Can you imagine how (justifiably) outraged we would all be if someone made remarks like these about, well, just about anyone else?
DON IMUS: They're (the Palestinians) eating dirt and that fat pig wife of his is living in Paris.COLLEAGUE: They're all brainwashed, though. That's what it is. And they're stupid to begin with, but they're brainwashed now. Stinking animals. They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill 'em all right now.
IMUS: Well, the problem is we have (reporter) Andrea (Mitchell) there; we don't want anything to happen to her.
COLLEAGUE: Oh, she's got to get out. Andrea, get out and then drop the bomb and kill everybody.
Sorry. There's simply no excuse.
I don't like Don Imus. So I don't watch Don Imus. But this is beyond the pale. Hate speech is hate speech, even if it's directed against people I don't find particularly admirable. We should be condemning this crap with loud voices. Even if, on some occasions, some of us do quietly allow such thoughts to slip through our own minds.
Oh, and
Shabbat Shalom.
