I'd actually never heard of Don Imus until recently. When I heard some dude made some sort of racial slur, I had initially thought he was a politician. As I've been bored and watching CNN while I clean my kitchen today, was getting quite frustrated with the hypocrisy of the media.
As I hear it, eighteen major advertisers have pulled their ads from Imus' radio show. And while I don't like, condone, or defend idiotic shock jock radio, it really pisses me off to hear that companies have a "media standard," when a white guy says something stupid, but have no problem what so ever with billboard top 40 ads.
I read a wonderful article today that sums it up far better than I could, but if people have a problem with an old white dude who makes one comment, why don't they have any issues with rap music?
Go read this article, then come back to me, although I warn you, there's some language, but that's the point.
I don't know what kind of radio show Imus has, but it isn't a stretch of the imagination to think that he could have played the new hot track by R. Kelly, and it's terribly sad that whilst it is perfectly acceptable for him to play and promote a degrading song, but as soon as he opens his fat mouth to say something far cleaner, he's a villain.