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MINUS IMUS!

So now that our “pop culture” has replaced any substantive news with yet another
“sensational” scandal and we’ve all experienced the feelings of “the team”, its
coach; along with such national spokesperson as Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson,
we can continue gossiping and enjoying the expanded media coverage.

What a delicious follow-up to the saga of Anna Nicole Smith, i.e. which of her
myriad of lovers actually fertilized her?

Now we can deal with the aftermath of our value lacking and disintegrating
culture, i.e.
1. How many phony narcissists will hitch a morally outraged ride on Imus’s
shoulders?
2. Median driven ratings continue to soar and obliterate real news about the
war, the environment, the elections, healthcare coverage, global warming, etc.
3. Liberals and Conservatives will push hard to punish present and future
public commentaries that are viewed as racist or politically incorrect. (Lenny
Bruce just rolled over in his grave)
4. As usual “Freedom of Speech” will be the victim.

Let me list those who I’d feel comfortable editing my news broadcasts,
newspaper, editorials, etc., but first is there a single person or organization
that can clearly make these God-like judgments in our place that we’ve ID’d yet?
    ABC?            Blitzer?            Putin?
    NBC?            Bush?           Coulter?
    CBS?            O’Reilly            Ted Kennedy?
    Fox?            Franken     Limbaugh?

My list includes:   Jesus, Moses, Gandhi and maybe Walter Cronkite.

One positive of our ‘Pop Culture’ is that is has apparently forced the liberal
and conservative, and black and white commentators to start questioning the
continual non-racial “N” word, i.e. intercultural pronouncements by black comics
and gangs and the intercultural use of “faggot” in the gay community!

Oprah suggests that these are “bad words” and should be eliminated from the
English language! So let’s have a huge national bonfire to destroy all of our
dictionaries and other literary references like Huck Finn, etc.

Each “True American” can i.d. their 3 most hated words so we can rewrite all
literature that contains any one of these 1.2 billion words!

Our “real culture” is 50% of the way down history’s toilet thanks to Vietnam and
Iraq and it looks like there’s plenty of remaining room for the residue!

Will the next horrific blunderer remember to flush and turn out the light!

Gary Fink
April 13, 2007