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Don Imus: RIP You Old Cowboy
MOTUS A.D. ^ | 12-28-19 | MOTUS

Posted on 12/28/2019 6:30:33 AM PST by NOBO2012

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1 posted on 12/28/2019 6:30:33 AM PST by NOBO2012
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To: NOBO2012

That photo of Hillary glaring at him was when he was joking about the Whitewater scam and Hillary claiming she finally found the long missing billing records under subpeona. It was the 90s version of her email scam.

Hiding evidence has been her criminal method for decades


2 posted on 12/28/2019 6:40:05 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. ....)
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To: NOBO2012
Most people credit the Rev Al Sharpton for getting Imus fired (for which he was rewarded with a Ms.NBC show of his own – some people might call that a bribe, or blackmail – although that seems racist – but most of us see it as a quid pro quo).

MSNBC rewarded Sharpton for blowing up one of their successful shows?

Why?

3 posted on 12/28/2019 6:51:11 AM PST by semimojo
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To: NOBO2012

Baba Booey!


4 posted on 12/28/2019 7:02:51 AM PST by Kriggerel ("All great truths are hard and bitter, but lies... are sweeter than wild honey" (Ragnar Redbeard))
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Supposedly he zinged left and right alike. One tweet said he arguably helped save Bill Clinton’s 1992 candidacy and yet at a White House correspondent’s dinner he called Bill a “pot smoking weasel”, “Other Imus jabs targeted Hillary Clinton’s legal troubles at the time, Newt Gingrich’s lesbian half-sister, and then Sen. Joe Biden’s hair transplant, The New York Times reported.” —Fox News

Dan Kennedy, a left leaning Boston media critic said he used to like Imus but not after he became “bitter and offensive” . Some may have felt the same way about Carlin in his later years.


5 posted on 12/28/2019 7:06:18 AM PST by raccoonradio
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To: NOBO2012
That speech in front of BillyBob and ILLary was excellent.The look on his face was almost as priceless as his look when he saw Juanita Broderick in the audience during the debate.

I used to listen to Imus quite a bit. I liked Bernie McGuirk...funny guy.

6 posted on 12/28/2019 7:08:09 AM PST by Gay State Conservative (The Rats Can't Get Over The Fact That They Lost A Rigged Election)
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“That buck-tooth witch Satan, Hillary Clinton.” […] “I never admitted it when I went down there and got in all that big jam, insulting Bill Clinton and his fat ugly wife, Satan. Did I? Did I ever say I was sorry for that?”

Well yeah. RIP Don Imus.

7 posted on 12/28/2019 7:53:39 AM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: NOBO2012
Black is beautiful and tan is grand but white is the color of an Amer-i-can.

Don Imus

8 posted on 12/28/2019 7:56:55 AM PST by Renkluaf
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To: Gay State Conservative

In the early 70’s Imus did a skit that involved calling a McDonald’s and claiming to be a general ordering lunch for his troops who were moving from one post to another. The “General” orders like 4,000 cheeseburgers, so many sodas, fries etc. The manger repeats back the order. Tells Imus he will get other McDonald’s to help him with the order. Ah when humor was humor. How I miss the early Imus and American humor. Warn Satan that Hillary’s coming and she wants her soul back.


9 posted on 12/28/2019 8:00:56 AM PST by Kozy (new age haruspex; "Everyone has a plan 'till they get punched in the mouth.")
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To: DesertRhino

The Clintons get/got very upset when media figures didn’t play along with the kayfabe. Imus’ joke was ‘controversial’ because it involved stating a fact and mocking the emininetly mockable Clintonian alibi.


10 posted on 12/28/2019 8:01:52 AM PST by relictele
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To: DesertRhino

Hillary’s a happy camper today. Again, liberals live forever!!!!!


11 posted on 12/28/2019 8:04:53 AM PST by napscoordinator (Trump/Hunter, jr for President/Vice President 2016)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Bernie did hilarious send-ups of John Cardinal O’Connor and especially Maya Angelou - the grossly overrated hack poet.

One of his faux-Angelou rhymes mentioned ‘free cheeses.’

Imus & the crew were interviewed on 60 Minutes once. The reporter was agitated over Bernie’s mockery of Michael Jackson - who then was still getting media cover.

Bernie responded: ‘He’s a pedophile!! What you do think he is - Mother Teresa?’


12 posted on 12/28/2019 8:08:59 AM PST by relictele
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To: NOBO2012

I watched Imus in the Morning more because it was usually a train wreack, mostly because of his liberal wife arguing with everyone and anyone on the show.

JoMa


13 posted on 12/28/2019 8:28:36 AM PST by joma89
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To: relictele

Ah yes John Cardinal O’Connor my favorite part of the show!


14 posted on 12/28/2019 8:46:58 AM PST by Maine Mariner
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To: NOBO2012

My man Don Imus. One of a kind. RIP.


15 posted on 12/28/2019 9:01:27 AM PST by Tommy Revolts
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To: NOBO2012

Charles McCord retired from the show in 2012, and it never recovered. Imus was the star of the program, but McCord was the MVP; along with anchoring the newscasts, McCord also wrote most of the skits on the program, while Rob Bartlett and Larry Kenny provided the voices. McCord even scripted some of the questions for Imus’s interviews.

When the show moved to WABC-AM and Fox Business, everyone (according to Imus) earned less money and McCord took a 50% salary cut, from $2 million to $1 million a year. McCord didn’t feel like that was adequate compensation for his role on the show, and retired less than a year later. He lives on a lake in northern Arkansas; have no idea what kind of relationship he had with Imus after leaving the program.

BTW, McCord was not the I-man’s original sidekick when he arrived at WNBC in the early 70s. He was paired with Bob Cain, who became one of the early anchors at CNN. There was no chemistry between the two of them and after McCord started giving Imus funny traffic updates, he made McCord his news reader, and Cain returned to the NBC radio network as an anchor


16 posted on 12/28/2019 9:04:36 AM PST by ExNewsExSpook
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To: NOBO2012

Let’s not forget that he was stabbed in the back by his “friend” Joe Scarborough - a regular guest. Once Imus got into trouble, Scarborough lobbied for his job. Occasionally, Imus would take a vicious swipe at this backstabber on his radio show.

RIP, Don! I loved your show. And it was really Bernie who started all the trouble, lol!


17 posted on 12/28/2019 9:13:50 AM PST by miss marmelstein
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RIP, I-Man. You were a pioneer. I will miss your no prisoners style with regard to politics.

One of my favorite moments....

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TxefPeKn_Rs


18 posted on 12/28/2019 9:21:21 AM PST by nesnah (Liberals - the petulant children of politics)
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To: joma89

Deidre had her moments of sanity and I recall that she also despised Hillary.


19 posted on 12/28/2019 10:28:54 AM PST by surrey
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To: miss marmelstein

Joe Scarborough seems like someone completely out for himself. I happened on his show the other week & If they put anymore soft filters over Mika’s face she will just be a cloud.


20 posted on 12/28/2019 10:52:35 AM PST by leaning conservative (snow coming, school cancelled, yayyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!)
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