Profiles in Courage

This morning on his radio show, Don Imus called Rush a "fat, gutless, pill popping loser" for his comments on Sandra Fluke and his subsequent apologies.  Imus of course famously got in trouble for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team a bunch of "nappy-headed hos."  As Andy McCarthy observes:

Of course, as Rush eloquently explained today in publicly apologizing, yet again, to Sandra Fluke, his error in judgment was to succumb to a temptation at odds with the personality fans have come to know, and the person friends have come to know, over the past 25 years: the temptation to resort to the base language of unfounded personal insult — the language that is the Left’s stock-in-trade and that Imus often seems unable to complete a sentence without. The post-Rutgers Imus, much like the pre-Rutgers Imus, is a well-trained house pet. He’s got down perfectly when you need to grovel, when you can afford to be sanctimonious, and which targets are safe for his bile-laced tirades. What a profile in courage.

 Imus's courage is more along the lines of Dan Rather than Aristotle.