Posted on 04/12/2007 10:45:40 PM PDT by raccoonradio
Ask not for whom the cross burns, it burns for Don Imus.
Poor I-man, kicked down the stairs like a Bob Gamere, abandoned by the Beautiful People he served so faithfully these past few decades. We won’t be MSNBC’ing the senile old crackhead anymore. No more summer party invitations from his media enablers in the Hamptons. Henceforth, he is a nobody on Nantucket.
Wherever will we get our fix of Doris Kearns Goodwin now? And what’s the over-under on how many days until trophy-wife Deirdre walks out forever?
Don Imus - $10-million dollar salary, 10-cent brain. From the penthouse to the outhouse.
Just a few days ago, he was the Grand Dragon of WTKKK. Now Bob Grant is feeling sorry for him.
But the most interesting thing about Imus’ sudden demise is how few of the assorted coatholders, front-runners, bumkissers and drive-by pundits who called in every morning could be bothered to stand up for the I-man in his moment of need.
These liberals may be good company at a cocktail party in Vail, but you wouldn’t want to share a foxhole with them. When the I-man’s phone didn’t ring, he knew it was Joe Lieberman. Or maybe Frank Rich.
Until his idiotic flameout, Don Imus was the nearest thing the liberals ever had to a success story in talk radio. He worshipped John Kerry. He fawned over Maureen Dowd. He cursed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. After Saddam was executed, Imus joked with a local plagiarist about how Dick Cheney would handle himself on the gallows.
Who knew Imus would walk the Green Mile before Karl Rove?
The I-man thought he was one of the Beautiful People, but in the end it turned out like one of those Bob Dylan songs he used to play going into the breaks. Everybody said they’d stand behind him when the game got rough. But the joke was on him, there was nobody even there to bluff.
And now I do believe he’s had enough.
All his new so-called friends ran away and hid on him. Think about that unctuous NBC rumpswab David Gregory. Wednesday night, he went on MSNBC looking like his dog just got run over. But by yesterday morning, Gregory was back on top of his game. He apologized to Jesse Jackson for ever having gone on the Imus show.
But Gregory just did what was expected of him. When the going gets tough, the tough - hey, come back here!
The Beautiful People spent all week stampeding to the microphone to announce, as one female from Time magazine said yesterday, that they won’t be appearing on the Imus Show anymore.
No kidding, honey. Nobody will ever be appearing on the Imus show again, not even Imus.
How many regular-people talk-show listeners did Imus have at the end? Not many, would be my guess. Didn’t notice any truck-drivers blowing their horns in support, did you?
It couldn’t have happened to a nicer guy.
On his final show yesterday, Imus was moaning how the “hypocritical” newspapers had turned on him. Talk about clueless - he was counting on editorial writers to save him.
Too bad Imus “outgrew” all the people who used to listen to him on WNBC. Basically, he forgot who brung him to the dance.
Barney Frank - another target of Bernie McGuirk’s barbs - used to say that, as a politician, your base isn’t the people who will stand behind you when you’re right, but the people who will stand behind you when you’re wrong.
In the end, Imus had no one who would stand behind him, period. That’s why he won’t be down for breakfast.
And what can you say except, There’s no fool like an old fool.
you mean those two God-loving forgiving “Reverends”. They are disgusting.
how does it feel?how does it feel?
to be on your own,like a rolling stone
no direction home,like a complete unknown
like a rolling stone
B. Dylan
And you're calling IMUS an idiot? :)
he’ll do a “rehabracadabra” and be on XM satellite in a few weeks, and he’ll be bashing the hell out of the conservatives that defended him, and still fawning over the libs that left him on the roadside. Mark my words. Libs are as dumb as they come.
Dem logic: Imus=Bad and Bad=Conservative ergo Imus=Conservative
It is great, isn't it? And it fits David Gregory like a glove.
Cynicism is a fine thing, but I really think that it misses the mark in this case. Larger powers are at work here.
“...your base isn’t the people who will stand behind you when you’re right, but the people who will stand behind you when you’re wrong.”
Heck, as the PResident can attest, there’ll be people who won’t even stand for you when you are right.
This was a perfect example of the self serving media frenzy.
Out of the four or five people I even heard making comments about what he said, most said is was an off color joke that wasn’t meant to really harm anyone.
But the media, once it got a hold of it, just tried to outdo itself.
Cripes, if an asteroid had hit us, they woulda said “Just Breaking: Another planet just hit Earth”... “now back to the important stuff, like how Imus is responsible for slavery, drug addiction, single parent homes, and the Darfur refugee camp”
Imus is just one the the ‘useful idiots’ who is thrown overboard by the socialists. This charade is the foreboding of things to come and the real targets are going to be identified soon when the congress start pressing for the eliminating of ALL talk radio.
Imus will be used as an example to be used why they are all ‘enemies of the state’.
Didn’t like the Swift-Boaters, huh? Well, it looks like the I-man got “Race-Boated.”
No kidding, honey. Nobody will ever be appearing on the Imus show again, not even Imus.
Two good lines. On a seriouis note, this would be an excellent time to get religion. In the end, when all is against you, who will stand with you if you ask Him? The Lord our God. I do not have a bone to pick in this fight - at least I don't think I do. However, it would be nice if a priest or pastor would contact Imus and say, I forgive you and if you want to talk and pray, here is my number. This reminds me of Duke Cunningham and how nobody stood by him when he went down. It's a troubled world we live in.
LOLOLOLOL
My sentiments exactly.
Unexpectedly, the Clintons Are Skewered at a Dinner When the Radio-Television Correspondents Association invited Don Imus, the WFAN radio morning man in New York, to be the after-dinner speaker at its annual gala on Thursday night in Washington, members knew how uninhibited his barbs could be. And how well informed; Mr. Imus is as well known for being obsessed with politics as for being a so-called shock jock.
But the correspondents apparently got more than they bargained for when Mr. Imus made fun of President Clinton's supposed extramarital affairs and Hillary Clinton's legal problems -- with both the President and the First Lady sitting on the dais as he spoke.
The remarks were deemed so insulting that the association sent a letter of apology to the Clintons yesterday, and Michael D. McCurry, the President's press secretary, asked C-Span, the cable network that routinely rebroadcasts Washington events, to refrain from retransmitting this one.....
Absolutely...tried and true.
Absolutely...tried and true.
“Barney Frank - another target of Bernie McGuirk’s barbs - used to say that, as a politician, your base isn’t the people who will stand behind you when you’re right, but the people who will stand behind you when you’re wrong. “
Barney would say that wouldn’t he?
He really did forget who brought him to the dance, and in his desire to be one of the beautiful people he forgot that long ago. The dogs he liked that gave him fleas ran away without their collar in the end.
Liberals always lie, and liberals are gutless. He should have known that about his liberal “acquaintances” that used him day after day after day.
Will he end up on Satellite? Probably not. If he does, watch him to be even more liberal. He will trample conservatives even more regardless if it is conservatives that support him. Something tells me he will be trying real hard to be one of the beautiful people again. And the dopes on the left cheering Jackson and Sharpton for stifling speech don't realize that they threw away the only somewhat successful liberal outlet on radio. Gosh Liberals are dumb.
Don't think the moderators would allow that one in here...be careful "out there"! LOL!
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