DON IMUS MUST BE PERPLEXED

A few days ago Oprah Winfrey said that white men can't dance.

And this morning the cast of The View was referring to other women as bitches.

I've been watching the news, the same networks who called for the head of Don Imus, but I must have missed the denouncements of these latest racial and sexists epithets. And the Reverend Al Sharpton has been conspicuously absent.

The Don Imus show averaged 361,000 viewers per episode. The View had over 3 million viewers last month. Oprah has the highest rated talk show in history.

I guess it's about numbers, not words.

But more troubling than the obvious double standard is the omission of these insulting remarks by television journalists; the same journalists who stripped the flesh from Don Imus in their moral fervor to eradicate bigotry and misogynistic comments from the airwaves. The talking heads are mute when it comes to reporting unfavorable comments made on shows which generate huge profits for the networks, especially when that money pays the talking heads.