****Did NBC bow to pressure from within the DNC?**********See below

News is that MSNBC caved (once again) to pressure anddropped the Imus show after his racially inflamatory remark.

Again, I don’t care about Imus, I don’t watch his show, nor MSNBC (from the ratings neither does anyone else). So I could care less if not if his show was cancelled or not.

Yet what has me thoroughly pissed off is the hypocritical way that these occurrences are handled. Again, if this language is unacceptable for whites, then it is so for blacks as well, or anybody else who uses it.

Now to the point. Seeing how Al Sharpton had his face all over the news about this, I think it also time that he finally comes to account for his well known racial tirades as well. Since Imus was removed from MSNBC, Sharpton should be equally removed from radio as well.

Sharpton’s show appears on this schedule. I have volunteered a co-worker to monitor his show here in South Florida on occassion. I hope others will do the same.

The company that hosts Sharpton’s show, is Syndication One:

“Syndication One, a joint venture of Radio One, Inc. [NASDAQ: ROIAK and ROIA] and REACH Media, Inc., is designed to develop African-American targeted programming. While there are more than 1,200 talk shows currently available to radio audiences nationwide, there are few programs that offer listeners a daily dose of ideas, issues, analysis and information targeted to the African-American audience. Syndication One will offer listeners timely, relevant, probing and entertaining programming, addressing a wide range of issues from a broad spectrum of viewpoints”

I’m gathering a list of sponsors of the show now.

Al Sharpton has long been an embarrassment to black people as well as being proven anti-Semitic by his statements on several occasions.

This account of Tawana Brawley tells you all you need to know the character, or critical lack of, of Sharpton:

“For those of you too young to remember, let me tell you a story about real racism. Back in 1987, a 15-year-old black girl named Tawana Brawley disappeared and was found four days later covered in dog feces with racial slurs written on her body. She claimed that at least two and possibly six white men, one of them carrying a badge, had repeatedly raped her in the woods in upstate New York. She refused to meet with prosecutors and Sharpton and a couple of now disbarred radical lawyers named Alton Maddox and Vernon Mason took up her cause. According to the Associated Press, Sharpton and Brawley‚Äôs lawyers asserted ‚Äúon 33 separate occasions‚Äù that a local prosecutor named Steven Pagones ‚Äúhad kidnapped, abused and raped‚Äù Brawley.

There was absolutely no evidence to support this charge and a grand jury investigation concluded in late 1988 that Brawley “was not the victim of forcible sexual assault” and that the whole thing was a hoax. She had smeared herself with dog shit and written the racial epithets herself in an attempt to fool her hot-tempered stepfather about her whereabouts. Several witnesses testified that they had seen her at various parties during the time she was supposedly being held against her will.

Not to be outdone, Sharpton and Maddox and Mason accused then state Attorney General Robert Abrams of “masturbating” over Brawley’s crime scene photographs. The whole Brawley affair was one of the ugliest episodes of race baiting of the last half-century and the whole thing was based on a lie that Al Sharpton must have recognized as such at the time.

Pagones’ life was ruined and it took more than a decade for his defamation suit to come to trial. In 1998, a jury finally found Sharpton, Maddox and Mason liable for defaming Steven Pagones and ordered them to pay hefty fines.

To this day, Sharpton has never apologized to Pagones or anyone else for his part in this sordid business. There may be lots of people to whom Don Imus owes an apology. But Al Sharpton isn‚Äôt one of them.”

What’s good for the goose is good for the gander.

Imus faced the music, it’s time that Sharpton finally faces the music as well.

UPDATE: Here is the video of NBC News President Steve Capus explaining the decision.

Only one problem, when he mentions “dialog”, he’s fibbing. More on that later, but according to a staffer, it has to do with this statement by Barak Obama that he would never appear on MSNBC. It’s no secret that MSNBC is angling for “good will” by Democrats to have them host debates on their network.

UPDATE II: The pressure to pull the plug AFTER a previous decision to suspend the show grew after Obama finally commented on the issue. According to those who have knowledge of the decision reached by Capus this afternoon it was “closely linked” to the Obama statement. According to the staffer the fear is that if Imus was not dealt with as “they desired” the plug would be pulled on the SC Democrat Debate on April 26th, wich would have been near end of the previous two-week suspension.

This is the statement that broke the camel:

“I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus,” Obama told ABC News, “but I would also say that there’s nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude.”

NBC News who no doubt wants to continue the kit glove treatment of Obama and make him happy soon pulled the plug just after the quote was published. As noted by some American Express Co., Staples Inc., Procter & Gamble Co., and General Motors Corp all had pulled sponsorship, but the fact is that Imus was the flagship morning show of MSNBC for eleven years. The fact that within 24 hours there was such a reversal indicates that something other than just pulled ads had something to do with it.

So the question, is NBC News trying to clean up the air, or is this simply a stunt to buy good will from Democratic Candidates? If the latter, then I think NBC just bought itself a scandal of sorts.

More to come…..

UPDATE III: Remember this?

Guess who Schumer complained to when Imus grilled him?

Payback, it’s a bitch.