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Article: Imus Embarrassed by Own Rutgers Remarks
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- AP Online
- Article date:
- April 9, 2007
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NEW YORK - After being criticized for his racially charged comments about the Rutgers University women's basketball team, radio host Don Imus said Monday that he's a good person who said a bad thing and will check his acid tongue.
"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. "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 because that has to change, and I understand that."
Imus said he was "embarrassed" by the remarks, in which he referred to the mostly black team as ...