The good news as we all know-and its still good news-is that John Donald Imus’ “comedian” card just got cancelled. Smart aleck radio just took a big hit; one of those “morning radio” personalities will be sleeping-in for awhile, a New York shock-jock just received several thousand volts. Who does he have to thank for this huge upset but an army of mostly nappy-headed callers (including yours truly) harassing MSNBC, CBS and some big corporate sponsors. Compare it to the Rutgers-10 beating the NBA’s defending champion Miami Heat in a best-of-seven 4-0.

What were the factors that led to such a wonderful turn of events? Listening to bitter white (and yes black) callers on some talk radio stations, you would think it was all Al Sharpton’s doing. Sharpton; the cruel black agitator who just keeps urinating on the white man’s parade. Always stepping on the shrines of White America; the police department, prosecuting attorneys, and now shock jocks, always messing with their lucky charms. Why can’t he just let the bullets and the racial epithets fly in peace? The simple fact of the matter is, Sharpton isn’t the one who initiated the outrage against the dry-drunk sounding Imus. It was neo-liberal David Brock of Media Matters who monitored the on-air conversation between Imus and his cronies the morning after Tennessee’s women’s basketball team defeated the Rutgers girls for the NCAA women’s championship.

The now infamous remarks that greatly insulted the Rutgers team and marginalized the Lady Volunteers (“nappy-headed ‘hos, jiggaboos and wannabees”) began being electronically circulated to the national black press outlets and black talk radio stations such as DC’s AM-1400 WOL(D) and XM’s 169 “The Power.” It was through them that Sharpton and Rainbow/PUSH leader Jesse Jackson came to be informed and were asked to get involved. The white boys just saw Al and Jesse because that’s what they were expecting. The Associated Press survey recently disclosed that 61% of blacks and 54% of whites agreed that Imus got exactly what he deserved. But 31% of whites and 18% of blacks felt the punishment was too extreme to fit the crime.

One of the nays no-doubt came from AOL Sports columnist Jason Whitlock. This individual completely missed the connection in an essay firing at Al, Jesse, and Rutgers’ coach Vivian Stringer called: “Time for Jackson, Sharpton to Step down.”  He blasted Al and Jesse, calling them the “president and vice president of Black America” and we should take a cue from White America and re-elect our leadership every 4 years. Jason-Ann Coulter-Whitlock for some unfathomable reason had some unkind words for Stringer, calling her post-Imus press conference a “massive pity party/recruiting rally” and “Stringer just wanted her 15-minutes to make the case that she’s every bit as important as Pat Summitt (the legendary Tenn. Coach and close friend of Stringer’s) and Geno Auriemma.” What in the hell was this brother watching? Perhaps it was the “Sci-Fi Channel”

Maybe he doesn’t have his government issued flat-panel TV yet, I don’t know. Or maybe he just doesn’t understand the most basic thing about women. They hate being called names.

The cameras were not on in the locker room or the bus or plane etc., when Stringer had to listen to her players’ reaction to those nasty remarks aimed to turn a tough season-ending loss in the championship game into a national humiliation based on raw racist observation from a group of old N-joke jockeys. Whitlock then began to take a shot at Stringer’s girls: “The insistence by these young women that they have been emotionally scarred by an old white man with no currency in their world is laughably dishonest.” Those inflammatory words were almost on a par with those of Imus. What Jason suggests is that those players shouldn’t feel insulted by the name calling because they don’t listen to Imus in the first place, and thereafter he blatantly accuses them of lying. I’m quite sure rappers like Cam’ron don’t read his columns but if he slandered them would he be fired?

Like Imus and his cohorts who dug a hole for themselves because they didn’t critique Rutgers’ play on the court, but only focused on personal attacks, Whitlock’s deflecting comment “we have more important issues,” becomes drowned out in a sea of white Whitlock angst. J, will you please stop listening to the white guys at the water cooler. To rail against black athletes like “Pacman” Jones for bad behavior and then vilify smart honest girls like the Rutgers-10 is inconsistent and stupid.

Somebody’s gotta be there when it gets ugly, somebody’s gotta be there when it gets bloody, somebody’s gotta get their hands dirty, Yo it’s a f----d-up job but somebody’s gotta do it. Somebody’s gotta come up with the plan and be there when the s—t hits the fan. I hope ya’ll out there understand, look man it’s a f----d-up job, but somebody’s gotta do it.

-The Roots: Somebody’s gotta do it.

It’s has become cliché for people to shoot back “how come you don’t see Al Sharpton take on rappers” whenever Sharpton goes up against the same people we should be taking on; the white supremacist society and its various elements. Remarks like that only show that we know nothing and have been listening to the wrong people for input on Sharpton. People who know better, white opposers, whose only consolation is to skillfully turn gullible blacks against him.

I mean do whites even know why they hate Al? If they blame him for Imus, then apparently they don’t. Much of the reason Alfred Charles Sharpton Jr. weighed in on Don Imus’ 4/4 statements about the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team was specifically because of his personal involvement in denouncing those rap artists that make denigrating remarks about mostly black women in the lyrics of many of their songs. Many of us in the black community realize that the women the rappers mention pertain to those from their immediate blocks whom they are intimately involved with and live or seek to live a lifestyle similar to them. Women like the Rutgers-10 who attend college or are in the upwardly mobile workforce are not in the sphere of the “gangsta rap” reality.

What Imus did was take it a step further by targeting black girls who are trying their best to stay away from that way of life so as not to be identified with such racist epithets and he insulted their intelligence and appearance in one fell swoop. What do you call a black female with a college degree? Ask Imus. Sharpton knew that black rappers who insist on referring to their own women as “bitches” and “”Ho’s” was only giving whites permission to say it. Imus and his racist radio roundtable were known to have been taking pot shots at black women who have never bothered them or anyone within Imus’ narrow plain of existence other than to better themselves, such as the tennis playing Williams sisters. Three days after Imus railed against Rutgers Sharpton called for him to be fired. He also led pickets in front of network studios. On 4/11 MSNBC dropped Imus, and the next day CBS had him escorted out the building while he was broadcasting a fundraiser.

Around the country blue-collar pizza and beer-guzzling white divorcee fathers (Imus’ core audience) were outraged. Don’t blame Al, he was only doing what he had been doing since Jesse Jackson took him under his wing back in the ‘70’s, protecting the rights of blacks. Blame Imus for being stupid and his listeners for enabling his racial-holism. Besides, blacks and whites can learn more in one day of listening to XM-169’s “The Power” with Joe Madison, Ambrose I. Lane, Mark Thompson and Sheryl Underwood, than in 6 months of Imus, Rush, Stern, Savage and Laura Ingraham.

No sooner than I just got finished telling you about some of Bush’s neocons, that news of the departure of one of them is already on record. Matthew John Dowd was a former democrat who defected due to disappointment over Bill Clinton. At some point this incredibly naïve man changed parties and joined the Bush Administration and in ’04 he became W’s chief campaign strategist. Today he is airing his disappointment in Bush’s leadership and that his faith in him was “misplaced.” Make no mistake about it Dowd is considered just as important an adviser as Karl Rove in getting Bush to the White House.

That’s also a whole lot of being “disappointed in” for just one man, obviously people are going to wonder what was he expecting in the first place? Well, he actually expected Bush to withdrawal from Iraq, he expected W to hold an official more high ranking than that goofy looking woman with the thumbs up sign and her prison guard boyfriend accountable for the Abu Ghraib abuses. Well duuuh! This is why I don’t give too much ink to neocons; in the final analysis they are just people who can’t be relied upon. They’re really naïve-vocons. Dowd says he still likes Bush, but one gets the feeling his reasons for bailing out are just as personal than political, if not more so. His son is an army intelligence specialist due to be sent off to Iraq. Careful Dowd, can you spell P.L.A.M.E.? It’s not nice to publicly disagree with these guys, and have a relative serving in intelligence. But this didn’t stop Dowd from spilling his guts to the New York Times in that April Fools Day report.

“He criticized the president as failing to call the nation to a shared sense of sacrifice at a time of war,” states the Times regarding that interview. “Shared sense of sacrifice?” Is he serious? Did Dowd check W’s military record? Bush doesn’t share anything with anyone. Was he expecting him to send those terrible twins to Iraq? Much more enlightening is his comments on what he sees as Bush’s declining state of mind: “I think he’s become more, in my view, secluded and bubbled in. Experts have been keeping an eye on the president’s behavior for some time now mainly due to his upbringing. What they are noticing is narcistic behavior stemming from a strict upbringing and resulting in A-moral tendencies, but that’s a subject we’ll deal with in a future column.

Dowd's mind-set is in question here, his disclosure to Robert Siegel is highly suspect in that he claims to have somewhat joined Bush back in ’99 blindfolded when he is cited as the primary one to link Saddam Hussein to the War on Terror. He seems to have wanted a pullout just because his son is due to go to Iraq. What about the thousands of other US parents with sons and daughters in Iraq? Dowd now says he is returning to the dems and he may be backing Obama. You know the saying, do us a favor…