Letters to the Editor
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But Rush's listeners don't mind at all
The "force" which pushed Imus out of his job has nothing to do with government. He got canned because the networks decided he was going to cost them lost advertising revenue.
Now Rush Limbaugh lost his job as a sports-caster on ESPN when he claimed that Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who is black, owed his celebrity to some kind of "affirmative action." But that's because there are a lot of black sports fans, and they were not obviously going to listen to racist idiocy like that. Since Limbaugh's was chasing off listeners, he was costing the ESPN network a great deal of advertising money. Boom, out of a job, just that quick.
But consider the "ditto-heads" (his term, not mine!) that listen to the Rush Limbaugh talk-radio show! Rush and his "ditto-head" community are one big racist love-in. There's no anti-minority comment he could make to an audience like that, no matter how dishonest or disgusting in nature, which would drive off so many as a tenth of percent of them. They agree with the most malodorous of Limbaugh's innumerable racist cracks. That's what they like best about Limbaugh - that he's a mean racist swine just like them.
So provided he can restrain himself from saying anything blatantly actionable, I think Limbaugh is perfectly safe from the market forces that fell upon Imus last month.