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4-13-2007 Latest News Update - New Brunswick New Jersey - Rutgers women's basketball coach C. Vivian Stringer said the team had accepted radio host Don Imus' apology. She said he deserves a chance to move on but hopes the furor his racist and sexist insult caused will be a catalyst for change. Imus was in the middle of a two-day radio fundraiser for children's charities when he was dropped by CBS. On Friday, his wife took over the show and also talked about the meeting with the Rutgers players. "They gave us the opportunity to listen to what they had to say and why they're hurting and how awful this is," author Deirdre Imus said. "He feels awful," she said of her husband. "He asked them, 'I want to know the pain I caused, and I want to know how to fix this and change this." Deirdre Imus also said that the Rutgers players have been receiving hate e-mail, and she demanded that it stop. She told listeners "if you must send e-mail, send it to my husband," not the team. "I have to say that these women are unbelievably courageous and beautiful women," she said.
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April 12/2007 News Update - CBS Radio has fired Don Imus. The Imus radio show originated from WFAN-AM in New York City and is syndicated nationally by Westwood One, both of which are managed by CBS Corp.

April 11/2007News Update - MSNBC terminated its TV simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program, responding to growing outrage over the radio host’s comedy comment that the Rutgers women’s basketball team looked like "nappy haired hos". The network’s decision came after a growing list of sponsors including American Express, Staples, Procter & Gamble and General Motors said they were pulling ads from Imus’ show. It's rumored that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson strong armed the advertisers. Sen. Barack Hussein Obama appeared on the MSNBC program "Hardball," and he said Imus should be fired. The reporter did not question him on the rap hip hop music culture that insults black women.

( Editorial - Don Imus was foolish to apologize on Sharpton's Radio Show. Sharpton admits that Tawana Brawley was a hoax and he admits he was the force behind the violence at Freddy’s Fashion Mart. Imus gets burned for saying what black men say all the time. Why don't the "race hustlers" Sharpton and Jackson go after the explicit lyrics and monologues that pass as entertainment in the Hip Hop world? In almost any rap album on the market today all their women are n******, bitches, hos and the subject of ridicule and sexual abuse. Why are Sharpton and Jackson so silent on the Duke Lacrosse Players acquittals? They were quick to condemn and should be made to apologize. Also, there should be diversity training for any "non-white" who uses the word CRACKER, even if used when ordering soup. Empty barrels still make the most noise in the Liberal News Media
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson extort millions from brand name companies while Don Imus contributes millions of his own money to worthy causes. The Imus family’s primary philanthropic endeavor is the Imus Ranch for kids with terminal cancer and other blood afflictions. located in Ribera New Mexico.)

DON IMUS apologizes on the air - He said: "I want to take a moment to apologize for an insensitive and ill-conceived remark we made the other morning regarding the Rutgers women's basketball team. It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry."

The cantankerous Imus, once named one of the 25 Most Influential People in America by Time magazine and a member of the National Broadcasters Hall of Fame, issued repeated apologies as protests intensified. But it wasn't enough as everyone from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Oprah Winfrey joined the criticism.

The Rev. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson met with Moonves on Thursday to demand Imus' removal, promising a rally outside CBS headquarters Saturday and an effort to persuade more advertisers to defect.

Jackson called the firing "a victory for public decency. No one should use the public airwaves to transmit racial or sexual degradation."

Said Sharpton: "He says he wants to be forgiven. I hope he continues in that process. But we cannot afford a precedent established that the airways can commercialize and mainstream sexism and racism."

Losing Imus will be a financial hit to CBS Radio, which also suffered when Howard Stern departed for satellite radio. The program earns about $15 million in annual revenue for CBS, which owns Imus' home radio station WFAN-AM and manages Westwood One, the company that syndicates the show nationally.

Imus has complained bitterly about a lack of support from one black politician, Harold Ford Jr., even though he strongly backed Ford's campaign for Senate in Tennessee last year. Ford, now head of the Democratic Leadership Council, said Thursday he'll leave it to others to decide Imus' future.

"I don't want to be viewed as piling on right now because Don Imus is a good friend and a decent man," Ford said. "However, he did a reprehensible thing."

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