Webloggin » Shame on NBC and Steve Capas

Wasn’t it just a week ago that Steve Capas, President of NBC News, was subjecting everyone to sanctimonious, self-congratulatory statements about his decision to fire Don Imus for his unfortunate comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team? At the time, he said “When people who work for me come to me and say ‘this could be my daughter,’ I have to do something.” Too bad none of the parents of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre work for NBC because if they had, perhaps Mr. Capas would have made the responsible decision not to air the multi-media manifesto of the mass murderer, Seung-Hui Cho. Instead, this neutered, ratings-obsessed weasel not only decided that Mr. Cho’s insane ravings should get wall-to-wall coverage on his network, but also that he should cop the same pompous attitude about his disgraceful decision.

So proud of yourself, aren’t you, Mr. Kapas? Pathetic.

We made a decision not to air any of the audio from the Cho manifesto on the show tonight. It’s bad enough that we aired Andy Rooney’s incomprehensible babbling a couple of weeks ago, and John Kerry’s bizarre stream of consciousness brain dump about global warming last week. Enough is enough.

This guy had to be removed from MS-NBC for his offensive words.