The best Pot and Kettle example ever?

If consistency is to mean anything in the world of discrimination-based firings then Don Imus must go. There's simply no defending what he said, and if Jimmy the Greek, Al Campanis and Rush Limbaugh lost positions due perceived racist comments then Imus' ignorant blubbering was the holy grail by comparison. To me it was a no-brainer, which is why I had not previously posted on it.

However, to have Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton self-appoint as some kind of national arbiters of what constitutes appropriate speech (or fire-able offenses) is so laughingly absurd that it should be placed in some kind of compendium of "pot calling the kettle black" examples. Their hypocrisy will do nothing but embolden Imus and further widen the divide as people line up and take sides.

The black community needs to make it known that these guys don't speak for their entire race on every issue.

By the way, according to Drudge, Sharpton wants some kind of discussion on what's appropriate. I wonder, is the time-worn euphemism used in this post racist when used to describe the Imus flap?

MORE 4/12/07

Reverend Al discusses, uh, aviation?

"This from the beginning ... was never about Don Imus. It was about the misuse of the airways," Sharpton said.

"We cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can be used to commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism."

Er,.. Hmm. Airways?

This whole clownish affair surely has to be part of a government experiment being conducted on the general populace to gage the effects of some unknown gullibility drug they've been spraying on us via chemtrails. What next, Mike Nifong announcing his bid for the presidency? Britney Spears joining the FBI? Or maybe Valerie Plame announcing she's pregnant with Henry Waxman's love child? I blame Rove.