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.
Tom? (Friedman)
Frank? (Rich)
Jonathan? (Alter)
Doris? (K Goodwin)
Chris? (Matthews)
Tim? (Russert)
David? (Gregory)
Cue the crickets!
bttt
No. Not yet. But last night you could already sense the guns were being laid for other radio talkshow hosts. This is the first shot in a very long war.
Steven A. Smith has been all over ESPN commenting on this. He is giving kudos to CBS Radio & MSNBC for "setting the example". Fortunately I think Steven-A is wrong. MSNBC was clearly weighing the economics of the situation before firing Imus. It wasn't until several major sponsors jumped ship that they made the decision.
Prediction: Michael Savage is next on the hit parade.
From a purely business standpoint, why would they want to make any major contractual moves until they know whether the merger is going to be approved? It would be stupid to be bidding against eachother.
The future of satellite radio is not really clear to me. Many of the programs strike me as the broadcasting equivalent of a "MySpace" website. Who's really listening?
liberals may be good company at a cocktail party in Vail, but you wouldn’t want to share a foxhole with them.
I saw Nora O’Donnell on TV earlier this week and began a question to a guest by saying “The viewers at home can decide whether the Duke players are guilty or innocent but let’s say they are not guilty for a moment...” I laughed my ass off; seems like she has doubts despite all that has been made public. The viewers can decide? Obviously, some hatred and illogic coming from those sultry lips.
Animal Crackers...2007
Groucho/Imus: Hello, Imus be going
I cannot stay I came to say Imus be going
I’m glad I came but just the same, Imus be going
Deidre/Margaret Dumont: For my sake you must stay
For if you go away
You’ll spoil this party I am throwing
Mike Barnicle: I’ll do a week or two
I’ll stay the summer through
Imus: But I am telling you
Imus be going...
http://members.tripod.com/Cleo256/marx/hello.wav
They got Imus. Now they’re aiming for Rush, Savage, and a few others on the right.
I think that was for today only; read somewhere Mike and the Mad Dog may move temp to that slot and also from what I heard
Mike Barnicle was temp. taking over the Imus broadcast
I love “The Beautiful People” tag. That’s my new slogan for all lefty’s in my office. It will drive them insane. Throwing IMUS under the bus somehow validates how they feel.
I'm stealing that.
I can’t stand David Gregory,he is such a putz!
Now that was a great story!
Yes, David Gregory was a regular on the show.
Diedre Imus had to cancel her “Green This!” book tour.
. . or, as Charlton Heston is credited as once saying, “Political Correctness is Tyranny with Manners.” -
So, how true, how true, Live by political correctness, die by tyranny with manners.
. . or vice versa . . either way
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