As should the Rev Al Sharpton; for soiling the debate over the Imus incident last week. Where were these two aholes when after last year's NCAA Women's Final Four Imus referred to the winning team as a bunch of lesbians? I'll tell you where they were, in a little closet wringing their hands plotting to make a big flap over something that had political legs.

Let's get this part out of the way I do not condone what Don Imus said about the Rutgers basketball team. I appreciate the fact that these women were hurt by his statements. I don't even necessarily disagree with the fact that he was fired.

I personally take offense to the actions of Matt Lauer, who used his position as America's number one soft and cuddly conservative (see attack interviews with Michael Moore and other lefty's vs softball interviews with W and Coulter)to attack one of his harshest critics. I have listened to Imus off and on for close to thirty years and have heard him criticize many people over the years but in recent years the Today show has been roundly criticized for its lack of real news.

Before the today show Matt Lauer was really nothing more than an entertainment reporter and second banana on a regional talk show. The simulcast interview of Imus last week was fine. I thought it moved the issue forward towards a resolution that may have seen Imus fired or not. It's the day two panel that included everyone but Don Imus that made me sick. You don't beat people who were willing to take a beating once they've left the room. To have everyone on the next day is disgraceful and distasteful. The prior day's discourse gave way to a bunch of torch-wielding villagers looking to drive their agendas forward without regard to the real situation unfolding before them. I am disappointed that the news media appointed the Rev. Al Sharpton to be a spokesperson and leader in this most recent cause given his track recordwhere racial sensitivity is concerned. Rev Al "Tawana Brawley" Sharpton may have served his people in the past but now seems desperate to hold on to the power he's amassed. Al Sharpton had Imus on his radio show for two hours one day last week and in that time paraded his own daughter in front of Imus to humiliate and confront Imus as if he had never seen a black woman before. It has been reported that for those two hours, at each commercial break, Sharpton left the studio so as to avoid any conflict that might have carried over from the interview of Imus. Has Sharpton ever accepted an invitation to go on Imus' show?

I believe that Don Imus would have changed his show to address the issues raised by his insensitivity and that he would look to include African Americans at the desk and in the writing of his show. We will never have a chance to see if that worked out. The media whores didn't want to see resolution. What they wanted was blood and they got it.