Ralph Dumain
Howard's piece is stupid and naive, as are the respondents. The idea of
honest conservatives dissociating themselves from Rush belongs to comic
science fiction.
I know nothing about Imus, and whether he is a real political propagandist
or not.
Limbaugh, however, is seriously a right-wing piece of shit who plays to all
his bigot constituents for real. Since I didn't hear his piece, I can't
comment on it specifically, but I assume it was moronic.
Now if someone were to competently ridicule Sharpton, I wouldn't equate
that with bigotry necessarily, depending on the source. However,
Sharpton's public profile is much more intelligent than it was some years
ago, when he really was a jackass. He's been pretty eloquent at least
since Bush stole the 2000 election.
^^^^^
This or these two media events are filled with fools, morons, idiots. It is
very comedic. I myself was surprised that Imus got fired. That event went
further than I expected in basically dealing a rebuff to racism and sexism.
Imus was no small fish in the monopoly media stable of newscasters. He got
fired because he made white people look bad in the ongoing cultural debates
between Blacks and whites as to whether whites are still racist or whether
Black people are just as racist as white people so we don't need affirmative
action anymore, or so one might speculate. Anyway, most did not predict that
Imus would get fired, that there would be such an anti-racist, sexist
backlash. I'm just wondering if Rush might, not so much get fired, but
strike a chord that sort of makes white people look a little too racist and
foolish at the same time, and therefore bring out an anti-racist backlash
among whites in some form. That's the type of dialectic I was thinking could
come about. Oh, and to add on to it, Imus got in trouble because he
basically attacks some "angels". Those girls are inherently loveable and
should be presumed innocent in most people's minds. Imus tried to smear
angels. Similarly, Obama is a kind of shiny symbol ( if not in substance)
for a lot of white people's expression of anti-racism and unity between
Black and whites. Obama is mixed raced , etc. Of course, Limbaugh is attack
Sharpton not Obama, but that subtley could get lost. On the other hand, the
Limbaugh thing might not go anywhere.
I do think it also is a potential phenomenon of the jump up in the length of
the presidential race. The Presidential race in the U.S. is qualitatively
different than all other races, being the top celebrity political race. It
gets the juices going. Limbaugh juices are going commentating on the
presidential race. Contradictions are coming to a head earlier than usual,
and issues may move along faster than in the normal cycle. Americans may be
forced to think politically more. Maybe not , though.
Charles
At 07:04 PM 5/1/2007 -0400, Charles Brown wrote:
>
>Comedic dialectic can be more radical than serious dialectic, as when it
>backfired on Imus.
>
>Charles
>
>^^^^^^
>
>The Nation
>
>
>BLOG | Posted 04/25/2007 @ 12:09pm
>
>Rush's "Magic Negro" Routine
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