I don't see what purpose it served to put such a crude, vile mannered rapper with one of music's most adored and influential people. I think it was all just a ploy to get higher ratings. Andy - San Jose Elton and Eminem's performance shouldn't have taken place. I still don't like Eminem, and now I don't like Elton. I agree with what Moby said.
Ethics is more important than art.
We should not support a person who is misogynist and homophobic. Eminem sends a message that it is okay to hate women and GLBT people. While Eminem has every right to spout and profit from his homophobic and misogynistic lyrics, we have every right to condemn those lyrics and protest those who would honor those lyrics as works of art. Obviously gays and women don't rate the same respect in Eminem's universe. For that hypocrisy he should be condemned and boycotted.