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level, even when there is no evidence whatsoever that this was the case.
Geez, every time Imus stepped over the line, all I ever saw here was outrage.
But most people CAN hold two thoughts in their head at the same time.
And if YOU don't want to listen, well, don't. But don't pull out a "cop out" charge to those who do want to see what the other team is up to--that's just a cheap "I'm better than you" shot.
If you think Imus's audience would wither and die if the lefties stopped listening, you're smoking crack. His BASE was "angry, white men." And to be precise--angry REPUBLICAN white men. MILLIONS of them. And they didn't have a problem with what he said. They never did. They still don't. So for you to suggest that "people" taking exception would make a difference, well, that's just foolishness. These "angry, white" guys don't CARE about what females of any color think, or say, or do. They aren't attuned to 'diversity' issues of any sort.
And as for politicians, if they have a chance to interact with MILLIONS of likely voters, they'd be batshit crazy not to take that opportunity. And it doesn't matter how they have to do it, if they are given the platform, the time, the opportunity to get their message out, they are gonna take it.
And FWIW, you got the timeline backwards--the shock jock shit came FIRST, the politicians, later. Imus HAD his audience in the palm of his hand well before the first politician even appeared on his show.
What the left does not realize is that they have lost a huge resource. This was an angry, white, old, white, Republican man, preaching to an angry white Republican choir, and he was preaching the message of "Impeach Bush." It's a message that the left can't preach in a way to reach that demographic. You can put your Al Frankens and your Keith Olbermanns on the air around the clock, and they won't, in a month, reach one-one thousandth of the GOP white male demographic that Imus reached in one hour of his morning show.
And I will continue to aver that the right took swift and gleeful advantage of this outrage, fanned the flames, and handed the butcher knife to the left to slaughter their troublesome "off the ranch" pig. It was a two-fer for them: They got rid of a "disloyal" bastard who had broken ranks with the party, and they managed to keep the news cycle off parliament/bridge bombings in Iraq, dead troops, missing emails, criminal attorneys general, and the incompetence of General BetrayUs and the entire BushCo team.
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