondent for the network — that I discovered why people were asking those questions. It took Lars-Erik Nelson, a columnist for The New York Daily News, to finally explain what no one else had wanted to repeat.

"Isn’t The Times wonderful," Mr. Nelson quoted Mr. Imus as saying on the radio. "It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House."

Endquote.

Imus said that he never called Gwen Ifill "a cleaning lady."

Yet, Gwen Ifill didn't even do the first thing good journalists do about such stories - she didn't even confirm whether it was true or not!

Gwen didn't even call Don Imus and ask him if he had ever referred to her as "a cleaning lady" - she just repeated it!!

She is not a very good journalist in my opinion.

[hang a left]

10. And....your point was????

[mzmolly]

18. She may have verified it.

We don't know who's recollection/statements are accurate in this case. Sharpton also said he never called "Jews" "Diamond Merchants." I haven't verified any of the statements, personally.

[hang a left]

11. Is it not disgusting that they don't point out the crime

de jour??

I get sick of it myself.

Distractions, spin, stupid fucking obsessions. It will never end.

[bklyncowgirl]

13. Hell, if they put 1/4 of the effort they put into covering Anna Nicole Smith he'd be a gonner.

Now I'm not downplaying the Imus thing but he's certainly not alone and let's face it, his networks should have slapped him down long ago.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

14. When things are at their worst, break out the shiniest keys you have.

Saves these reporters from having to do any real news, and provides distraction from the crimes being committed by Bu$hCo.

Win-win.
Lose-lose.
:grr:

[Terri S]

15. Amen!!! n/t

[nicknameless]

16. Anybody wondering why M$M is giving this so much air time?

Dimson has been shredding the Constitution for 6 years, without a peep from M$M.

But Imus has managed to piss off both sides.

When he isn't spewing racist, misogynistic blather, he's also has making enemies on the reich.
He annihilated Mary Matalin recently, and has had some choice words for bushco as well.

[mzmolly]

17. I hear that! Pastor DeForest Soaries made a poignant comment on Hardball last night.

"We've allowed profit driven media to drive wedges between us, and as a result we are living beneath our homosapien potential."

Pastor Deforest is going to mediate the meeting between the players and Imus next week.

My frustration with this situation is not that we are collectively offended, it's that the media is milking this and we should be equally offended at THAT.

[Carni]

19. Yeah well we can't just blame them

As much as I TOTALLY AGREE with your post...

Look at DU!

Hell the outrage at Imus and his moronic remark has been akin to the outrage at bush himself (in some cases more so IMO)

The man didn't steal 2 elections, lose an entire city, and invade other countries based on lies...he made an inappropriate ignorant remark with racial overtones!

Fine the fool and move the F on!

There are much more serious transgressions going on in this country at the moment!

[NNN0LHI]

20. I don't know about that? The media was doing their best to get Clinton removed

He left office with about a 70% approval rating.

Don

[truedelphi]

21. Well, it's a revolving door - One side issue after another pushes

Real discussion off the table

Anna Nicole Smith dies

Britney enters rehab

Pelosi burps

Kerry caught picking his teeth

Bill Clinton seen making love to a polar bear on a sinking glacier

never ever ANY real discussion

Unless a Democratic leader says something meaningful - and then that remark gets slammed for reinforcing the insurgency in Iraq