Imus..the lastest chopf##k

[almaty 19]

NEW YORK - Calling himself a good person who said a bad thing, radio host Don Imus said Monday he would check his acid tongue after being lambasted for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

"Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of everybody, because some people don't deserve it," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday morning. "And because the climate on this program has been what it's been for 30 years doesn't mean it's going to be what it's been for the next five years or whatever."

Imus said he was "embarrassed" by the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as "nappy-headed hos." He said he had made the comments in the course of "trying to be funny," but he was not trying to excuse them.

"I'm not a bad person. I'm a good person, but I said a bad thing. But these young women deserve to know it was not said with malice," he said.

He pointed to his involvement with the Imus Ranch, a cattle farm for children with cancer and blood disorders in Ribera, N.M. Ten percent of the children who come to the ranch are black, he added.

"I'm not a white man who doesn't know any African-Americans," he said.

Imus said he hoped to meet the Rutgers players and their parents and coaches, and he said he was grateful that he was scheduled to appear later Monday on a radio show hosted by the Rev. Al Sharpton, who has called for Imus to be fired over the remarks.

"It's not going to be easy, but I'm not looking for it to be easy," Imus said.

Sharpton has said he wants Imus fired and that he intends to complain to the Federal Communications Commission about the matter.

"Somewhere we must draw the line in what is tolerable in mainstream media," Sharpton said Sunday. "We cannot keep going through offending us and then apologizing and then acting like it never happened. Somewhere we've got to stop this."

Meanwhile, the Rev. Jesse Jackson planned a protest in Chicago, and an NAACP official called for the broadcaster's resignation or firing.

Imus made the now infamous remark during his show Wednesday.

The Rutgers team, which includes eight black women, had lost the day before in the NCAA women's championship game. Imus was speaking with producer Bernard McGuirk about the game when the exchange began on "Imus in the Morning," which is broadcast to millions of people on more than 70 stations and MSNBC.

"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos..."

"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.

"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.

Imus also apologized on the air Friday, but his mea culpa has not quieted the uproar.

Jackson said his RainbowPUSH Coalition planned to protest Monday in Chicago outside the offices of NBC, which owns MSNBC. Jackson said protests were being planned across the country.

James E. Harris, president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, demanded Sunday that Imus "resign or be terminated immediately."

Allison Gollust, a spokeswoman for MSNBC, said the network considers Imus' comments "deplorable" and is reviewing the matter.

Karen Mateo, a spokeswoman for CBS Radio — Imus' employer and the owner of his New York radio home, WFAN-AM — said the company was "disappointed" in Imus' actions and characterized his comments as "completely inappropriate."

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[Hilarious Clinton 452]

free speech for some!! woot!

[Savanphil 3]

"That's some rough girls from Rutgers," Imus said. "Man, they got tattoos..."

"Some hardcore hos," McGuirk said.

"That's some nappy-headed hos there, I'm going to tell you that," Imus said.

This is a bar conversation not radio...I missed the joke

[Jenn! 918]

How embarrassing! He was trying to be funny? I guess that really awkward funny of old white guys repeating phrases from that one hip-hop song they've heard and patting each other on the back for being so witty and down with the lingo? What a lame-o!

[Yodrak 7]

Imus made his reputation and gained his popularity on irreverent commentary. Then got eclipsed big time by Howard Stern.

I guess these days one has to be either polite as can be or beyond outrageous, there's no middle ground allowed.

Yodrak

NEW YORK - Calling himself a good person who said a bad thing, radio host Don Imus said Monday he would check his acid tongue after being lambasted for making racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team.

"Here's what I've learned: that you can't make fun of everybody, because some people don't deserve it," he said on his nationally syndicated radio show Monday morning. "And because the climate on this program has been what it's been for 30 years doesn't mean it's going to be what it's been for the next five years or whatever."

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[Hilarious Clinton 452]

How embarrassing! He was trying to be funny? I guess that really awkward funny of old white guys repeating phrases from that one hip-hop song they've heard and patting each other on the back for being so witty and down with the lingo? What a lame-o!

That's the 'joke'. He knows he's not hip.

[Otto 83]

Is chopf##k really a term used outside of VJ? I've never heard it outside of here, but it's certainly appropriate a lot of the time and needs very little/no explanation..

[gobdogman 0]

What i dont understand is what are they so upset about.

Is it the "HO' or the "NAPPY HEADED part that everyone is upset about?

I fail to see any racial remarks here.

I can understand the "HO" part being offensive but i dont know about the "NAPPY HEADED" being offensive.

I dont see them saying much about Bernard McGuirk being fired for him saying "HO"

[Jenn! 918]

Nappy is a derogatory word.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Nappy is a derogatory word?

(presuming you meant it as a question), I guess since Lisa Nowak's Houston-Orlando drive.

[Jenn! 918]

Nappy is a derogatory word?

(presuming you meant it as a question), I guess since Lisa Nowak's Houston-Orlando drive.

If I had meant it as a question I would have put a question mark. It was a statement.

[almaty 19]

Imus is the latest in line of chopf##ks who runs his mouth, see hardaway on gays, and then says oh i am sorry..

[Otto 83]

I take a Nappy in the afternoons sometimes...

But nappy-headed is something completely different..

[Saddle Bronc 124]

Nappy is a derogatory word?

(presuming you meant it as a question), I guess since Lisa Nowak's Houston-Orlando drive.

If I had meant it as a question I would have put a question mark. It was a statement.

Then,

In UK, the word is used commonly--in North America, the equivalent is "diaper".

(and last-I-checked, Brit-glish ISN't widely understood by Yanks or Canucks).

[Jenn! 918]

Nappy is a derogatory word?

(presuming you meant it as a question), I guess since Lisa Nowak's Houston-Orlando drive.

If I had meant it as a question I would have put a question mark. It was a statement.

Then,

In UK, the word is used commonly--in North America, the equivalent is "diaper".

(and last-I-checked, Brit-glish ISN't widely understood by Yanks or Canucks).

Nappy is a derogatory word when used in the context in which Imus used it. I don't think you understand the meaning.

Hint: He wasn't implying that the Rutgers women's bball team wear diapers on their heads.

Edited April 9, 2007 by jenn3539