Hypocrisy Check If Imus Had Called Mother Theresa a "ho" he'd still have a job

I nabbed this off of Taki's Top Drawer (a new favorite blog of mine). I think it's pretty clear by now this double standard exists (I would LOVE to here some justifications for it and big media by and large ignores it)

If Imus Had Called Mother Teresa a “Ho” He’d Still Have a Job

Posted by F.J. Sarto on April 20, 2007

In case you were planning a career as a nasty, mean-spirited shock-jock, who makes his living using his media pulpit to slam people who mostly can’t (or won’t) fight back, here’s a handy tip: Stick to attacking our culture’s designated pinatas. Working-class whites, Southerners, all white Protestants (but especially Evangelicals), stay-at-home moms, and Mormons are all safe targets. In most circles, Arabs and the French are fair game, too.

Feel especially free to trash Catholics, of course. The admirable Catholic League for Civil and Religious Rights has highlighted the extent of the double standard applied to the defamation of Christians and of other groups in the U.S. League president Bill Donohue commented on the way Catholic bashers are treated as compared to Don Imus:

“Two years ago, Penn Jillette (of the comedy team Penn and Teller) went on Showtime calling Mother Teresa ‘Mother F—king Teresa’ and called the nuns who worked with her ‘f—king c—ts.’ Showtime is owned by Viacom and that is why I wrote to its chief, Sumner Redstone, to register a complaint. He wrote back extolling the merits of ‘artistic freedom’ and ‘tolerance.’ Last year, on Viacom-owned CBS radio, Jillette said Mother Teresa ‘had this weird kink that I think was sexual,’ compared the saintly nun to Charles Manson and said she ‘got her [sexual] kicks watching people suffer and die.’ Again, nothing was done about this.

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“Similarly, Joan Walsh on Salon.com said the chocolate Jesus was not ‘a big deal,’ and advised people not to go see it if they didn’t like it. She has now called on Imus to be fired. Even New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg said ‘don’t pay any attention’ to the chocolate Jesus, but he now finds it necessary to brand Imus’ comments ‘repugnant.’

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Guess Atlantic Yards isn't the only thing the Mayor is a big hypocrite about. I would love it, if one day some enterprising 'artist' took all the things sacred to people like Bloomberg and Walsh (and we all know what they are) and, using them, created mirror images of the chocolate Jesus and Elephant Dung Virgin Mary, and made similar comments about the 'saints' of their "religion". I am not Catholic, but this gross hypocrisy and flagrant double standard is mind boggling - or maybe not: It is a boast of those in 'power' - it's a way of establishing a pecking order of values. But they - and we - don' t realize they only have power from our consent (i withdrew mine long ago).