Good Ol' Imus

I know that I'm late, I know that I'm waay behind, but thus is the life of a domestic goddess. Anyhoo, this whole Imus thing. I have never listened to Imus, just flicked past his televised broadcast on MSNBC and thought that MSNBC must have run out of programming to waste air time with a radio show. I mean, who is watching an old man with a cowboy hat talk into a microphone? Just listen to the durn radio, why don't you?

On to the controversy. Ok, so what he said was rude, out of left field and not very funny. Let's all face it, before we all ran to put him up on the stake, we've heard worse, much worse from both black and white broadcasters. Why pick Imus out for flagellation when you have Opie and Anthony, Howard Stern, Miss Jones in the morning (Hott 97 nyc) and other radio DJs who feel the only way they can get ratings is to say something shocking (i.e. moronic) to get folks attention. I remember when one station played some parody record mocking the tsunami victims. Another station played sounds effects of a child being kicked and beaten during a news story about a child who was beaten to death by his parents. Neither incident was a blip on the screen.

What happened to free speech? In a country where the Ku Klux Klan is allowed to march and exercise their right to free speech, who cares about some old man radio DJ saying nappy heade hos? Why are hip hop artists, the Klan, heavy metal artists and the like given freedom of expression and Imus isn't? Perhaps if he had sung the words, he could have been sheided behind the wall of creative expression.

Either way, the uproar of what one old over the hill radio jock said was truly ridiculous. There are so many other outrages in our society that should be addressed with such fervor that are being ignored. Let's direct our energy toward these issues rather that three stupid words from some AM disc jockey.