But is Mike Tyson a human being?  That is the question all women are asking who have become witnesses to the degrading remarks made this past week about Sarah Palin by convicted rapist and former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson.  In an interview on ESPN radio, Tyson degraded Palin during a discussion of her alleged love life 20 years ago or more.  In the most degrading and violent terms, Tyson suggested how Palin should be violated by a black sports figure.    ESPN Las Vegas  failed as a public broadcaster to protect its audience, and to protect a public figure from unfair and inappropriate on-air degradation.  Even in this age when boundaries have all but disappeared, Mike Tyson descended to an unprecedented new low.    (The Kitchen Cabinet.US will NOT reward the perpetrators by sharing the link.)

Would ESPN stations permit Michael Vick to be victimized with sexual attacks on air?  How about a major league baseball player?  How about an ESPN anchorman?  ESPN should have:

 

1) Shut down the interview and gone to commercial, then terminated the segment.

2) Apologized to listeners.

3) Committed never to give a forum to the convicted rapist again.

4) Released a formal apology to Sarah Palin and her husband.

Instead, we hear silence from ESPN Radio and the ugly recording and transcripts from Tyson’s deranged prison remarks are making the rounds in online newspapers becoming a tool for training others to become dangerous.

Sarah Palin is a human being.  A former U.S. Governor and candidate for the Vice Presidency, a wife and mother, and a politician trying to serve her country.  Not all women agree with Sarah Palin on every subject, but we all abhor sick ex-cons who attack women, who celebrate violence to women, and we reject ESPN Radio for not having to class to stop it.

Shame on ESPN Sports affiliate 1100 in Las Vegas for not using the common tool of a “delay” in broadcasting, and for not feeling responsible for protecting the public from Tyson’s  inappropriate and animalistic comments.

Had the remark been aimed at Hilary Clinton, Nancy Pelosi, The First Lady Michele Obama, or say Congresswoman Maxine Waters of the Congressional Black Caucus, it would have been front page news at The New York Times.  But Sarah Palin seemingly deserves no protection.  There seems to be a new license permitting

conservative women in politics to be attacked.  No one deserves  inappropriate sexual remarks, violent ideas, or discourteous comments undeserved by any man or woman.

There should be no double standard.  Women willing to take the national stage and willing to take their place in defending the future of the country  deserve better than to be subjected to such horrific attacks.

Greta Van Sustren at Fox News called Tucker Carlson on the carpet for promoting Tyson’s remarks on his “Daily Caller”  front page this week.   Carlson fights back by reminding Van Sustren that she ALSO hosted Mike Tyson on her own show in the past five months.

 

VAN SUSTREN:  Are you different now than you were 15 years ago?

TYSON:  Yes and no.

VAN SUSTEREN:  Where is the yes and where is the no?

TYSON:  I’m a responsible guy now.  I’m not, I don’t know, I’m not like emotionally driven now. I’m not sexually-driven. I know that stuff, impulses and stuff, none of that stuff move my car anymore. I work on improving myself now, my discipline.

Clearly Tyson is still confused by what’s a “yes” and what’s a “no.”

(Greta, he didn’t belong on YOUR show either.)

 

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