Imus, Rutgers and "the Pollution of the Airwaves"

I love Michelle Malkin's reminder at the end of her post on Imus's remark and the Rutgers women's basketball team and how that is an ugly use of the airwaves,

One dumb radio/television shock jock's insult is a drop in the ocean of barbaric filth and anti-female hatred on the radio.

Imus gets a two-week suspension. What kind of relief do we get from this deadening, coarsening, dehumanizing barrage from young, black rappers and their music industry enablers who have helped turn America into Tourette's Nation?

This whole episode has gotten far more play in the media than what it is worth. Imus is not the first shock jock to say something stupid, and he won't be the last.

Now the Rutgers University press conference yesterday was necessary, not for the comments made by the players and coaches but because the media feeding frenzy on the campus had gotten to the point where it was affecting not only the players themselves but their classmates as well. These comments by Coach C. Vivian Stringer portrayed these players as victims extraordinaire, a characterization that is completely out of line in relation to Imus's remark.

Were these young women wronged, yes, but not just by Imus, but by an entire culture of black "artists" and race-baiting demogogues who are looking to cash in on a stupid remark. And based on her comments, I think C. Vivian Stringer owes an apology to her players for making the situation worse.