Tuesday, April 10, 2007

Don Imus has hijacked the airwaves!

Stop and read before you take that too literally. I am not refering to the ignorant remarks he made, I am refering to the extensive over-coverage on the news. Seriously I want to know how many more troops have died for a lie, I want to know what is going on in North Korea I want to know if the democrats are going to back down or if Bush will finally realize he can not have an unlimited check anymore. There are much more important issues going on right now that the media is blantanly ignoring.

I obviously am not a huge fan of Imus however, he is a good person he does do alot of good deeds and he said a stupid thing, we can all agree on that can't we? But how come Al Sharpton who as of this writing has not even met with the Rutgers team, has become this mans judge and jury? As a reverend should he not be expressing a little more forgiveness and a little less hate? I think Al Sharpton is a well spoken man with important messages to be heard but when he comes across as more of a racist than Imus, I feel he needs to rethink how far he has fallen away from the Jesus he preaches of.

Personally, I feel like it is time to take Imus off the news every day all day long and get back tothe business of reporting the news and I feel that the good reverend needs to get back to tending his flock and off of my tv. It is all well and good to say change the channel but one can not do that when every channel is carrying the same thing. One thing for sure can already be said about this controversy-it has given the womens basketball team at Rutgers more press than they have ever recieved, and we all know the old saying that even bad press is good press-so in conclusion while I feel his remarks were out of line I also feel it is beyond time for the public flogging to end. Come on America-why are we so obbsessed with gossip and scandal that we let ourselves be diverted from all of the other issues around us?

As Keith Olbermann says-good night and good luck.

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