Talk about a storm in a teacup. Of all the problems this country faces right now, the trash talking of a radio jock ranks just above the Anna Nicole saga in importance. Apologize and move on. End of story.
Note how the various "men of God" like Sharpton and Jackson have treated Imus' apology and public acknowledgment of wrongdoing. By scorning it and calling for Imus' head. Not for them the excuses, leniency and second chances which they habitually demand for their own constituents. No sir! No mercy for whitey. Apology or no apology, away with him!
Sharpton is a fascist.
This whole story has taken on such vast proportions - jobs lost, lives “scarred for life” (one of the players made this statement to the press, naturally), Sharpton making the threat that more of the same will be coming - that one must begin to wonder if the Lefties have not had some hand in it somehow. You have to give the Lefties credit. They do have their ways of thinking ahead to the How-to’s, and they’ll do ANYTHING to win the Presidency. Even destroy Imus because they think he’s expendable. They use whatever they can, whoever it hurts, whatever it is, to get where they want to go. Only this time, they’re beginning to point that gun right at their very own feet. Just a thought. But wait. Just wait. I predict that Imus will come back a whole lot bigger than he was before all this happened. Remember, there is no “bad” publicity, just publicity.
And while we're on the subject of up is down, Mr. Sharpton, put this in your pipe and smoke it:
[British Prime Minister Tony] Blair said: "Economic inequality is a factor and we should deal with that, but I don't think it's the thing that is producing the most violent expression of this social alienation."I think that is to do with the fact that particular youngsters are being brought up in a setting that has no rules, no discipline, no proper framework around them."
Some people working with children knew at the age of five whether they were going to be in "real trouble" later, he said.
Mr Blair is known to believe the tendency for many black boys to be raised in families without a father leads to a lack of appropriate role models.
He said: "We need to stop thinking of this as a society that has gone wrong - it has not - but of specific groups that for specific reasons have gone outside of the proper lines of respect and good conduct towards others and need by specific measures to be brought back into the fold." -- The Guardian, April 12, 2007