MSNBC gave significant air time this morning to the rantings of the Virginia Tech murderer, and the unctuous David Gregory conducted the navel gazing analysts in their efforts to rationalize MSNBC's decision to air the killer's suicide video.
It seemed like only yesterday that morning tv viewers who flipped onto MSNBC had to endure Don Imus' endless apologies to the Rutgers women's basketball team. Imus was sacked because his remarks were deemed so crude that the apologies, though apparently accepted by the team members, could never be good enough for people at MSNBC who must have thought that those basketball players' self esteem was so permanently damaged that they could never recover.
We were told that the deciding factor for the MSNBC brass in the Imus affair was the protestations of the politically correct MSNBC staff. So given that the staff has such control over what goes on the air, then the mass murderer has both the staff and the brass to thank for granting his last wishes.
With Imus the viewers had to take the bad with the good. But at least he had the courage to call attention to and ridicule the stupid decisions of his bosses. And MSNBC, please try to do better. Al Jazeera shouldn't be your role model.
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