Imus off the hook

[wvumaryjane]

A Rutgers University basketball player on Tuesday withdrew a slander and defamation lawsuit she had filed against Don Imus and CBS Radio, among others, after the shock jock called the team "nappy headed hos."


Don Imus didn't pay a cent to resolve the dropped defamation suit, his lawyer says.

Kia Vaughn had contended in the lawsuit filed in August in New York state Supreme Court that the comments made by Imus had damaged her reputation.

The lawsuit also named various media outlets that broadcast Imus' show.

Marti McKenzie, a spokeswoman for Vaughn's attorney, Richard Ancowitz, said in a statement that Vaughn had chosen to focus on her education at New Jersey's Rutgers University as a journalism major and as an athlete with the basketball team.

"Her strong commitments to both have influenced her decision to withdraw the lawsuit at this time," the statement said.

lawyer for Imus, Martin Garbus, said his client had paid no money to Vaughn. CBS Radio did not immediately return a message requesting comment.

www.cnn.com/2007/US/law/09/12/imus.lawsuit.ap/index.html

[steelerlyn]

I am old school and I think most people are way too PC. I took what he said as a very distasteful joke. From what I have read, it was in his contract that they (CBS) have to let Imus know if he has said something the sponsers don't like. They have to warn him not just fire him. The whole thing was made too much of. Yes, I feel it shoulld not have been said but alot of things don't belong on the airways. Heard any rap lately?

[rainman]

It was in bad taste what he said but it got blown out of proportion because of who he is, almost anyone else could've said the same thing and nothing would've been said or done about it.
I bet around 95% of the people never heard what he said until it was played over and over and........ I bet no one on the Rutgers team ever tuned in to "Imus in the morning" - it was never one of my must see programs.