Prometheus 6

We knew Imus was coming back after the topic of discussion was shifted from HIS actions to Anyone-But-HIS actions.

But what the hell is THIS supposed to mean?

The “Imus incident’” burned so brightly way back when, knocking big stories from front pages. It seems so long ago.

How absolutely silly it looks from this distance....

The joke hit the fan and Yeats’s “the worst” filled themselves with passionate intensity. A senator held up a picture of the team and righteously intoned, “How could he say those awful things about these lovely girls?”

And no one hit him with a pie.

A lot of people did not come off well.

Experts at exploitation and manipulation seized on the event and flew into action. Over-reactors outdid themselves. Alleged friends of the unlucky man in question measured their comments a bit too cautiously, perhaps, for their current comfort.

Wee embers were fanned into an inferno by skilled flame-fanners and the professionally offended. Demands were high-handedly demanded. All sorts of people piled on the wounded body. It began to resemble the way certain birds and beasts pile on the ailing pack member and peck or chew it to pieces.

You asshole. The first thing Imus did was blame hip-hop as though he listened to it.

Dick Cavitt's job is to let everyone know Imus was right all along. Like $20 million didn't prove it by American standards.

I'm not trying to be rational because Cavitt isn't. If he said directly what he's saying with the flowery language he'd be the next one calling Sharpton.