How Don Imus jumped the shark
I'm rather surprised that it took a snarky "nappy-haired ho" crack to finally land Mr. Imus in hot water. Countless media outlets have repeated all of his bigoted remarks about people of assorted religions, races, and sexual orientations. The bottom line is this: Don Imus makes his living by insulting people. My younger brother listens to Imus regularly and assures me, the non-Imus follower, that it is part of his schtick. Why is he in trouble now? Here is my theory: People are tired of the Don Imuses of the world. That's why they're calling Imus on his ugly remarks and deciding that Ann Coulter has overstayed her welcome. After a while, nastiness for the sake of nastiness stops being edgy and provocative. Instead, it becomes offensive and tiresome. It's not that Imus and Coulter have become any more or less offensive and nasty than they were before. It's that the American public finally said, "Enough already!" After all, Amercans have ...