Quote Originally Posted by Spino
Like Trent Lott Imus was a fool to apologize, let alone agree to go on Sharpton's turf and turn this into a pop culture 'incident'. A quick comeback or tirade using a 'voice of reason' could have diffused the entire situation and made Sharpton look like a bigger phony and fool than he already is. Imus apologizing just made things worse.
Agreed. For some reason, when I caught Imus apologizing on the nightly news, and I saw the predatory gleam in Sharpton's eyes, all I could picture was buckets of chum being tossed to a shark. Apologizing to Sharpton just feeds the frenzy.