Bow before the power of the blog

Obviously there is a straight line from this to this. I guess I shouldn't be too celebratory, it is a dark day for making jokes mocking someone's race or sex. Without our hilarious dumb blonde, "me so sorreh...", "Obama is a pimp, really!", and "boner-nosed, beanie-wearing Jew boy" jokes, the terrorist have won. There is lots to say about this, like how in the last moments Imus began to show real bitterness at people like Harold Ford, Jr. not standing up for him. You know what, after showing scenes from Birth of a Nation to students in section today, I'm over slamming Don Imus. So much has changes, and really, so much hasn't. Imus is a loser and I'm happy a career of belittling others humanity has lead him to this humiliation. And I'm not sorry. Okay, last thing, this post from Digby and this post from Athenae from First Draft best sums up the role of the national (white) news media and their role as enablers in all of this.

What I'm not letting go though is how lame its the Olympics are in China next year. Well, not lame cause the Olympics are lame. How to describe it...Mia Farrow?

Ms. Farrow, a good-will ambassador for the United Nations Children’s Fund, has played a crucial role, starting a campaign last month to label the Games in Beijing the “Genocide Olympics” and calling on corporate sponsors and even Mr. Spielberg, who is an artistic adviser to China for the Games, to publicly exhort China to do something about Darfur. In a March 28 op-ed article in The Wall Street Journal, she warned Mr. Spielberg that he could “go down in history as the Leni Riefenstahl of the Beijing Games,” a reference to a German filmmaker who made Nazi propaganda films.

Apparently activist like Farrow have put enough pressure on the Chinese government to actually distance themselves from the Sudanese government. The Chinese official that traveled Sudan to give them the message though also made a point to say:

During a news conference on Wednesday, Mr. Zhai called activists who want to boycott the Games “either ignorant or ill natured.”

That's funny because "Ignorant or ill natured" was an alternate name for this blog when it started.