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Imus: "There Is No Malice in My Heart"

With his suspension not taking effect until next Monday, Don Imus took to the air today for WFAN's 18th Annual Radiothon to try and raise money for a good cause -- and to apologize. Again.

"I am horribly sorry I said it," he bleated this morning. "I know how it hurt these kids and they're going to tell me. But everyone knows what I've been doing for 30 years. It was a joke." Oh yeah, he's a riot.

MSNBC announced yesterday that it was dropping its simulcast of the "Imus in the Morning" radio show, after his disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. CBS Radio has suspended Imus for two weeks, effective April 16.



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91. And tell me, #107, what do you call all the MALES who have meaningless sex, hmmm?

Posted at 4:37PM on Apr 12th 2007 by The world is full of hypocrites

92. The way they're treating Imus is worse than the comment he made!

Take that Reverend Frog Eyes!

Posted at 4:37PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Good Grief!!

93. Yes HKS is a ho!

Posted at 4:38PM on Apr 12th 2007 by mrsfauxnewsthespinstartshere

94. From her post it seems like "Farrah" is perhaps Al Sharpton's illegitimate daughter.

Posted at 4:38PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Cindy K

95. My friend Pedro of Miami agrees. He says Al Sharpton is only using fellow blacks to his advantage. Al Sharpton is a parasite on the face of good, African-American individuals.

Ironicly, I can't agree more with this Office Manager in a doctor's office in Miami. He hit in on the head.

Posted at 10:44AM on Apr 16th 2007 by fatwhiteguy

96. Men can be "ho's too...Duh!

Posted at 4:39PM on Apr 12th 2007 by mrsfauxnewsthespinstartshere

97. LOVE Imus and his wife. No one pays much attention to all the good they do. His show is a comedy! I watch him every morning when I'm getting ready for work and he starts my day with lots of humor and laughs. More than Sharpton does with his whining self. There surely is a double standard in this country. Maybe we could give Sharpton a ticket home so he can live happy! There wouldn't be the opportunity to cry about how awful we all are from there tho.
Imus will continue to go forward in his life on a positive note, regardless of this experience.
Sick of all the belly-aching

Posted at 4:47PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Diane

98. DID ANYONE ELSE HEAR THAT HIS WIFE WAS WRITING A BOOK AND SHE CANCELLED HER TOUR TO PROMOTE IT. THE PLACES SHE WAS TO GO AND PROMOTE CANCELLED. AFTER THE SPONSOR'S PULLED AWAY FROM IMUS. HOW SAD THIS AFFECTS HER TOO!!! GUESS THE WHOLE HOUSE IS GOING DOWN ON THIS ONE! LOL!!!

Posted at 7:03PM on Apr 12th 2007 by cleveland1

99. When an individual is compensated for their time and talent, that individual is an employee. An employees time and opinions are in the ownership of the employer. An employer has the right to expect that the employee will honor the values and traditions of the employer. If the employee does not conform with the expectations of the employer, the employer has the right to remove the employee from their employ. There is nothing new about this concept. Why does the concept need to be overruled in this particular incident, I ask?

Media companies have the obligation to both their sponsors and their viewers to not host or promote that which is offensive to certain sectors of the population based on ethnicity, color, creed, national origin, economic status, sexual preference, handicap status, marital status, gender, etc. Media companies, believe it or not, are in business to make money. When you have sponsors such as Staples and Head On asking removing their sponsorship based on offensive comments, the company loses money. Why, then, should the company continue to compensate the offender out of its diminished resources? Would that be a sound business decision to do so? It makes no sense whatsoever to continue to compensate an employee who is causing reductions in incoming revenue.


So you think thirty years tenure affords this crass individual to continue to insult ethnic groups? This individual supposedly jokingly accused these intelligent, ambitious, future leaders of America of being prostitutes. He also made fun of the texture of their hair. How about your daughters, what if he insulted them with accusations of being sexually promiscuous and poked fun at their hair texture? Would it continue to raise your dander that MSNBC has washed their hands of him?

Congratulations, MSNBC, on having the integrity, honor, values and bravado to do the right thing!! I applaud you!!

Posted at 9:49PM on Apr 12th 2007 by CE

100. 95. I can now sleep at night knowing that the father Of Anna Nicole Smith's baby is Birkhead.
American Idols ratings are down.
Imus said some really nasty things about a women's basketball team.
The Duke jocks got off Scot free.
Will Britney make it outside of rehab?
There may be trouble in paradise for Brad and Angelina.

This is the bull$hit news that the media is feeding us. What about the e-mails that have been deleted pertaining to the attorney firings. What about the 10 troops that were killed over the weekend? What about the 5 British troops that were killed? What about the extended duties of our troops? Which is nothing more than a backdoor draft. What about Bush acting like a spoiled little prick and threaten to veto the bill to give our troops the necessities that they need to continue fighting in this Iraqi civil war?

Posted at 4:25PM on Apr 12th 2007 by mrsfauxnewsthespinstartshere
YOU ARE RIGHT! WE ALL COULD BE SPENDIN MORE TIME IN PRAYER FOR THE SOLDIERS AND DOING ANTI-WAR MARCHES! THIS WAR WAS STARTED OUT OF REVENGE FOR 9/11.GUESS WHAT?MORE LIVES HAVE BEEN LOST IN THIS BUSH VIETNAM THAN GOT LOST IN 9/11.INSTEAD OF GOING TO WAR WE SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON OUR KNEES PRAYING! I'M NOT BLACK OR WHITE I'M MIXED AND WE NEED TO STOP FIGHTING AMONG OURSELVES AND HOLD UP A BETTER STANDARD FOR THE UNITED STATES OR WE WILL FALL FROM WITHIN! STOP THE BLOOD SHED! STOP THE WAR.GOD SAID IF YOU LIVE BY THE SWORD YOU WILL DIE BY THE SWORD! THE UNITED STATES HAS LIVED BY THE SWORD FOR A LONG TIME.OUR PUNISHMENT IS COMING IF WE DO NOT REPENT AND STOP THE HATE MONGERING AND WAR MONGERING!

Posted at 4:43PM on Apr 12th 2007 by NOT BLACK OR WHITE

101. These so called minister's Sharpton and Jackson are bogus. Minister's forgive!.
Give the man (imus) a break, he made a comment a bad one. Apologized over and
over again. Shame on MSNBC caving into these (2) DISINGENOUS trouble makers.
Shame on TMZ for using this photo!!!!

Posted at 4:46PM on Apr 12th 2007 by terri

102. It was really sickening to see IMUS on air the other day looking for his buddy Harold Ford, Jr. who he pushed all the time on air for Senator from Tennessee. Imus was asking Bernie to check the police scanners to see if maybe he was in a wreck and that was why he had not heard from Mr. Ford. Imus asked Mr. Barnacle when he called in if he had heard from Harold Ford, jr. Imus said where are you Harold Baby? No Harold Ford. He asked had Harold called in and bernie said no nothing from him. I guess Mr. Imus you really find out who your friends are when your butt is in a pinch. There is justice in this world. I have yet to hear Mr. Ford come out and stick up with Mr. Imus. So, I take it Mr. Ford who is Af/Am is not too pleased either.

Posted at 4:46PM on Apr 12th 2007 by sue

103. 112. Yes HKS is a ho!

Posted at 4:38PM on Apr 12th 2007 by mrsfauxnewsthespinstartshere
THANK YOU! I THOUGHT SO BUT WAS AFRAID TO SAY IT.BUT SINCE I AM MULTI-RACIAL I GUESS I COULD MAKE BLACK AND WHITE JOKES BUT AS A CHRISTIAN I WILL PASS ON THAT.((SMILES))

Posted at 4:46PM on Apr 12th 2007 by NOT BLACK OR WHITE

104. CBS just fired Imus effective the day after tomorrow. Ding dong the old witch is dead.

Posted at 4:48PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Just another Chic

105. This guy makes Keith Richards look like Brad Pitt!

Posted at 4:49PM on Apr 12th 2007 by DOB

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