Ok, folks, here is the gist:

As you know Democrats are in an uproar over eight US attorneys being fired for what they say is political purposes, when it’s apparent that all of them had at least a few performance related issues.

Now we have liberal king of talk radio Don Imus getting the boot, and CBS and MSNBC are saying it’s for performance (one very thoughtless and wrong sentence), when in fact we know it is becoming apparent that it was political pressure.

Note this from Rich Lowry at NRO

“Don Imus has to wonder where all his friends went. Just yesterday, his radio/TV show was the favorite venue of the journalistic and political elite, who delighted ‚Äî or pretended to delight ‚Äî in his ribald comments. Today, most of them appear shocked that Imus was ever given a show.
The unedifying Imus controversy is almost entirely a liberal conflagration, a perfect bonfire of the profanities: with journalists and politicians caught out ignoring their own standards of political correctness; with left-wing grievance-meisters doing their grim work on the mainstream media’s favorite shock jock; with the culture of victimology running its ritualistic course. Armed only with the dubious loyalty of his frequent guests, Imus didn’t stand a chance.

Calling the Rutgers’s women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos,” as Imus did, was, of course, appalling. But you have to feel a twinge of sympathy for him, given the suddenness with which rules that had never applied to him suddenly were brought down around his head. Perhaps if his corporate masters at MSNBC and CBS Radio had told him long ago that he shouldn’t gratuitously insult people on the basis of their appearance, race, or gender, he never would have made the comment in the first place.

But Imus brought buzzy programming to MSNBC every morning and millions of dollars to CBS, so it was offensiveness in a worthy cause (i.e., $). The talent at NBC and liberal journalists from every other outlet in the country were happy to chuckle along.

Impeccably liberal columnist Tom Oliphant had the misfortune to appear on Imus’s show after the “nappy-headed” comment and before it was clear that Imus was on his way to being expelled from polite company. Oliphant excused the Imus remark as something that “can happen to anybody,” and ended his appearance by saying that regular guests “have a moral obligation to stand up and say to you, ‘Solidarity forever, pal.’”

So there you have it: Offensiveness now, offensiveness tomorrow, offensiveness forever. No liberal would make that kind of stand on behalf of anyone else. Imus got an exemption because his guests could feel as though they were part of the in-crowd and that they had done something wild and naughty by parleying with him.”

Rich notes the other media elites that “pimped themselves” on the show to get that all important face time. After all when you consider that many of them worked for newspapers, magazines and TV shows that have been hemoraging readers/viewers, they needed it. I’ve got a feeling that a lot of former guest are more than a little nervous as over eleven years many of them have most likely shared more than they should have, thus Imus no doubt has a treasure trove of notable quotes.

Again, the fact that the show made CBS/MSNBC a combined $50 million ought to have inquiring minds asking, “What really happened”. I’m convinced that Chuck Shumer’s March 10th appearance where Imus nuked him and thoroughly embarrassed him about his hypocrisy over the Walter Reed Scandal was the beginning of the end.

It’s worth a look again.

You knew the writing was on the wall for Imus when Viacom’s Sumner Redstone said that he knew Moonves would “Do the right thing”. Since Redstone is a heavy backer of Democrats and a friend of Schumer, the “right thing” meant to can Imus.

So here is the $50 million dollar question. Was Imus let go for political reasons, to placate Democrats and woo them to hosting all their appearences and debates exclusively on their networks? If so I think they should “do the right thing” and say it. They should come out and say (what we already know), that they kowtow to the Democratic Party, and they will do anything, including eating their own.

UPDATE: Hot Air with a slew of other reacts.