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To: steve harris who wrote (332274)	4/9/2007 7:34:26 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1571053

Work hard! In Germany right now 'cause the extended holidays - incl. today Monday. Taro

To: steve harris who wrote (332274)	4/9/2007 11:11:56 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571053

Imus is in hot water. And rightly so. Imus says he'll check his acid tongue By MARCUS FRANKLIN, Associated Press Writer 15 minutes ago 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."

To: steve harris who wrote (332274)	4/9/2007 12:51:39 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571053

They love us......NOT! Thousands of Iraqis stream to anti-U.S. protest Sun Apr 8, 2007 10:22pm ET By Khaled Farhan NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - Fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's call for a big anti-U.S. protest on Monday was answered by thousands of Iraqis who flocked to the southern holy city of Najaf. Sadr, who blames the U.S.-led invasion for Iraq's unrelenting violence, issued a statement on Sunday urging Iraqis to protest on the fourth anniversary of the day U.S. forces swept into central Baghdad. "In order to end the occupation, you will go out and demonstrate," said Sadr, who had been keeping a low profile in the last few weeks. The U.S. military says Sadr, who is popular among Iraq's urban Shi'ite Muslim poor, is in neighboring Iran. His aides say the cleric is in Iraq and have denied suggestions he fled to Iran to escape a security crackdown in Baghdad. Thousands of Shi'ites traveled in buses or cars to Najaf in response to Sadr's call. The Baghdad-Najaf road was packed with hundreds of vehicles crammed with passengers waving Iraqi flags and chanting religious and anti-U.S. slogans. "No, no, no to America ... Moqtada, yes, yes, yes," they chanted as they converged on the holy city. Sadr called on his Mehdi Army militia and Iraqi security forces to stop fighting in the volatile city of Diwaniya so as not to play into the hands of U.S. forces, who he said had stirred up civil strife in Iraq. Continued... today.reuters.com