Don't feed the troll. He's just desperately seeking relevance.

Granted that public figures would be well advised to realize that nothing is off limits as grist for the outrage mill, However, taken a bit too far, such caution could land us in a strange new world, where all that was safe to say consisted of robotic, politically pretested and attack proofed statements. Flesh and blood people would no longer be allowed on the scene.

Instead, I think that reporters and commentators should be held responsible for the propagation of 'video-clip' moments that distort and, sometimes, completely reverse the meaning of the words.
If reporters have no other role than to record, then why do we need them? The recording part can be accomplished without human intervention.

Journalists, reporters and commnetators have, or should have, a role that is larger than being recording machines. It's their job, or should be their job, , to research the subject and provide the context needed for the public to interpret the words as properly as possible.

Having read up a little on Imus's background with minorites (why is that not mentoned?) I think that this having been a racial slur is the least credible interpretation, by far.

In the ineterests of fair treatment , I intended to read the comment all the way through, looking for kernels of ratonality amid the nonstop ranting. This sentence, however, immediately put a halt to following through on my intention.

I can only conclude from your reasoning that the role of gender bias in Hillary's campaign can be pooh-poohed in the light of sexism in countries like Saudi Arabia.

Good going. You've just destroyed a major basis for empathy that your heroine Hillary might have hoped for.
I'll return to just scrolling past nonsense in the future.

Expect to see these types of news reports circulating more and more until September 1st. Expect to see shocked and saddened black people responding to such a problem. Expect to see more articles, like yesterday's, about american slavery and the like. We all know the story of how blacks suffered, but little facts of how they were sold by other blacks in Africa to white slavetraders for serious gold will remain out of the light. The last thing BigMedia want so do is remind us of how elite (black) African statesmen back in the day sold other black people to get rich. That the original torture camps for slaves were in Africa before they ever boarded a white ship for the New World. The issue of how slavery originated is a bit more complex that most people want to accept. Also the fact that there was white slavery too escapes everyone's attention; and asian slavery and native american slavery. It's more about rich people exploiting poor than skin color exploiting skin color.

These Imus-stories help Obama's utilization of his absent father's race to further his political career. You have to cut him a little slack, being raised in a caucasian household, being schooled in an Ivy-League school and being the richest campaigner in US history, he needs to prop himself up with a little “ghetto imagery”. He needs to portray the angst of the american negro slave descendant who struggled growing up in a ghetto from abject poverty against all odds and into the strong and Kingesque candidate he “is” today.

I haven't been to many slums in Hawaii, but I guess I'll have to take his word for it.

Don't forget the other side of the racist-coin, the side where someone uses skin color to promote themself without merit. Whites and minorities both do this nowadays. Barack Obama, the dark-skinned caucasian, beat down fellow progressive minority candidates in Chicago with frivilous litigation over petition signatures to exterminate their hopes at running so he could run unopposed for Senate. And he effectively removed voter choice from (disenfranchised) thousands more minorities by running unopposed. He went on in full audacity in that race to run on a platform of….of…”standing up for oppressed minorities.” You'd think that running for president instead of doing some radio show would merit more media coverage of that type of audacious behavior.

But alas, we'll have to wait until after the August convention vote to formally knock Hillary out of the way before the GOP reveals this most repulsive-to-date aspect of the Obama factor.

Why is this important? If that needs explanation then no amount of explaining will suffice.