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.
I don’t know — yet — about splitting the country, but I agree “we can no longer live with the Left.”
Michelle really held her own — and she got away with the so blame whitey comment because she is Asian and a female... BOR could never have said that.
His adoration for John Kerry doesn't fit with that scenario. And as someone said upthread, he wanted to lynch the Swift Boat truth tellers.
Something doesn't add up.
No. The guy blames George Washington?!! LOL!I missed that! Thanks I’ll tune in for the re-run !
Just my view but wouldn’t you think that Imus, whose regular guests were a steady stream of lefty MSM talking heads, should be considered as THE LEFT’s MOST INFLUENTIAL RADIO PERSONALITY?
I think so.
Talk about shooting yourself in the foot. Go Libs.
The first half hour of the show was must-see TV.
Jesse Jackson calls NYC "hymie town," a slur against its Jewish population and supports the fraud against the Duke lacrosse players, stirring racial hatred. He talks about "white interlopers" on radio. Consequences?
"Shock-jock" Don Imus, almost 28 years into his radio show, says one team of basketball players "nappy-headed hoes" and is unceremoniously unemployed. Aside: Imus has been unapologetically pro-troops.
It should be pointed out there were black players on the other team which he called "cute."
It's fascinating that when Howard Cosell said, "Look at that little monkey run," about a black footballer player during a broadcast, Jesse Jackson came to his defense and Howard kept his job.
Rush lost his gig on ESPN saying Eagle quarterback Donovan McNabb was getting undeserved special praise in the press because of being black while his on-air black commentators did not disagree or challenge him on racial grounds.
As Michelle Malkin pointed out the other day in her column, you can't find a popular rap record today which isn't about hoes, "niggas" and worse.
Rosie is a foul cretin but she's right about the Imus case. Free speech is at serious risk.
We can't even get Democrat presidential candidates (Hillary, Obama & Edwards) to debate one another on a legitimate and most watched news channel!
” He used to live in Westport...about the time I worked there for a few years. The neighbors hated him....”
Imus has a waterfront estate in Westport, on the Gold Coast, worth about 19 million , although Imus puts the value at 30 million.
When he first bought his estate , built in the 1920s, there was an old cottage on the property that Imus wanted to demolish.
Any building older than 50 years is considered historic in Westport and permission to demolish has to be granted by the Historic District Commission.
The address of Imus’s property was listed in the local paper,as is all property coming before the Commission and Imus went beserk about that-considering it a security risk.
The Commission denied his request and Imus went on air and called the woman who announced the Commission’s decision “ a fat pig “ and “ a cow. “
They have lots of shows on ABCCBSNBCCNNMSNBC to do this. They don't need Imus.
Well, I’ve read most of this thread and I don’t see a lot of freepers saying that “blacks caused it”. What I do see is that freepers are fed up with the hypocrisy. I can see that CNN and MSNBC reporters are stunned at the reactions they’re getting - their viewers are stunned at the hypocrisy as well.
You know, the Harry Belafonte’s of the world somehow getting a free pass for calling Condi Rice a house slave.
From an article:
Again, the simple test here is the following: If a conservative had used these expressions, would it have been denounced by liberals? The answer, obviously, is yes. Imagine if George Will had called Colin Powell a “house slave.” Imagine if Pat Buchanan had called Barney Frank a “nasty faggot.” Imagine if Trent Lott had called Hillary Clinton a whore. Do you think they’d be invited on “Larry King Live” to further elaborate on their comments?
http://dir.salon.com/story/news/col/sullivan/2002/10/25/belafonte/index.html
Well, somehow minorities and Democrats got away with calling people those names, and nothing happens to them. Nothing.
And not one person on this thread has said that black Freepers caused Imus to be fired. But it’s a true statement that the race baiters (Sharpton and Jackson) pushed the issue and corporate interests caved to them once again.
As to the KKK issue, if the remark wasn’t addressed to prairie, then her name should not have been put in the To column. It was and still is a disgusting and unwarranted remark.
I think they booked an appearance on Oprah.
but I wonder if it had any morals or other clauses that could take him out if the heat was on.
61 stations? That is not very many! Maybe CBS was just looking for an excuse to drop a fading star.
I really didn’t like the idea of them moving from the radio station to what appeared at times to be the Starship Enterprise at the MSNBC studio. It went from being a radio show you could see to being a part of MSNBC especially when they started moving their anchors into it. It ruined the interaction between Imus/Charles & Bernard & Lou.
But I expect MSNBC’s ratings to plummet even lower which I find very amusing.
I always heard Imus was their highest rated show. I hope so. Watching that ship sink is going to be a pleasure.
They are being given voice all out of proportion by the phony, elitist whitebread, limousine liberal, self-congratulating, opportunist, unthinking, alphabet network "news" anchors.
IMO they are no more or less racist than Imus, they use racist noisemakers like Jackson and Sharpton as their "colored tokens", because it proves to themselves how "enlightened" they are.
You've probably read Goldberg's book "Bias". He makes pretty much the same accusation. Networks use people of color only when it gets them ratings (or when it makes them feel good about themselves).
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