Idiots

The following from today's New York Times Arts Briefly column:

Imus Uproar Continues

Calls for the dismissal of the syndicated radio host Don Imus continued over the weekend despite his apology for calling the players on the Rutgers University women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy-headed ho’s.” Yesterday the Rev. DeForest B. Soaries Jr., senior pastor of the First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens in Somerset, N.J., and a former secretary of state of New Jersey, joined the chorus. At Easter services attended by C. Vivian Stringer, a parishioner who is the head coach of the Rutgers team, he called Mr. Imus’s language “vile and repulsive” and said, “At this point I see firing him as the only acceptable course of action.” He added that if Mr. Imus, above, was not dismissed immediately, African-Americans and others outraged by his remarks should boycott WFAN, the New York outlet for his program, “Imus in the Morning”; CBS Radio, which syndicates his show to more than 70 radio stations; and MSNBC, which carries a television simulcast of the show. On Saturday the Rev. Al Sharpton, who promised to picket WFAN unless Mr. Imus was fired within a week, said, “I accept his apology, just as I want his bosses to accept his resignation.” On Friday after Mr. Imus apologized on the air, WFAN, CBS and MSNBC condemned his original remarks. Mr. Sharpton, referring to the actor who used a racist epithet in a rant during a comedy routine last year, said: “This is not some unemployed actor like Michael Richards. This is an established figure, allowed to use the airwaves for sexist and racist remarks.”

Idiots, and incarnate exemplars of Nietzsche's slave morality.