Media companies support offensive “ho” language routinely. They broadcast it on music stations that play popular music and profit from it by producing music content of rap and heavy metal artists.

There is a double standard in media companies like CBS, NBC, MSNBC, Universal, the record companies and among Hollywood and New York media executives like David Geffen.

"There has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society," CBS President and Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said in announcing the decision (to fire Don Imus).

Black rap “artists” routinely use offensive and violence-inciting language, language which is racist and derogatory to women. The term “ho,” a street pronunciation of whore, is the poster child for the cultural achievements of rap music. It is black male rappers who have popularized this language.

Without doing the research (and I am hoping someone like the Media Research Center will do so), I am sure that these media companies and executives have many rap artists in their portfolio of material and are making money off of this very same language which CEO Moonves claims to deplore. Sean Hannity has divulged that no less a feminist and friend of African-Americans than Hillary Clinton received $800,000 from a fund raising party four weeks ago at the home of a rap producer and poet who wrote a single song with 24 uses of the n word.

Why are the media companies so irresponsible on this and why is Don Imus, who has made outrageous comments every day for 30 years taking the “rap”? Why is there a double standard among the liberal media crowd and black activists? Let’s deal with the black rappers too. I’m sure the young women whom Mr. Moonves is so worried about listen to a lot more rap music than they listen to Imus in the Morning. If their sensitive ears can’t take him, why can they take the music on the airwaves and on the cds that is equally offensive, no, more so. Please mainstream media, owners of nasty cd producers, how about some investigation into your own “sins”?