How did it get started? Some readers wanted to listen to the original remarks. Here's about a minute of video of Don Imus, courtesy of YouTube. Judge for yourself.
Was he contrite on Monday? Here is what Imus said on Monday morning about the point of his show, according to the MSNBC transcript. A few sentences from that Imus transcript: "This program has been, for 30 or 35 years, a program that makes fun of everybody. It makes fun of me, and it makes fun of everybody on the planet. And sometimes it makes fun of me to a vicious standpoint. Does that mean I get to say something about the Rutgers women? Of course not. But that’s the context in which we operate here. Is it appropriate? Well, we will talk about that a little later, because that’s got to change—some of that—because some people don’t deserve to be made fun of, like these young women who played for the national championship in basketball. They played for the national championship, they beat Duke and then they played Tennessee in the national championship, they don’t need me to try to be funny about them."
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