Who are the winners and losers in the fallout of the Imus debacle? Glenn Reynolds links to an L.A. Times article that has some thoughts on the latter:

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

With Imus' show canceled indefinitely because of his remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, some Democratic strategists are worried about how to fill the void. For a national radio audience of white men, Democrats see few if any alternatives.

Don Surber suggests a replacement platform that's currently off the table (to the point where Leno is riffing on it):

"Here’s an idea: Go on Fox News. Oh, Daily Kos won’t let you."

Speaking of which, one big winner in all of this is Bill O'Reilly, who's been on an anti-NBC jag since William Arkin's attack on America's troops in late January. O'Reilly's claim is that NBC, one home of square shooters such as Chet Huntley and John Chancellor, and later Tom Brokaw (who usually kept his biases very much in control) has titled increasingly further to the left. At the time, NBC news president Steve Capus counterpunched that "I think it's really kind of sad and pathetic, some of the things that [O'Reilly's] been lobbing at us these days", even as Capus hired BDS-obsessed Keith Olbermann to provide commentary for NBC's flagship Nightly News, in addition to his regular low-rated gig at MSNBC.

MSNBC's longtime employment of Imus as a low rent PR tool, and the very visible appearances on NBC of Sharpton and Jesse Jackson when it was time for Imus to walk the plank this week provide O'Reilly with a huge "See, I Told You So" moment, which I'm sure he'll capitalize on.

Update: Amen to that.