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And Quiet Flows the Don By Michael Weiss Posted Friday, April 13, 2007, at 1:44 PM ET And quiet flows the Don: After a weeklong media blitz and a spate of complaints from figures like Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, CBS fired Don Imus from his radio show on Thursday for his reference to Rutgers women's basketball players as "nappy-headed hos." No one online seems to have had much affection for the shock jock, yet chatter focuses on how shambolic it was to have "race-baiters" and "hypocrites" inter a man who said nothing worse than what one might find in hip-hop lyrics. To continue reading, click here. Michael Weiss, a writer in New York, is co-founder and managing editor of Snarksmith.com.