It’s about time Barbara Walters and ABC got together and threw this fat, bloviating idiot Rosie O’Donnell off of the view. O’Donnell claims it has nothing to do with her constant personal attacks on her co-hosts and constantly trying to prove that she is the most politically correct Uber Dyke on earth. I say bull shit. She constantly put her foot in her mouth and there are videos all over Google of her arguing about things even when she is completely wrong and all the other hosts on “The View” are proving her wrong.

If you look historically at the ratings you would think that with all the controversy O’Donnell has created would have drove the ratings up. Quite the contrary. Their ratings have suffered tremendously since O’Donnell joined the show. Sure there was a momentary ratings bump. The fact is that people find Rosie rude and offensive. Not to mention she looks like a big, ugly man.

In my opinion, The View is mindless drivel. Thats why Rosie O’Donnell fit right in. The idea that The View claims to be talking about what women in America are concerned about is pure nonsense. So let me get this straight. According to The View, only 25% of women in America are conservative? Because with the exception of Elisabeth Hasselbeck , the rest of those annoying yenta’s are the most liberal women in television.

I look at it like this. The vast majority of people in America are conservative. Why would I say that? Look at it like this. You have Rosie O’Donnell and the rest of the idiots on The View, along with all but one (Fox News) television news media outlet, about 90% of the print media and maybe 50% of talk radio that have an OBVIOUSLY liberal agenda and tell constant lies and half truths to further their agenda. Then there’s the talk shows on television. Bill Mahr, The Daily Show, Jay Leno (a closet conservative) Gonad O’Brien, etc. As far as I know, there really is no conservative voice in television today. There are some that claim to be conservative, but trust me, unless your watching Fox News they simply don’t exist.

My point is this. With this daily barrage of liberal pabulum coming at us like machine gun fire, its just a matter of time before you start to believe the nonsense. The visual media in America have an incredible amount of influence in the way Americans think on virtually ALL issues of the day. And they wield this power to push their agenda.

A good example of this is global warming. The media pushes this nonsense on us daily even though there are a lot of scientists that say that it doesn’t exist. You NEVER here the other side of the story about global warming. This is a link to a film called “The Great Global Warming Swindle” that shows the other side of the global warming argument. Yet the media will constantly run “news” clips of Al Gore and his “Global Warming” religious followers saying “the debate is over.” AND PEOPLE BUY IT, hook, line and sinker. There has been no debate. Furthermore, people are entitled to disagree with anything they choose to disagree with. When I present them with evidence that Global warming is a myth, I’m ridiculed and treated like a religious heretic.

You see the Rosie O’Donnell’s and her ilk in the media count on the fact that most of you reading this article right now can’t remember what you had for dinner last night, let alone what happened in the news 30 years ago or even thirty days ago. Most people wouldn’t remember the JFK assassination if the media wasn’t constantly running “documentaries” and proclaiming him a great leader and calling his marriage “Camelot.” But my daughter doesn’t know who John Hinckley Jr. is. ( He tried to kill Ronald Reagan.) The fact of the matter is with the exception of the Cuban Missile Crisis, John F. Kennedy was a horrible President. Anybody remember “The Bay of Pigs?” Let us not forget that he was responsible for STARTING THE VIETNAM WAR. But amazingly enough, no one, not even my 15 year old daughter who can tell you all about how great JFK was, remembers anything about the afore mentioned FACTS because the media plays like it never happened. They blame Nixon for vietnam. (lol) (By the way, when I was a kid it was global cooling. click here for a link to a global cooling film from thirty years ago.)

What I’m getting at is that most people if forced to formulate their own opinions on issues are not liberals and do not subscribe to that way of thinking. Even some of my liberal friends are more conservative than liberal. The fact of the matter is that until Fox News came along, Americans were hard pressed to find any conservative voice in the media. Liberals constantly attack Fox News and call it a “shill network” for the republicans. When asked, most of my liberal friends that say this have never even turned Fox News on. Now I’m not stupid enough to try to convince anyone that it isn’t a conservative look at the news, but they do present the other side of the story. Hannity (right) and Combs (left). On Fox News Sunday, there are two liberals, two conservatives and the host. THATS CALLED FAIR AND BALANCED. Not like “The View”, where there is a token conservative and three liberals attacking her (Elisabeth Hasselbeck) ideology. Not like “Meet the Press”, where they look for the hard line radical righty and make him look like Hitler.

I am going to close this diatribe with a suggestion to all. Stop watching the news for one month. Read the news instead. I will bet that your take on current events will change. I refuse to watch ANY news on television. I read ALL of my news. When you watch the news they are reading you stories that they want you to hear. The voice is an incredibly powerful tool. You can use the tone of your voice to get your point across. The big heads use inflection to push their agenda. The emphasize words to drive the point home. And the repeat the things they see as important to make you think the way they want you to think. When you read the news, even liberally biased news, it allows you to formulate your own opinions. It also helps you to remember the facts contained in the article rather then just remember what the big heads like Rosie O’Donnell want you to remember. Try it and get back to me. JD

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BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – The family of Virginia Tech gunman Seung-Hui Cho told The Associated Press on Friday that they feel “hopeless, helpless and lost,” and “never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence.” “He has made the world weep. We are living a nightmare,” said a statement issued by Cho’s sister, Sun-Kyung Cho, on the family’s behalf.

It was the Chos’ first public comment since the 23-year-old student killed 32 people and committed suicide Monday in the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

Raleigh, N.C., lawyer Wade Smith provided the statement to the AP after the Cho family reached out to him. Smith said the family would not answer any questions, and neither would he.

“Our family is so very sorry for my brother’s unspeakable actions. It is a terrible tragedy for all of us,” said Sun-Kyung Cho, a 2004 Princeton University graduate who works as a contractor for a State Department office that oversees American aid for Iraq.

“We pray for their families and loved ones who are experiencing so much excruciating grief. And we pray for those who were injured and for those whose lives are changed forever because of what they witnessed and experienced,” she said. “Each of these people had so much love, talent and gifts to offer, and their lives were cut short by a horrible and senseless act.”

The family’s whereabouts are unclear. But authorities said they are under law enforcement protection.

The statement was issued during a statewide day of mourning for the victims. Silence fell across the Virginia Tech campus at noon and bells tolled in churches nationwide in memory of the victims.

“We are humbled by this darkness. We feel hopeless, helpless and lost. This is someone that I grew up with and loved. Now I feel like I didn’t know this person,” Cho’s sister said. “We have always been a close, peaceful and loving family. My brother was quiet and reserved, yet struggled to fit in. We never could have envisioned that he was capable of so much violence.”

She said her family will cooperate fully with investigators and “do whatever we can to help authorities understand why these senseless acts happened. We have many unanswered questions as well.”

Wendy Adams, whose niece, Leslie Sherman, was killed in the massacre, said of the family’s statement: “I’m not so generous to be able to forgive him for what he did. But I do feel for the family. I do feel sorry for them.”

“I do believe they’re living a nightmare,” she added.

Virginia Tech spokesman Larry Hincker said: “Based on this sorrowful statement, it is apparent that the family grieves with everyone in the world.”

Cho’s name was given as “Cho Seung-Hui” by police earlier this week. But the Cho family statement rendered his name in Americanized fashion as “Seung-Hui Cho.”

During the campus memorial earlier in the day, hundreds of somber students and area residents, most wearing the school’s maroon and orange, stood with heads bowed on the parade ground in front of Norris Hall, where all but two of the victims died. Along with the bouquets and candles was a sign reading, “Never forgotten.”

“It’s good to feel the love of people around you,” said Alice Lo, a Virginia Tech graduate and friend of Jocelyne Couture-Nowak, a French instructor killed in the rampage. “With this evil, there is still goodness.”

The mourners gathered in front of stone memorials, each adorned with a basket of tulips and an American flag. There were 33 stones—one for each victim and Cho.

“His family is suffering just as much as the other families,” said Elizabeth Lineberry, who will be a freshman at Virginia Tech in the fall.

President Bush wore an orange and maroon tie in a show of support. The White House said he also asked top officials at the Justice, Health and Human Services and Education Departments to travel the country, talk to educators, mental health experts and others, and compile a report on how to prevent similar tragedies.

Seven people hurt in the rampage remained hospitalized, at least one in serious condition.

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A pretty funny video of that Sanjaya dude on American Idol. Eric Schwartz goofs on his hair and all kinds of fun stuff. Click here.

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LA VERNE – Sheriff’s officials have identified Mathew Wanamaker as the teen who allegedly made threats at Bonita High School in La Verne, causing the school to be closed today.

San Dimas Sheriff’s Cmdr. Bob Osborne said Wanamaker, 17, was reported missing Thursday at about 5 p.m. by members of his family.

Osborne said Wanamaker’s family also reported a gun safe missing that contained three handguns and 1 or 2 shotguns but are unaware if Wanamaker knows the safe’s combination.

Bonita High School is closed today because of security concerns and officials are taking the threats of violence very seriously, Osborne said.

Wanamaker is described as 5′6, 130 pounds and was last seen wearing blue jeans and a grey sweatshirt.

Wanamaker is believed to live on Sedalia Avenue in La Verne and is a student at Bonita High School.

Osborne said Wanamaker threatened the school last month and said the incident was investigated by the La Verne Police Department.

Police said Wanamaker’s family is cooperating with authorities.

The case is being treated only as a missing persons case and no other charges are pending, Osborne said.

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I am beside myself with anger over Cho Seung-Hui and the mass murder at Virginia Tech. It turns out, everyone around this miscreant knew he was whacky. Professor Nikki Giovanni knew Cho Seung-Hui was a nut job. People that lived with him knew he was crazy. It seems that even the police had run ins with this guy and knew he was a mental patient.

But there is a problem in our society that has its origins in the very university system where this tragedy occurred. “Political correctness” and “tolerance.” Because we have become a society so afraid of hurting a persons feelings we’ll let a terrorist on an airplane with a bomb tied around his neck, displayed for all to see, but we will search a eighty five year old grandmother.

The students and the administration of every university and college in America are directly responsible for the massacre that happened yesterday at V-Tech. They walk around placating and appeasing in an attempt to make sure nobody’s feelings get hurt. Well this time it fucking blew up in their faces. I hate to say “I told you so”… but I told you so.

You know what? I hate to be the one to break the news to you, but sometimes people have to be hurt to make themselves and all around them realize that there is a problem. Cho Seung-Hui was a fucking nut bag. Plain and simple. And everyone around him KNEW IT!!! But no one wanted to hurt his feelings.

People FEARED him, knowing he was fucking crazy, but the V-Tech staff sat on their collective thumbs because they didn’t want to make this fucking monster feel hurt or offended. The local law enforcement KNEW Cho Seung-Hui was out of his fucking mind, but no one wanted to cross that imaginary line drawn but the socialist university system and risk a bunch of bad press and protesting IDIOTS that make up the student bodies at these institutions of socialist brain washing.

I blame all of you that work, teach and attend the U.S. university system. This mindset of political correctness emanates from these collective sess pools of higher education. We have quite literally let the lunatics take over the asylum. There are now thirty three families missing their loved ones. Wishing they could just crawl under a fucking rock and and die because of a bunch of wishy washy mamby pamby COWARDS that are afraid to stand up for what they know in their hearts is right!

We are not supposed to be afraid of saying what’s on our minds. We live in a free country where we are allowed to have an opinion. But the University system is bogged down in a quagmire of its own. It lets these self righteous groups of politically correct idiots BULLY anyone that opposes their way of thinking into submission and obscurity. The university systems of America actually seem to condone these bullying tactics by these groups. They allow these student groups to shit all over the first amendment. Now they will have to answer for their actions.

The families of the fallen at V-Tech should sue not only the school and the local law enforcement, but they should name virtually every student group at every university in the United States for causing this mindset in the first place. As long as we let the MINORITY group of POLITICALLY CORRECT ASSHOLES propagate their cowardice across the entire country, than this country is indeed DOOMED! JD

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So here’s how this will play out. Right now the media is still in the “milking the sorrow” phase of their coverage on the V-Tech masacre. Next will be the “asking why” phase. This will be followed by the “blame the gun” phase. Then comes the “blame the gun manufacturer” phase and finally the ” outlaw hand guns” phase. JD

BLACKSBURG, Va. – The gunman in the Virginia Tech massacre was a sullen loner who alarmed professors and classmates with his twisted, violence-drenched creative writing and left a rambling note raging against women and rich kids.

A chilling picture emerged Tuesday of Cho Seung-Hui — a 23-year-old senior majoring in English — a day after the bloodbath that left 33 people dead, including Cho, who killed himself as police closed in.

News reports said that he may have been taking medication for depression and that he was becoming increasingly violent and erratic.

Despite the many warning signs that came to light in the bloody aftermath, police and university officials offered no clues as to exactly what set Cho off on the deadliest shooting rampage in modern U.S. history.

“He was a loner, and we’re having difficulty finding information about him,” school spokesman Larry Hincker said.

A student who attended Virginia Tech last fall provided obscenity- and violence-laced screenplays that he said Cho wrote as part of a playwriting class they both took. One was about a fight between a stepson and his stepfather, and involved throwing of hammers and attacks with a chainsaw. Another was about students fantasizing about stalking and killing a teacher who sexually molested them.

“When we read Cho’s plays, it was like something out of a nightmare. The plays had really twisted, macabre violence that used weapons I wouldn’t have even thought of,” former classmate Ian McFarlane, now an AOL employee, wrote in a blog posted on an AOL Web site. He said he and other students “were talking to each other with serious worry about whether he could be a school shooter.”

“We always joked we were just waiting for him to do something, waiting to hear about something he did,” said another classmate, Stephanie Derry. “But when I got the call it was Cho who had done this, I started crying, bawling.”

Professor Carolyn Rude, chairwoman of the university’s English department, said Cho’s writing was so disturbing that he had been referred to the university’s counseling service.

“Sometimes, in creative writing, people reveal things and you never know if it’s creative or if they’re describing things, if they’re imagining things or just how real it might be,” Rude said. “But we’re all alert to not ignore things like this.”

She said she did not know when he was referred for counseling, or what the outcome was. Rude refused to release any of his writings or his grades, citing privacy laws. The counseling service refused to comment.

Cho — who arrived in the United States as boy from
South Korea in 1992 and was raised in suburban Washington, D.C., where his parents worked at a dry cleaners — left a note in his dorm room that was found after the bloodbath.

A law enforcement official who read Cho’s note described it Tuesday as a typed, eight-page rant against rich kids and religion. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media.

“You caused me to do this,” the official quoted the note as saying.

Cho indicated in his letter that the end was near and that there was a deed to be done, the official said. He also expressed disappointment in his own religion, and made several references to Christianity, the official said.

The official said the letter was either found in Cho’s dorm room or in his backpack. The backpack was found in the hallway of the classroom building where the shootings happened, and contained several rounds of ammunition, the official said.

Col. Steve Flaherty, superintendent of the Virginia State Police, said authorities were going through a considerable number of writings.

Citing unidentified sources, the Tribune also said Cho had recently set a fire in a dorm room and had stalked some women.

Monday’s rampage consisted of two attacks, more than two hours apart — first at a dormitory, where two people were killed, then inside a classroom building, where 31 people, including Cho, died. Two handguns — a 9 mm and a .22-caliber — were found in the classroom building.

The Washington Post quoted law enforcement sources as saying Cho died with the words “Ismail Ax” in red ink on one of his arms, but they were not sure what that meant.

According to court papers, police found a “bomb threat” note — directed at engineering school buildings — near the victims in the classroom building. In the past three weeks, Virginia Tech was hit with two other bomb threats. Investigators have not connected those earlier threats to Cho.

Cho graduated from Westfield High School in Chantilly, Va., in 2003. His family lived in an off-white, two-story townhouse in Centreville, Va.

At least one of those killed in the rampage, Reema Samaha, graduated from Westfield High in 2006. But there was no immediate word from authorities on whether Cho knew the young woman and singled her out.

“He was very quiet, always by himself,” neighbor Abdul Shash said. Shash said Cho spent a lot of his free time playing basketball and would not respond if someone greeted him.

Classmates painted a similar picture. Some said that on the first day of a British literature class last year, the 30 or so students went around and introduced themselves. When it was Cho’s turn, he didn’t speak.

On the sign-in sheet where everyone else had written their names, Cho had written a question mark. “Is your name, `Question mark?’” classmate Julie Poole recalled the professor asking. The young man offered little response.

Cho spent much of that class sitting in the back of the room, wearing a hat and seldom participating. In a small department, Cho distinguished himself for being anonymous. “He didn’t reach out to anyone. He never talked,” Poole said.

“We just really knew him as the question mark kid,” Poole said.

One law enforcement official said Cho’s backpack contained a receipt for a March purchase of a Glock 9 mm pistol. Cho held a green card, meaning he was a legal, permanent resident. That meant he was eligible to buy a handgun unless he had been convicted of a felony.

Roanoke Firearms owner John Markell said his shop sold the Glock and a box of practice ammo to Cho 36 days ago for $571.

“He was a nice, clean-cut college kid. We won’t sell a gun if we have any idea at all that a purchase is suspicious,” Markell said.

Investigators stopped short of saying Cho carried out both attacks. But State Police ballistics tests showed one gun was used in both.

And two law enforcement officials, speaking on condition of anonymity because the information had not been announced, said Cho’s fingerprints were on both guns, whose serial numbers had been filed off.

Gov. Tim Kaine said he will appoint a panel at the university’s request to review authorities’ handling of the disaster. Parents and students bitterly complained that the university should have locked down the campus immediately after the first burst of gunfire and did not do enough to warn people.

Kaine warned against making snap judgments and said he had “nothing but loathing” for those who take the tragedy and “make it their political hobby horse to ride.”

On Tuesday afternoon, thousands of people gathered in the basketball arena for a memorial service for the victims, with an overflow crowd of thousands watching on a jumbo TV screen in the football stadium.
President Bush and the first lady attended.

“As you draw closer to your families in the coming days, I ask you to reach out to those who ache for sons and daughters who are never coming home,” Bush said.

Virginia Tech President Charles Steger received a 30-second standing ovation, despite the criticism of the school administration.

With classes canceled for the rest of the week, many students left town in a hurry, lugging pillows, sleeping bags and backpacks down the sidewalks.

Jessie Ferguson, 19, a freshman from Arlington, headed for her car with tears streaming down her cheeks.

“I’m still kind of shaky,” she said. “I had to pump myself up just to kind of come out of the building. I was going to come out, but it took a little bit of ‘OK, it’s going to be all right. There’s lots of cops around.’”

She added: “I just don’t want to be on campus.”

Stories of heroism and ingenuity emerged Tuesday.

Liviu Librescu, an Israeli engineering and math lecturer, was killed after he was said to have protected his students’ lives by blocking the doorway of his classroom from the gunman. And one student, an Eagle Scout, probably saved his own life by using an electrical cord as a tourniquet around his bleeding thigh, a doctor reported.

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Jesse Jackson was out here in Los Angeles on Monday, April 16, 2007 cranking up his new money making scheme. Are you ready for this? Now he is going after the music industry for producing “rap” music. Yesterday Jesse Jackson held a press conference and made the following accusation; ” The record industry will not produce and publish a record unless the artists say the n-word and rap about abusing women.” Jackson went on to say “Black artists try to keep these derogatory remarks out of their music but the record producers won’t let them.”

Um …. has anyone told Mr. Jackson that almost all rap and hip hop CD’s are produced by black owned labels? Granted, a lot of these black owned companies go to major labels for promotion and publication, but the rap industry is pretty much run by black people. These are the same people that used to be or are still rap artists themselves. Perhaps this is why, when looking for stories on Jesse’s press conference yesterday on Google News, it was nearly impossible to find. Someone from the industry must of set that dumbass straight.

I can remember a few years back, Sony Music as well as most other record labels catching crap about being “racist” for not publishing a lot of black artists because of the derogatory and inflammatory lyrics contained in their music. The bigwigs in the record industry were terrified by repercussions from the public as well as the government.

I can also remember the whole “East Side West Side” wars in rap music where the recording artists were flying from coast to coast to kill each other for lyrics contained on their CD’s. Does anyone remember the name Suge Knight? While criminal charges have never been filed, a number of journalists and hip hop artists have accused Knight of some level of complicity in the murders of both Tupac Amaru Shakur and Christopher Wallace (The Notorious B.I.G.). Theories of possible motives for the murder of Shakur generally revolve around money. Knight is believed to have owed Shakur millions of dollars in royalties, and Shakur had expressed a desire to leave Death Row Records to further pursue his career on his own.

This music is a product of the black community. There is no complicity on the part of the record industry. The industry resisted producing rap music for a lot of years BECAUSE of the lyrics. I guess Jesse Jackson figures if people will believe the global warming myth, they’ll believe anything.

From Wikipedia:
Hip hop began in The Bronx, a borough in New York City, when DJs began isolating the percussion break from funk and disco songs. The early role of the MC was to introduce the DJ and the music and to keep the audience excited. MCs began by speaking between songs, giving exhortations to dance, greetings to audience members, jokes and anecdotes. Eventually this practice became more stylized and became known as rapping. By 1979, hip hop had become a commercially popular music genre and began to enter the American mainstream. In the 1990s, a form of hip hop called gangsta rap became a major part of American music, causing significant controversy over lyrics which were perceived as promoting violence, promiscuity, drug use and misogyny. Nevertheless, by the beginning of the 2000s, hip hop was a staple of popular music charts and was being performed in many styles across the world.

Perhaps Jesse Jackson should do a bit of reading before he opens is mouth looking to run yet another scam on corporate America to bilk it out of more money. Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton produce nothing, yet they are both millionaires. One would think that after being sold a bill of goods time and time again by these two snake oil salesman that the inner city blacks would wake up and smell the bull shit.

JD

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(AP) Injured occupants are carried out of Norris Hall at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Va., Monday, April…

BLACKSBURG, Va. (AP) – A gunman opened fire in a dorm and classroom at Virginia Tech on Monday, killing 21 people in the deadliest campus shooting rampage in U.S. history. The gunman was killed, bringing to death toll to 22, but it was unclear if he was shot by police or took his own life.

“Today the university was struck with a tragedy that we consider of monumental proportions,” said Virginia Tech president Charles Steger. “The university is shocked and indeed horrified.”

The name of the gunman was not immediately released, and investigators offered no motive for the attack. It was not immediately known if the gunman was a student.

FBI spokesman Richard Kolko in Washington said there was no immediate evidence to suggest it was a terrorist attack, “but all avenues will be explored.”

The bloodbath took place at opposite sides of the 2,600-acre campus, beginning at about 7:15 a.m. at West Ambler Johnston, a coed dormitory that houses 895 people, and continuing about two hours later at Norris Hall, an engineering building, authorities said.

Police said they were still investigating the shooting at the dorm – and the campus was under lockdown, with students to stay indoors and away from the windows – when authorities got word of gunfire at the classroom building.

Some of the dead were students. One student was killed in the dorm, and the others were killed in the classroom, Virginia Tech Police Chief W.R. Flinchum.

Up until Monday, the deadliest campus shooting in U.S. history was a rampage that took place in 1966 at the University of Texas at Austin, where Charles Whitman climbed the clock tower and opened fire with a rifle from the 28th-floor observation deck. He killed 16 people before he was shot to death by police. In the Columbine High bloodbath near Littleton, Colo., in 1999, two teenagers killed 12 fellow students and a teacher before taking their own lives.

The deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history was in Killen, Texas, in 1991, when George Hennard drove his pickup into a Luby’s Cafeteria and shot 23 people to death, then himself.

Founded in 1872, Virginia Tech is nestled in the Blue Ridge Mountains of southwestern Virginia, about 160 miles west of Richmond. With more than 25,000 full-time students, it has the state’s largest full-time student population. The school is best known for its engineering school and its powerhouse football team.

The rampage took place on a brisk spring day, with snow flurries swirling around the campus, which is is centered around the Drill Field, a grassy field where military cadets – who now represent a fraction of the student body – once practiced. The dorm and the classroom building are on opposites sides of the Drill Field.

A gasp could be heard at a campus news conference when the police chief said at least 20 people had been killed. Previously, only one person was thought to have been killed.

Investigators from the federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives began marking and recovering the large number of shell casings and will trace the weapon used, according to an ATF official who spoke on condition of anonymity because local authorities are leading the investigation.

A White House spokesman said President Bush was horrified by the rampage and offered his prayers to the victims and the people of Virginia.

“The president believes that there is a right for people to bear arms, but that all laws must be followed,” spokeswoman Dana Perino said

After the shootings, all entrances to the campus were closed, and classes were canceled through Tuesday. The university set up a meeting place for families to reunite with their children at the Inn at Virginia Tech. It also made counselors available and planned a convocation for Tuesday at the basketball arena.

After the shootings, students were told to stay inside away from the windows.

“There’s just a lot of commotion. It’s hard to tell exactly what’s going on,” said Jason Anthony Smith, 19, who lives in the dorm where shooting took place.

Aimee Kanode, a freshman from Martinsville, said the shooting happened on the fourth floor of West Ambler Johnston dormitory, one floor above her room. Kanode’s resident assistant knocked on her door about 8 a.m. to notify students to stay put.

“They had us under lockdown,” Kanode said. “They temporarily lifted the lockdown, the gunman shot again.”

“We’re all locked in our dorms surfing the Internet trying to figure out what’s going on,” Kanode said.

Madison Van Duyne, a student who was interviewed by telephone on CNN, said: “We are all in lockdown. Most of the students are sitting on the floors away from the windows just trying to be as safe as possible.”

Police said there had been bomb threats on campus over the past two weeks by authorities but said they have not determined a link to the shootings.

It was second time in less than a year that the campus was closed because of a shooting.

Last August, the opening day of classes was canceled and the campus closed when an escaped jail inmate allegedly killed a hospital guard off campus and fled to the Tech area. A sheriff’s deputy involved in the manhunt was killed on a trail just off campus. The accused gunman, William Morva, faces capital murder charges.

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“My loved one is dead and the only way to replace them is with stacks of cash!” The families of the shuttle astronauts shouldn’t have been given anything. These people and their families knew that there was a level of risk involved with sitting on top of a controlled explosion and being hurled into space.

Shit happens. But I would bet all of the money the families receieved from NASA that they were right in line to collect that money all the while saying shit like “it doesn’t replace my son/daughter/husband/wife, but we will use this money to keep their memory alive.” Bull shit. You will use the money to buy cars you don’t need, vacation houses you will let fall apart and and whole pile of crap you don’t need. Just like those leeches that receieved millions because of the 9/11 disaster. Leeches one and all. JD

NASA reportedly paid $26.6 million to the families of the seven astronauts who died aboard space shuttle Columbia in the 2003 tragedy, according to the Orlando Sentinel. The documents, kept secret for two and a half years, were obtained through a federal Freedom of Information Act request.

The request led to the release of just seven pages, which give scarce information. The U.S. space agency apparently recruited former FBI Director William Webster, who is was also a judge, to act as a mediator between the NASA and the families.

“The members of the [survivors'] families wanted this to be a private matter,” said Webster, a consulting partner in Washington with the international law firm of Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy. “They were healing, and they were ready to discuss, properly, their rights. . . . Everyone felt it had a better chance of coming together without seeing their name in lights.”

“The Columbia astronauts were our friends and co-workers,” NASA spokesman Allard Beute wrote to the Orlando Sentinel. “Our concern always has been with the crew’s families and their loss, and as a result NASA didn’t announce details of the settlement in an effort to protect the personal privacy of the Columbia families.”

One survivor of a tragedy’s victim told the newspaper that NASA showed deference by not allowing a lawsuit in a hard period for the astronauts’ families. “We were in a state of shock,” he said. “To go the lawsuit route, it’s very painful and very protracted. So we settled,” said Dr. Jon Clark, widower of astronaut Laurel Blair Salton Clark.

The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas during re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere, shortly before concluding its 28th mission, STS-107.

The loss of the Columbia was caused by damage sustained during launch when a piece of foam insulation the size of a small briefcase broke off the main propellant tank under the aerodynamic forces of launch. The debris struck the leading edge of the left wing on the number 8 reinforced-carbon-carbon (RCC) tile, damaging the Shuttle’s thermal protection system (TPS). While Columbia was still in orbit, some engineers suspected damage, but NASA managers limited the investigation on the grounds that little could be done even if problems were found.

The crew of STS-107 was:

* Commander: Rick D. Husband, a US Air Force colonel and mechanical engineer, who piloted a previous shuttle during the first docking with the International Space Station (STS-96).
* Pilot: William C. McCool, a US Navy commander
* Payload Commander: Michael P. Anderson, a US Air Force lieutenant colonel and physicist who was in charge of the science mission.
* Payload Specialist: Ilan Ramon, a colonel in the Israeli Air Force and the first Israeli astronaut.
* Mission Specialist: Kalpana Chawla, an Indian-born aerospace engineer on her second space mission.
* Mission Specialist: David M. Brown, a US Navy captain trained as an aviator and flight surgeon. Brown worked on a number of scientific experiments.
* Mission Specialist: Laurel Clark, a US Navy captain and flight surgeon. Clark worked on a number of biological experiments.

On March 26 the United States House of Representatives’ Science Committee approved funds for the construction of a memorial at Arlington National Cemetery for the STS-107 crew. A similar memorial was built at the cemetery for the last crew of Space Shuttle Challenger. On October 28, 2003, the names of the astronauts were added to the Astronaut Memorial at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex.

The landing site of the Mars rover Spirit was named Columbia Memorial Station by NASA, and a complex of hills east of the landers was dubbed the Columbia Hills. The Spirit lander included a memorial plaque to the Columbia crew mounted on the back of its high gain antenna.

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Congratulations Chicago! I would much rather see terrorists blow up your neighborhood than my own here in Los Angeles. We had the olympics in 1984 and quite frankly, having all those foreigners here might piss of all the foreigners here. Now that we here been officially declared “Upper Tiajuana” by the millions of illegal aliens here from Mexico, technically the 2016 games would be held in Los Angeles, Mexico, not the United States. So have fun with that. JD

WASHINGTON, April 14 — Moments after Chicago beat out Los Angeles on Saturday to be the United States’ bid city for the 2016 Summer Olympics, representatives from Chicago’s Olympic bid stopped floating and got serious.

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley after his city received the U.S. bid over Los Angeles. Chicago has never played host to the Olympics.

“We’re going to go to work, probably tonight, maybe tomorrow, certainly no later than tomorrow,” said Pat Ryan, chairman of the city’s bid committee. “It’s just the beginning. It’s a long road.”

Winning the bid means Chicago is now in competition again, this time with several international cities, to win the 2016 Summer Games. The goal is to win at least 60 votes from the International Olympic Committee in the final stage of voting, which will take place in October 2009. Madrid, Prague, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Tokyo are expected to be in the mix.

The 11-member United States Olympic Committee board took about two hours Saturday before announcing that Chicago was the city that would advance to that final cut. The vote, which U.S.O.C. Chairman Peter V. Ueberroth called “a very tough decision,” left Los Angeles’s representatives stunned as the Chicago contingent erupted in cheers.

Chicago has never played host to an Olympics, while Los Angeles has had two Games, in 1932 and 1984; the 1984 Olympics was the first to end with a profit. The two cities had already beaten out Houston, Philadelphia and San Francisco for a chance at the bid.

Mayor Richard M. Daley of Chicago was among those who jumped to his feet Saturday. It was, “like a kid watching the Olympics,” he said. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles rushed to congratulate Daley.

“This is a proud moment for every Chicagoan, but it’s also a proud moment for all of us,” said Villaraigosa, insisting that he would support Chicago’s bid because he would like to see the Olympics come to the United States.

In the early afternoon Saturday, representatives from Chicago and Los Angeles gave their final 40-minute presentations to the U.S.O.C. board. Each group said it felt confident that it had offered the best package for the Olympics, with the financing, the strategy and the enthusiasm to be a perfect host.

Two hours later, after a closed vote, U.S.O.C. officials said both cities offered bids strong enough to have the Games.

Bob Ctvrtlik, chairman of the U.S.O.C.’s candidate city evaluation committee, said Chicago won partly because of its financial guarantees and its plan for new facilities, particularly a $1.1 billion athletes village on Lake Michigan, south of downtown, and an 80,000-seat, temporary Olympic stadium costing $366 million. He said that the waterfront area would “recreate a certain magic” that the Olympics needed to succeed.

U.S.O.C. officials had a specific list of requirements for success in the bidding process. They asked for a carefully crafted financial plan and an Olympic stadium built or already approved. They also asked that the governments of the cities promise to guarantee to pay for any overruns if private financing failed to pay the cost of the Games.

Chicago’s pitch included $500 million in taxpayer-backed financial guarantees from the city council and more than $32 million from the private sector.

The requirements show that the U.S.O.C. approached this selection differently than it had in the past, particularly in light of the failed New York City bid for the 2012 Games. In 2005, New York City went into the I.O.C.’s final vote on those Games without an Olympic stadium plan. The proposal for the West Side stadium had been defeated one month before.

This time, the Chicago contingent and the U.S.O.C. said they would work together to prevent that embarrassment.

“It will be a true partnership,” Ctvrtlik said. “It wasn’t that way in 2012. It will be that way for the 2016 bid.”

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If nothing else, Don Imus went out with a bang.

After drawing ire from civil liberties and women’s rights groups, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, Oprah Winfrey and Snoop Dogg all in the course of one week, Imus was booted Thursday from his perch in the upper echelons of morning radio, with CBS pulling the plug on the controversial host’s syndicated Imus in the Morning in light of the slur he directed at Rutgers’ women’s basketball team last week.

The “effective immediately” part of CBS Corp. Chairman Leslie Moonves’ directive only applied to Mr. Imus, however, as Imus’ wife, Deirdre, took to the airwaves Friday to, for starters, wrap up the previously scheduled weeklong fundraiser that her husband had been presiding over and, presumably, to tidy up some of the mess left behind when Imus’ career unexpectedly imploded on-air.

“In taking him off the air, I believe we take an important and necessary step not just in solving a unique problem, but in changing that culture, which extends far beyond the walls of our company,” Moonves wrote in an email to staffers.

Imus’ exit from CBS came a day after MSNBC announced it would be dropping its televised simulcast of his show.

Deirdre Imus, who was more or less forced to cancel a book tour to promote her new how-to tome Green This! so as to focus on more pressing matters at home, reiterated during the show Friday how terrible her hubby felt—and still feels—for all the pain he has caused over the past week and a half.

She also discussed her and Imus’ meeting Thursday night at the New Jersey governor’s mansion with Rutgers coach C. Vivian Stringer and her players, the first face-to-face gathering between the offender and the objects of his absurd “nappy-headed ho’s” remark. (Governor Jon Corzine was not present after being critically injured in a car crash earlier in the day.)

“This is all very tragic,” Deirdre Imus said. “There is a lot of healing to do here…He feels awful, after meeting with these girls and having that opportunity to talk with them. He asked them, ‘I want to know the pain I caused, and I want to know how to fix this and change this.”

Luckily for Imus, the ladies from Rutgers are looking to put this incident behind them, as well.

“We, the Rutgers University Scarlet Knight basketball team accept—accept—Mr. Imus’ apology, and we are in the process of forgiving,” Stringer said in a statement Friday.

“We still find his statements to be unacceptable,” she continued. “And this is an experience that we will never forget. These comments are indicative of greater ills in our culture. It is not just Mr. Imus. And we hope that this will be and serve as a catalyst for change. Let us continue to work hard together to make this world a better place.”

During Friday’s show, Deirdre Imus described the team as a group of “unbelievably courageous and beautiful women,” adding, “One thing I want to say is the hate mail that’s being sent to them must stop. If you want to send hate mail, send it to my husband.”

As Stringer said, there are “greater ills in our culture” that need worrying about.

“We’re not going to address that,” she told reporters Friday, referring to the hate mail issue. “I think what we wanted to talk about is the healing process and that’s what we want to do. We have accepted Mr. Imus’ apology. What he did and what he said—which we all know—was just symptomatic of the greater ills of society. I think America has spoken.”

A team spokeswoman told the Associated Press that the Scarlet Knights may have received two or three negative emails, but have also gotten “over 600 wonderful emails.”

As to how she and her girls feel about Imus’ firing, Stringer remained diplomatic.

“At no time did the Rutgers University women’s basketball team ask for his job,” she said. “And it would sadden me for anyone to lose their job—and I do mean anyone to lose their job…We weren’t calling for his job and he came in spite of the fact that he lost his job. So let’s give him credit for that.”

A radio station in Southern California is planning to give Imus more than credit.

San Bernardino-based KCAA-AM is planning to run “Best of Imus” programming next week, starting with the Apr. 4 show in which Imus emitted the slur heard round the world. That installment in its entirety—interspersed with samples of mail and emails received from listeners regarding the controversy—will air Monday at 6 a.m. PT.

“Unless we get a court order to cease and desist, we’re going to run it,” KCAA chairman Fred Lundgren, who admits that Imus in the Morning has been the lynchpin of their a.m. lineup since they started airing the show in 2003, told the Los Angeles Times. “I’m not going to let networks dictate to me who I run on my station.”

Imus hosted his show, which aired from New York’s WFAN-AM and had been nationally syndicated since 1993, for more than 30 years, many of which were dogged by allegations of racism, homophobia, misogyny and other crimes against common sense.

“It’s not over,” Steve Rendall, of media watchdog group Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, told the NY Times. “CBS and NBC need to explain why they aired Imus for years knowing his record and how that comported with their standards and practices. We are betting it didn’t.”

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First of all, to the retards at Bloomberg News, Look up the word “racist” and then look up the “bigot.” The correct word to use here is “Bigotry.” Don Imus’ comments were not racist. He didn’t say he wanted to hang anyone from a tree. Mr. Imus didn’t say he wanted to tar and feather anyone. He made fun of the Rutgers Womens Basketball team.

By the way I pointed this out in a prior article, but it bears repeating. The definition of the word “nappy” is “woolen or matted.” Most black people have hair that can be considered woolen or matted. Granted, Mr. Imus’ remarks were insensitive and possibly inappropriate, but not racist.

As for black America, you can’t have it both ways. You can’t sit around calling each other names and then say that other people that aren’t black can’t use the same verbiage. That in and of itself is bigotry. It doesn’t make any difference what color you are. Bigotry is bigotry.

As for Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, these two morons are race baders. Nothing more. They have been selling Americans a bill of goods for years and they should both be put in prison for their behavior and their theivery. JD

By Don Jeffrey

April 12 (Bloomberg) — CBS Radio fired talk-show host Don Imus after his racially charged comments sparked protests from civil-rights leaders and advertisers.

CBS Radio said “Imus in the Morning” will be off the air permanently, joining cable-television network MSNBC, which yesterday canceled its simulcast of the show.

“All of us have been deeply upset and revulsed by the statements that were made on our air,” CBS Corp. Chief Executive Officer Leslie Moonves said today in an e-mailed statement. New York-based CBS owns CBS Radio.

Imus called the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” on April 4. CBS and MSNBC reversed an earlier decision to suspend the host for two weeks as calls grew louder for his firing and the show’s largest advertisers, including General Motors Corp. and Sprint Nextel Corp., pulled their ads.

Imus’s ability to attract high-profile political guests such as John McCain, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman, drew listeners and made it the top-grossing show on CBS. He generated more than 25 percent of revenue for CBS’s WFAN radio station in New York, or about $12 million, according to Mark Fratrik, vice president of BIA Financial Network, a broadcast consulting firm in Chantilly, Virginia. The show was carried on more than 60 stations across the country.

`Snowballing Quickly’

“It was snowballing pretty quickly,” James Goss, an analyst at Barrington Research in Chicago, said in an interview. He has an “outperform” rating on the shares and said he owns them. “I think it went beyond finances to the corporate image and the corporate culture.”

Civil-rights leaders Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson both called for Imus to be fired, as did presidential candidate Barack Obama. CBS director Bruce Gordon, a former president of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, joined the chorus yesterday, the Associated Press reported.

“I understand their decision. I’m aware of the enormous pressure they were under,” Imus said of MSNBC executives during his CBS broadcast this morning. MSNBC is owned by General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal.

Imus’s two-day charity radiothon will continue tomorrow on WFAN without the host, CBS said.

Shares of CBS rose 42 cents to $31.41 at 4 p.m. in New York Stock Exchange composite trading. Fairfield, Connecticut-based General Electric rose 24 cents to $35.19. New York-based Westwood One Inc., which syndicates Imus’s show in the U.S., fell 1 cent to $6.78.

Stern, Hollander

Advertising rates for Imus’ show were the highest of any program on CBS Radio, said Edward Jones & Co. analyst Robin Diedrich, who has a “hold” rating on the shares and doesn’t own them.

The network is still reeling from the departure of Howard Stern to Sirius Satellite Radio Inc. at the end of 2005. Stern brought in about $100 million in ad revenue each year, Diedrich said. Last month, CBS replaced CBS Radio chief executive officer Joel Hollander with Dan Mason.

“This is not going to help CBS Radio which still hasn’t recovered from the loss of Howard Stern,” said Diedrich, who is based in St. Louis. “Imus’s rates may not be as high as what they got for Stern but it’s a pretty good comparison.”

`Long Practice’

Imus has drawn criticism for his racial comments before. He once called black journalist Gwen Ifill “a cleaning lady” and New York Times sports columnist William Rhoden “a quota hire.”

“He should be fired for adopting a practice over a long period of time of abusing groups of people in this country,” said Leo Hindery, managing partner of InterMedia Partners, which invests in media companies. “This isn’t the first time he’s been insulting to ethnic groups. This crossed the line.”

Moonves said he met with several groups before making the decision.

“In our meetings with concerned groups, there has been much discussion of the effect language like this has on our young people, particularly young women of color trying to make their way in this society,” Moonves said in the statement. “That consideration has weighed most heavily on our minds as we made our decision.”

NBC Meeting

NBC News president Steve Capus made the decision to drop Imus from MSNBC with Jeff Zucker, chief executive officer of NBC Universal.

“I received very powerful messages from people who work for this organization,” Capus said on CNBC yesterday. The network’s decision “is the only course of action that makes any sense.”

Vivian Stringer, coach of the Rutgers team, said on Oprah Winfrey’s show today that the team wasn’t calling for Imus’s firing. The team and Imus plan to meet soon.

“We want the opportunity for a face-to-face meeting,” Stringer said. “Perhaps there will be a catharsis of sorts.”

Imus had asked for a meeting to apologize to the players.

“I’ll meet with them and then we’ll move on,” Imus said today. “I’m really not a racist. I also can’t help it if I’m stupid. I said a hideous, despicable thing.”

“Nappy-headed” is an insulting term for the hair of black people. “Ho” is slang for whore.

Imus “has flourished in culture that permits a certain level of objectionable expression that hurts and demeans a wide range of people,” Moonves said in a memo to employees today. “In taking him off the air, I believe we take an important and necessary step not just in solving a unique problem but in changing that culture.”

To contact the reporters on this story: Don Jeffrey in New York at djeffrey1@bloomberg.net

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If so called “environmentalists” were true environmentalists, they would kill themselves because their mere presence on earth is causing harm to the environment. JD

London, April 11: Pop diva Madonna has been accused of hypocrisy, after she failed to practice what she preached.

The ‘American Life’ singer, who is set to participate in the Live Earth concert at Wembley stadium to raise awareness of environmental issues, has been condemned as a hypocrite for failing to lead an environmentally friendly life herself.

Environmentalists and green campaigners, who have attacked all the performers at the London Live Earth show, particularly Madonna and Red Hot Chili Peppers, say that the celebrities are among the least “green” individuals on the planet.

While slamming Madonna, the campaigners said that the Material Girl’s lifestyle entailed numerous jet flights on world tours, emitting large carbon footprints.

They pointed out Madonna’s last years world excursion, in which the singer flew as many as 100 technicians, dancers, backing singers, managers and family members in private jets and commercial airliners.

The campaigners also blamed Madonna for owning fuel-guzzling cars on one hand and propagating the environment issue on the other.

“Madonna`s Confessions tour produced 440 tonnes of CO2 in four months of last year. And that was just the flights between the countries, not taking into account the truckloads of equipment needed, the power to stage such a show and the transport of all the thousands of fans getting to the gigs,” the Daily Mail quoted John Buckley, managing director-of CarbonFootprint.com, as saying.

“The Red Hot Chili Peppers produced 220 tonnes of CO2 with their private jet alone over six months on their last world tour which was 42 dates. The average a British person produces is 10 tonnes a year,” he added.

Buckley added that there is no point in celebrities promoting a cause if they don’t implement it in their on lifestyles.

“It`s great for the celebrities to come out and support the cause, but they then have to follow it up in their own lifestyles. We should now keep a close eye on whether Madonna and the others makes any changes to their own lifestyle. Perhaps her next world tour will be performed in one venue, but broadcast to billions over the internet,” he said.

The Live Earth shows, which are a medium to highlight the importance of climate change, will be held on 7 July in seven different places of the world.

The main idea behind the concerts is to set a “green example” for other music events by using measures such as eco-friendly electricity, sustainable lighting and carbon-neutral travel.

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C’mon man. Don Imus suspended for telling the truth? They do have nappy hair. Here is the Merriam Websters definition of the word “nappy.”

Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English noppe, from Middle Dutch, flock of wool, nap
: a hairy or downy surface (as on a fabric)

Is there anyone out there that is going to try to tell me that black people, when not using expensive straightening treatments, don’t have natually curly hair? I guess I’m the only man alive that ever watched Soul Train where they openly sold the hair product “Afrosheen” which used the catch phrase “keeps your hair from looking nappy.” When a black man or woman pulls their hair back tightly is becomes nappy. There is nothing racist about it.

I would also point out that in America, white people are afforded the same right to free speech that our minority friends are afforded. I routinely hear blacks and hispanics ripping whitey for all kinds of shit and calling us names like “honky” and “cracker”. They also have their own racist awards shows that excluded anyone that isn’t like them. Besides all that, women shouldn’t play basketball anyway. They suck at it and they can’t slam either, LOL. Food for thought ….

JD

Don Imus, the nationally syndicated shock jock who called members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team “nappy-headed ho’s,” was suspended for two weeks Monday by his employers, CBS Radio and MSNBC. But a growing chorus of civil rights leaders and media critics argue that suspension is not sufficient and that Imus should be permanently removed from his chair.

Imus, whose radio show is heard locally on KVON 1440 AM, based in Napa, and is simulcast on the MSNBC cable network, is renowned for making racist, sexist and generally tasteless remarks. He unleashed a fury last week when, while watching highlights from the women’s NCAA championship game, Imus and his studio cohorts riffed on the women’s appearance, comparing them to tattooed, male players.

“He touched every hot rail,” said Harry Edwards, professor emeritus at UC Berkeley and a longtime sports consultant, who said Imus should be fired and his show canceled. “There’s the issue of black women being demeaned for their appearance and their hair, the belittling of their basic dignity. There’s the issue of black women’s sensuality and sexuality and promiscuity. … Imus hit them all. The only thing he left out was to drop an n-bomb.”

The incident followed recent slurs by comedian Michael Richards, actor Mel Gibson and conservative pundit Ann Coulter. Yet critics say Imus’ verbal barrage was no mere slip of the tongue but evidence of an ingrained pattern of hate speech that should not be permitted on the national airwaves.

The Rev. Cecil Williams of San Francisco’s Glide Memorial Church said such rants unfortunately are growing more common.

“But I can’t say I’m really surprised,” he said. “It was always there as an undercurrent, an expression of what some white folks have been feeling all along.”

Imus’ show, which combines often rude and freewheeling humor with appearances by such prominent political and media figures as Bill Clinton, Illinois Sen. Barack Obama, Tim Russert and Andrea Mitchell, draws an estimated 2.5 million listeners nationwide per week, according to CBS Radio. The audience for the MSNBC television show has grown to 361,000 viewers per day, up 39 percent from last year.

Bob Butler, a KCBS freelance reporter and president of the Bay Area Black Journalists Association, said national members were weighing options that ranged from refusing to appear on the Imus show to boycotting the show’s advertisers.

“If you’re trying to sell a book, you have to decide whether you want to go on Imus just to sell something,” Butler said. “Or look down the road and ask, ‘Is this going to hurt me having this guy supporting me?’ I would call on all guests to take a stand against this racial hatred.”

Imus spent part of Monday engaged in damage control. On the Rev. Al Sharpton’s radio show just hours before his suspension, Imus sounded deferential, repeatedly calling the host “Sir,” and conceded that his comments about the Rutgers team were not funny. Still, he denied they were racist. “Our agenda is to be funny,” Imus told Sharpton. “Sometimes we go too far, and sometimes we go way too far.”

The Rev. Jesse Jackson led a protest demanding his dismissal in front of the NBC offices in Chicago, one of several he plans to hold around the country. Rutgers University President Richard McCormick denounced Imus’ comments as “extremely hurtful” and said the college expected Imus’ employers to take the matter seriously.

Karl Frisch, director of media relations at Media Matters for America, a nonprofit group that monitors Imus and other controversial pundits, hopes politicians and journalists will reconsider sharing airtime with the host. “It gives his show a legitimacy,” Frisch said. “It bolsters the show’s presence and sends the message that this is a legitimate place for broad political discussion instead of what it is, which is a place for hate speech.”

On Monday afternoon, retired baseball star Cal Ripken Jr. canceled a scheduled book promotion on Imus’ show.

Obama, who appeared on “Imus in the Morning” last year to promote his memoir, told The Chronicle through a spokesperson: “With a public platform comes a trust. As far as I’m concerned, he violated that trust.”

Rory Blank, a 24-year-old African American student at San Francisco City College, said she felt “demeaned and angered” by Imus’ comments. “I hear this sort of thing a lot, especially from young white males who think it’s just a joke and a way to bond with each other.”

Edwards, the Berkeley sociologist, believed several factors lay behind the intensity of the African American response to Imus’ remarks. One is the proliferation of the damaging stereotypes of women, particularly in rap music. Another is the sluggishness of the mainstream media reaction to Imus’ remarks, which he made Wednesday.

“They were going to give him a pass,” Edwards said. “I think that has a lot to do with the leading lights of the Washington and New York press corps who are always appearing on his show.”

Bob Agnew, program director of Bay Area AM radio stations KNEW and KQKE, has his own experience with on-air comments that riled the public.

Agnew lost his program director’s job at KNBR in 2005 when host Larry Krueger referred to “brain-dead Caribbean hitters” on the San Francisco Giants baseball team. The crisis developed when that line and others were jokingly replayed by KNBR’s morning disc jockeys.

“When you have a mike on you have to know where the line is,” said Agnew. “There’s no set rulebook for where it is. You just have to know.”

Agnew said Imus’ remarks were “about the most blatantly egregious things I’ve heard” but added that the decision about his future might well have more to do with ratings. “It all comes down to economics.”

Oakland-based writer Ben Fong-Torres, who writes a radio column for The Chronicle’s Sunday Datebook, said that while this was yet another example of foot-in-the-mouth disease by a radio broadcaster, Imus might be powerful enough to weather calls for his resignation.

“I think he’s popular enough in the ratings and powerful enough in political circles,” Fong-Torres said. “Even if he doesn’t pull out of it, someone will step in right in to fill his place.”
Previous slurs by Don Imus

March 16: Imus’ producer Bernard McGuirk, while performing “in character,” refers to Sen. Barack Obama as a “young colored fellah.” He later refers to Hillary Clinton as a “bitch.”

November 2006: Imus calls out his “Jewish management” at CBS Radio as “money-grubbing bastards.”

November 2004: During Yasser Arafat’s funeral, Imus producer Sid Rosenberg calls the Palestinian people “stinking animals” and suggests, “They ought to drop the bomb right there, kill ‘em all right now.”

1998: A reporter claims Imus called PBS commentator Gwen Ifill a “cleaning lady,” but Imus later denies he uttered the remark.

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