Posted by
Sackco on Wednesday, April 11, 2007 3:02:07 PM
Don Imus should quit. If he had any common sense, and common decency, he would just quit.
Apparently
he doesn't have either. He'll be back after his severe two week
suspension - Boy oh boy, they really threw the pamphlet at him! His
career has already outlasted its benefits to America and he should lose
his soapbox permanently.
Featured Townhall commentator Kathleen Parker in her predictable column on this topic wrote:
Imus has said a few
dumb things in a decades-long career -- as have we all -- but he also
has raised many millions for charities.
As
though that makes it all okay. He's raised millions of dollars for
charities. The federal government, by making charitable contributions
tax deductible, has raised billions of dollars for charity, but I don't
read her praising the federal government and saying that it should be
forgiven for its offences. I bet she would not have let the Black
Panther Party off the hook just because it provided breakfasts to poor
children. Does she want to give Al Qaeda a pass because the children
at the madrassas they support get a free education? I doubt it.
Have Don Imus's charity activities ever called him to make a true personal
sacrifice? I doubt that, too. I'm sure that if he took my advice and
quit his program he'd be able to jet off to a comfortable retirement.
He may have raised millions for charity, but we, as a culture, gave him
far more than he has personally given away.
And couldn't someone
other than Imus have raised just as much money for charity if that
person had been given the platform Imus has abused for many years? No
doubt about it.
There are funny things about being human. Some
of those funny things have to do with who we are, who our ancestors
were, and how we try to make sense of that. But there are no "racist"
jokes. If a comment is racist, it is not a joke.