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Don Imus :: "What Color Is He?"

After making his infamous "nappy-headed hos" comment regarding the Rutgers University women's basketball team ... Don Imus is making the headlines yet again for a comment he made regarding Dallas Cowboys defensive back Adam "Pacman" Jones' race ...

On his WABC Radio show ... Imus and sportscaster Warner Wolf were discussing Jones' decision to stop using his "Pacman" nickname in an effort to rehabilitate his image after a series of run-ins with the police ...

Warner Wolf: "Defensive back Adam 'Pacman' Jones, recently signed by the Cowboys—here's a guy suspended all of 2007, following a shooting in a Vegas nightclub."

Don Imus: "Well, stuff happens. You're in a nightclub, for god's sake. What do you think is going to happen in a nightclub. People are drinking and doing drugs. There are women there, and people have guns. So there, go ahead."

Warner Wolf: "He's been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005."

Don Imus: "What color is he?"

Warner Wolf: "He's African-American."

Don Imus: "Well, there you go. Now we know."

Here is the clip ...

Upon hearing Imus' comments ... Jones made a statement to the press ... calling Imus' words offensive and uncalled for ...

Adam Jones: "I'm truly upset about the comments. Obviously, Mr. Imus has problems with African-Americans. I'm upset, and I hope the station he works for handles it accordingly. I will pray for him."

Reverend Al Sharpton ... who called for Imus' firing when he made his Rutgers comment ... had his own words for Imus ...

Al Sharpton: "I find the inference of his remark disturbing because it plays into stereotypes. Any use of stereotypes is always counterproductive. We will determine in the next day or so whether or not his remark warrants direct action on our part, as we did in April of last year."

Imus isn't apologizing ... he claims that he was making a "sarcastic" comment in defense of African-Americans ... and was taken out of context ...

Don Imus: "What people should be outraged about is that they arrest Blacks for no reason. I mean, there's no reason to arrest this kid six times. Maybe he did something once, but everyone does something once."

~Papi Chulo~

Angelina Jolie's World Refugee Day PSA

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In the News :: R. Kelly Found Not Guilty

After more than six years of waiting for the case to finally go to trial ... it took the jury less than a day of deliberating to find R&B sensation R. Kelly not guilty of all 14 counts of videotaping himself having sex with an underage girl ...

The Grammy-winning singer was facing a maximum of 15 years in jail if he were to be found guilty and he would have had to register as a sex offender in Illinois ...

Sam Adam Jr. (R. Kelly's Attorney): "R. Kelly was found not guilty, because they had the best jury that Cook County could produce."

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: R. Kelly Case Goes to the Jury

Deliberations began Thursday with the jury re-watching the infamous R. Kelly sex tape ...

Prosecutors replayed the 27-minute video to the eight-man, four-woman jury ...

Sam Adam Jr. (Defense Attorney): "That's what this is about: money, money, money."

The defense team reiterated to the jury that anyone can do anything with a computer nowadays ... and also stated that Kelly and the alleged victim have repeatedly said that its not them on the tape ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: R. Kelly's Not Taking the Stand

R. Kelly announced to the judge Tuesday that he declined to take the stand in his own defense ...

R. Kelly: "I decided not to testify."

The 41-year-old R&B singer had not been expected to testify ... nor was he required to ...

Earlier Tuesday ... the judge ruled that jurors can review the sex tape once they begin deliberations ...

The prosecutors plan on calling two rebuttal witnesses and closing arguments are to start Thursday ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: R. Kelly Defense Rests

R. Kelly's defense team have completed their case ... The judge dismissed the jury this morning after a small session ...

Prosecutors plan on calling two more witnesses to provide rebuttal testimony beginning Tuesday ... Closing arguments should start Thursday ...

Upcoming witnesses for the prosecution include a forensics video expert and Atlanta-based prosecutor Robert Wolf ... Wolf will reject the defense's claim that Lisa Van Allen was offered a deal to testify ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: R. Kelly Witness Wanted Hush Money

A private investigator testified for the defense Thursday that the fiancé of Lisa Van Allen (the prosecutor's "star" witness that testified she had several threesomes with R. Kelly and the underage girl) attempted to extort $300,000 from the singer for her girlfriend's silence ... Van Allen's fiancé, Yul Brown, had mentioned that Van Allen was looking at a book deal worth $300,000 to write about her relationship with Kelly ...

Jack Palladino (Private Investigator): "I didn't believe there was a book deal. The $300,000 was a coded way to get money from my client. I assumed they were trying to solicit money from my client. There's little doubt about what that meant. It meant, 'I want to take care of them financially.' The conversation was recorded from beginning to end."

Also taking the stand for the defense was forensic video analyst Charles Palm ... Palm was called to rebut the testimony of Grant Fredericks who testified that in his opinion the sex tape was not doctored ... Palm testified that the video was of "such poor quality" that he found it hard to believe that Fredericks could be so sure ... Palm noticed that the "mole" found on the back of the man in the tape was just a shadow that would disappear and reappear ...

Charles Palm: "[The mark on the guy in the tape] was not anything that was physically a part of the back of the individual."

Palm testified that the tape had been edited and demonstrated how easily it can be done to manipulate such images ...

Charles Palm: "The computer can do something like this in just a matter of a few seconds."

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Clinton Endorses Obama

Hillary Clinton officially suspended her campaign Saturday ... ending a 17-month challenge for the Democratic presidential nomination ...

Clinton urged her supporters to unite behind rival Barack Obama to win the White House in November for the Democrats ...

Hillary Clinton: "We cannot let this moment slip away. I am standing with Sen. Obama to say, 'Yes, we can.'"

Clinton told her supporters while standing before the giant columns of the National Building Museum in Washington that electing Obama would achieve the same goals she was striving for (universal health care, a strong economy and the end of the war in Iraq) ...

Hillary Clinton: "We may have started on separate journeys, but today our paths have merged. When you hear people saying, or think to yourself, 'if only' or 'what if,' I say -- please don't go there. Every moment wasted looking back keeps us from moving forward. Life is too short, time is too precious, and the stakes are too high to dwell on what might have been. We have to work together for what still can be. And that is why I will work my heart out to make sure that Sen. Obama is our next president, and I hope and pray that all of you will join me in that effort."

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Chicago Report Doesn't Have to Testify

The Chicago Sun-Times music critic who first received the R. Kelly sex tape won't have to testify at the singer's trial ...

Jim DeRogatis will not have to explain how he received the tape ... or whether he altered or copied the video before turning it over to the police ... The judge let DeRogatis off the hook noting his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination ...

The judge did give the reporter until the end of the day to surrender his notes from an interview with defense witness Stephanie "Sparkle" Edwards ...

Kelly's legal team called its first round of witnesses ... which included several relatives of the alleged victim to add to the defense's claims that the she isn't the underage girl on the tape ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Obama Wins Democratic Nomination

Barack Obama has officially garnered enough delegates, votes and support to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination ...

Barack Obama: "America, this is our moment. This is our time. Our time to turn the page on the policies of the past. Our time to bring new energy and new ideas to the challenges we face. Our time to offer a new direction for the country we love."

Hillary Clinton though hasn't conceded defeat ... or acknowledged that her rival has passed the 2,118 delegate count to secure the nomination ...

~Papi Chulo~

Primary Tuesday :: Obama Wins Montana; Clinton's Last Win

Barack Obama won the Montana Democratic primary on Tuesday night ... Obama received 57% of the vote ... compared to Hillary Clinton's 41% ... Obama won a majority of Montana's 16 pledged delegates ...

In South Dakota ... Clinton won her last contest ... Clinton received 56% of the vote ... compared to Obama's 44% ... Obama gained a big portion of South Dakota's 15 pledged delegates ... Obama received enough delegates to clinch the Democratic presidential nomination ...

Barack Obama: "Tonight we mark the end of one historic journey with the beginning of another. Tonight, I can stand before you and say that I will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States."

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Chicago Reporter Is a No-Show

The judge in R. Kelly's child pornography trial blasted Jim DeRogatis of the Chicago Sun-Times ...

DeRogatis is the reporter that anonymously received the sex tape that started this mess ...

Kelly's legal team subpoenaed DeRogatis to testify on how he obtained the tape in 2002 ... The attorneys want to know if he altered the video before turning it over to the police ...

The reporter didn't turn up for the trial because he said the subpoena wasn't properly served ...

The judge ordered DeRogatis to show up on Wednesday as a "material witness" ... The judge said he would force DeRogatis to testify ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: "Star" Witness Testifies in R. Kelly Trial

Lisa Van Allen testified Monday that starting in late 1997/early 1998 she participated in several threesomes with R. Kelly and the alleged victim ...

Van Allen testified that Kelly filmed their first threesome at his Chicago home and at one point offered her $250,000 if she would give him her copy of the tape ... She said that several of her friends took the tape to a hotel where Kelly's reps gave them $20,000 in cash and placed it in a duffel bag full of sex tapes that the singer had with him at all times ...

Lisa Van Allen: "If he was in the studio, it was in the studio with him. If he went to Hoops [basketball court], it went to Hoops with him. The bag would follow him."

~Papi Chulo~

PR Primary :: Clinton Wins; Obama Gains Delegates

Hillary Clinton won the Puerto Rico Democratic primary ...

But rival Barack Obama is getting very close to the Democratic presidential nomination ...

Clinton won 2/3 of the vote ...

Hillary Clinton: "In the final assessment I ask you to consider these questions. Which candidate best represents the will of the people who voted in this historic election? Which candidate is best able to lead us to victory in November and which candidate is best able to lead our nation as our president in the face of unprecedented challenges at home and abroad?"

Obama gained 17 delegates in Puerto Rico ... leaving him 47 short of the 2,118 needed to seal the deal ...

~Papi Chulo~

In the News :: Florida, Michigan Delegates Get Half-Votes

On Saturday ... Democratic Party leaders agreed to seat the delegates from Florida and Michigan at this summer's convention with half-votes ...

The decision raised the total delegates Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton need to clinch the nomination to 2,118 ... Obama is just 66 delegates shy of sealing the deal ...

The final primaries of this Democratic primary season are held on Tuesday night ...

~Papi Chulo~