Don Imus, Patrick Buchanan, And Hypocrisy So Thick You Can't Cut Through It With A Chain Saw

Patrick J Buchanan has written an excellent article about the mess of trouble engulfing Don Imus these days because of his remarks about the Rutger's Women's Basketball Team. He's entitled it, "The Imus Lynch Party". There couldn't be a more accurate name for what's been done to Don Imus during the past week.

The lead-in question from Buchanan's article is:

Are we really a better country because, after he was publicly whipped for 10 days as the worst kind of racist, with whom no decent person could associate, he was thrown off the air?

My answer is absolutely not. Others will have to decide for themselves.

Buchanan goes on to ask another key question about this mess...

Who, after all, believed the slur was true? No one.

Compare, if you will, what was done to them – a single nasty insult – to the savage slanders for weeks on end of the Duke lacrosse team and the three players accused by a lying stripper of having gang-raped her at a frat party.

Duke faculty and talking heads took that occasion to vent their venom toward all white "jocks" on college campuses. Where are the demands for apologies from the talk-show hosts, guests, Duke faculty members and smear artists, all of whom bought into the lies about those Duke kids – because the lies comported with their hateful view of America?

And hate is what this is all about.

While the remarks of Imus and Bernie about the Rutgers women were indefensible, they were more unthinking and stupid than vicious and malicious. But malice is the right word to describe the howls for their show to be canceled and them to be driven from the airwaves – by phonies who endlessly prattle about the First Amendment.

The hypocrisy here was too thick to cut with a chainsaw.

After reading other opinions in other articles and seeing a few discussions on television about this situation, those who needed drool cups to catch the run-off from their overworked salivary glands over Imus getting fired seem to want me to believe that it makes no difference whatsoever what black people themselves say, be it calling women "bitches and hos" or each other "niggah". The point is, white people better not use that same language because whites have not earned that right. This is supposed to effectively excuse the deplorable language and behavior described in rap music (and I use the term "music" very loosely).

Since I like to know what the rules are up front, I'm appreciative that some took the time to explain this to me. But excuse me if I think those who believe that are full of shit.

I would further like to point out to those who defend a double standard that they can stick their opinions up their black asses because my lily white one says so. In a country founded on the fundamental right of free speech, that just doesn't fly. And neither does it fly to have two used up self-serving black men decide they not only speak for black people as a group but for the moral compass of this country as a whole.

Last night Bill O'Reilly told Michelle Malkin that as of the time CBS fired Don Imus, this episode is over. I don't think so. I think Bill O'Reilly underestimates those everyday people with whom he believes himself to be so in touch. I don't think a large chunk of the population is going to put this all in the past and move on. Instead, I believe what Sharpton and Jackson and those who parrot them have created is stronger deeper resentment between races. Congrats guys. Given enough time you can, indeed, set race relations back a couple centuries.