Reply #13: Actually, I think the corporate sponsors ensured that the media covered the event to fan the flames,

[MADem]

which created the less-than-spontaneous outrage. If the media had not covered the mess all day for a week, it wouldn't have "caught on." But they gave anyone who wanted to complain a microphone and a camera, and encouraged the story. They chose to cover it, too, even when five million emails were missing, a bridge blew up in Iraq, and Parliament itself took a huge bomb too...hardly any coverage of those stories in that mix.

I'm not saying that what Imus said wasn't reprehensible, but I am saying there was an orchestrated aspect to his ouster, and it may have had something to do with the fact that he was the only antiwar Republican on TV and radio who reached millions of fellow Republicans every day.

If it were really about human decency, Rush would have been hectored into the sea for his minstel show about Obama last month, that went totally unnoticed.