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Let us continue to work hard together to make this world a better place. They took over his radio fundraiser Friday after CBS fired the host for racist remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team. Deirdre Imus described her husband's brief meeting with the Rutgers team the night before and praised the women as "beautiful and courageous. In a strange twist, the man who had suggested the New Jersey governor's mansion as a location for the meeting, Gov.

Jon Corzine, was not there. He is in the hospital after a serious car accident on his way back to the mansion. The two-day radio fundraiser had been scheduled long before Don Imus' on-air description of team members as "nappy-headed hos" set off a national debate about taste and tolerance.

On Wednesday, a week after the remark and after advertisers began pulling their support, MSNBC said it would no longer televise the show. CBS fired Imus Thursday from the radio show that he has hosted for nearly 30 years. The team's goal was never to get Imus fired, Stringer said. Deirdre Imus' radio hosting career may be short-lived: Westwood One, which syndicates the "Imus in the Morning" program, notified its affiliates that Boston radio talk show host Mike Barnicle, a frequent guest on "Imus," would take over the timeslot for the next two weeks.

Imus has apologized repeatedly for his comments. He also has said that those who called for his firing without knowing him, his philanthropic work or what his show was about would be making an "ill-informed" choice. Imus said Thursday said he had apologized enough and plans to meet with members of the Rutgers players. That's all I'm interested in doing.

About 30 angry NBC News employees, many of them black, met with news division president Steve Capus and said they'd had it with Imus' brand of coarse ethnic humor. Vivian Stringer. Allen said he didn't buy the argument that Imus was "edgy" and had hurled slurs at many others. Sharpton, who led a "Fire Imus" movement, did not immediately return a call for comment. He said last month that he would not oppose the year-old deejay's return to radio. Please enter email address to continue.

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