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CBS radio host Don Imus does not have a monopoly on racial slurs. Loose cannons are a fixture in broadcasting, though most survive to either slur again or re-emerge chastened and reinvented. Gaffes have varying shelf lives. In December, Rosie O'Donnell used a mock Asian-sounding language while co-hosting ABC's "The View," to describe world reaction to an episode of public drunkenness by actor Danny DeVito. Despite protests from the Asian-American Journalists Association and other ethnic groups, Miss O'Donnell continued to host even as she criticized fellow ABC personality Kelly Ripa for "homophobic behavior." It was not quite as easy for...

Democratic Presidential candidate John Edwards' spoke exclusively to CBS 2 on Wednesday morning about the Don Imus and Rutgers University controversy, and though he feels Imus deserves a second chance, he wasn't so sure about his future on Imus' popular radio show. Edwards' campaign trail took a stop in New York today where he worked side-by-side with health care aides in a Westchester nursing. There, he took time to talk to CBS 2 Political Reporter Marcia Kramer about the Imus fallout. "I believe in redemption, I believe in forgiveness," Edwards said of Imus, who was suspended earlier in the week...

Hillary has spoken out about radio host Don Imus: "I've never wanted to go on his show and I certainly don't ever intend to go on his show, and I felt that way before his latest outrageous, hateful, hurtful comments."

Let's stipulate: I have no love for Don Imus, Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. A pox on all their race-baiting houses. Let's also stipulate: The Rutgers women's basketball team didn't deserve to be disrespected as "nappy-headed hos." No woman deserves that. I agree with the athletes that Imus's misogynist mockery was "deplorable, despicable and unconscionable." And as I noted on Fox News's "O'Reilly Factor" this week, I believe top public officials and journalists who have appeared on Imus's show should take responsibility for enabling Imus — and should disavow his longstanding invective. But let's take a breath now and look...

“There is no doubt that Don Imus was wrong and should be held accountable,” says McGlowan. “But what of our own people? Gangster rappers and others use this language every day. To not hold those people accountable as well would be a double-standard. So if Sharpton is going to ask Imus to step down and call for a boycott of Imus’ show, then he should boycott all radio stations playing gangster rap.”

n condemning radio show host Don Imus’ use of the term “nappy headed hos” to describe African-American basketball players, Al Sharpton said, “What is any possible reason you could feel that this type of statement should be forgiven and overlooked?” Sharpton also said that Imus’ show should be terminated from CBS and MSNBC. These are indeed questions that should be asked about Sharpton himself, and the Al Sharpton Show. Al Sharpton has as much right to talk about racial and ethnic tolerance as former Klan leader David Duke. ...Perhaps someone should take Don Imus to task for what he said,...

Where is C. Delores Tucker, the feisty civil rights leader, when you need her? No doubt, the late president of the National Congress of Black Women, might be loudest among the critics calling for the ouster of radio talk-show host Don Imus for the racist and sexist comments he made about the Rutgers University women's basketball team. But Mrs. 0Tucker's tirade would not stop, as it shouldn't, with the race-baiting-for-ratings ploy of an aging, white radio shock jock. After all, Mr. Imus is not the first person to call black women disparaging and disrespectful names. Just tune in to any...

This whole Don Imus racial slur thing stinks. Not just because of the words he used on his nationally syndicated radio program. But because of his chosen word, we now have a fresh dose of Jesse Jackson protesting in Chicago and Al Sharpton being all righteous and demanding Imus be fired in The Big Apple. Funny how these two men of the cloth have forgotten about forgiveness when they get the national juice to demand someone’s head.The reason why this whole episode stinks to high heaven is that Don Imus has been in the radio business for thirty sum-odd years....

NEW YORK -- Don Imus will be punished for his controversial comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team. NBC News has decided to suspend him, allowing finish the week on MSNBC, but suspend the simulcast of his radio show for the two weeks after that. CBS Radio also said it would suspend Imus for the same period. NBC News President Steve Capus released a statement: "Beginning Monday, April 16, MSNBC will suspend simulcasting the syndicated 'Imus in the Morning' radio program for two weeks. This comes after careful consideration in the days since his racist, abhorrent comments were made."

WILLIAMS ANNOUNCING ON NBC, TWO WEEKS SUSPENSION

If George Allen turned up on Good Morning America to protest an incident of alleged anti-white bigotry, what are the odds the GMA host wouldn't mention Allen's macaca moment? I'd say they'd be a Dylanesqe "Love Minus Zero." But when GMA aired a clip this morning of Al Sharpton expressing his outrage over Don Imus' recent comments about the Rutgers women basketball players, not a discouraging word was heard about Sharpton's history of racially-charged statements and actions that go far beyond the former senator's gaffe. View video hereGMA CO-HOST CHRIS CUOMO: Now leaders in the African-American community are targeting Imus...

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...

NEW YORK (AP) - Radio host Don Imus apologized Friday for calling the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy headed hos'' on his nationally syndicated program. The National Association of Black Journalists demanded his immediate firing after the man known as "Imus in the Morning'' put his foot deep in his mouth Wednesday. 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...

Syndicated talk-radio personality Don Imus apologized Friday for calling members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team "nappy-headed hos" during a segment yesterday in his "Imus in the Morning" show. Imus and his producer and on-air sidekick, Bernard McGuirk, went on to further attack the black members of the team, calling them "jigaboos and wannabees." In his apology, Imus called his comments "insensitive and ill-conceived." "It was completely inappropriate, and we can understand why people were offended," he told listeners at the opening of his broadcast Friday morning. He further called the comments "thoughtless and stupid" and said, "We're sorry."...

Radio host Don Imus on Friday took an obviously flustered Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., to task for never bothering up to visit wounded soldiers at the military's Walter Reed Hospital. While Schumer was quick to blast the Bush administration for failing to maintain facilities for wounded military personnel at Walter Reed, he was apparently surprised when Imus began questioning him about his own dealings with Walter

I just heard Chris Matthews let loose with the F-word on Don Imus on MSNBC. He was talking about how he didn't want the next President to be some rich white guy who lives on a ranch when the F-word was used.

Appearing on this morning's Imus show, Chris Matthews [file photo] painted a portrait of a bloodthirsty VP Cheney.Matthews: "I don't think we should get deeper and deeper into the sands of Arabia with more troops. I think these decisions to keep going forward, which is what he’s doing, is getting us into a quicksand situation where the more you struggle, the more you sink. I think that's where we're headed and it‘s because of his ideology, because of the neocons who have grabbed his arm again, this guy Fred Kagan has grabbed hold of him [the president] again and they've...

MSNBC's Chris Matthews: "I think the president made a big mistake this week, and maybe I'm the only one that caught it, but when he came out and said he never said that we went to Iraq because of what happened on 9/11, that Saddam was never involved in 9/11, that whole mentality, the whole culture, the country music, everything, was saying this was payback. We are getting them in Iraq because of what they did to us on 9/11, and now they come out and say I never claimed that. Well you know it's in the actual language of...

We couldn’t have made this up if we tried. Noted shock jock, quasi Liberal, and former Kerry supporter Don Imus is no friend of Hillary Clinton’s. At least he won’t be after she hears what he said about her on The Larry King show tonight. We don’t think Al Gore will keep him on the speed dial for much longer either. ....KING: And of course, Hillary. DON IMUS: Is Satan. KING: Satan? DEIRDRE IMUS: Stop it. Who’s making you say that? Bernard? DON IMUS: No. Nobody’s — she’s not as evil as Al Gore. That’s all I can — KING:...

You can watch Imus in the Morning for a couple of years before this will happen, Don Imus thinks a guest goes too far with a joke. Normally, the I-Man enjoys finding humor in the agony of public figures. On today’s program Craig Crawford tried to play along and tested his new Samuel Alito material at 6:44. Craig Crawford: "I actually think, you know, the wife leaving the room crying, that made all the evening news and, you know, it was the better video and made him look like a sympathetic figure. Although, you know, she started crying when Senator,...