Big h/t to reader PJG.Posted on 01/03/2007 8:14:08 AM PST by newgeezer
Big h/t to reader PJG.
Does it get any more foul than this? During the 8 AM ET hour of Don Imus's show this morning he and Mike Barnicle fantasized about how various Republicans would react to being hung on the gallows.
Note: this item was prepared from the closed-caption transcript. It will be reviewed and corrected as appropriate in the course of the morning.Imus: "I tried to imagine how members of the various current administration members would behave were they subjected to the gallows as Saddam Hussein was. I can see Rumsfeld . . . "
Barnicle: "He wouldn't take it."
Imus: "No blindfold for Rumsfeld."
Barnicle: "F-you. You go to the gallows with the noose you want, with the noose you have, not the noose you want. Whatever."
Imus: "That's exactly right. Just as that trap door opens, he drops an f-bomb to all of them."
Barnicle: "How about Cheney?"
Imus: "I don't think he would make it up the steps. This is a guy that would wet his pants and whine and start crying."
Barnicle: "He would order as a last meal 400 pounds of bacon."
Imus: "This guy has six diplomas to get out of Vietnam because he had, what was the phrase he used -- he had some more important issues to deal witH. He got his wife pregnant just to keep him out of dealing with this. Wolfowitz would cry."
Barnicle: "He would be shot in the back running away."
Imus: "Exactly."
Barnicle: "Or some of the other players."
Imus: "Richard Perle."
Barnicle: "Oh, God. He would soil himself."
Imus: "Can't you see him being dragged up by his shirt?"
Barnicle: "And a combover hanging over down the side of his head."
In one of the oddest transitions, Barnicle then asks: "Everybody well in your family, your kids, wife, all that?
Imus: "Thank God, everybody is, and I hope everybody is in your household and everybody else's household, because the health of your family, everything else pales in comparison. If you draw a breath in the morning, you're ahead of the day."
Such wonderful family values, these guys.
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There ya go. The answer to free speech is more free speech.
They may as well ask how the Dalai Lama would react if Donald Trump asked to marry him.
"Ban him" from what, my house? Absolutely.
I love free speech because it helps me to know who the dirtbags are.
People actually listen to this show?? Imus, like Dave Letterman, ceased being funny at least 15 years ago.
Can you imagine the outrage that would follow if Rush, Hannity, Laura Ingraham, et al were to joke about executing left wing politicians or journalists?
In my book that does not make you a jack-booted thug.
Imus is one of the most dreadful humans ever to get airtime. He covers his awful butt with his time and efforts for charitable causes. He NEVER EVER stops reminding people of all the good he does for the children (with his wife as cheerleader), and this allows him to be as despicable a person as he wants to be.
Knock yourself out.
Schadenfreude: in Boston, WTKK is cutting out one hour
of Imus' show and chopping Barnicle's show in half (decision
made before all this):
Imus 6-9 am
Barnicle 9-10 am
ha!
Yeah, the only jackbooted thugs are the traitors on that show fantasizing about the hanging of fellow Americans who liberated 25 millions people in 2 countries. Imus is a fraud, through and through.
Speculating about hanging our Vice President, Secretary of Defense and other American government officials.
It doesn't get any more disgusting than this. This was on a public radio show???????
These guys sound exactly like sociopathic jihadists! The idle banter and wishful thinking of terrorists in training!
This is sick sick sick. Dehumanizing your political opponents to the point of viewing their murders and deaths as a casual, even pleasant, speculation.
Lokk at which regimes in history have done this and look at the "ordinary" people who accepted, rationalized, supported, even participated. And this was the underlying cause- the ability to dehumanize and detach from fellow citizens.
These guys are whistling a tune from the book of genocide.
This is taking American political opposition to new lows, even for liberals.
I presume these lefties are among those who decry the "meanness" of Ann Coulter for calling the Jersey Girls publicity grubbers.
I caught the beginning of Scarborough on MSNBC last night -- talk about being corrupted by people you associate with. The whole lot over there is corrupted.
Since I've been a fan, Imus has not been funny. Bernard, Lou, Rob, Larry and others are funny. Imus' interviews are matched by none . . except maybe Brian Lamb.
How the hell do you get off uttering this?
Who T.F. do you thing you are?
roses-of-sharon said NOTHING to merit this. Reassess yourself this morning. While I normally appreciate your comments, you are out of line this morning.
He was getting off, I just don't think he's capable of a physical response.
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