This morning I wrote and sent the following email to Fox Business News. As you know, FBN produces and broadcasts the "Imus In The Morning" program. Because I care for an elderly woman every morning who likes to watch Mr. Imus's show, I end up watching or hearing a good portion of that program each day.
Here is my email to Fox Business News on this holiday:
To whom it may concern:
This morning's appearance of Dick Gregory on the "Imus In The Morning" program is particularly absurd considering he should have been disqualified from ever appearing again on FBN or Imus after his repulsive remarks of 11/12/2009 concerning the Fort Hood shooting. In November, Mr. Gregory had the temerity to suggest the US Army had somehow conspired to allow that horrible shooting to occur. Such remarks were not only offensive and paranoid, they were intended to sow hate, fear and doubt. Mr. Gregory should have been strongly rebuked and challenged at the very moment those cruel insinuations were voiced.
And the same goes for this morning's reprehensible remarks. That Mr. Gregory was permitted to imply, without evidence, that the US government and its military are not doing their best to help Haitians in the wake of last Tuesday's earthquake is patently obscene. His insinuation that something is suspiciously amiss with the Port-Au-Prince airport's runway being intact and yet the tower is not, and sundry other comments of similar paranoia, should be received with the swiftest and clearest censure FBN can offer. Moreover, Mr. Gregory's remarks about race relations in America are deeply divisive, offensive, delusional and demonstrably false.
Sorry, but that's just how I feel on this Martin Luther King Day.
FBN, and the "Imus In The Morning" program, not only should publicly and clearly distance themselves from Mr. Gregory's offensive comments, they should publicly apologize for NOT confronting such sick remarks immediately, and for inviting Mr. Gregory to speak after what he said two months ago.
Lastly, it strikes me as incredibly curious that Mr. Imus would have as a guest Debra Dickerson, the African-American scholar who wrote an article arguing Barack Obama was not legitimately "black," and Mr. Gregory, who said this morning that African-Americans do not categorize their own according to skin tonalities. Disgusting all around. And that Mr. Imus has not sought noted conservatives like Shelby Steele, Thomas Sowell, Larry Elder, or Walter E. Williams as regular guests -- outstanding people, all -- is also rather telling. To the casual observer, it appears Mr. Imus is still attempting to atone for something. Trundling out paranoid hate-mongers like Mr. Gregory does not amount to any sort of atonement whatsoever.
Sincerely,
Bill Gnade
1 comment:
Someone on Fox said something paranoid and unfounded???
You must write a lot of letters :P
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