1. Good for Meredith!!!!!Sharpton is an a**hole!!~!

Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 12th 2007 by jojo

2. wow, they care, they must need the ratings.

Posted at 12:53PM on Apr 12th 2007 by pattie

3. It's funny how Al is able to be on TV every morning this week, but he couldn't be bothered to show up to a scheduled panel discussion on racial slurs at a university last night.

Posted at 12:56PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Mary

4. Congrats Meredith! For exposing this race trader.

Posted at 12:56PM on Apr 12th 2007 by JM

5. Thank you Meredith Vieira for asking what I've been asking for a long time about the double standard that rappers can make derogatory remarks about women by calling them bitch and ho.

Posted at 12:57PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Kennedy

6. WAY TO GO MERIDITH!!!!!!!!!!! SOMEONE TELL HIM
HE IS FIRED!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 12:59PM on Apr 12th 2007 by ABBY

7. Enough already!!! You would think M.S.N.B.C, allowed a live lynching.

IMUS, is racist and an ass, but he is human. The personal persecution is over-kill,

Now, go after the people in your community who are bringing your own race down.

Praise Bill Cosby, for having the balls to speak the truth.

Jesse Jackson has had how many out-of wedlock children?? He not one to condem another human being.

Sharpton, make some real changes for the black race. Your children go to the worse public schools. Your people live in the worse neighborhoods. Most of the high crome rates comes out of those neighborhoods. No-baby daddys anywhere. Have the mothers raising and doing all the child-rearing.

Instead of worrying about IMUS, this would be my focal point.

Posted at 12:59PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Annette

8. Let the backlash begin. MSNBC caved to Sharpton and his hateful and divisive racial politics. I can honestly say I missed the interview BECAUSE Sharpton was involved, I invoked my right to the remote control and changed the channel. Don't like it don't listen.

Posted at 1:02PM on Apr 12th 2007 by JM

9. you go girl { black people make fun of black people}

but we as white people can not say the big n word.

Posted at 1:02PM on Apr 12th 2007 by joe russo

10. I think why it’s ok for blacks to use those words towards each other, because they are not over the slave thing. I don’t think they every will be. I don’t know why I have to get blame for that when I wasn't even around when it happened.

Posted at 1:02PM on Apr 12th 2007 by melissa

11. There is a double standard. As a black woman, Al Sharpton does not speak for me. I hate hearing anyone refer to us as b!tches or hoes. Rap music degrades women in their lyrics as well as their videos.
Imus has been using disparaging remarks for over 30 yrs. He's attacked Catholics, Jews and anyone else he could think of. He's being made the example.
I'm glad Meredith didn't sugar coat her interview. Good for her.

Posted at 1:03PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Dottie

12. Hey Al are you going to apologize to the Duke lacrosse players for your comments!

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 12th 2007 by NuZu

13. #8: Annette: I agree with what you said EXCEPT that Cosby can be lumped in there with his fellow hypocrites. He who professes to speak the truth ALSO has a child born outside of his marriage and has been slapped with sexual harassment suits.

He has little room to talk.

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Michele

14. The "Reverend" (holy man) Al Shjarpton and the "Unholy" Reverend Jesse Jackson should preach forgiveness not condemnation. Imus has said he was sorry and apologized ahundred times. Let's all get on with our lives.

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Get Real

15. The reason rappers can use the "n" and all other words because they're black. Duh.... it's so easy to understand. It's their own people. What does Meredith know? She just wants the rating. For a white person calling particular black person the "n" word or whatever phrase Imus used is a completely different story. If he were black, there wouldn't have been such a big thing.

Posted at 1:05PM on Apr 12th 2007 by Kim