I don't like the man. He's not amusing. He sucks up to anyone who ever got more than three votes for dog catcher or has ever written a book that got a good review in the New York Times. He said something stupid and offensive. But I find it the height of hypocrisy that he's being treated as the only offensive and stupid man in the media. Offensive speech is all over popular culture, whatever the race of the artist--yet efforts to tone that down are decried as censorship. Funny old world.
I'd be perfectly happy to remove every last person who has used a racist or sexist remark from the airwaves. But then again, I think we should have more classical music stations, because not a whole heck of a lot else would be left.
Perhaps I find the hypocrisy of the left worse than that of the right because I hate to see people with whom I naturally sympathize showing the same lack of character I'm all too happy to point out in conservatives. But there's a serious case of "Physician, heal thyself" needed here.
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