When asked to comment (for the six thousandth time) on the Don Imus debacle, the Rev. Al Sharpton, described by CNN as a “civil rights activist,” said (and I quote):
Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media. We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we’ve got to stop this.
Stop what, Reverend? Stop negotiating the response to each infraction of your personal rules of permissible speech? Stop determining what people are allowed to say on the radio and on TV through democratic and free-market-based consensus?
I suppose we should ask the Reverend to make us a list of what people should be permitted to say and censor everything else. Yes, that sounds like the American way to do it.
On the horizon I can barely make out the death of satire.
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