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April 13, 2007

Don Imus' Number One Supporter: His Wife


Don Imus may be gone from CBS, but now everyone is working overtime to clean up the mess he left behind, and “Extra” has details on the all-new fallout.

“Wow, talk about a crash and burn,” movie legend Robert Redford said of the situation. “I think he’s been asking for it for a long time; you can’t get away with that stuff.”

Also in support of Imus’ termination was Oprah Winfrey, who appeared on “Larry King Live” Monday night.

“I have my own radio channel, and if someone on my radio channel had made such degrading remarks, I would have fired them,” she said.

Meanwhile, NFL great Tiki Barber, who starts his “Today” show gig on Monday, tackled the controversy for “Extra.”

“With great power comes a great responsibility,” Barber said. “And he's paying for it.”

“Extra” learned today that Imus is leaning on his wife, Deirdre, for support, as she sits in and takes over the morning show mic for her exiled husband.

“We hope to come to a healing at some point here,” the missus said.

Deirdre, the best selling author of “Green This!,” met the radio mogul in 1992 when she auditioned for a skit on his radio show.

They married two years later, and she was by her husband’s side Thursday night inside his private meeting with the Rutgers women’s basketball team.

“The hate mail being sent to them must stop. These women and courageous and beautiful,” Diedre said of the collegiate athletes.

So what’s next for the man with more than 40 years of radio experience attached to his name?

We’re told CBS will take a $15 million hit by killing the syndicated Imus show… but the big question is who will replace him.

Media Week’s Marc Berman gave “Extra” a few possible names.

“Look at somebody like a Ray Romano, or a Jerry Seinfeld, somebody like a Jamie Foxx, Steve Harvey,” Berman said. “There's a lot of old TV faces that could step in and do the job.”


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JAMIE FOXX VERBALLY ASSAULTS A WHITE TEENAGE GIRL (MILEY CYRUS) AND HE GETS AWAY WITH IT?

WHY DID IMUS GET FIRED? HOW IS JAMIE FOXX BETTER THAN IMUS? BECAUSE JAMIE FOXX IS BLACK AND IMUS IS WHITE. THAT IS WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS.

WHITE PEOPLE DON’T HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE MINORITY.

EXTRA, EXTRA, PLEASE POST MY COMMENT.


- Anonymous
Posted 05/31/09 06:02 PM
 

JAMIE FOXX VERBALLY ASSAULTS A WHITE TEENAGE GIRL (MILEY CYRUS) AND HE GETS AWAY WITH IT?

WHY DID IMUS GET FIRED? HOW IS JAMIE FOXX BETTER THAN IMUS? BECAUSE JAMIE FOXX IS BLACK AND IMUS IS WHITE. THAT IS WHAT THE DIFFERENCE IS.

WHITE PEOPLE DON’T HAVE FREEDOM OF SPEECH, WHITE PEOPLE ARE THE MINORITY.

EXTRA, EXTRA, PLEASE POST MY COMMENT.


- EXTRA, EXTRA, PLEASE POST MY COMMENT.
Posted 05/31/09 01:16 PM
 

Could you help me. The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
I am from Congo and also now am reading in English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “And to block the pathogenic mechanism of allergic rhinitis.Tulasi, basil, holy basil extract, anti asthmatic, cough, cold, asthma.”

Thanks for the help :-(, Kaikara.


- Hunter
Posted 05/31/09 10:45 AM
 

Sorry. There are no wise few. Every aristocracy that has ever existed has behaved, in all essential points, exactly like a small mob.
I am from Arabia and learning to write in English, tell me right I wrote the following sentence: “It is rare that such consolidators ever sell air tickets directly to the public cheap flights with more than travel companies displaying over one million sta travel compares flight prices across all major airline groups.”

Best regards :-(, Donald.


- Donald
Posted 03/30/09 12:39 PM
 

Give please. The pain of making the necessary sacrifices always hurts more than you think it’s going to. I know. It sucks. That being said, doing something seriously creative is one of the most amazing experiences one can have, in this or any other lifetime. If you can pull it off, it’s worth it. Even if you don’t end up pulling it off, you’ll learn many incredible, magical, valuable things. It’s NOT doing it when you know you full well you HAD the opportunity- that hurts FAR more than any failure.
I am from Yemen and now teach English, give true I wrote the following sentence: “Cheap student airfares, find cheap airfare, cheap international airfare tickets, cheap airline tickets to madrid.”

;-) Thanks in advance. Patty.


- Patty
Posted 03/29/09 10:19 AM
 

Don Imus you are missed and what happened to freedon of speech for white people?? I no longer watch MSNBC Or the Oprah show and if and when A.Sharpton and Jessie Jackson are on the air I hit the off button. Thanks for all you do and have done at the ranch for all those children—-you are a good man. Helen Henie


- HELEN
Posted 07/11/07 06:34 AM
 

Tiki Barber is having a affair with my wife.


- Charles Lee
Posted 06/13/07 02:11 PM
 

Saying Extra for me does not work! I can’t post under my name, and have not received the courtesy of a reply from Extra to know why they are treating me this way!

I used to be very fond of this site with all the topics possible to comment on. But, Extra choose to black list with no good reason. It started from when I said Denzil Washington refused to kiss any white actress! Ha! Extra is racist!


- Anonymous
Posted 04/23/07 01:38 PM
 

Extra has a great site here, but sometimes the comments just are not allowed. I seem to have been barred, but am trying this again, by saying the word Extra, as Michael Lange suggested.

It will be difficult to make sensible sentences if I have to keep doing this!

I wonder if anything has been learned by those who sacked Imus? He should be re-instated!


- Donni-Jay
Posted 04/23/07 01:34 PM
 

Firing Imus stinks and so does that stew bum looking Capus of NBC !!! I think that unshaven slug is of the same ilk as those opputunistic REVERENDS Al and JESSE. I feel that Imus was railroaded and his fans have no voice. I can’t wait until he is on some other station!!!!!!!!!


- ed
Posted 04/19/07 04:33 PM
 

EXTRA! EXTRA! Read all about it. Obviously the man made an EXTRA inappropriate comment, but bear in mind that Mr. Imus was hired as a Shock Jock; one who has been making such comments for 30 years, and who’s contract has been renewed on several occasions despite the EXTRA remarks. Therefore, it doesn’t appear as though this is a case of the network trying to make amends towards Rutgers; rather, an attempt to appease its advertisers. On that note, why aren’t the advertisers pulling out any venue that contains similar phraseology? All these things support the existence of what some of the public presume to be an EXTRA double standard; a standard implying, to be specific, that unless you’re Black American…You can’t say these things. In reality, these things shouldn’t be acceptable by anyone; and on this, people from all walks of life agree. Agree or disagree if you will; for topics like this can be discussed ad nauseam, changing nothing and repeating everything, until all concerned take an EXTRA honest look to what point in time this vernacular became so commonplace as to denote acceptability. I personally don’t recall hearing any of it until the inception of rap music; and even upon its earliest introduction in the late 70s’, I don’t remember the genre containing a fraction of the vulgarity it contains today. It did however evolve to the existing level in the mid 80s’; given the label “hard core”; its use excused, even today, as merely an expression of real life in the hood. Appropriate under the circumstances…for what genre doesn’t express themselves based upon experiences or desires? It’s not often what we say however, but how we say it that counts. I can hear it now; If we spoke differently in our music, than how we speak on the streets…How would our people relate to it? Good question; one to which I’ll reply…Why are your people, those who you feel can relate, speaking on that level. It can only be perceived as, be it correct or incorrect…attributable to education or a lack thereof; for why would anyone choose to continue to do or say a thing the wrong way, when the right way is known? But why is that? Is the basic level of education not free to all? Even if circumstances exist where due to the inexistence of a parent, where as a result, one might spend more time acting as such to their siblings, that there’s no time for school, books are often free and in abundance everywhere; from the library to the trash been. Yeah! that’s right! I can hear you say; but we’re black, and we live here, and the man this, and the man that! Excuses, excuses, excuses. Truth is; so many get caught in the rut of feeling sorry for themselves that they spend more time complaining about a thing, than doing something about it. It’s too easy to sit and gripe over a forty with the homeboys, over the injustices of the world, than to actually do something about it. Since when is complaining tantamount to positive action? OK! so the city has built an imaginary border separating one world from another by a highway. You can walk; can’t you? So the city hasn’t picked up the trash…You have a broom; don’t you? I was raised in New Yorks Lower east side; where my father was a drug using, dealing alcoholic; where I had to walk past heroine addicts, not only on the streets, but in our building, just to get to our apartment; an area where what comprised poverty was only outnumbered by the cockroaches. Yet in historical photographs of the same area, and under much worse conditions, immigrants could be seen sweeping what present day folks complain about. I know of excuses and I don’t buy it. The rapper and hip-hop so called culture that makes what Imus said , so commonplace, only feeds his/her pockets while feeding a self defeating, energy depleting hatred for people who didn’t put you where you are, and who aren’t keeping you there either. It’s your choice to wear your pants in such a way that your underwear is exposed. A degree isn’t required to know of decency. It’s your choice to waste your money on the frivolity of rims for the car you think will impress, instead of books. It’s your choice to turn the bass up in your car stereo irrespective of the fact that it might disturb your neighbors sleep; all this while expletive spousing rap music resounds “mutha” this “muthu” that. It’s your choice to ignore the impact it has on the children who hear it. It’s your choice to do and say everything opposite of what you deem as being white; rather than choosing to do what is right. Blame it on “the man” all you will, for aiding in it’s production, but for him to be successful, there has to be a demand; that demand is you. Can the crackhead honestly fault the crack dealer for his/her afflictions? No one forced them to buy it. Get my point? *Discovered that if you add the word EXTRA, post skip moderation.


- Michael Lange
Posted 04/19/07 12:52 AM
 

It behooves me as to what EXTRA isn’t allowing to be posted here; when my last post not only complained of censorship, but criticized EXTRA as well. Perhaps anything containing the word “EXTRA” automatically gets approved without being moderated.


- Michael Lange
Posted 04/19/07 12:46 AM
 

I have just checked, and posters of comments on this site, have their various websites urls as links under their names. And the colour is BLUE, not the darker black writing, which cannot be clicked on.

I have just clicked onto Donni-Jay’s site, through her name, and it’s fantastic. She is an author amongst other great things, so she is perfectly capable of writing good comments in this site. I like her comments too! So why do some people have to make nasty accusations?


- Anonymous
Posted 04/18/07 11:21 AM
 

30,0000 sites! No way! If Donni-Jay had that many, she would have no time for taking part in posting comments in this site. I’ve also tried to read all the posts Donni-Jay made on here, and it was not self-promoting at all. She has important and sensible things to say, about the topics in hand, and I like the way she writes.

Also, if you look, website access is allowed here, under the username. That is why some names are a darker color than others, so nothing wrong with promoting websites here, as long as not in the posts. Seems DJ is unhappy about not being able to post all her comments on here. I’ve seen other posts complaining about the same thing.


- Anonymous
Posted 04/18/07 10:44 AM
 

A PERSON STATED SHE WAS BARRED FROM MAKING COMMENTS AND ASKED PEOPLE TO USE A SEARCH ENGINE AND FINE OUT WHY. THIS COMMENT SHOULD HAVE BEEN BARRED!!!—-SHE HAS 30,000 SITES!!!!!!SEEMS TO BE USEING THIS SITE TO SELL HERSELF—-BY THE WAY—DON’T WASTE YOU TIME!!!!! THIS SITE IS ABOUT IMUS—-NOT THIS DONNI-JAY—-WHICH I HAVE NEVER HEARD OF!!!!!!!!


- BF
Posted 04/17/07 09:40 PM
 

Heavens sake! I am barred from posting comments. Anyone else, apart from Michael suffering this problem from Extra? I am Donni-Jay, put me in a search engine and come to see why.


- Anonymous
Posted 04/17/07 05:50 PM
 

Michael, since then I’ve had many posts not allowed. No point in me making any more, so I’m discussing these topics in my own website forum. Want to join in? Click on my name here.


- Donni-Jay
Posted 04/17/07 05:45 PM
 

In response to the one who attempted to post what they actually WANTED to say here, only to find it wasn’t posted. I too have had the same problem; something I expected from EXTRA; a show that glorifies celebrities, as if they are something more than overpaid, overly superficial human beings whose bodily secretions must smell better than our own to be so deified.


- Michael Lange
Posted 04/17/07 10:32 AM
 

There has been a lot of “commentary” on the cable news channels of late by both Whites and Blacks regarding Don Imus and staff being fired. Based on my observations, 100% of the African-American (Black, or People of Color)commentators - all of whom were employed by some segment of the media - 100 PER CENT of these commentators came across in favor of Imus being fired. The Poll on this website is 86% the other way. Is this a co-incidence, or is there a loyalty oath that people of color in Media take to ensure solidarity. Where is the “Real” bigotry and Racism in this country.


- Unheard Fortoolong
Posted 04/16/07 05:34 PM
 

Debbie what a wonderful comment! More black women should be outraged at the insults levelled their way, and so should the decent black men. Respect is due all round!


- Anonymous
Posted 04/16/07 03:30 PM

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