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04-09-2007, 10:03 AM
Okay did you know Al Sharpton had a "Nationally"
Syndicated Radio Show? I didn't.
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Imus Controversy
* Video: Imus' Monday Comments
* Video: Watch Friday's Apology
* Video: Hear Controversial Remarks
* Survey: Shoud Imus Be Punished?
* Story: Rutgers Pastor Calls For Imus To Be Fired
* Story: Imus Apologizes For Controversial Comments About Rutgers Players
Imus: 'I've Learned' From Remark About Rutgers Team
Imus To Appear On Al Sharpton's Radio Show
POSTED: 7:12 am EDT April 9, 2007
UPDATED: 10:14 am EDT April 9, 2007
NEW YORK -- Calling himself "a good person" who made a bad mistake, radio host Don Imus said Monday he would check his notorious acid tongue after being lambasted for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
"Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of everybody, because some people don't deserve it," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday morning. "And because the climate on this program has been what it's been for 30 years doesn't mean it's going to be what it's been for the next five years or whatever."
Imus said he was embarrassed by the remarks, in which he referred to members of the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos." He said he had made the comments in the course of "trying to be funny," but he was not trying to excuse them.
"I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice," he said.
He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a working cattle ranch for children with cancer and blood disorders in Ribera, N.M. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he added.
"I'm not a white man who doesn't know any African-Americans," he said.
Imus said he hoped to meet the Rutgers players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.
"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.
Sharpton and the MSNBC television network announced Sunday that Imus would appear Monday on "The Al Sharpton Show," a nationally syndicated radio program.
"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.
Imus made the now infamous remark during his show Wednesday.
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ... ."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.
Jackson said Sunday his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio -- Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM -- said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."
© 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I had just said it about Bush he would be okay.
Syndicated Radio Show? I didn't.
wnbc.com
More
Imus Controversy
* Video: Imus' Monday Comments
* Video: Watch Friday's Apology
* Video: Hear Controversial Remarks
* Survey: Shoud Imus Be Punished?
* Story: Rutgers Pastor Calls For Imus To Be Fired
* Story: Imus Apologizes For Controversial Comments About Rutgers Players
Imus: 'I've Learned' From Remark About Rutgers Team
Imus To Appear On Al Sharpton's Radio Show
POSTED: 7:12 am EDT April 9, 2007
UPDATED: 10:14 am EDT April 9, 2007
NEW YORK -- Calling himself "a good person" who made a bad mistake, radio host Don Imus said Monday he would check his notorious acid tongue after being lambasted for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.
"Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of everybody, because some people don't deserve it," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday morning. "And because the climate on this program has been what it's been for 30 years doesn't mean it's going to be what it's been for the next five years or whatever."
Imus said he was embarrassed by the remarks, in which he referred to members of the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos." He said he had made the comments in the course of "trying to be funny," but he was not trying to excuse them.
"I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice," he said.
He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a working cattle ranch for children with cancer and blood disorders in Ribera, N.M. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he added.
"I'm not a white man who doesn't know any African-Americans," he said.
Imus said he hoped to meet the Rutgers players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.
"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.
Sharpton and the MSNBC television network announced Sunday that Imus would appear Monday on "The Al Sharpton Show," a nationally syndicated radio program.
"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."
Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.
Imus made the now infamous remark during his show Wednesday.
The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.
"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos ... ."
"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.
"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.
Imus apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.
Jackson said Sunday his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.
James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."
Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.
Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio -- Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM -- said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."
© 2007 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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I had just said it about Bush he would be okay.