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Steve Capus , president of NBC News, is currently on "Hardball," explaining to guest host David Gregory why MSNBC has decided to drop, for good, its simulcast of "Imus in the Morning." UPDATE Looking truly tortured, MSNBC's president (also president of the entire NBC News division) demonstrated the sort of anguished confusion that is becoming quite la mode these days among the upper ranks of the dominant culture when a light is shined on ideas about blacks and women that apparently continue to enjoy a sort of smirking acceptance in otherwise polite company. It was through conversations with "trusted employees," Capus said, that he came to the conclusion "that I had to make this call." Among those "trusted employees" is Al Roker , the beloved weatherman of the "Today" show, who blogged on MSNBC's own Web site that Imus had to go . Another reason for the change from suspension to firing, Capus explained, was yesterday

At the Feminist Majority Foundation Web site, you can take action on the Imus situation -- both demand his resignation via e-mails to CBS Radio and MSNBC AND congratulate the women of the Rutgers and Tennessee basketball teams.

As the first African-American president of the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Women (NOW) , Maretta J. Short has a thing or two to say about Don Imus and his attack on the Rutgers University women's basketball team. Here's Retta with Amy Goodman on "Democracy Now": AMY GOODMAN: Reverend Al Sharpton, joining us on the phone from New York. He is going to be having Don Imus on his radio program at 1:00 EST. Maretta Short, also with us, president of the National Organization for Women, New Jersey. Maretta Short, what is NOW calling for? MARETTA SHORT: Well, thank you, Amy. Yes, well, right now we're asking for people to go to our website and take action by sending messages to the general manager, Chuck Bortnick, of radio station WFAN, which produces Imus's show, and to Karen Mateo, communications vice president of CBS Radio, which owns WFAN, and to MSNBC television, which airs and promotes the show. Imus's message is racist to the core,

Considering the fact that Imus, in his famously racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women's basketball team, used the sexist's favorite tactic of sexual verbal abuse, isn't it interesting that most of the people getting big-news airtime to comment on this thing are men? Hello? Is it any wonder that so many are saying they know Imus to be a good guy, even if, as Imus himself admitted, he "said a bad thing"?