Thursday, May 10, 2007

Will There Be Another Double Standard?

Captain Ed has a post on a tasteless Opie and Anthony bit about raping Condoleezza Rice.

I won't reproduce any of it here. It's neither funny nor understandable. And we are long past the days when rape jokes would get you a pass. In fact, there's a guy in Texas who lost to Ann Richards based on a dumb rape joke. So, it isn't like rape jokes are suddenly problematic. We haven't been laughing for a long time.

Opie and Anthony got fired for encouraging people to have sex in public places, including St. Patrick's Cathedral. After that, they ended up on XM Radio, which doesn't have to follow broadcast standards. Frankly, that is the sort of place their show belongs.

Now the question is, will O&A get the Imus treatment? Says Captain Ed,

Compared to these three cases of arrested development, Don Imus was a model of propriety. What kind of men think that raping a woman and punching her in the face makes for humor? It doesn't matter whether they were talking about the Secretary of State or the secretary working at XM Radio, it's disgusting and repellent. It shows once again that the two hosts of this show have few redeeming qualities, if any.

Does XM Radio think this is funny? Do their subscribers? I don't think that Don Imus needed to be chased off the air for his offensive and tasteless remark, but if he went out the door for that, then Opie and Anthony should follow right behind him. However, what do you think the odds will be that Al Sharpton and the media will hold these two creeps responsible for this? About the same odds as having Rice appear on their show next week, is my guess.

It's been noted previously (by me here) that there is a double standard where Dr. Rice is concerned.

One of the arguments made to explain why the "nappy-headed hos" comment was so offensive was that the women involved were not powerful figures and shouldn't have been exposed to that sort of mockery. I don't buy that argument. I think if "nappy-headed hos" is offensive when referring to a group of black women, then calling the Secretary of State Brown Sugar or joking about raping her is also offensive. There shouldn't be a double standard here, but don't be surprised if the moonbats don't care about this one.