Don Imus of Fox News apologizes to the Satanic Temple for comments suggesting their members "should be shot." Wait, is this a trick?

Courtesy of Philly.com:  

Radio personality Don Imus and his program's executive producer emphatically apologized to a group of Satanists on Imus' show Tuesday morning for the producer advocating the group "should be shot" during an on-air segment last Thursday. 

The apologies by Imus and producer Bernard McGuirk came one day after philly.com and other news websites reported that a group called The Satanic Temple, which has proposed erecting a statue of Satan outside the Oklahoma Statehouse, demanded an apology from McGuirk. 

"They should be able to put the statue up and then they should be shot right next to it," the commentator, Bernard McGuirk, said on the Imus in the Morning show that aired last Thursday. "And then we take it down." 

The group also demanded a response from Fox Business, which airs the show on the television channel each morning. 

McGuirk, who made the initial remarks during a segment with Imus called "Mensa Meeting," also retracted his comments that attributed Satanism to evil. 

"My comments were rooted in ignorance. Satanists, they do not promote evil, a la Charles Manson or Hitler," McGuirk said. "Regardless, I don’t want to see anyone shot. That’s the truth of the matter. So I do apologize unequivocally." 

If I were a member of the Satanic Temple (And I'm not despite what others might think) I would not hold my breath waiting for Fox Business to apologize to them. 

However having said that I am pretty impressed that Imus and this McGuirk guy did so.

Of course in the case of Imus he has already been burned once by comments he made back in 2007, when he referred to the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team as "nappy-headed hos."

Well good for the Satanic Temple for standing up for themselves and getting an actual apology from somebody associated With Fox. And you thought simply walking on water was miraculous.

President Obama calls Sandra Fluke, victim of horrible smear campaign by Rush Limgaugh, to offer his support.

Once again I am impressed with our President's sheer humanity.

Good for him for calling Sandra Fluke and telling her that her parents should be proud of her.  I have little doubt that they are indeed proud of her.

On the other hand Limbaugh's day is going from bad to worse.

He is hemorrhaging advertisers, while there is an organized effort to boycott those who remain with him.

His name is being used to paint Republican presidential candidates Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum as cowards and misogynists for  not calling him out over his disgusting remarks.

And even Greta Van Susteren has been singled out by Mediaite as a hypocrite for staying silent on the issue when she has a long history of going after liberals and others for any perceived sexist remarks on THEIR part.

Limbaugh, who many believe is essentially in charge of the Republican party these days, is causing the kind of damage to his party that President Obama and the leaders of the DNC could only dream of doing on their own.

In the past individuals who have said far less inflammatory things on the air, like Don Imus, Ed Schultz, and David Shuster, were suspended or their remarks or lost their jobs altogether.

So one must ask, is there a double standard when it comes to Rush Limbaugh? Is EVERYBODY too afraid of his fat ass to fire him or demand that he be suspended?

 This piece of shit is a fucking bully and he needs to be taught that he cannot abuse people like this and get away with it.  Perhaps if he loses enough advertisers Clear Channel will finally get the message that his kind of hateful rhetoric is just not welcome in Barack Obama's America.

(I added that last part just to REALLY piss off the racists!)