The Pharisaical Left

The American Thinker ran a good piece yesterday about Imus and the leftist hypocrites who paraded onto his show lo, these many years. They knew his schtick...they laughed at his over the top jokes and now they are the ones excoriating him.

In the post-Easter crucifixion of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show that substituted for news this week, the hypocrisy would make a Pharisee blush. All of a sudden, it's supposedly shocking that Don Imus referred to the Rutgers girls' basketball team with language that is routine on millions of "rap" recordings willingly bought by white and black kids alike for lo these 20 years.

Never mind, even, that such jokes have been a staple of Imus' show for decades. Where have these shocked detractors been? Over the years, he has referred to Gwen Ifill of the New York Times as "a cleaning lady," called tennis-playing Venus and Serena Williams "animals" and compared the forwards of the New York Knicks to gorillas. Race aside, he routinely uses foul and sexually degrading language to middle-aged women who are guests on his show.

Curiously, those abused women on his show, strident feminists all, usually giggle appreciatively. I refer to columnist Maureen Dowd, reporters Andrea Mitchell, Claire Shipman, and Cokie Roberts, and plagiary-challenged historian Doris Kearns Goodwin, to name a few. But then again, they are usually on his show to promote their books.

Be sure to read the rest of the piece.

Any casual observer will notice that it's the left who opposes freedom of speech and demanded Imus be fired. Those on the right believe that speech should be protected no matter how offensive. The market rightly determines who succeeds or fails.
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Essential reading: The Imus lynch party