It’s been a surreal week, like watching a sequel to Bonfire of the Vanities play out. Don Imus was suspended, then fired, for going way over the line with his demeaning sexist and racist remark. (And let’s not forget the participation of his sycophantic producer, Bernard McGuirk, who is often overlooked in all this. How Sid Rosenberg managed to keep his often-mysogonistic mouth shut during that exchange is a mystery.) (4/20 update – McGuirk was also fired late yesterday.)
I listened to this Viagran on and off for years. On, to hear writers and politicians speak in full sentences, not ten-second sound bites. Off, when he bled me down with his denigration of everyone and his insufferable ego. How ironic his two harshest critics are not lacking in ego, either. And how hypocritical. I’m not the only one who remembers Jesse Jackson’s disgusting ”Hymietown” slur and Al Sharpton’s despicable roles in the Tawana Brawley hoax and the Crown Heights riots. That they, especially Sharpton, were instrumental in bringing advertisers to their knees is beyond hypocrisy and belief.
Cartoonists have a had a field day with all this. The hometown New York Post ran several true editorial cartoons, including this one on Friday.
