My (not PC) two cents about the Imus affair

I just read this article in today's San Francisco Chronicle. It's about the recent gaffe by that poor slob, Don Imus, who, as a comedian, can make John Kerry look like the next Robin Williams. Well, he probably would rather have spent the past six days in the electric chair.

I had never heard of Imus until a few days ago, when all the uproar began, but rumor has it that this is not his first offense. So, fine; n strikes and you are out. But I don't believe for a second that he was fired because of his bad taste; more likely the real reason was that "several of the cable show's major sponsors pulled their advertising in recent days, including Proctor & Gamble, American Express and Staples". You want to see some action? Hit'em in the pocket.

That should be the end of it. But no.

Of course, neither those involved in the decision to fire the moron, nor the deciders at American Express et al, nor the members of the basketball team have themselves EVER used the n-word, - or 'honky', 'spic' (that's me) or 'wap', etc. – riiight!

This is so important that now the presidential candidates are faced with having to make a momentous decision. To my surprise, Mr. Bush – he who once came up with his clever comment about being in the circles of "the haves and the have-mores" (and didn't get fired) - so far has been cool about this whole thing: he limited himself to label, through one of his spokesmen, the poor slob's comments as "inappropriate" – a word he probably can't spell or pronounce himself.

Words are but sounds - consider the source before you dignify them by letting them upset you. If you are walking some path and encounter a pile of large intestine contents, you don't purposely step in it; you walk around it and forget it. If the owner of the intestines empties them in the wrong place enough times, somebody will eventually take care of him/her/it; that has already happened here. Isn't it amazing that in a country where we are supposed to have all this freedom of opinion/expression, a ludicrous situation like this can garner national attention?

This morning, I searched Google for "'nappy-headed hos' Imus". The results: 1,490,000 items. Can you imagine how many hours it took to write all this crap? The results came up in 0.14 seconds (that's right, fourteen hundredths of a second): that's how important all this is.

WTF, people, get a life!