Don Imus made statements of a similar nature and because of public backlash and media reaction, CBS felt compelled to fire him in order to save face. That it took public outcry and that CBS’s sister company, Viacom, allows much worse to go out over the airwaves, just shows the hypocrisy of the media. Don Imus of course claimed he was not racist either. It is disgraceful that Carnegie Mellon has not taken similar action and fired Touretzky for these statements and misuse of their facilities.

One more point. I find it hard to believe that DeSio just found David Touretzky out of the blue. Only someone with an agenda would resort to using a source with a proven record of despicable, racist, sexist and anti-religious statements.

“Journalists” such as John DeSio need to be held accountable for their sources. If he feels he needs to stoop to that level in order to give a story that negative pitch, then he deserves scrutiny and criticism.

I would like to know if DeSio actually checked as to whether the logs in which Touretzky was caught making the racist statements exist or not. Can Religious Freedom Watch publish sections of the logs and the IP addresses so that we can verify Touretzky is making these statements?