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Don'T Miss This / MSNBC:
MSNBC, CBS Radio suspend Imus show — But charity event will air as scheduled Thursday and Friday — NEW YORK - After a career of cranky insults, radio star Don Imus was fighting for his job Monday following one joke that by his own admission went "way too far."
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Digby / Hullabaloo:
Hey, Must Be The Money — So I make myself some coffee and open my dead tree version of the NY Times this morning only to see a call for blogger ethics on the front page. How interesting. Another call for "managed civil speech" (which is claimed to be "freer" than unfettered free speech.)
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Media Matters for America:
Fineman to pal Imus: Racist comments aren't OK any more like they used to be — Discussing host Don Imus' April 4 comments on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning — in which Imus referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos" — and the controversy that ensued …
David Carr / New York Times:
With Imus, They Keep Coming Back — "Imus in the Morning" is scheduled to start this morning like any other, with Don Imus and his crew cracking wise about the weekend's events, riffing off the news and chatting with Evan Thomas, one of Newsweek's top guns.
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SilentPatriot / Crooks and Liars:
Imus and Sharpton Square Off Over Racial Remarks — Don Imus got himself into hot water last week after he made racially insensitive remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Today he sat down with Reverend Al Sharpton, who has called for his firing, to talk about the incident.
Bryan / Hot Air:
Video: Imus on Sharpton; Update: MSNBC suspends Imus for two weeks — Freddy's Fashion Mart. — Tawana Brawley. — Go-to guy to apologize for making racist comments. What a world. Don Imus may well be and probably is a bigot, but Rev. Al Sharpton is worse no matter how you look at the situation.
Media Matters for America:
Tom Oliphant to Imus on racial slur controversy: "Solidarity forever, pal" — Referring to host Don Imus' April 4 comments on MSNBC's Imus in the Morning — in which the radio host referred to the Rutgers women's basketball team as "nappy-headed hos" — and the controversy that ensued …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
Obama Ditches CBC/Fox Debate — Barack Obama has chosen not to attend September's Democratic presidential primary debate co-sponsored by the Congressional Black Caucus Institute and Fox News, an aide said, effectively dooming the event. — Obama is the only member of the Congressional Black Caucus running …
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Political Radar:
Obama to Nix Fox Debate — ABC News' Jake Tapper Reports: Sen. Barack Obama, D-Illinois, will be the second Democratic presidential candidate to boycott a proposed debate to be broadcast by Fox News Channel. — "CNN seems to be a more appropriate host," an Obama campaign aide tells ABC News.
ColorOfChange.org:
Black Activists Praise Barack Obama For Rejecting FOX / Congressional Black Caucus Institute Debate — ColorOfChange.org calls on Hillary Clinton & other presidential candidates to follow the lead of Edwards/Obama/DNC in rejecting FOX debate — FOX consistently marginalizes Black leaders …
Gene Weingarten / Washington Post:
Pearls Before Breakfast — Can one of the nation's great musicians cut through the fog of a D.C. rush hour? Let's find out. — HE EMERGED FROM THE METRO AT THE L'ENFANT PLAZA STATION AND POSITIONED HIMSELF AGAINST A WALL BESIDE A TRASH BASKET. By most measures, he was nondescript …
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Mike Baker / charlotteobserver.com:
Elizabeth Edwards afraid of neighbor — She has never met `rabid Republican,' but wouldn't be nice — RALEIGH —Elizabeth Edwards says she is scared of the "rabid, rabid Republican" who owns property across the street from her Orange County home — and she doesn't want her kids going near the gun-toting neighbor.
Anchorage Daily News:
Frozen bay turns otters into easy prey — PORT HEIDEN: Hunger leads animals to seek food on the tundra. — By ALEX deMARBAN — An extra-cold winter on the Alaska Peninsula has frozen sea otters out of the bay and pushed them onto the tundra near Port Heiden where they're easy prey for wolves, humans and hunger.
Lauren Frayer / Associated Press:
Shiites Call for U.S. to Leave Iraq — BAGHDAD — Tens of thousands of Shiites _ a sea of women in black abayas and men waving Iraqi flags _ rallied Monday to demand that U.S. forces leave their country. Some ripped apart American flags and tromped across a Stars and Stripes rug.
Robert D. Novak / Washington Post:
Worse Than Apartheid? — BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Hani Hayek, an accountant who is the Christian mayor of the tiny majority-Christian Palestinian village of Beit Sahour, was angry last week as he drove me along the Israeli security wall. "They are taking our communal lands," he said …
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