Imus Producer: Sharpton 'Terrorized' Executives

"Don Imus' former producer said Thursday that the radio exchange that got them both fired was wrong, but that it would be horrible if people could no longer poke fun at each other.

Bernard McGuirk, a 20-year producer and on-air jester for the 'Imus in the Morning' program, was fired a week after his boss for the banter in which members of the Rutgers University women's basketball team were called 'nappy-headed hos.'

McGuirk, in an interview on Fox News Channel's 'Hannity & Colmes,' said he 'didn't get the memo' that the phrase 'hos' had reached the level of the n-word in offensiveness. But apologies to the Rutgers team were appropriate, he said.

But McGuirk said......"