Fisting the First Amendment

It’s been over a year since my last posting here at Meatsack Central…so, you know that something really good had to bring me out of my blog celibacy to vomit comments into the blogoshpere.

Imus. The washed up, has-been radio guy who just got fired.

Before I get to my rambling point…let me make this clear. I never liked Imus. There isn’t a radio station in this town that broadcasts his show, but I caught his telecast once and wasn’t impressed. His face has no motion…I’m not sure if it’s because he suffered a stroke or if his face is full of Botox, but it’s like plastic. Imus probably should have been off the air a while ago…but, people fear change.

On to the good stuff…I’m so terrified right now about where our country is going with regards to free speech.

What Imus said was stupid. Not because it was racially motivated, because he was fed a line by his producer and blurted out a ridiculous sentence in return that didn’t make any sense. It wasn’t funny…but, it wasn’t a racist comment either. Sexiest? Completely.

The fact that he got fired over this is what scares me.

Here’s what we need to think about…

Where is the outrage over The Chris Rock Show?
Where are the protests over The Dave Chappell Show?
You can buy a copy of Borat at Target next to a copy of Zathura.

All three of these examples are riddled with racists statements and yet none of the same groups that put pressure on any of the producers of these shows or their sponsors to pull the material. (I love all three by the way…Zathura’s ok too.)

We are now at a time in our history where no one of Caucasian decent can make any comment at all about any other race without someone jumping at the chance to call them out on it. But the door doesn’t swing both ways.

I firmly believe that there are certain groups in our country that force issues just so that the group can still exist. These groups include PETA, ACLU, even Congress. As long as we have perceived “problems”, they have job security. If we take away their paychecks, I’ll bet they’d be working a bit harder to truly fix our problems.

What it really boils down to is money. Imus was fired because his sponsors started pulling out…his sponsors jumped ship because they couldn’t sweat the pressure from the activist groups…the activists hadn’t gotten enough press lately and needed a cause to validate their existence to continue the contributions flowing.

Not to foster any conspiracy theories or anything…but, it’s kind of interesting how the Duke case was settled really close to when this thing started up. Huh.