Media-Related Insanity
First we have Imus fired for a stupid, throwaway comment. Of course he shouldn't have said it, but FIRED? From both radio and TV when his JOB has always been to shock his listeners?
Now we have Terry Moran of ABC News saying the we shouldn't feel to sorry for the Duke accusers because they are white and rich, so they'll bounce back just fine. How vile and disgusting a statement is that? What if they HADN'T been wealthy???
They'd be sitting in jail right now, that's what. What a freaking stupid, vile thing to say.
And then we have Nancy Grace another vile spewer of tabloid TV journalism...
For a full year she's been "covering" the Duke story on her program at CNN. If you recall her broadcast of a child abuse case (which never went to court) caused the accused mother of the child to commit suicide. No "mea culpa" apologetic or responsibility-taking comments following that episode. And now that the Duke guys have been cleared COMPLETELY of charges, the day this happened, when it should have been big news on her show, she had a GUEST HOST appear in her stead.
I watched part of her show the next day and there was NO mention of the Duke case. She was on to her next pre-trial witch hunt. No apology, not even a mention of the Duke case.
That marks her as a vile human being in my book.
So back to Imus: What about Rosie O'Donnell? Thank goodness she hasn't said anything derogatory about blacks, huh? I guess it's open season on Chinese people and Christians, and you can accuse the President of being behind the murder of 3,000 U.S. citizens on 9/11, but God forbid you say anything about black people.
Shouldn't SHE be fired if Imus was? What about all the disgusting black rappers that have been spewing what Imus said ONE time for well over 10 years? Why do they get a pass? Isn't it MORE damaging to have people within the same culture denigrating their own? What about it Jesse? Al? Hello? If you guys really cared about ending black poverty you'd be concentrating at pointing the finger of blame back at yourselves and the community that glorifies going from one woman to the next, leaving each pregnant.
I've had it with this hypocritical crap. Pick and choose who to label as racist, prejudiced or whatever. Nail some to the wall and give others a pass.
What a load of crap.