Posted on 04/20/2007 5:57:25 AM PDT by visitor
"Imus also foolishly assumed that the parade of liberal politicians and friends who clamored to get on his show might offer him politically correct cover."
"Then he met Nemesis, long lying in wait. And the more America learned about the past rantings of this talk-show bully, the more it wondered why such a banal fool ever had an audience in the first place, much less was courted by politicians and celebrities."
"At the heart of both the Imus and Duke scandals is arrogance. Overweening conceit inevitably led bigheads like Imus, Nifong, Sharpton, Jackson and many at Duke University to go one step too far - and thus at last earn their just deserts."
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"Not thinking through the long-range consequences of their positions is liberalism's tragic flaw."
(Excerpt) Read more at townhall.com ...
Its curious that not a single newsie from the Imus program has spoken up on his behalf. Well, maybe it isn’t.
Good article. Bad Link.
VDH bump!
Nemesis is a goddess. Are we not allowed to use gender-distinct words anymore? I have such a hard time keeping up with PC ...
Must have been a good article. Can’t find it anywhere.
working link in “post #2”
I thought arrogance had become a virtue.
What a load of pompous claptrap obscuring the malevolent Media Matters and Soros funded crew. A snake waiting in the grass is a better image for the vigilantes waiting to pounce on three words and steal a man’s livlihood.
Perhaps the I-man using the S-word to describe Hillary would be UNacceptable, a net negative, a possible tipping point in such a close race. Nemesis is Hillary?
She is the implacable executrix of justice—that of Zeus in the Olympian scheme of things. - from Wikipedia.
How exactly do you get to the column? I have clicked on Hanson, done a search on the site, Googled it and all I get is Gallagher’s column.
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