Don Imus and color

Don Imus spoke off color again or, rather, on it or, to put it better, about it. And in so doing the radio host invited the populist cries of "Bad man, bad!"

The exchange is fantastically ambiguous: "What color is he?" When told the man is African-American (which is hardly a color) Mr Imus replied, "There you go. Now we know."

I believe, as Mr Imus explains, the point was one of sarcasm. He was attempting to make the point that the black man, a professional football athlete, was being picked on by police. Now, however, the thin-skinned multiculturalists are taking him to task for introducing color into the dialogue when, in fact, isn't that what liberals are always striving to do: encourage 'dialogue'?

If Mr Imus is in any way reprimanded over this nonsense check another win for fascism.