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Gwen Ifill: Imus Called Me 'Cleaning Lady'
Talk show host Don Imus’ derogatory comment about the Rutgers women’s basketball team might remind some listeners of a remark he made about "Washington Week” moderator Gwen Ifill, reportedly referring to the black journalist at a "cleaning lady.” In 1993, Ifill was covering the White House for the New York Times when colleagues began asking her why Imus "seemed to have a problem with me,” she recalls in Tuesday’s Times. "I had no idea what they were talking about because I never listened to the program.” But five years later, New York Daily News columnist Lars-Erik Nelson clued her in.
Story Continues Below "Isn’t the Times wonderful,” Nelson quoted Imus as saying on the radio. "It lets the cleaning lady cover the White House.” Ifill writes in the Times: "I haven’t talked about this much. I’m a big girl. I have a platform. I have a voice. I’ve been working in journalism long enough that there is little danger that a radio D.J.’s juvenile slap will define or scar me. "Yesterday, he began telling people he never actually called me a cleaning lady. Whatever. This is not about me. It is about the Rutgers Scarlet Knights.”
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