From Andrew Sandlin's blog:

Don Imus Is Right

No, he is not right in his racist comments about the Rutgers ladies’ basketball team. Those comments were offensive, insulting and despicable. They deserve wide public censure from fair-minded Americans of all races.

But the foul-mouthed liberal Imus is right about one thing: the hypocrisy of his critics. The “Revs.” Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson have been dealing race cards for decades. And in today’s politically correct ambiance, few prominent mainstream Americans have rebuked these thugs of the airwaves for their gross hypocrisy. Sharpton’s anti-White and anti-Jewish bigotry has been widely documented. Jesse Jackson has turned race into a bogus but lucrative protection racket for his personal gain. In other words, he is a race pimp masquerading as a race crusader.

More importantly, where is the moral outrage of the elite establishment when we need it? The lyrics of even “mainstream” rap these days exude filthy epithets more suitable for a crack whorehouse, lyrics that make Imus’ on-air comments sound like sugarcoated slang. Yet there has been no righteous indignation from the very people who drumbeat the airwaves all the way to Imus’ dual firing (from CBS and MSNBC). You’d think the network execs could get all hot and bothered about the brutal, immoral, misogynist lyrics of some of today’s rap, but consistent ethical outrage is perhaps too much to expect of media moguls who built their reputation on serving up alley-cat morals on the silver platter of prime-time TV.

The “Black leaders” are even more culpable. Excuse me if I am yawning at Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson’s loudly articulated principles. They develop principles when a public outcry will cost them nothing but, rather, will allow them to score points with guilty White liberals. They smell a racial controversy a mile away and can’t wait to primp before the TV cameras. Using race as a principle to get public exposure is their principle.

In other words, they have no principles.

Make no mistake: Don Imus is a moral menace. I am pleased that he is off the air.

But spare me the moral outrage of Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson and their eel-spined collaborators at CBS and MSNBC.

They got their pound of flesh in firing Imus.

Now, who will fire them?