…so darned inconvenient to not be a conspiracy freak. ‘Cause if I were (and I’m not), I’d be all over the news that FBI resources are now so heavily devoted to the “war on terror,” including assorted authoritarian dirty tricks, that the bureau conveniently can’t do much to fight “white collar crime”—you know, the high-level fraud and corporate shenanigans that are the beloved hobby of so many big GOP campaign contributors.
I’m sure it’s all just a big coindicence. Really.
No, really.
THE MAILBAG: Anne Silberman liked my rather less-than-reverent remembrance of B.C. cartoonist Johnny Hart:
“Hooray Clark!I’m proud of you for telling the truth about Johnny Hart and his B.C. strip!
May I just add that this man was a raging misogynist. The only two female characters in his strip were gross characterizations of female physical traits and they didn’t even have names!!! They were called “the fat broad” and the “cute chick”!!!!
May this dinosaur and his cave man ideology never grace the planet again!
Elsewhere in troglodite-land:
HELLO, IMUS BE GOING: So the original “shock jock” (on the air almost continuously since 1971) has been sacked from his MSNBC cable gig, and might lose his syndicated radio gig as well.
Over the years, Mr. Imus has “refreshed” his on-air schtick, and kept his share of the angry-white-male audience segment, by “borrowing” the most effective (i.e., loudest and dumbest) aspects of other talk hosts’ acts. Thus, he long ago embraced sexist, racist, and homophobic “jokes.” In pure macho-coward fashion, he often left the worst remarks to be spoken by his team of co-hosts, allowing himself plausible deniability.
He not only got away with this kind of “extreme” nonsense for so long, he was courted and sucked-up to by politicians and political operatives of all stripes, eager to get access to Mr. Imus’s “guy” audience. The “mainstream” media also loved the guy, or at least respected his ability to stay at the top of a volatile market.
But now, with one unfunny “joke” comparing a college women’s basketball team to common street prostitutes, he’s apparently on his way out of the bigtime. Will any of his many fellow airwave bigots follow?
