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Good thing I got out of radio when I did...

CBS Fires Don Imus Over Racial Slur

(CBS/AP) CBS announced Thursday its decision to cease broadcasting the Imus in the Morning radio program, effective immediately, on a permanent basis.

Imus initially was suspended for two weeks for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" on the air last week, but outrage continued to grow and advertisers bolted from his programs.

Earlier Thursday, Imus had raised nearly $1 million in the first five hours of his annual radio charity fundraiser.

"This may be our last Radiothon, so we need to raise about $100 million," Imus said at the start of the event, which has raised more than $40 million since 1990.

Imus acknowledged again that his remarks a week ago about the Rutgers women's basketball team had been "really stupid."

"There's a difference between premeditated murder and the gun going off," but the end result is the same, he said: "Somebody's still dead."

Several major advertisers had dropped the show, and pressure from politicians and the public had mounted since the radio host referred to the Rutgers basketball players as "nappy-headed hos" shortly after they lost the NCAA women's national championship game.

He'll go to satellite radio, I'm sure. I never cared much for Imus, but this is really stupid. I suppose those radio stations that play Ludacris should stop soon, right?


And he's scheduled to play in the big Al Gore All-Star Live Earth concerts in July.

Meantime, I guess it's okay to re-print what Don Imus said...just don't speak it on the radio.

Disc Jockey Fired For Having Callers Imitate Imus

(CBS/AP) STROUDSBURG, PA A radio station fired its longtime morning DJ Wednesday after he encouraged listeners to repeat talk-show host Don Imus' racially charged comments in an on-air contest.

Three of the listeners who called were awarded tickets to a NASCAR promotion at a local club.

Station management reviewed a tape of the broadcast of the "Gary in the Morning" show and fired [the host]...

"[he] was fired and not suspended because he uttered the slur in a premeditated manner, "with full knowledge of the reaction to Don Imus' use of the exact same phrase."

Remember what I said about the left-wing Gestapo.

UPDATE

C. Vivian Stringer is making too much of it too. As Jason Witlock of the Kansas City Star points out:

I watched the Rutgers news conference and was ashamed. Martin Luther King Jr. spoke for eight minutes in 1963 at the March on Washington. At the time, black people could be lynched and denied fundamental rights with little thought. With the comments of a talk-show host most of her players had never heard of before last week serving as her excuse, Vivian Stringer rambled on for 30 minutes about the amazing season her team had. Somehow, we’re supposed to believe that the comments of a man with virtually no connection to the sports world ruined Rutgers’ wonderful season.

...While we’re fixated on a bad joke cracked by an irrelevant, bad shock jock, I’m sure at least one of the marvelous young women on the Rutgers basketball team is somewhere snapping her fingers to the beat of 50 Cent’s or Snoop Dogg’s or Young Jeezy’s latest ode glorifying nappy-headed pimps and hos.

See the above Ludacris link

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