Q’s Thoughts on Don Imus and the Duke case

Well there are two big stories in the news this week. The first is the whole Don Imus incident. Yesterday CBS did fire him from his radio show. Should he had been fired? Well looking at this from a business issue, of course he should have been. He lost sponsors and brought nothing but bad publicity to CBS and MSNBC. I will admit I am not an Imus fan; I have listened to his show and find him to be a loud windbag, who’s only true talent is calling people names. If I was in charge of him I would have fired him years ago. His ratings have been in toilet for years! Should he have been fired for what he said? I think so; this was not his first time using derogatory comments to women. When you go an alienate half your audience, well then your just plain old stupid. I think what he said is extremely stupid and deserves everything he gets. I see his statement more a s sexist comment and not racial. But this does bring us to the two men who pushed for his dismissal, the Rev Jessie Jackson and the Rev Al Sharpton. These are some of the last two men who should be someone’s judge and juror. Both have a very checkered past on saying stupid things towards Jewish people, white people and Hispanic people. But they are never called out on it. I don’t get were these men get to be called Reverends when all they do is sit back and judge other people.
This brings us to the Duke Lacrosse case. Last year Jackson and Sharpton were down in North Carolina protesting against the lacrosse players and defending the so-called victim to the end of the earth, with Jackson paying for her schooling. This week the NC DA came out and said they would drop all charges against these men, as he said they were incident of any crime. I have not seen Sharpton or Jackson go down to NC to protest against Michael Nifong, the DA who brought up the charges and has been accused of misuse of his power. This is truly an injustice, but yet no Jackson or Sharpton. They will protest against some old guys and his stupid words, but will not go down and support the men who were wrongly accused of rape and had there names and reputations dragged through the mud for years to come. This is where these men should be fighting for injustice. But yet they stay silent. Nifong used and abused his power to get reelected. He pandered to black community to get their votes. If these charges were true the accused should have had the book thrown at them, but they weren’t. Then there is the so-called victim, there is no mention of what she did by lying. She made it harder for women in that area who actually are rapped to be taken serious. This should not be taken lightly by the community, or Jackson and Sharpton.