Ebert & Double Standards

Monday, Apr. 16, 2007 - 2:22 a.m.

Here's a bit of good news from long-absent movie critic Roger Ebert.

He says that despite setbacks, he's getting better.

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Ninety-five years ago today, an American expatriate named Harriet Quimby became the first woman to pilot an airplane across the English Channel.

Unfortunately, something very tragic and of considerably larger import and magnitude was in the news, so almost nobody remembers who she was or what she was known for.

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Oh, how cool! One of my favorite TV series of all time is coming out on DVD April 24th!

One Day at a Time!

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Al Sharpton was on Oprah Winfrey to talk about the Imus controversy.

I will never be watching Oprah Winfrey again.

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If rap artists are using certain perjorative ethnic words as poetic expression, then talk show hosts can do it too.

If the Constitution does not protect EVERYBODY -- then it protects NOBODY.

An African American columnist named James Whitlock weighs in on the Imus incident.

Somebody needs to explain to me why two different sets of rules applied for two different colors of skin.

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And oh by the way, now the Imus Ranch really is in danger of closing.

Don't believe me?

Fine. Let's just look up the term "Imus Ranch" in Google News.

Thanks a lot, you pair of race-baiting [blank]y-headed [blank]s.

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I actually heard the Rutgers basketball team compared to Rosa Parks.

Um -- even the white players?...?

...Bueller?

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Okay, kids, there you go. Have a Monday.

And before you crank up and bitch at me again for my stance that Imus shouldn't have been fired, I just need to tell you that no matter what histrionics may appear in the comment section -- I won't change my mind.

It does NOT make me a racist -- so don't even go there.

It just makes me an American citizen who is fucking sick and tired of the double standards applied to different ethnic groups.

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