Posted by
Bert Chapman on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 9:57:47 AM
The liberal media and the civil rights victims mentality lobby are riding in full fury over Don Imus' idiotic comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Imus comments were stupid but why in the world does anyone take this bozo seriously or care about what he thinks? Why does the Rutgers women's basketball team think they need personal validation from a crude shock jock like Imus? The Rutgers women should quit wasting their energy or time worrying about what Imus says or thinks and prove him wrong by being excellent women in their professional and personal lives.
The liberal media, the civil rights victims lobby, and their academic allies, fail to realize that you can't outlaw stupid comments. You can no more prohibit public expressions of "racist" or "misogynist" comments than you can stop the rainfall we're experiencing in western Indiana this morning. Does the First Amendment no longer apply in public discourse? Are we becoming a totalitarian state where we can't make justified or unjustified criticisms against individuals or "preferred" ethnic or gender groups? Do we consider the idiotic ramblings of morning radio disk jockeys to be worth creating public controversies over? Does everything that is said on the media in this country have to be approved by Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson?
Only people who have absolutely no self-esteem will let themselves be paralyzed by derogatory comments made about them by people such as Imus. Normal people realize that the person or persons making such comments are uninformed fools and get on with their lives instead of wallowing in self-pity like the Rutgers women's basketball team appears to be.