Could Al and Jesse and other have been used ? Imus went after Cheney in a big way - keep saying that he should be hung for war crimes. He went after the Bush administration on it's poor treatment our vets. He went after the big pharmaceuticals on the theumerisol issue (cause of autism). The list goes on. There were a lot of wingnuts that would have been REAL happy to see this guy gone. This point is being hugely overlooked.
http://www.waynemadsenreport.com/April 13-15, 2007 -- Neo-con alert. DeForest ("Buster") Soaries, the Somerset, NJ preacher of First Baptist Church of Lincoln Gardens, who, as former New Jersey Republican Secretary of State was the Garden State's version of Ohio Secretary of State Kenneth Blackwell in promoting GOP voter fraud by suppressing the African American vote (Soaries was one of the recipients of Ed Rollins' "walkin' around money" in the 1993 New Jersey gubernatorial race to keep parishioners home on Election Day rather than vote for Democratic Governor Jim Florio), was the intermediary chosen by Rutgers University to host a New Jersey Governors' Mansion meeting between fired radio host Don Imus and the Rutgers Women's Basketball team. Soaries' church is attended by Rutgers Women's Basketball team coach Vivian Stringer.
In 2002, Soaries challenged Democratic Representative Rush Holt for his 12th District congressional seat. Holt has long been a proponent of vote reform while Soaries champions the status quo of voter fraud to the detriment of his own race. Soaries is also a strong promoter of Bush's faith-based initiatives.
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