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91. while we all agree what Imus said was wrong we must look at the good this man has done over the years the money he raised for the common good the joy he provided to so many kids and their families .Imus is not a racist his accusers though are. Look who they are .What have they done for the common good.they are resentful,rejectful and disloyal to goodness and truth, and constantly are preaching the politics of race and divisiveness .Mr IMUS is a great American who like many of us made a mistake.HE should have never lost his job over this.

Posted at 11:57AM on May 4th 2007 by morfonios7

92. The fact that Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson handled the problem made the firing of Imus lose its credence.......However, Imus has been using sexist and racist comments for years!
Al Sharton and Jesse Jackson should also be walking the unemployment line!
Mental illness is at a record high in the USA.........According to statistics there is 76% more mental illness compared to other countries. The numbers are climbing among our young people. Shock Jocks have been role models for far too long. They have taught many of our young people that its ok to get angry and harrass people......They have created mean monsters---in our young. The conduct of mainly male leaders (Some females) in our country is horrific to say the least! When is character going to count again? Ever?

Posted at 9:00AM on May 4th 2007 by lana

93. I hope Imus wins. He may have been out of line with his comments but let's face it that is what you expect when you tune in. Would CBS have fired him him Sharpton and Jackson who are professional trouble makers hadn't made such a fuss? I doubt it. To bad these guys can't get a real job. The lyrics to most rap songs are much worse. It's a double standard.

Posted at 10:35AM on May 4th 2007 by Nana

94. I hope he score's 40 mil and more. I also hope he ponys up part of it to McGurk because Bernie has been a big reason for the I-Mans irreverent success.

Posted at 10:22AM on May 5th 2007 by Roger C

95. Imus is an insensitive jerk. He got what was coming to him. However, If CBS in fact required him to be a jerk, they should also admit they were wrong and pay him.
The whole thing was predicated by lost $$$$. If they had fired him immediately after he made the stupid statement, they would have been lauded. By waiting for big mouth Al and Jesse, coupled with their sponsors, to dictate the right thing to do, they look like total fools,

Posted at 12:56PM on May 6th 2007 by Michael

96. Imus should get every dime of that contract. I am sick to death of any black person acting like any white person is out to get them and that we have no right to say anything about them or to them or whatever. Black people are not downtrodden like they act anymore. Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson are the biggest thugs in the black community. Gangsters, con artists and blackmailers. Why do we even give them a voice at all. They are not for making peace between the blacks and whites. They are only here to bring down the white people - cut and dried. And the big corporations allow it. The American people are not as stupid as the big corporations think we are. Don't donate to their causes or the Rainbow Coalition. Maybe they would have to really work in order to make a living like the rest of us do instead of shaking down people for money. I miss Imus's show in the morning more than any other early morning show in TV. It was the best and even though he is not the best looking man and is now old and frail - he was still my favorite. Shame on CBS for treating Imus like he is a dog.

Posted at 12:15PM on May 4th 2007 by Hot Tamales

97. will someone warn me before you put a close up of a nasty ass looking white trash mug in my face again?? Have you people no decency?

Posted at 1:48PM on May 4th 2007 by Eric Dumaine

98. I do not agree with what Imus said about the Rutgers’s basketball team. I don’t like any kind of discrimination. Now having said that.

If it hadn’t been for (the so called Reverends are unlike any Reverends I have ever known) Sharpton and Jackson the Rutgers’s might not have ever even known about Imus’s remark and therefore their feelings wouldn’t have been hurt. How many of the Rutgers’s team had even heard of Don Imus before Sharpton and Jackson got involved? Does it make what Imus said right because these young women might not have heard about what he said? No! It does not but these young women’s feelings might never have been hurt by Imus‘s remarks. Maybe they would have been able to enjoy their victory on the basketball floor. Maybe they would have been in the spotlight because of the positive things they have done with their lives and not because of something negative that was said about them. Because Don Imus said something stupid and Sharpton and Jackson got involved and stirred the pot then the women of the 2006-2007 Rutgers’s basketball team will be remembered more for what Imus said than by what these young ladies accomplished as a basketball team.

Sharpton and Jackson kept talking about the African American women of the basketball team being disrespected and how their feelings had been hurt. How many times did we hear them mention the white players on the team?? Sharpton and Jackson always talk about the black community. This is the kind of mentality is what I would expect from a racist. They talk about division between the races. Sharpton and Jackson are responsible for a large part of this division by constantly dividing the people of this country by distinguishing between us as black and white communities.

Let me tell you a short story that my pastor told me a few years ago. I think Sharpton and Jackson could learn a lot from this story. My pastor and his wife were foster parents in AZ then they moved to KY where they had to be re-certified by the state of KY to be foster parents here. On the application it asked them to check what race they were: Caucasian, African American, Hispanic, etc. Then there was a line for other . On this line my pastor wrote human. Needless to say the state sent the form back and said that he needed to correct this part of the application.

We are all part of the human race. Why don’t Sharpton and Jackson protest the mistreatment of ALL human beings? Why do they only protest when African Americans are mistreated?


Sharpton and Jackson call themselves Reverends. I assume that they mean they are men of God and that they are Christians. My Bible teaches Christians to have forgiveness. What kind of Christianity do Sharpton and Jackson believe in??? What kind of Christianity are they preaching and practicing???

If God can forgive me for the things that I do wrong then who am I not to forgive others for things that they do. If Sharpton and Jackson expect God to forgive them for the things that they have done in their lives then they should have a more forgiving heart than they have displayed in this situation with Don Imus and other things in their lives. My Bible says that we all are sinners and that we are only forgiven our sins by God’s Grace which he gave us by his only son Jesus dying on the cross to pay for our sins.

Don Imus apologized to the public and to the Rutgers’s women’s basketball team. He did this BEFORE he was fired. Don Imus didn’t have to apologize to keep his job. He is not dependent on his salary from NBC/CBS to live. The man already had plenty of money. Besides Imus knew what was in his contract before he apologized so he knew he would get his money whether he apologized or not.
The Rutgers’s women accepted Imus’s apology. Sharpton and Jackson could learn a lot from the example set by these young women.

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Don Imus may have been rude, crude and insulting on his show Imus In The Morning but he used this forum to do a lot of good too. He promoted books that provide the public with knowledge that we might not have if we hadn’t heard about them on the Imus show. He had guests on his show that informed us of issues that we might never have known about. He raised millions of dollars each year to help sick children. I am truly saddened by the loss of the millions of dollars that he won’t be able to raise now that he doesn’t have the forum to reach as many people as he was able to reach on his show. Sure he can continue to raise money to help sick children but will he be able to raise as much without his show as a forum to reach people for donations? How many children will suffer and die because there isn’t as much money to go to research that could save their lives. He also did a lot to help our military personel returning wounded from war.
How many of our young men and women returning from war with life changing wounds will not get the care that they need and deserve so much because Imus won’t be able to raise the money to help them. He also donates his personal time and money for these causes.

Imus gave his guests and other public figures h_ll by holding them accountable for their actions. He held himself accountable for his own actions too. When Don Imus made mistakes in his life and he has freely admitted to making many. He didn’t try to cover them up. He admitted to them and even apologized when he realized he had hurt someone‘s feelings. He has always come clean to the public about his past years of drug use and the trouble he’s gotten into because of it. He was being honest about his past drug use when it wasn’t cool to admit one had a problem.

The young celebrities of today screw up and then going into rehab for a few days. They come out of rehab and do the same thing over again. It’s like rehab has become the latest fad with celebs. Rehab centers are suppose to be used as serious tools to help people to stop abusing drugs and alcohol.

There are a lot of celebrities that make their personal fortunes everyday saying much worse things than what Don Imus did with that one statement about the Rutgers‘s basketball team. Are they losing their jobs? Are the sponsors dropping them? Are the radio stations and television networks taking them off the air? How much personal time and money are they donating and raising for sick children and our wounded military people?

Our government is set up on a system of checks and balances. Well Imus was bringing in the checks for the networks, the sponsors, the charities that he sponsored and even the guests that he helped sell their books. When you balance these checks against the wrong he did are the scales tipped to one side more than the other? It appears to me that there are more checks on the scales.

The networks said that the sponsors were pulling out because of what Imus said. Where are the sponsors going to be when the ratings go down because Imus is gone and nobody is watching or listening to his replacements? I would like to see him back on MSNBC but I doubt that is going to happen.
He will probably be picked up by some satelite station that I can’t get.
Early morning programming on MNBC isn’t even worth the effort of pushing a button on the remote control to watch it anymore.

As for Imus not deserving to be paid a salary of $40 million dollars. Well the networks must have thought he was worth it to them. They signed the contract agreeing to pay him that amount. I hope Imus makes the network pay him every penny that his contract says he is due. I would expect nothing less of the I-Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:25PM on May 4th 2007 by srl

99. I do not agree with what Imus said about rutgers's team.
Don Imus may have been rude, crude and insulting on his show Imus In The Morning but he used this forum to do a lot of good too. He promoted books that provide the public with knowledge that we might not have if we hadn’t heard about them on the Imus show. He had guests on his show that informed us of issues that we might never have known about. He raised millions of dollars each year to help sick children. I am truly saddened by the loss of the millions of dollars that he won’t be able to raise now that he doesn’t have the forum to reach as many people as he was able to reach on his show. Sure he can continue to raise money to help sick children but will he be able to raise as much without his show as a forum to reach people for donations? How many children will suffer and die because there isn’t as much money to go to research that could save their lives. He also did a lot to help our military personel returning wounded from war.
How many of our young men and women returning from war with life changing wounds will not get the care that they need and deserve so much because Imus won’t be able to raise the money to help them. He also donates his personal time and money for these causes.

Imus gave his guests and other public figures h_ll by holding them accountable for their actions. He held himself accountable for his own actions too. When Don Imus made mistakes in his life and he has freely admitted to making many. He didn’t try to cover them up. He admitted to them and even apologized when he realized he had hurt someone‘s feelings. He has always come clean to the public about his past years of drug use and the trouble he’s gotten into because of it. He was being honest about his past drug use when it wasn’t cool to admit one had a problem.

The young celebrities of today screw up and then going into rehab for a few days. They come out of rehab and do the same thing over again. It’s like rehab has become the latest fad with celebs. Rehab centers are suppose to be used as serious tools to help people to stop abusing drugs and alcohol.

There are a lot of celebrities that make their personal fortunes everyday saying much worse things than what Don Imus did with that one statement about the Rutgers‘s basketball team. Are they losing their jobs? Are the sponsors dropping them? Are the radio stations and television networks taking them off the air? How much personal time and money are they donating and raising for sick children and our wounded military people?

Our government is set up on a system of checks and balances. Well Imus was bringing in the checks for the networks, the sponsors, the charities that he sponsored and even the guests that he helped sell their books. When you balance these checks against the wrong he did are the scales tipped to one side more than the other? It appears to me that there are more checks on the scales.

The networks said that the sponsors were pulling out because of what Imus said. Where are the sponsors going to be when the ratings go down because Imus is gone and nobody is watching or listening to his replacements? I would like to see him back on MSNBC but I doubt that is going to happen.
He will probably be picked up by some satelite station that I can’t get.
Early morning programming on MNBC isn’t even worth the effort of pushing a button on the remote control to watch it anymore.

As for Imus not deserving to be paid a salary of $40 million dollars. Well the networks must have thought he was worth it to them. They signed the contract agreeing to pay him that amount. I hope Imus makes the network pay him every penny that his contract says he is due. I would expect nothing less of the I-Man!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted at 2:28PM on May 4th 2007 by srl

100. sorry for the double posting of my last comment #96

Posted at 2:40PM on May 4th 2007 by srl

101. Comment 60 and 69 AmandaA

Sorry don’t agree with you Amanda.

Breach of contract or not…………….who cares…

As long as people are reacting, making comments, taking sides……the guy might feel that he is worth that money.

A potential law suite is his and his lawyer’s problem alone, or do you think he will send you flowers, in case he wins?!?!?!

Posted at 4:20PM on May 4th 2007 by yur b

102. If Imus has to be silenced for a casual, throw-away line said in humor, not hate, then I want all this garbage hip-hop taken off the air and every African American should be made to give a written apology to their white peers for trying to pass it off as their "culture". I want an apology for the 80% of all violent crime being perpetrated by black youths (thats an actual statistic, not made up) and i want to see more blacks like Jackson and Sharpton doing something to stop it seeing they have been elected by all blacks as their leaders (ya'll, certainly never disagree with them so they HAVE to be your figureheads, no?). I want an end to the systematic harassment of all hardworking south east asians who are ripped off and harassed by blacks in their own neighborhoods caused by jealousy of having more simply because they (asians) work and not apply for endless handouts.

Posted at 5:05PM on May 4th 2007 by Bangy

103. Imus "should" be awarded the monies from the "rest" of his contract. I think CBS Lawyers goofed up their wording and now they should pay. Also, not too sure that there might be some "reverse EEO" issues here. Old white guy fired by young black man after being pressured by two of the biggest losers in America.....Sharpton/Jackson.

Posted at 5:26PM on May 4th 2007 by Lucky

104. Personally, I never listen to talk show radio programs, (incl. Don Imus). However, I DO believe in free speech. Don't like him? Change the channel! I hope CBS's knee jerk acquiesence cost them the whole $120 mil. Then I hope Imus gets a similar contract on satellite radio.

After re-reading the 1st amendment, I still can't find the exception, which reads, "unless it offends someone". I guess little kids today grow singing "stick & stones may break my bones, but words will make me sue you,"

Posted at 8:24PM on May 4th 2007 by weiby

105. Glad that CBS is being exposed for it's idiotsy! If indeed the contract states that, he should be paid; however, I'm certain no corporation pays an employee to spew RACIST AND SEXIST commentary, unless they are in that business.

The FCC should thenm fine CBS for exploiting and defiling the public airways. Enuf foolishness is enuf! Jackson and Shaprton had little to do with this one. Consumers with consciousness and business with a sense of social responsibility knew better than to fund this assholes undesirable commentary.

Posted at 12:47AM on May 9th 2007 by Efayee