Imus called some nice, successful college student-athletes prostitutes. That was ugly and unseemly. Limbaugh, via Shanklin, suggested that a longtime public figure with a criminal past and presidential aspirations was inarticulate. That’s neither beyond the pale nor even untrue.
James Joyner, Outside the Beltway [1]
Much, way too much, has been written about the Rush Limbaugh/Paul Shanklin parody of the L.A. Times and Al Sharpton. I echo what James says.