Posted on 04/07/2007 6:22:11 AM PDT by kellynla
NEW YORK (AP) -- The radio station that produces Don Imus' talk show pledged to keep tabs on its content after he apologized for calling the players on Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy headed hos."
"We are disappointed by Imus' actions earlier this week which we find completely inappropriate," WFAN-AM said in a statement Friday. "We fully agree that a sincere apology was called for and will continue to monitor the program's content going forward."
Imus apologized Friday for the comments made earlier this week on his nationally syndicated program.
The National Association of Black Journalists demanded the immediate firing of the "Imus in the Morning" host. Imus questioned the players' looks, describing them as tattooed "rough girls." His producer compared the team - which has eight black members - to the NBA's Toronto Raptors.
Near the start of Friday's show, Imus said he wanted to "apologize for an insensitive and ill-conceived remark we made the other morning referring to the Rutgers women's basketball team."
"It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended. Our characterization was thoughtless and stupid, and we are sorry."
Gregory Lee, an NABJ officer and senior assistant sports editor at The Boston Globe, said the mea culpa did little to atone for the comments.
"You can apologize, but what does that mean when you have a history of making disparaging remarks about people?" Lee asked about the acid-tongued Imus. "This kind of behavior must be punished. I hope the company and sponsors he has take some sort of action ... to educate him."
NABJ President Bryan Monroe asked Thursday if Imus had "lost his mind" and called for the veteran radio host's dismissal. Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer was also incensed by the comments about her team.
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Lets see how long this bigot stays on the air. I won't be holding my breath.
After all, who would interview ratz like John “effin” Kerry and Dingbat Pelosi in the early morning??
Fire him? I’d have no reason for getting up early.
He interviewed Pelosi?
"You can apologize, but what does that mean...?"
Ok, let's get it out Greg...what do you want? Oh, wait..I know...rehab!
I think most level-headed people would like to see Imus FIRED!
Imus has a LONG HISTORY of bigoted remarks.
Rehab? No....re-education camp. Drag him through the streets and beat him before you put him behind barbed wire until his mind conforms to the liberal politburo slave creedo.
This “bigot” is slated to be there until he drops...with only pretend apologies.
Perhaps you might find other horrors to hold your breath about.
All the others playing “mock horror” will just have to “get over it”.
On the other hand, F.....g Jew Ba.....d is not bigoted.
“what does that mean when you have a history of making disparaging remarks about people?”
In Imus’ case, it probably portends a future much the same.
Oh I don’t know.
I’m just saying, its one of the venues people like the Dingbat choose.
He ain’t going to get fired — he’s far too valuable an asset to his radio network.
I don’t even know what a “nappy headed ho” is, but I’d be willing to bet that the Rutgers Women's Basketball team members have called each other worse names that that.
Freedom of speech does not mean that one has to make apologies for someones else’s stupid comments.
I guess some people find this offensive, but I think it's funny as hell. LOL.
“I’d be willing to bet that the Rutgers Women’s Basketball team members have called each other worse names that that.”
In a national radio broadcast?
Don Imus is the radio clown who worships Harold Ford Jr.
Imus is still so bent out of shape over Ford’s senatorial election defeat in November, that he hardly allows a week to pass on his show where he doesn’t label the voters of Tennessee as “racist” for not electing the socialist Harold Ford Jr., the reigning member of Tennessee’s most crooked family political machine.
Even though lil’ Harold has the most liberal voting record of any Tennessee member of Congress in the last 50 years, the northeast media, with Imus as it’s cheerleader, plays the race card at every opportunity to sanitize Ford and try to paint him as a clean-cut moderate who must overcome “racial barriers”.
I love it that the tables have now been turned on the race baiting, brain-dead, former junkie, Don Imus.
What does he mean by “our?” It was HIS remark. Imus,you are a worm.
Part of that is his pandering to the large black audience that tunes into his show. I think.
Imus is not going anywhere. His is the only TV program that gets any ratings on PMSNBC. Besides, he makes me go to sleep again in the mornings when he is boring.
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