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.
(groan) Read what I wrote:
"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."
*I* didn't call anyone a government censor. I'm talking about how here we mope when THEY (liberals) do something WE call for all the time.