IMUS & DEMOCRATS?

An odd comment from the LA Times:

THE IMUS SCANDAL: POLITICAL IMPACT
Democratic politicians lose a soapbox with firing of Don Imus
His show helped many of them reach a national audience of white males -- a crucial voting bloc.
By Peter Wallsten, Times Staff Writer
April 13, 2007

That's because, over the years, Democrats such as Ford came to count on Imus for the kind of sympathetic treatment that Republicans got from Rush Limbaugh or Sean Hannity.

Equally important, Imus gave Democrats a pipeline to a crucial voting bloc that was perennially hard for them to reach: politically independent white men.

Wallsten forgets that Imus also had on many GOP politicians, such as J.D. Hayworth, and based on my own listening, I think the division may be about 50-50, Dem-GOP, but this should be checked. I'm almost certain that Imus didn't suck up to the Dem politicians as Fats and Insannity regularly do to GOP pols.

About the independent white males, I don't know about the demographics of the Imus program but I will send an e-mail to Wallsten and ask him how he knows this.

There is one sense in which Wallsten is correct: there is no other show that has so many Beltway types and Kool Kidz (© Atrios) and in that sense, the Democrats did lose an outlet but so did the GOP.