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Ethics Corner: Don Imus Plays The Intimidation Game
Editor &Publisher ^ | May 03, 2005 | Allan Wolper

Posted on 05/13/2005 8:27:00 PM PDT by woofie

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To: woofie

Howard Stern was the first person I heard question the actual purpose of this ranch. It was when the "mansion" there was featured in Architectural Digest. The gist of it is: is this to help sick children, or is to provide Imus and his insufferable family with a tax-exempt luxury vacation home?

I must say, between the Imus "mob" and the Stern "mob", my money's on the babba-booie set.


21 posted on 05/14/2005 6:31:40 AM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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To: hershey

"And one of the kids eyed the carton, then Newman, and asked him if he was 'lost'"

LOL! That's a cute story.


22 posted on 05/14/2005 6:33:34 AM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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To: Ditter

Good thinking ...
I havea farm in Texas ..Im raising ants...My child says she is deprived ...I will get the government to send her out there to get some fresh air ...see if she gets happier


23 posted on 05/14/2005 7:37:46 AM PDT by woofie
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To: Ann Archy
I can NOT believe the IRS hasn't investigated that ranch.

On what grounds or charge?

24 posted on 05/14/2005 7:43:52 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Paul Atreides

LOL! I once heard Howard Stern dub him "Anus in the Morning." What a crybaby!


25 posted on 05/14/2005 7:44:36 AM PDT by Tabi Katz
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To: Torie
The WSJ derives almost no revenues from the brain dead Imus demographic.

Got a link for that information?

26 posted on 05/14/2005 7:45:12 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: ozzymandus
My only knowledge of Imus comes from seeing a few clips and interviews of him, and reading second-hand accounts like this one . . .

He happens to be the best interviewer in the business. Your loss.

27 posted on 05/14/2005 7:47:49 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: woofie
Are you raising fire ants too? Do you think we could get a farm subsidy for NOT raising fire ants? Oh wait, we don't know how to stop raising them. LOL
28 posted on 05/14/2005 7:48:48 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Ditter

Not doing anything is hard work


29 posted on 05/14/2005 7:50:32 AM PDT by woofie
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To: jocon307

Dang. Someone scanned in the photos from Architectural Digest and posted them at FR. Must have been his stupid wife who *insisted* they be in that magazine


30 posted on 05/14/2005 7:55:08 AM PDT by dennisw (the country music station plays soft but there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off)
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To: leadpenny
You're kidding, right?

The kids that go to the ranch are not always cancer patients like it was supposed to be. Sometimes it's kids who siblings has SID's....sometimes it's siblings of cancer patients. But that's not the crux of the problem. He uses it as a SECOND HOME that FOOLS paid for. If he never used it for anything else but having kids there, then that would be great, BUT it isn't.

Plus the fools that pay for it get DISSED by him on his show.....stupid people.

31 posted on 05/14/2005 8:06:31 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: dennisw

I guess I heard this at some time in my life when hubby was listening to Howard Stern. The place sounded swanky to the max, that I will say. I'll say one thing for Stern, he's a great alarm clock, almost every day I'd run from the bedroom because of SOMETHING he'd said. I stopped listening to Imus exactly because of his unending, unbearable, paens to Dierdre, and that poor child whom she is attempting to torment into perfection. At least Howard Stern made his wife seem like a normal person.

I like your tagline, btw.


32 posted on 05/14/2005 8:11:08 AM PDT by jocon307 (Irish grandmother rolls in grave, yet again.)
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To: leadpenny

No, but Imus's demographic is lower middle class young men, and the WSJ's isn't.


33 posted on 05/14/2005 8:32:09 AM PDT by Torie (Constrain rogue state courts; repeal your state constitution)
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To: jocon307

Ain't it just like the night to play tricks when you're tryin' to be so quiet?
We sit here stranded, though we're all doin' our best to deny it
And Louise holds a handful of rain, temptin' you to defy it
Lights flicker from the opposite loft
In this room the heat pipes just cough
The country music station plays soft
But there's nothing, really nothing to turn off
Just Louise and her lover so entwined
And these visions of Johanna that conquer my mind


34 posted on 05/14/2005 8:34:51 AM PDT by dennisw (the country music station plays soft but there’s nothing, really nothing to turn off)
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To: Ann Archy

No, I'm not kidding, and I'll ask you again, on what ground or charge would you have the IRS investigate him?


35 posted on 05/14/2005 8:44:35 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Torie

I'd like to see a link for that statement, also?

I hope you're right, though. If young people are watching his show, that means they're watching a show for grown-ups and not the kiddie shows like the rest of the MSM tries to feed them.


36 posted on 05/14/2005 8:49:50 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny

Imus used to have a 7am show on Cleveland radio in the late 90s. Everyone hated him and he was there less than a year.


37 posted on 05/14/2005 8:52:44 AM PDT by darkangel82
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To: darkangel82

Everyone?


38 posted on 05/14/2005 8:59:43 AM PDT by leadpenny
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To: leadpenny

Sorry, I thought you could read.


39 posted on 05/14/2005 10:40:16 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion: The Human Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: Ann Archy
If MSNBC wants to keep someone like Imus on their so-called respectable network, they will eventually regret it. For some reason, they're allowing Imus to get away with trashing people over the air.

From what I read about the way he trashed MSNBC news-reader Contessa Brewer on his show, he deserves to be fired. (called her a fat-@ssed skank) She didn't deserve that.

and forget about all the things he said about Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld during the campaign.

40 posted on 05/14/2005 11:00:26 AM PDT by Dr. Scarpetta
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