Sharpton, Jackson, And The Imus Smackdown

Don Imus has been fired and I am one pissed off Mo-Fo. Yeah, I am ticked off by the churlish I-Man because as he said this morning, “If I hadn’t said it, we wouldn’t be in this position.” Fair enough. The vast majority of my pissed-off-iveness (well it’s a word now) however, lies with the abject pharisaism of Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, and other “pillars of society” as well as the obsequious NBC executives Steve Capus and Jeff Zucker both of whom are spineless, dick twizzling fuck nozzles…oh, and liars as well.

Capus was on the air last night saying that too many of his employees were upset about the remarks and that the employees need to have confidence in the values of NBC. Hahahahah oh that’s rich!! I’m pretty sure NBC does have values and they showed when the number of advertisers dropping Imus and/or NBC went from two on Tuesday to seven on Wednesday. Who in the hell are you kidding Capus?...as John Lennon once sang, “Gimme Some Truth”. You don’t care about anyone’s feelings. The bottom line to your statement is…well…the bottom line.

Now Reverend Sharpton was just whoopin’ it up last night and nearly broke his arm patting himself on the back. He said, something about Imus apologizing as if he had some kind of revelation. Well I have a revelation for you, you race baiting whore, and it is from the Book of Revelation. “And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Also another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, by what they had done.” (Rev 20:12) Let me tell you, if my only way into heaven is to grab onto someone’s coat tails, I would sure as hell grab onto Imus’ gnarly old ass over yours. Boo Yah, Big Al.

Now Jesse “Hymietown” Jackson was speaking with David Gregory this morning. Even though Imus had been fired Jackson was whining effusively that NBC didn’t do it quickly enough!! Dear God, make him go away. It started me thinking as well. Which is worse? An obnoxious radio/TV host using the term “nappy headed ho’s” or a man of the cloth getting down and unholy with a woman other than his wife and producing a child? To me, it’s none of my business because for me to judge would be hypocritical. Jesse feels Imus deserved to be fired even though some of his words of apology were much like the I-Man’s:

“I am father to a daughter who was born outside of my marriage. As her mother does, I love this child very much and have assumed responsibility for her emotional and financial support since she was born. This is no time for evasions, denials or alibis. I fully accept responsibility and I am truly sorry for my actions.”

He was even given clemency by Chicago Alderman Ed Smith who said of this situation, "that anybody can make a mistake…a mistake doesn't mean you're out of the ballgame." I wonder if Alderman Smith feels the same about Don Imus. I don’t know, but I e-mailed his Chief of Staff this morning and am anxiously waiting for a reply. If I get one, I’ll be sure to post it.

Now, on to the most important thing about this unfortunate event…how does it affect me? After all, it is all about me. The answer is: not good. Without Imus to watch in the morning I have very little from which to choose. I can watch CNN which is somewhat boring or Fox and Friends where Steve Doocy, Brian Kilmeade, and Gretchen Carlson's cumulative IQ is 73. Not much of a choice, but I guess I’ll take CNN and Soledad O’Brien's cuteness over the Fox show whose hosts struggle to string together coherent thought.

Sadly, we have become so overly sensitive that today Frankie Avalon would be banned because of his songs embracing the world of pedophilia. What do you mean? What do I mean? C'mon..."Venus if you will, please send a little girl for me to thrill." Disgusting!!

I guess I am just bummed because I liked the show. I guess one good thing did come out of this I have come up with a new name for Morgen over at It’s A Blog Eat Blog World…Nappy Headed Mo.

Cheers…