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Nationwide radio host Don Imus said a controversal statement about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team, which recently led to his termination from CBS and MSNBC.

Last week, Don Imus referred to the Rutgers University women's basketball team, which had lost the national championship game the day before, as "nappy-headed hos." Yesterday in the continuing saga, MSNBC announced that it has canceled Imus' show.

The ongoing saga of Don Imus has moved to the next level, with CBS President and CEO Les Moonves announcing in a company memo that the Imus In The Morning radio show has been terminated.

Imus was fired from his morning show after much public pressure and advertiser pull-outs.

For 27 years Don Imus hosted the "Imus in the Morning" show only to see it taken away by comments that not only offended the Rutgers Women's basketball team put the american public as a whole. Why?

This article is examination of how those who do not want to confront racism are attempting to absolve Don Imus by obfuscation the issues through shooting the messengers and claiming that rappers made him do it.

John Kerry, who appeared on Don Imus' radio program many times - once to make an apology of his own - stated today that Imus shouldn't have been fired.

Shock jock Don Imus has finally been fired by both CBS and MSNBC for his on-air idiocy, and good riddance to him. But such behavior will continue to be with us for at least generations, and may very well remain a permanent fixture in our culture.

I let people know about the real victims of this media firestorm.

CBS,Les Moonves and MSNBC all screwed up.....BIGTIME! Given the amount of poison spewed on hip-hop radio morning shows, Don Imus should never have been fired.

George Orwell's timing may have been off, but his sentiments may have finally caught-up with us after 23 years. We've just endured another American travesty. Don Imus has been fired.

Kia Vaughn alleges slander and defamation of character in complaint.

Deirdre Imus wants all hate mail sent to her husband. "Let the heckling of these team members stop. Sending it to these girls is not the right thing to do"

Oprah's 2-part town hall discussion on what the African American community should do now about its own use of the "racial/sexist" (take your pick)language that got Don Imus canned didn't really bring important issues to the forefront.

NBC News announced they will drop the "Imus in the Morning" radio show. I agree and he should be fired from CBS also.

On April 12, 2007, Don Imus was fired for off-color remarks made about the Rutgers woman's basketball team. This article examines some reasons why Imus should have been permitted to keep his job.

Imus in the morning is in mourning. Is trashing Imus the right thing? Who is next?

Is MSNBC the place for a "Shock Jock"?

Al Sharpton will protest anything that he feels has brought the black race a few steps back from progress, regardless of how minor the infraction. If a black man farts and a white man says it stinks- Al will protest.

Don Imus's apology comes too little, too late for some. Reverend Al Sharpton and many others are calling for his resignation.

The Secretary of State bashes shock jock Don Imus, others follow.

Don Imus being suspended for two weeks is enough punishment. He should not have been fired.

You can't have it both ways with free speech, but Sharpton and Jackson seem to think so.

Why didn't the Oprah town hall show on Don Imus include the opinions of white or non African American's?

I'm still at odds with this issue about what Don Imus said, how it should be perceived, what should or should not have happened and who I should react to it all, being that it was the same Black Women that he spoke about that I

When did Americans decide it was enjoyable to humiliate others?

Don Imus: He said something not nice in calling the Rutgers Ladies Basketball players "nappy headed Ho's." Shame on him. He said he's sorry. End of discussion? No. Some people are determined to ride this out as long and hard.

Recently Al Sharpton has been in the news a lot. Not more than Don Imus, but he is tailing him in the polls. Sharpton was the main reason that Imus got fired over his piggish remark about the ladies at Rutgers.

Howard Stern has voiced many things that were much more harmful than what Don Imus just said a few days ago, yet Stern was tolerated (yes, and sometimes fined) because of the tremendous revenue he created for his employer.

On April 4, 2007, another radio host crosses the line with extremely offensive remarks. Don Imus of the radio show Imus in the Morning blatantly makes a racist statement about the Rutgers University Women's Basketball Team.

Imus apologizes for "Nappy-Headed Hos" comment. Will he be fired anyway?

On Tuesday, Don Imus, in a poor man attempt at "shock jocking", referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" while broadcasting his awful show "Imus In The Morning."

Don Imus is contesting his dismissal by CBS and suing the company for $120 million in unpaid salary and damages from CBS.

According to Reverend Al Sharpton, The Godfather of Soul wanted to clean up the music industry. In this commentary....I'm suggesting the Don Imus was that Channel selected from beyond.

while Joe Scarborough does a number of things right as a talk show host, a morning show host is another thing indeed

I cannot tell you how hard it is to agree with the Reverend Al Sharpton. It would be much easier for me not to have him as the one out in front of a threatened picketing of Don Imus's radio show home, WFAN-AM studios in New York, but we'll play the cards we're dealt.

A racial double standard exists in America, and it is one that keeps us from achieving true racial equality.

Starting on Monday, Philadelphia's own folliclely challenged morning radio guy Michael Smerconish will be taking over Don Imus' spot on MSNBC TV from 6am - 9am. Smerconish is awesome.

A look at why Don Imus should be praised for his remarks that have sparked nationwide debates over the issue of racism and moral guidelines.

Glen Beck is a far worse cancer than Don Imus. He needs to have his career ruined, too.

With Al Sharpton being very vocal against the negative lyrics in rap music on the heels of the Don Imus controversy, it is rumored that Universal Music Group demanded that its $15,000 donation to Sharpton's event at New York City's Sheraton Hotel be returned.

Don Imus about to do some serious butt kissing...

Just because a white person has no word like "nappy head" that he can call another of his own race- that a black man can't- doesn't mean a person should be punished for a badly done satire.

Russell Simmon, co-founder of Def-Jam Records and Chairman of the Hip-Hop Summit Action Network, rejects comparsion of Don Imus' remarks to Hip Hop music.

Imus had some choice words for Al Sharpton on Sharpton's radio show

"When I start gettin p***y every day of my life it really didn't matter what the bitch look like".

African Americans deserve a better spokesman than Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson.

One man's opinion on Don Imus' Slip of the Tongue.

Silencing dissonant voices helps no one.

The fact that a great number of hip-hop lyrics might be offensive to women does not give a white male radio jockey a free pass to use insideous language against black women.

Through the years we have watched and listened as the racism issue has been highlighted on every turn. In the middle of that for years has been Al Sharpton. Who is he?

There are regular disc jockeys on the air and there is shock jock Howard Stern. He has proclaimed himself to be the king of all media because of his stature and presence on the radio.

Unless you're brain dead and were born yesterday, Rev. Jerkson calling Don Imus a racist is really a case of the pot calling the kettle black.

Well, Don Imus has done it. The mumbling fool has once again proven, completely unwittingly of course, that there are just some things that you cannot say without drawing the ire of so-called leaders of a particular group (any group) unless you are a member of that group.

The Rutgers women's basketball team knows nothing of real insults. They should consult the young men who formerly played lacrosse for Duke.

After making the biggest insult to African American women every where. Here are the top five songs that Don Imus should listen to and learn from.

Embattled talk show host Don Imus has yet again come under fire for his most recent inflammatory actions. This time it was a suspicious sounding sneeze.

The return of Don Imus to the airwaves. A new era and new staff.

We knew he could not stay off the air forever.

On December 3, 2007, Don Imus returned to the airwaves. I'm not listening, and here's why.

It seems to me if all our rights are being completely stripped right in front of us. No matter how distasteful it was for Don Imus to say what he did, he had every right to speak his mind ON HIS OWN SHOW...

With the emergence of Barack Obama, young progressive blacks thought we had all but rid ourselves of Rev. Jesse Jacksonand Rev. Al Sharpton; relegating them to small marches, insignificant demonstrations and ineffective boycotts.

Should Don Imus be fired for calling the members of a girls b-ball team nappy headed hos? No. But he should be fired for all the other moronic statements he's made, most of which are incoherent mumblings.

Don Imus is being crucified for saying what blacks allow and pay rappers to say all day long. There cannot be a double standard.

CBS has formally fired shock jock Don Imus over the racist and sexist slurs about the Rutger's women's basketball team. There seem to be no regrets.

Don Imus has brought attention to the women of Rutgers for the wrong reasons. For this he should be punished. Beyond any actual discipline from WFAN, however, he should be regarded as a fool-like all racists.

What ties Anna Nicole Smith and Don Imus together is more than just the obsessive popularity of their stories.

Another take on the Imus controversy, in defense of Imus.

Imus' comments on the radio about the female Rutgers basketball team have certainly created a buzz. Perhaps Imus' intentions were humorous, but the rest of the US coughed and choked when Imus started spewing racially derogatory terms from his mouth.

Like many Americans, Sharpton is upset over her early release from jail. He has plans to meet with LA County Sheriff Lee Baca on Monday.

April will be remembered for the times when celebrities should have kept their mouths shut. Imus with his racial slurs against a sports team of young women and Baldwin with his tirade against his eleven year old daughter.

It's unconscionable to hold Imus accountable for his actions or behavior without holding ourselves responsible for supporting a culture that allows corporate interest to decide what is offensive and when to take action. Simply put, it's just not fair.

A Post-ABC News poll showed a narrow margin among Americans over the Imus firing. Among black women, however, 70 percent said Imus should have lost his show. Cora Daniels responds to Imus and others comment.

Whether the Imus controversy has reached its apex remains to be seen. In the meantime, let's take a look at the 'Keep It Real Don Imus' poll.

After 17 years hosting "Gary in the Morning" Gary Smith is out of a job. He was fired after repeating the phrase that got Don Imus fired, during his "Phrase That Pays" segment.

Don Imus and Adam "Pacman" Jones, two people with their fair share of bad press, were brought together due to Imus' possibly race-motivated comments about Jones' arrest record.

The Rutgers womens basketball team allowed the focus to be in Imus instead of their great run at the end of the 2007 basketball season.

Race isn't Mr Imus only issue. CBS need look at a little comon sense hirin' practices.

Does this philosophy espoused by this coach really add up?

The Imus Effect continues: CBS Radio fires shock jocks for Asian slurs

The I-Man will sue for the balance of his contract - to the tune of 40 million!

I want to address Don Imus directly in this letter to explain why this insult is as damaging and degrading as it is. I want to get right down to the insult and break down the words used in the insult, nappy headed ho's.

Mel Gibson, Michael Richards and Don Imus. These people are but a few who represent the rising temperature of racism and prejudice that is slowly killing our world.

Why is this kind of racism any different than Imus'? Is it because Shabazz is on a political show that he can call the host a political "ho" and not get called on it?

Shocking wordplay by broadcasters is nothing new. John Gibson's remarks about Heath Ledger are just the latest in "shock" jock assaults made famous by people like Howard Stern, Rush Limbaugh, and Don Imus.

In a sick twisted attempt to cash in on the racially heated Don Imus controversy, a porn producer has announced the release of a DVD called "Nappy Headed Ho's".

NJ Governor Jon Corzine in intensive care unit after serious accident on the Garden State Parkway

This article talks about how Imus"s sexist and racial remarks have had an effect on hip hop and that it may be time for hip hop to change its image.

Imus has once again drawn fire down upon his remarks

The true tragedy of Don Imus' ignorant comments weren't in what he said...it was in how Rutgers handled it.

Don Imus made statements that had many people offended and some shocked. How could he be so inflammatory and how on earth could he make such flagrantly racially incensing statements? Did it really matter?

Don Imus linked Adam "Pacman" Jones' troubles with the law to his race in an on-air discussion with side-kick Warner Wolf on Monday bringing down a new firestorm on himslef and upon ABC radio for hiring him after his previous "nappy-headed hos" comment while on CBS radio.

Genealogists at Ancestry.com have discovered what may prove to be a surprising relationship between the Reverend Al Sharpton and the late Senator Strom Thurmond.

Lil' Wayne calls out Al Sharpton in his song Misunderstood on his new album "Tha Carter III"

Everybody is talking about Duane "Dog" Chapman and the now infamous phone call that his own son recorded and then sold. Is he a racist? Who knows, but what happened to free speech and the right to decide what we want to watch or listen to?

Talk radio is no longer ephemeral and fleeting. Just ask former star Don Imus. Now it's a searchable as last night's episode of American Idol.