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.
A particularly unfortunate aspect of this is that we have a lot of people in the media who routinely talk out their asses. I’m thinking particularly of Keith Olbermann and Rosie O’Donnell. Now unless they offend the wrong persons, i.e. Sharpton and Jackson, they’re going to stay on the air a long time.
Regarding Imus, he’s been insulting everybody and anybody for the last 37 years. He was one of the first people to take pokes at Christianity, among other things, and nobody gave a damn. They gave him plenty of rope all through the years.
“I hope no conservative defends this guy.”
Oh, why not? You may be next.
Ridiculous! CBS and MSNBC should be forced to subsidize Imus' stupidity at any cost! Anything less is equivalent to allowing the Holocaust to happen.
< /sarcasm >
“I just got home a little while ago..and the first thing I heard was that HILLARY is going to give a speech at Rutgers on Monday on THIS TOPIC!!!”
After the last 15 years, we all know the Clintons are shameless. And so are most of the people who work for them.
This is their chance to outflank Obama among black voters.
Bump
Actually, it wouldn’t surprise me if Sharpton wasn’t laying some of the groundwork for the Clintons, since Sharpton is a Clintonista.
If you can, watch the wife swapping program. It’s on NOW and perfectly illustrates your point.
This is why websites such as this one will be very much needed in the next few years.
“Malik Shabaz called Michelle Malkin a Political Prostitute.”
What’s a Malik Shabaz, and why should I care? Is he one of those New Black Panther idiots?
Well, Malik Shabaz can get away with it. He doesn’t have a job, so his employer won’t fire him.
Yes.. and he is one of the idiots calling for the heads of the guys at Duke and won’t even appologize for one of his so-called leaders that called for the killing of one of the guys.
Maybe off topic, but hubby just got home and asked me if the Rudgers womans team is going to ask Imus for any money to ‘’compensate’’ them for their ‘’ordeal’’? Anybody know?
But the left forgets that all this “chill” will create the climate for the angry backlash to happen, mark my words.
Evil flourishes when good men do nothing.
And evil flourishes when good and decent people do not hold EVERYONE to the same level of account when they say and do unacceptable things. Injustice harms everybody.
Thanks, good night.
Now CBS has dropped the old con-man too. I can’t wait for Maureen Dowd, a frequent Imus guest, to write about her attitude toward Imus.
He came on in 96. It was odd for that genre of radio to be on TV, it brought the anger of the Bronx to the mainstream, I thought. And only now, the idiots are acting surprised that it’s sometimes rough language. Satire. Angry politics on there. Some will actually go back and review the record: it’s hardly neccesary. All these media heros like Brokaw, Russert, Dowd, etc. loved Don Imus until this little straw that broke the liberal back.
I think what did Imus in was a gwen ifil op-ed that was in the times on tuesday. He’d years ago referred to her as the clinton white house’s “cleaning woman”. Which, as an NBC correspondent at the time, no doubt she fing was, if you remember how they bent over backwards deflecting or delaying reporting each new clinton scandal.
But Gwen Ifil has been on Mcneil Leher now for five years or so. That is as an exalted position/ chair any news reader could possibly get. To offend her, to draw her voice out in dignified protest, means you are in serious trouble.
I can just imagine what those Leher Hour essayists like Roger Rosensplattt have been saying this week. “It’s time America finally has a discussion about race.” ha!
I think it’s time we finally have a discussion about race hustlers. And if they are going to be so stupid as to review everything Imus has said since 1996, they might review everything Sharpton DID over those years, too.
You should see the video of Imus visiting Sharpton’s camp. Sharpton kept saying something like “i admire your courage coming down here”. And then, most chilling, Sharpton brought his college age daughter out to stand in front of Imus, and basically challenged Imus to call her a “’HO”. While the girl stood there, arms crossed angrily, hips jut. It was like two gangsters, only Imus is a comedian and not a gangster. Sharpton is a thug and nothing else.
it’s been my guilty secret that i usually preferred Imus to cspans washington journal since I got msnbc...
Some people are saying this is terribly portenteous. Things to come. I don’t know about that, right now I will just miss my show... I used to set my clock, if Imus was on I’d get up a little earlier.
dam dam damn!
Agree with you 100%
“You know, the Harry Belafonte’s of the world somehow getting a free pass for calling Condi Rice a house slave.”
This reminds me that there are some people who feel they are not taken seriously. They’re not taken seriously because they make stupid statements.
The truth is that I predict that conservitive talk radio will go towards satilite, podcasting, and the internet streaming because they know that the so-called fairness doctrine has NO CHANCE to even touch any of these.
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