Unfortunately MSNBC and CBS didn't wait until after the college girls had their opportunity to meet with Imus to see if they'd accept his apology. If they had waited, possibly with the now accepted apology by the Rutgers Players and Coach, the advertisers would too have reconsidered and Imus could have been given another chance. That would have been a far more positive way for all of this to have ended.
Unfortunately for Imus, the so called Rev's Sharpton and Jackson aren't as forgiving as the actually people who were scorned by his words. It seems that those lady athletes of the hardwood (basketball court for those in Rio Linda) have just preached a sermon on forgiveness to the two preachers. Unfortunately, I doubt that either Sharpton or Jackson are paying attention to that lesson, but rather are basking in their "glory" and of "the power they seem to posses" of having slain a giant who shot off his mouth, without thinking.
Interesting how they seem ready to dish out the "letter of the law" to others, but want the "spirit of the law" to apply to them when they stumble. What a double standard. That certainly was not the Standard Jesus spoke of. He mentions how we are not to ignore the log that's in our eye while making a big deal about the splinter that's in the other person's eye. It seems to me that the two reverends have got it backwards.
These sorts of situations give people the opportunity to show how much class they have. The Rutgers Players have done quite well in being a class act in spite of the hurt they suffered, where as the two men who are supposed to be bringing the Godly Love of Christ to the world (they claim to be reverends) once again have shown a real lack of class.
