Dear Mr. Williams, I am glad that you got through this week because it was an emotional week in the news division. Richard's story on the bombing at the Parliament building shows how security needs to be increased and improved in the Green Zone. The report by Mike Taibbi about the young soldier on his first deployment to Iraq was very touching. Seeing him talking on the phone to his wife and child was heartwarming. May all the soldiers return home safely. Stay safe to all that are in that region! Have a good weekend and remember your umbrella Mr. Williams! See you on Nightly News Monday!

More and more I am just irate over the handling of the Imus situation. The air of hypocrisy and double standards couldn't be worse right now.

Imus makes nasty comments towards women of color and it's off with his head.

Sharpton & Jackson make derogatory comments towards Jewish & White people, yet no public retribution.

Ann Coulter calls former Sen. John Edwards a "faggot" and no public outcry about his personal dignity in the matter.

Glenn Beck of CNN makes nasty comments about Hillary and other racial slurs, no one cared. When Glenn Beck stated on TV in Sept. 2005 that "And all we’re hearing about, are the people in New Orleans. Those are the only ones we’re seeing on television are the scumbags.” --no on cried out for the value and worth of the New Orleans residents.

Why does the Hill newspaper in D.C. continue to publish works of David Cameron when in 1985 he told a CPAC audience that the “extermination of homosexuals” might be needed in the next three to four years".
Why wasn't the dignity of gay people upheld just like the dignity of the Rutgers Women's basketball team.

Where is the justice! Where is the sense of common application of values. The Imus situation and its aftermath is all what is wrong with the moral compass of America. Instead of learning from Imus' horrible remarks, we are making the issue about him, and him alone. If MSNBC fired Imus, shouldn't Beck, Coulter and others follow!

What irks me, is that we pick and choose the moral values we think are right and apply them subjectively. Sorry, but that isn't how it works. Why are some group of people more valued than others?

Man, Women, child, Black, White, short, tall, skinny, Homosexual or Heterosexual---everyone should be treated, valued and protected equally. Mean spirited and degrading comments to anyone shouldn't be tolerated, we shouldn't be picking and chosing which one's we like and don't like---that's hypocrisy!

Tonight's news reminds me a little about the old saying concerning "for lack of a shoe, the horse was lost" and so forth. So now, the governor of New Jersey lies seriously injored following an automobile accident. He is injored while on his way to a meetting involving a no account shock jock appologizing for racist comments. How do you figure. We don't need Imus but the people of New Jersey need their governor.