Posted on 04/12/2007 1:44:34 PM PDT by Dont Mention the War
It was just announced on the "Mike and the Mad Dog Show" on WFAN (Imus's home base): Imus is out of a job on radio as well.
He will not even be on the air tomorrow.
[QUOTE]guess he crossed a real line this time. I don’t like what he said, but how is this worse than what he’s said before? And one of the girls saying it’s changed her life forever, or something like that? Now THAT is sad.[/QUOTE]
Yes it is sad. If that ruined her life, she’s an imbecile.
Did he? I guess that’s kind of an irony. I wonder if those chunkyback ho’s will come out to defend him?
I heard a CNBC reporter say that Rush was fired from ESPN for a racist remark but his radio show survived.
What the heck is that about??
The real wild card though, is Gore. Al has hated her since he was VP, and has the money and resources to run outside of the DNC power structure.
He played The Dixie Chicks first big album so much back when it came out, I stopped listening for a while.
They won't, they're all a bunch of empty suits. Steve Capus among them, is a gutless little sniveling, cowardly weasel.
What did he say? I can’t listen at work, and it sounds like it was a good one.
By the way some of you are fawning, that tax shelter attorney must who cooked up the scheme for Imus to get his land and crib non gratis earned his money big time.
That is all.
Oh and Imus must be a damn okie or arkie. He’s a twin of my old man. And almost as frank and throw back. Except my father wouldn’t be caught dead trying to talk jive.
Many people think his interview with Bill Clinton during the 1992 Dem primary saved Clinton’s campaign.
Fortunately, a person can think whatever they want, it’s the speaknazis who won.
Media Matters is behind this and that is George Soros. Hillary is shaping the battle field, IMHO.
My hunch is, the suits at CBS folded the moment Al Sharpton walked into the room this morning.
Why do you assume that it will just stop with broadcast radio?
I’m serious. If someones “words” can scar them for life they need to stay in the house & keep the curtains closed at all times. Honestly it’s like that Jeff Foxworthy joke..”if an episode of Walker, Texas Ranger changed your life...”
I mean really.
96.9FM radio will be carrying the remainder of Imus' telethon on their radio station up in New England tomorrow.
I find it hard to muster up much sympathy for Imus, he has a nasty streak a mile wide.
His employer fired him. I'm okay with that as a conservative because, like Bush firing attorneys, employers should be free to fire employees.
I think Imus was sincere in his apology but he has a history of being a nasty guy who makes nasty comments, ask Howie Carr's wife.
It's also difficult not to take an unChristianlike pleasure in Imus' left wing buds throwing him off the bus while at the same time coming off to significant numbers of the populace as left wing fascists. Politically speaking this issue will drive libertarians and independents back to the correct side of the political divide, the right.
Would I have fired Imus? Probably not but only because his good works for vets and children mitigates somewhat his being one nasty SOB.
...hence Jackson and Sharpton. I hate to sound cynical here, but it has crossed my mind in the past couple of days that Jackson and Sharpton may have intentionally picked the Imus "controversy" because of its convenient timing.
Think about it. A couple of weeks ago Jackson and Sharpton knew, like everybody else, that the dismissal announcement in the Duke Lacrosse case was imminent on the horizon, and that announcement could bring them both huge potential embarassment considering how they both vocally supported Mangum, the lying "ho" stripper, and how they both condemned the innocent Lacrosse players.
Imus' remark handed them the perfect opportunity to keep themselves off the designated apology section of the front pages. Even though his remark wasn't really anything more than an off color joke, and even though Imus did that sort of thing all the time, it could be spun into another Michael Richards type controversy if Sharpton and Jackson played it right. And play it they did - just enough to keep themselves out of the Duke story while simultaneously laying a false and unearned claim to the moral highground over Imus.
Any other week of the year and Sharpton/Jackson very possibly would not have even wasted their time with Imus. But in a week where they themselves could easily become the subject of a very embarassing strike against their own reprehensible behavior, they needed something else and they needed it quick. Then an oblivious blithering radio host gave it to them.
The left winged media thinks Imus is a conservative. I think that might have played a part in it. Silence conservative radio, starting with Imus. (I note, that I don't consider Imus conservative.).
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