I’m sorry, Mozzie. I’ve taken out my contacts for the night and can’t see the screen terribly well. LOL
I have no problems that Imus was fired. None. It was unconscionable what he said. But the standard should be fairly applied and it’s not.
I just found this:
Again, the simple test here is the following: If a conservative had used these expressions, would it have been denounced by liberals? The answer, obviously, is yes. Imagine if George Will had called Colin Powell a “house slave.” Imagine if Pat Buchanan had called Barney Frank a “nasty faggot.” Imagine if Trent Lott had called Hillary Clinton a whore. Do you think they’d be invited on “Larry King Live” to further elaborate on their comments?
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/sullivan/2002/10/25/belafonte/index.html
Liberals have said all those things about Republicans and not one of them have been fired. In fact, the press barely mentioned those ugly statements.
In 1989, a young woman jogger in Central Park was viciously raped and beaten by a gang of youths. Sharpton led a mob outside the court which claimed, without a shred of evidence, that “the boyfriend did it,” and screamed that the victim was a “whore.”
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816491/posts