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The “Imus situation” continues. This time, unfunny dopes, JV and Elvis have been suspended indefinitely for playing terrible prepburger material that contains some racial references. Specifically, Chinese restaurant jokes like that old gem, “flied lice”. Cuz you see, Asians have trouble with “r”. Oh man, what a hilarious duo!

JV and Elvis are awful, and normally I’d be happy that their non-humor is gone. But not like this.

Hannity and Colmes had an interesting exchange with someone from a group that filed a complaint against JV and Elvis (which lead to their suspension).

[Begin transcript]

SEAN HANNITY: …I’m getting concerned here. Are we going to get to the point like, for example, both of my grandparents came from Ireland. If somebody tells an Irish joke, am I supposed to get offended? I mean, are we at the point where we can’t and this isn’t my type of humor, but I’m getting very nervous about the environment that’s being created here.

SMOLIN: Would you want your wife, you know, somebody to call you…

HANNITY: You don’t have to listen to it.

SMOLIN: Do you want someone to talk to you the way the DJ talked to them?

HANNITY: Read the first thing you — if you Google, Sean Hannity, you know what’s going to come up first? HannityisaMoron.com.

COLMES: I’m sorry I started that site, by the way.

[End transcript]

Aahahaha, oh those two. They are a regular Laurel and Hardy!

And here’s the latest issue of Time.

It looks like it’s coming down to fear of the slippery slope, again. The slippery slope argument is used too much, but sometimes there really is a slippery slope. Is the Imus slope a real one? If so, where does it end?

Also, how is it that Time gives Imus a whole cover, but puts Jackie Robinson in the corner? I think that Robinson has had more of a racial impact in the US than Imus or “flied lice” ever will.