I'll give this story a shot:
When THEY tell advertisers we won't buy their products if they continue to sponsor some jerk, and THEY protest and bully a company into firing someone because of something he's said on the air, it's Totalitarian Censorship.
When WE tell advertisers we won't buy their products if they continue to sponsor some jerk, and WE protest and bully a company into firing someone because of something he's said on the air, it's Using the Power of the Pocketbook and Victimized Family Values Voter and FReepers Fighting Back.
Understand?
I still am missing your point. The government did nothing to get Imus off the air.
Condi has been called far worse, and those cartoons are horrible. She is a tough, strong adult woman and can take it but it still must have hurt her as a woman and a person. I believe she she felt compassion for those young ladies, and felt glad someone who insulted them from a purely racial perspective got smacked. I believe Condi was expressing a personal feeling. That's all.
Oh, stop making sense.