Who's a pig?

When the Reverends Jesse and Al swoop in for camera time and sound bites, you know there's something dead rotting in the sun. In honor of Donald Imus's recent groveling before said men of the cloth for a same-old, same-old mysogynist I-man remark re a team of female basketball players who happen to be mostly black, herewith a republication of our post of two years back, "We have expressed our displeasure to Don":

 

"The female, equipped with a Defense far superior in polymorphous ingenuities to the rather simple Attack of the male, developed, and perfected, the Diversion Subterfuge. The first manifestation of this remarkable phenomenon was fudge-making." (James Thurber: Writings and Drawings)

"Seems to me that MSNBC needs to remove a lot more than "MS" from the network to improve its image," writes Michelle Malkin re the cadaverish Don Imus's latest gratuitous trashing of a woman who doesn't please his eye, in this case MSNBC anchor Contessa Brewer:

That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning . . . Who's she kidding? . . . Plus, she's dumber than dirt . . . Oh, my God, what a pig.

Who's a pig?  'Can't help but wonder how Deirdre feels about her husband's venomous misogyny. We used to watch "Imus in the Morning" when the old boy was trashing Bill "it depends upon what your definition of is is" Clinton years ago but haven't been tempted since GW moved into the White House. Presumably, Imus's ratings are still healthy amongst a subset of our fellow Americans (misogyny is universal and can rear its ugly head at any time), since the best the bottom-line guys at MSNBC -- soon to be The NBC News Channel -- can muster in his defense is "We have expressed our displeasure to Don."

Women can be as idiotic as men -- natch -- especially Marxist-lite women (do they realize their entire worldview was invented by a member of the opposite/oppressive sex?)  Check out Ann Althouse's comments re Christina Hoff Summers' National Review piece on ''College Republicans' response to the overpromotion of 'The Vagina Monologues' at Roger Williams University and the predictably repressive/humorless response from the administration."

The scavenging Reverends and the salivating publicists and lawyers who represent the bright young athletic stars of the Rutgers basketball team were drawn as a moth to the flame by the bloodied, oozing racist road kill. As our imail correspondent notes, "Nappy-haired hos happen?" Yup, and the blogosphere and MSM and everyone with a microphone or a cyberprinting press is hyperventilating. Breathe deeply, now, and get a grip. We carry no water for the disgusting Donald Imus, but how come suddenly the nation is shocked, shocked? On the other hand, it's about time.

Update: Michelle Malkin moves back the rock, and the vermin come spilling out:

But let's take a breath now and look around. Is the Sharpton & Jackson Circus truly committed to cleaning up cultural pollution that demeans women and perpetuates racial epithets? Have you seen the Billboard Hot Rap Tracks chart this week?

One dumb radio/television shock jock's insult is a drop in the ocean of barbaric filth and anti-female hatred on the radio.

Imus gets a two-week suspension. What kind of relief do we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage from young, black rappers and their music industry enablers who have helped turn America into Tourette's Nation?

"Black hip-hop artists have been denigrating the women of their families and neighborhoods for years with terminology that reduces all women to receptacles for men's pleasure," adds Kathleen Parker, suggesting "Sharpton and Jackson would do well to direct some of their outrage to that neck of the woods."

Comments

[goomp]

When one crosses the politically correct line a woman's wrath can not compare with the fury.

[Amy Proctor]

Right, summer.....

[Jill]

"When the Reverends Jesse and Al swoop in for camera time and sound bites, you know there's something dead rotting in the sun" is wonderful.

The chutzpa of Sharpton, after the Tawana Brawley case,for which he never apologized is breathtaking.

[Gayle Miller]

I find the sudden outrage at Imus' misogynistic and racist rants somewhat astonishing since he has ALWAYS been that way? Why now?

I continue to remark that NOWHERE in the Bill of Rights or the Constitution is there a right not to be offended! These people need to put on their "big person" panties and start acting like grown-ups. If you don't like what Imus (or anyone else) is saying - DON'T LISTEN TO HIS SHOW. If his attitude offends you, DON'T GO ON HIS SHOW. How hard is this?

This nation's public life is beset by a bunch of big whiney infants - all of whom are in the mainstream media or politics!

[Teresa]

Money... follow the money... I predict that Rutgers will make a pot of money off of this remark by Imus. Either he or MSNBC will write them a big fat check.

[jameshigham]

Whoa! This one has really got under a lot of people's skin over there. I'm running three posts on it [including yours] in tomorrow evening's Blogfocus. We're going to bring this thing to the Brits.

[jameshigham]

You see this, Sissy?

http://nourishingobscurity.blogspot.com/2007/04/blogfocus-thursday-north-america.html

[hnav]

wonderful post...

i always knew there was something sneaky about the making of fudge...

i have heard Ms. Malkin herself treat some folks with some questionable vicious demeanor.

i remember when she called Ms. Meirs a 'bellhop'.

that was classy...

[Tara]

That the media continue to cover Sharpton and Jackson says all you need to know about their view of black Americans.