WHAT'S NEWS [the Imus edition] . . . Tuesday . . . 4/10/2007

• CBS Radio and MSNBC suspended "Imus" for 2 weeks. The suspension came after the "testy, two-hour exchange" on Al Sharpton's radio show (New York Daily News). In a statement, Obama called the comments "hurtful and offensive" (release).
  
• Imus today: "My focus right now is on meeting with the team." Imus also said he would not hold any grudges against anyone who no longer wanted to appear on his program (MSNBC).
  
  
• "We've been having a bit of an in-house debate about the proper spelling for the nominative plural for 'ho'" -- Ken Shepherd (NewsBusters.org).

SHOT . . .
"There's a difference between premeditated murder and a gun going off accidentally and killing someone. It was comedy. It wasn't a malicious rant. I'm not a racist. I've demonstrated that in my words and my work" -- Imus (NBC, 4/10/07).

. . . CHASER
"Please stop it. Stop talking" -- Imus, on Kerry's botched joke (MSNBC, 11/1/06).