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"..Once you begin apologizing, you can never stop, and it will never be enough for some. So he has allowed himself to be put under the thumb of the preacher-pimps and race cops who make a living off the misery and discontent of the black bourgeoisie who believe it is their responsibility to decide when and how much black people should be offended by the white man's ignorance..."

An open letter to the Rev. Jesse Jackson, re: Don Imus Frankly, Jesse, I don’t give a damn what Imus said now. Frankly, Jesse, I’m fed up with the double standard that’s been imposed in America for the last twenty years. And I’m not talking about the old double standard whereby randy guys such as you were considered cool when you bedded down and impregnated some female not your wife and the poor female was considered a tramp. Frankly, Jesse, I’m also fed up with the fact you, and Reverend Al, and Reverend Wright, and a slew of other Black...

NEW YORK -- Just months after returning to the airwaves with a pledge to mend the wounds caused by his racist and sexist comment about a women's basketball team, Don Imus is again drawing fire for injecting race into his radio show. During an on-air conversation Monday about the arrests of suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback Adam Jones, Imus asked, "What color is he?" Told by sports announcer Warner Wolf that Jones, who used to be nicknamed Pacman, is "African-American," Imus responded: "There you go. Now we know."

Again? Race Comment 'Disturbs' Sharpton By STEVE FINK, WCBSTV.COM NEW YORK (CBS) ― It appears "shock jock" Don Imus may not have learned his lesson following last year's "nappy-headed ho" debacle. In an audio file of the Monday, June 23, edition of his talk radio program, "Imus In The Morning," heard in New York on WABC-AM, Imus made what some consider a questionable comment during a discussion about oft-troubled NFL player Adam "Pacman" Jones, who wants to drop his nickname. When Imus' co-host Turner Wolf informed Imus that the suspended Dallas Cowboys cornerback had been arrested a slew of times...

ESPN.com columnist Jemele Hill was suspended yesterday after sparking outrage by comparing rooting for the Boston Celtics [team stats] to Adolf Hitler and nuclear war. “Jemele has been relieved of her writing and on-air responsibilities for a period of time to reflect on the impact of her words,” ESPN spokesman Paul Melvin said in an e-mailed statement yesterday. Yesterday, Hill amplified on her earlier apology for writing, “Rooting for the Celtics is like saying Hitler was a victim. It’s like hoping Gorbachev would get to the blinking red button before Reagan.”

"We're the only local news/talk station here in NYC in the morning," said John Gambling. Alluding to Imus and WABC's 5 a.m. host Curtis Sliwa, he cracked, "The guy with the cowboy hat and the guy with the beret are going to have to watch their backs." Gambling said, not for the first time, that he has little use for Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama and that John McCain is "not the candidate I would put together if it were up to me." Gambling spent the last eight years at WABC (770 AM), after WOR startled him in 2000 by...

The station of Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity. Write to Phil Boyce, WABC Program Manager and let him know what you think. WABC webmaster: webmaster@wabcradio.com Bill Maher is a bigot and an anti-Catholic. His HBO bit was offensive and insulting to Catholics. Maher's hatred of all things Catholic is well known and documented. Maher's popularity and following as a "comedian" are dismal. Talk show host Don Imus demonstrated to the WABC listening audience that he concurs with the offensive sentiment of Maher when he broadcast Maher's entire anti-Catholic HBO bit during the 7 and 8:00 time slots on his show...

Sean Hannity video.

Barack Obama had been a presidential candidate for more than a year before he outright repudiated his long-time pastor for racially charged, anti-U.S. sermons. But when talk show host Don Imus was in hot water 11 months ago for racially insensitive comments, Obama was the first candidate to call for his firing.

Barack Obama had been a presidential candidate for more than a year before he outright repudiated his long-time pastor for racially charged, anti-U.S. sermons. But when talk show host Don Imus was in hot water 11 months ago for racially insensitive comments, Obama was the first candidate to call for his firing. When asked about the different responses to his pastor and to Imus, Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor questioned the premise of the comparison and defended Obama’s response in each case. “He spoke out both times, so it’s entirely consistent,” he told FOXNews.com Tuesday. Obama — who in a major...

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This story’s finished absent Hillary’s oppo research team handing some lucky reporter video of Obama nodding along in church to one of Rev. Jeremiah’s greatest hits, so enjoy the last few hours of it while you can. Ace is after me to link the video of Wright expounding on 9/11, as it really does need to be seen to be believed. Here you go. I don’t know what the big deal is; who among us hasn’t heard a close personal friend of 20 years’ standing wax rapturous about jetliners plowing into the World Trade Center? I was with a grade-school...

Obama: Fire Imus Obama First White House Contender to Call for Imus' Firing Over Racial Slur"I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude."

In an interview with ABC News Wednesday afternoon, Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., called for the firing of talk radio host Don Imus. Obama said he would never again appear on Imus' show, which is broadcast on CBS Radio and MSNBC television. "I understand MSNBC has suspended Mr. Imus," Obama told ABC News, "but I would also say that there's nobody on my staff who would still be working for me if they made a comment like that about anybody of any ethnic group. And I would hope that NBC ends up having that same attitude." Top Politics stories Obama said...

Don Imus got into an animated discussion this morning about former President Bill Clinton's comparison of Obama's South Carolina primary victory over Senator Clinton to Jesse Jackson. ''If I had made that comparison to Jesse Jackson,'' I have a feeling that I'd be talking to Al Sharpton again,'' Imus told Michael Graham of Boston's WTKK. (image via AP via ABCNews)

Just heard Don Imus, who was attempting to explain why he wasn’t being sarcastic when he said “At least [George Bush] did something right” because we have not been attacked since 2001. One of his sidekicks quipped, with genuine sarcasm, that, “The Japanese haven’t attacked us since 1941, so he’s really doing something right.” Of course, the last time the Japanese attacked us was in 1945, not 1941, but let’s not quibble about a few years. The real question is why the Japanese haven’t attacked us, or anybody else, since that time. The answer is, it should be unnecessary to...

Not since the extermination of the Smurfs or the brutal murder of Xenia the Warrior Princess by testosterone-poisoned male FAR RIGHT WING Japanese-identified militarists/nationalists "warriors" - i.e. "Samurai" - has there been a being-rights crisis of this magnitude.

Returning to the airwaves this morning after a seven-month exile, Don Imus seemed intent on demonstrating two things. First, that he was unequivocally contrite concerning the comments he had made about the Rutgers University women's basketball players that resulted in his firing. Second, his contrition notwithstanding, he wasn't going to change his irreverent ways when it came to the country's political leaders. To prove his iconoclastic bona fides, Imus concluded his monologue by observing "Dick Cheney is still a war criminal, and Hillary Clinton is still Satan." Listen to audio here [with apologies for the mediocre sound quality.] But before...

Don Imus returned to the air waves this morning with a lengthy explanation of his side of the events that took place last April. He spoke of the meeting he had with the Rutger's women's basketball team and the things that he and they discussed. Imus also spoke of how the media said, at the time, that they were going to begin a dialog about race relations and quipped, "I must have missed that." He then pledged to do the media's work for them by using his program as a platform for such a dialog. Imus then ended the first...

Political frontrunners often get overly cautious. Not so for Iowa frontrunner Mike Huckabee, who is waiting just 24 hours to be a guest on radio shock jock Don Imus's new show. Imus, who was forced to resign after referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team as a bunch of "nappy headed hos," starts his new nationally syndicated show on Monday on WABC-AM. On Tuesday morning, Huckabee appears as a guest. According to Huckabee's schedule, he will do a telephone interview at 7:30 a.m. central time. He is spending Monday and Tuesday campaigning in Iowa, where a new Des Moines Register...

NEW YORK (AP) — Will Don Imus be defiant or contrite? Will he mock his skeptics while making his triumphant return to radio Monday. Or will he muzzle his mouth? "That question is part of the drama of his reemergence," said Michael Harrison, publisher of Talkers magazine, an industry trade journal. "Imus faces some choices." Imus isn't talking, yet, but it's safe to say radio's best-known curmudgeon will have lots to say when his show kicks off at 6 a.m. EST Monday on WABC-AM and other Citadel Broadcasting Corp. stations around the country, ending his nearly eight-month banishment from the...

Dear Sir/Madam: I am sure that MSNBC is facing a firestorm of criticism over Erin Burnett's characterization of the President of the United States as a "monkey". This letter is sent in order to join the chorus of protest over this vile, degrading slur directed at the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the United States during wartime. Her half-hearted "apology" which she delivered recently was completely inadequate to remedy this situation. If any news reporter said the same thing about any Democrat, they would be gone yesterday. I am demanding that Erin Burnett be fired, immediately. The head of...

ALL those politically correct types who piled on last April when Don Imus went down for making his bad "nappy-headed ho's" joke had better duck and cover on Monday, when the I-Man goes back to work on WABC Radio. "I think he will have some scores to settle," the station's general manager, Phil Boyce, told Page Six yesterday. It is doubtful Imus will ever forgive CBS chief Les Moonves, who fired him, or regular guest Tim Russert, the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," who was "an invisible man" while Imus was under attack. Private eye Bo Dietl, who will...

How Hillary's Hit Man Got Imus By Cliff Kincaid | April 17, 2007 In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of one of Hillary's major political enemies in the media. Do you think something is fishy about the Don Imus affair? Why was the boom lowered on him at this time? The answer may have something to do with his main accuser, the Media Matters group, which is emerging as a front organization for Senator Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and has extensive ties to the national Democratic Party. In firing Imus, NBC News and CBS got rid of...

Don Imus is coming back, and Hillary will not be happy. It is Hillary's shill organization, MEDIA MATTERS, that started Don's troubles and got him canned. I expect him to absolutely rip Hillary.

*Damon Wayans is the second comedian to publicly agree with Don Imus in his assessment of the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hoes." During a visit to "The View" on Wednesday, Wayans was asked his thoughts about the shock jock, who was fired by CBS in April after making the offensive comment, and recently hired by a rival radio station. "Freedom of speech, what happened to that? What happened to expressing yourself?" said Wayans, questioning the outrage that led to Imus' dismissal. Wayans later added: "At least I know where he stands. And you know what? When he...

Associated Press Shock Jock Don Imus to Return to Radio on Dec. 3 After Firing for Racist Remark Shock jock Don Imus will return to the airwaves Dec. 3 after eight months of a well-paid hiatus brought about by a racist and sexist remark that once seemed certain to permanently silence his broadcasting career. Citadel Broadcasting Corp. made the announcement Thursday, confirming long-rumored reports that Imus was coming back to morning drive time on New York-based WABC-AM. The cantankerous Imus was fired April 12 by CBS Radio amid a firestorm of controversy over his "nappy-headed hos" remark about the Rutgers...

The Rev. Al Sharpton chastised Las Vegas-based Citadel Broadcasting during a live "Today" interview, (for hiring Don Imus) in which Sharpton said, "We'll have to see where the arrangements with Citadel are in terms of the contract and whether there's a safeguard" regarding Imus. But, he added, "We've always said he has a right to work, but we've always said we had a right not to support advertisers who support people who offend us. "If they don't meet [with the National Association of Black Journalists], we can only assume they have a reason for not being forthcoming. Why wouldn't they...

Holy crap! Alan Colmes has just taken some woman from NOW and some guy from the NABJ (Nat'l Association of Black Journalists) to task for opposing the return of Don Imus to radio!Colmes is arguing that these people need to let the free market work!My beeber is officially stuned.

If Matt Drudge is correct, the briefly excommunicated Don Imus will not only be back on the radio in December, but has also been hired by the leading talk radio station in the nation. Deliciously, Imus is "particularly incensed by Senator Hillary Clinton's ‘shameless exploitation' of the Rutgers situation." Of course, it is safe to assume Imus is fully aware the group that disseminated transcripts of his broadcast concerning the Rutgers women's basketball team, Media Matters for America, is an organization that Clinton admitted in August she "helped start and support." The exclusive posted at the Drudge Report early Monday...

The National Association of Black Journalists urges Citadel Broadcasting chief executive Farid Suleman and Fox News Chairman Roger Ailes to halt negotiations to return former radio personality Don Imus to the radio and television broadcast airwaves. Recent reports that Imus is in informal talks with Fox Chairman Roger Ailes and is finalizing contractual details with Citadel Broadcasting are unimaginable. Imus was fired last April after the shock jock called members of the Rutgers women's basketball team 'nappy-headed ho's.' "NABJ remains outraged after the racially inflammatory insults made by Don Imus last spring. He used his free speech to broadcast hate...

Newsday now predicts an Imus debut on WABC around December 3. Newsday writer Neil Best forecasts that a deal will be announced “by the end of the week” – and Curtis Sliwa at WABC tells him he hasn’t heard anything from Citadel/ABC about any changes. (But Curtis has been around the business a long time now.)* Newsday also says most of Don’s “Imus in the Morning” cast will come along, though it’s not clear what Bernard McGuirk’s role might be. Off-air, for now? How will advertisers greet the I-Man’s return? Some very big advertisers put the proverbial 10-foot pole between...

Don Imus appears to be heading back to the airwaves. Less than six months after his long-running radio program was terminated in an uproar over a racial remark, the sharp-tongued host has come to financial terms with one of the nation's top broadcasting companies. Imus is now assembling his broadcast team, which in light of the controversy is likely to include a black panelist. Longtime sidekick Charles McCord plans to return, and producer Bernard McGuirk -- who often made controversial remarks and was involved in the exchange about the Rutgers team -- would be retained in an off-air role.

Imus fans: Your wait is almost over! Citadel Broadcasting is close to finalizing a contract with Don Imus that would bring the controversial radio host back to the airwaves, a person familiar with the discussions said Tuesday. It was not immediately clear from where Imus would be heard, but Citadel owns WABC in New York, making its morning slot a logical destination. It also owns WPLJ-FM. Currently the ABC spot is occupied by Ron Kuby and Curtis Sliwa. Citadel and its chief executive, Farid Suleman, have been rumored to be interested in Imus for months, and WABC long has been...

Hi John, When Don Imus bit the dust, I did a post on Free Republic which asked rhetorically whether Imus' downfall was a Hillary hit job. Most folks doubted my theory, because the issue came to be defined by race AND because Imus was not necessarily a conservative. But Imus WAS a Hillary critic, and a harsh one at that, with a huge megaphone. It wasn't too far-fetched to see him supporting Obama, and later Rudy over Hillary. When I learned that Media Matters had fanned the flames that led to Imus' downfall, Hillary immediately came to mind, although the...

"...the idea that we're going to keep incarcerating, keep incarcerating...pretty soon we're not going have a young African-American male population in America. They're all going to be in prison or dead, one of the two"

"Chicken & Waffles": Was This Olbermann's Imus Moment?

A Rutgers University basketball player on Tuesday withdrew a slander and defamation lawsuit she had filed against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, after the shock jock called the team "nappy headed hos." Kia Vaughn had contended in the lawsuit filed in August in New York state Supreme Court that the comments made by Imus had damaged her reputation. The lawsuit also named various media outlets that broadcast Imus' show. Marti McKenzie, a spokeswoman for Vaughn's attorney, Richard Ancowitz, said in a statement that Vaughn had chosen to focus on her education at New Jersey's Rutgers University as a...

Today’s pop quiz question is… “Who is Kia Vaughn?” That’s an easy one, folks. So easy, I’m not giving out any prizes for the correct answer, so don’t even bother calling in. Everyone knows who Kia Vaughn is. For you dunderheads out there, I’ll give you some lifelines. Remember the whole Don Imus thing? He’s on the radio the day after the NCAA basketball tournament, calls the Rutgers women’s basketball team a bunch of “nappy headed hos”, apologized to Al Sharpton, apologized to the Rutgers women’s basketball team who accepted the apology, he lost his job at MSNBC, lost his...

Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating with WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there, according to CBS and a person familiar with the negotiations. Imus and CBS Radio "have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding the Imus radio program on CBS," the network said in a statement Tuesday. The terms of the settlement will not be disclosed, according to the CBS statement. The settlement pre-empts the dismissed radio personality's threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit.

<--snip--> More surprisingly though comes news now about why Imus suddenly turned up on Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show so quickly after his firing — and did a lot of press that some people feel harmed him and fed the controversy. Some feel all those media appearances led to Imus’ dismissal. Now I’m told that Imus was coaxed into doing them by NBC senior vice president Phil Griffin. Imus, sources say, wanted to just to apologize to the Rutgers women’s basketball team he offended and leave it at that. In fact, they say, he apologized to the team several times...

NEW YORK -- On the same day Don Imus settled a lawsuit with CBS Radio after being fired for making sexist and racist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, his legal troubles with one of the players began. Kia Vaughn filed a slander and defamation of character lawsuit Tuesday in state Supreme Court in the Bronx the same day Imus settled with CBS Radio in a deal that pre-empts his threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS. Vaughn's lawsuit, believed to be the first by a player in the case, says Imus and his former co-host Bernard McGuirk along...

Don Imus is facing his first lawsuit from a player on the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. Kia Vaughn, star center for the Rutgers Women's Basketball team, has filed a lawsuit against Imus for libel, slander and defamation. Vaughn is asking for monetary damages of an unspecified amount. "This is a lawsuit in order to restore the good name and reputation of my client, Kia Vaughn," said her attorney, Richard Ancowitz, in an exclusive interview with the ABC News Law & Justice Unit. Today's suit refers to terms used by Imus April 4 -- including referring to women on the team...

The I-man and the Eye net have finally ironed out their differences. The settlement short-circuits the $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit Don Imus has been threatening in the wake of his April firing for controversial racial and sexual remarks.

**Exclusive** Radio host Don Imus has agreed to settle with CBS for $20 million, and a non disparaging clause, legal sources claim. The move opens the possibility Imus will soon return to the airwaves -- on WABC in New York! Developing...

Who would have thought that a derogatory comment from a white shock jock would set the priorities for black America. Reaction to Don Imus' outburst aimed at the Rutgers women's basketball team has somehow morphed into an ongoing national conversation about who should or shouldn't use the n-word, the decline of black culture and the pervasive influence of hip-hop music. I don't get it. Just as all young whites don't take behavioral cues from Britney Spears, Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton, black youths aren't controlled by Jay-Z, 50 Cent, Nelly and other hip-hoppers. If anything, these artists reflect the materialistic,...

Radio talker Don Imus, exiled from the airwaves in April after making remarks many saw as racist, will return to the microphone as early as September, industry analysts and observers tell NewsMax — but not all agree that the return will be triumphal. The industry has been rife with rumors since Imus sidekick Bo Dietl's announcement on an Albany radio show, and picked up by the New York Post, that an Imus comeback was in the works for this September. But experts explain to NewsMax that events are moving so quickly that the "I-Man" will be back in his broadcast...

Controversial radio host Don Imus is considering a return to the airwaves -- as early as this coming January, the DRUDGE REPORT has learned. Legal issues pending with CBS must first be resolved before any dramatic return to the airwaves. 'We're going to see Don back in front of a microphone for the '08 election," said a top source close to Imus. The source would not reveal where Imus would make his comeback. A pre-4th of July report by the NEW YORK POST fueled speculation of an Imus return. Developing...