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John Kerry: Imus Didn't Deserve Firing
U.S. Sen. John Kerry says Don Imus shouldn’t have been fired, adding he would be willing to appear on a future Imus show as long as it wasn’t "the same-old, same-old." "The punishment has to fit the crime, so to speak," Kerry, D-Mass., said during an interview broadcast Tuesday on NY1-TV, adding that Imus should have instead faced "a long suspension or a strong suspension." Imus was fired last week for calling the Rutgers University women’s basketball team "nappy-headed hos." Kerry pointed to the decision by members of the team to accept an apology from Imus.
Story Continues Below "To me it was in the hands of the young women and you know they made the judgment that they thought he was genuine and they felt they could forgive him," Kerry said. "I think it was appropriate to pay a price on the airwaves, but I’m not sure that it was appropriate to say you’re off forever." Kerry, the 2004 Democratic nominee for president and a frequent guest of Imus, also said he would be willing to appear again with Imus if he were to return to the airwaves. "It would depend on what the context of the show was," Kerry said. "If it goes back to doing the same-old same-old I’d have trouble doing that, but if it’s a different show and he says it’s going to be different, sure."
© 2007 Associated Press.
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