A member of the Rutgers women's basketball team sued Don Imus and CBS on Tuesday, claiming the radio personality's sexist and racist comments about the team damaged her reputation.Oh, give me a break. Those girls got so much great publicity from that incident. No one outside Rutgers would have paid much attention to any of the members of the team if Imus hadn't opened his big mouth. Every discussion of Imus's insulting remarks was accompanied by comments about how wonderful the women on the team are and what role models they are. They went on Oprah, for gosh sake!
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Kia Vaughn filed the lawsuit alleging defamation of character in state Supreme Court in the Bronx the same day Imus settled with CBS Radio in a deal that pre-empts his threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit against CBS.
Vaughn's lawsuit, believed to be the first by a player in the case, says Imus and his former co-host Bernard McGuirk, along with CBS Corp. and CBS Radio, are legally responsible for damage done to her character and reputation. There is no dollar amount listed in the suit.
Vaughn's attorney, Richard Ancowitz, said: "The full effect of the damage remains to be seen."
"This is about Kia Vaughn's good name," Ancowitz said. "She would do anything to return to her life as a student and respected basketball player — a more simple life before Imus opened his mouth on April 4."
Her good name wasn't tarnished; if anything it was enhanced. These girls aren't victims and it's a shame that their coach and some race mongers who strove to make a big deal out of one idiot's stupidity encouraged these young women to believe that anything that Don Imus said could damage their images. This young lady should stand tall and say that she has too much self respect to care about what some jerk on the radio said. By resorting to a lawsuit, she just appears as someone seeking to score some big money from the whole incident.
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