Where's Vick's Accountability and Press Integrity?

Americans are reaching the end of their patience with an increasingly biased and filtered reportage that obscures the real and the true from the public.

Michael Vick, troubled superstar football quarterback of the the Atlanta Falcons, dubbed a "coach killer" by Jim Mora--the father of the man fired by the Falcons for underachieving with Vick, apparently is under investigation for dog-fighting.

Anyone who has ever had a dog as a pet knows that only the most primitive, violent, and heartless of people could ever participate in such a thing. The domesticated canine has been at man's side for thousands of years. Humanity, though, has it's negative side, where hatred thrives over love, where ignorance is touted as intellect, and where prejudices pass as objectivity. Happily, the United States is a country where most people live on the positive side of life. Committing violence is a perceived wrong, as are wanton acts of cruelty to animals.

Yesterday, May 22, on WFAN radio in New York City, radio voice and sports guru Mike Francesca said words to the effect, "let's get serious--the kid makes $15 million; they're not going to sit him down," answering his own hypothetical question of possible punishment for Vick.

I don't mean to tar Mike with this--he is one of my favorites--but I have to put it back at him. Mike, dude, why don't you in Media-Land get serious? THIS GUY DOES NOT DESERVE A PASS!

The irony is that I remain in a perpetual off-tick since WFAN and CBS castrated itself when it chastised and fired Don Imus from the air for his "nappy-headed ho" remark. They took perhaps the greatest drive-time radio show of all time off the air over...three words, and none of them were banned by the FCC. The un-seatbelted Governor of the state of New Jersey at the height of the hysteria over this perceived affront urges his driver beyond the speed limit and is nearly killed in a car wreck on the way to a meeting with the disgraced Don Imus and the offended women Rutgers basketball team, all over...three words.
And not one of them was "nigger."

Where, where, where, is the media now? The Black athlete deserves at least as much scrutiny as the white rest of us, don't you think, from the Black community? Oprah Winfrey, too her credit, had two days of review of the Imus affair, and her show truly tried to examine the hypocrisies of the Imus flap. But I haven't heard from Oprah on this, nor from Reverend Al Sharpton. Where is the backlash from the Black community? Shouldn't there be plenty?

Michael Vick, according WFAN and Francesca, had scores of dogs that he was terrorizing in his mad pits of animal passion and prehistoric sport. Dogs, according to Francesca, were found with all kinds of wounds and evidence of this physical abuse. But what is Franscesca's reflex? "Let's not get too crazy here...the kid makes about $15 million."

Even worse, Francesca wondered aloud, during the drive-time morning show he and a revolving door of pathetically inadequate replacements have shared for the most brain-deadening month of radio the planet Earth has ever heard, "why does a kid with all that have to get into something like that?"

Because, Mr. Francesca, Michael Vick is like that--INSIDE. He was most probably brought up that way. Michael Vick is probably the kind of guy that was brought up in an environment that was hostile to law and order, and was filled with violence and bloodsport. That unseen America is where he used to live.

The bottom line is that Vick gets a pass from the politically correct media and from the crusaders of reverse descrimination because he is a Black man. Do you think that "Pacman" Jones, whose alleged fistic and dental assault on an exotic dancer led to riot and a shooting that left an innocent man paralyzed from the neck down, took enough heat for that involvement? I sure don't.

As for Vick, I will never see him as anything other than an animal abuser and thug. I, for one, don't like people who hurt animals, unless to hunt them for food, and I hope that ain't dogs. You are wrong, Mike Francesca. Michael Vick deserves to be sat down, hard, by the Atlanta Falcons. The National Football League should dust him off but good.

America doesn't care how much you make, Mike Francesca. It shouldn't give you a pass, and Vick doesn't deserve one.

Reverend Al Sharpton? (Tap, tap, tap) Reverend Al? Are you there? And the rest of you media clowns, this is for you: Don't give Michael Vick a pass on his animal abuse habit.
Take it to him, and NOW.