Althouse comments re: Newsweek piece:
Snip:
We need to think about why people were so hot to bring him down. Kosova provides the time line:
[U]nknown to Imus, one of his most loyal listeners in Washington, D.C., was watching, and taping, the show every day.... 26-year-old Ryan Chiachiere wasn’t a fan, and he wasn’t tuning in to be entertained. Chiachiere is one of a handful of young activists who spend their days wading through hours of radio and cable shows for Media Matters for America, a liberal group whose sole purpose is rooting out and “correcting conservative misinformation in the U.S. media.” Wired on coffee, Chiachiere was watching a recording of Imus’s show when he noticed the “hos” remark.
It was a big hit at the group’s morning meeting....
The group posted a video clip of the exchange on its Web site and put it up on YouTube. It sent e-mails to journalists and civil-rights and women’s groups.
The word, and the outrage, spread quickly. A week later, Imus was gone, banished from his multimillion-dollar television and radio show even before he had the chance to complete the all-too-familiar cycle of public penance that high-profile sinners are usually granted.
That is, Media Matters had been lying in wait for a long time, and finally they got exactly the sound bite they needed, and they played it masterfully. Think about why things fell into place so well and why so many people fell in line and took down this idiosyncratic character, who had been talking on the radio four hours a day, five days a week for so long. Who knows what havoc he might have wreaked in the 2008 campaign? Isn’t it convenient to have him out of the way?
http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/04/there-was-risqu-sexually-offensive.html
Very interesting...
Did you see the reference to justoneminute in the comments section?