You can’t buy a ticket to this stuff. Former Wonkett, Ana Marie Cox, admits to laying on the “Imus couch of racial insensitivity”, just so she could move up in the world of media

“Every time I’ve been on Don Imus’ show, he has reminded listeners that he “discovered” me. It’s not exactly hyperbole. He first invited me on when I was just a foulmouthed blogger who ran the gossipy political site Wonkette. As I recall, my first on-air conversation with him was about the Bush twins, or, as I called them, “Jenna and Not-Jenna.” Last fall I became a regular guest and took up slightly more serious topics (on my last appearance we talked about Senator John McCain’s Baghdad trip and Republican presidential candidate Rudy Giuliani’s lack of social graces), but the subjects hardly mattered. I had been invited inside the circle, and to be perfectly honest, I was thrilled to be there.

As the invites kept coming, I found myself succumbing to the clubhouse mentality that Imus both inspires and cultivates. Sure, I cringed at his and his crew’s race baiting (the Ray Nagin impersonations, the Obama jokes) and at the casual locker-room misogyny (Hillary Clinton’s a “bitch,” CNN news anchor Paula Zahn is a “wrinkled old prune”), but I told myself that going on the show meant something beyond inflating my precious ego. I wasn’t alone. As Frank Rich noted a few years ago, “It’s the only show … that I’ve been on where you can actually talk in an informed way ‚Äî not in sound bites.” Yeah, what he said!

I’m embarrassed to admit that it took Imus’ saying something so devastatingly crass to make me realize that there just was no reason beyond ego to play along. I did the show almost solely to earn my media-elite merit badge. The sad truth is that unless you have a book to promote, there’s often no other reason any writer or columnist has to do the show.”

Translation: I’m a liberal hypocrite that will smirk and giggle at “racial insensitivity” just so long as I can have a place among the rest of the “elite liberal media hypocrites.

The word for that activity is the one that got Imus in trouble, but we all know what it is.

UPDATE: Hot Air:

“Although I think my favorite has to be newly demure exit-poll wiz Ana Marie Cox, who‚Äôs suddenly decided she can‚Äôt in good conscience justify appearing on his show anymore even though he‚Äôs been a racist tool for years ‚Äî coincidentally at precisely the moment he‚Äôs no longer in a position to help her career. Carry these words in your heart forever, dear readers, bearing in mind that her main claims to fame are (a) posing for photos with a woman who took money for sex and (b) working low-rent anal references into nearly every post she ever wrote”

To quote a Snoop Dog tune, “Break a Bitch Til I Die“,

“Its impossible, to stop a ho
So let her go, and get the dough
Lead the way, or step aside
Break a bitch till the day I die”

Word!