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Yes they will return to Imus' show
Posted August 30th, 2007 by Prometheus 6.

Race and Identity
They swore "solidarity forever."
Bigotry's cheerful enablers
By Richard Lipez | August 27, 2007

IT'S STILL uncertain when or where shock-jock Don Imus will return to the airwaves, now that he has settled his suit with CBS. But a more interesting question is this: When Imus does come back, will distinguished American media personages such as Frank Rich, Doris Kearns Goodwin, and Tom Brokaw continue to show up on his show, lending him respectability and cover for his racist, misogynistic, and gay-baiting rants?

The willingness of apparently decent people, some of them liberal icons, to serve as Imus's cheerful enablers has been one of the more depressing features of the media landscape over the past decade. Tim Russert, Howard Kurtz, Jeff Greenfield, and James Carville all tut-tutted over the "nappy-headed ho's" remark about the Rutgers women's basketball team that got Imus fired last spring. But not one of these people had ever challenged Imus's long history of making or encouraging similar slurs against blacks, women, and gays. African-American journalist Clarence Page did once ask Imus on the air to cut that stuff out. Page was never asked back on the program.

Imus was usually careful not to rail against "fags" and "towel heads" and "our urine-colored brothers" in the middle of an interview with, say, author Goodwin. Most of the hate speech was saved for before and after chats with Goodwin, Tom Oliphant, or Maureen Dowd. On those rare occasions when Imus lost it and spouted some foul epithet or accusation during an interview, more often than not some mild tsk-tsking ensued, or just an awkward silence. Nobody ever had the guts to say to him, "I-Man, you're a mean, ignorant, infantile old fool. When are you going to grow up?"

And this went on for years. The writer Philip Nobile has kept a running record of Imus's bigoted venom. In 1999, when his sidekick news reader Charles McCord reported the indictment of two white state troopers for the attempted murder of two young black athletes on the New Jersey Turnpike, Imus had advice for the athletes: "Eenie-meenie-minie-mo. Get over it."


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