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« Farewell, Kurt Vonnegut | Main | Stephen Hawking, still fascinating » Thursday, April 12, 2007Ifill and Imus updateAccording to several sources (though I haven't found a transcript), Don Imus, appearing on the "Today" show on Tuesday, admitted to referring to Gwen Ifill as "a cleaning lady," while trying to explain it: Calling her a "cleaning lady" was part of "a comedy routine, where we make up the news, which we’ve been doing since 1968 on the radio.... It was comedy,” said Imus. On Fox News, Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham debated the comment: [HANNITY:] I want to bring the issue of his parent corporation, because everyone is acting like they're all shocked at this. We've got Gwen Ifill being, you know, called a "cleaning lady" by Don Imus. Posted by Evan Hughes at 02:38 PM
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