the Imus thing

[hammercock]

I tell you, that Rutgers women's basketball coach is a class act, and so are her players. As Roland Martin on CNN says, we have a good national opportunity to talk not only about racism, but about sexism. I'd love to see some public dialogue on sexism in particular, especially at a time when we have a powerful female candidate for president and

Comments

[infinitehotel]

I wish I believed you're right, but I think the firing was a pyrrhic victory, a momentary feel-good that's not going to change anything at all

This is only the beginning

[osewalrus]

The great progressive backlash against hate radio has begun. It has been building for awhile now with minor skirmishes (such as the Spocko incident). But Imus was the first big profile target.

The conservative noise machine is waning in power and influence, especially as a reuslt of the 2006 election. Advertisers read these results carefully. They see the demographic change. When intolerance sold, the market backed intolerance. Now the hardcore conservatives are the wounded antelope running from the baying progressive pack.

You will not see it until it is all around you. Then it will have been inevitable.

[eastertheatre]

Ditto.

[osewalrus]

Hammercock may not have stated the matter clearly, but I think her meaning is correct. It is not so much free market uber alles as the conservative double standard.

Amanda Marcot gets ridden out of the Edwards campaign for speaking her mind on Catholic birth control in fairly graphic terms. But the same forces that led that campaign come to the defense of poor little Imus with his radio show and his television show for his "harmless little joke."

The backlash has begun. It will be ugly, but worth it. After all, it's what the market wants.

[spacehawk]

He messed with the wrong women, hell yeah!

I didn't know anything about women's basketball before this, but they sure have a new fan in me now. I think this has the potential to be really big for women's sports. One thing that really bothers and bores me about sports is that it's just one random team against another, with scandal after scandal in the press about this or that player. These women are real role models.