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Beautiful People left I-man bleeding by side of the road
Boston Herald ^ | 4/13/07 | Howie Carr

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.


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To: Apercu
We now travel down the slippery slope of losing freedom of speech & thought while the race pimps create new victims.

Exactly right. For Sharpton and Jackson and the NOW gang, this was spring training. Imus was just a warmup. Now they'll go after actual conservatives with their letter-writing and boycott campaigns.

Imus wasn't a conservative, but he wasn't a liberal, either. He was a flip-flopping entertainer guided by ratings and pandering principles more than ideology.

21 posted on 04/12/2007 11:21:06 PM PDT by billclintonwillrotinhell
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To: raccoonradio
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.

Heh. I don't even want to know what a rumpswab is, but that's funny.

Can you say, Leftist Media Phony?

I thought you could.

22 posted on 04/12/2007 11:21:48 PM PDT by FlyVet (O)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Naw, he’s got enough to keep her happy...but she’s smiling ‘cause how much longer will he live?


23 posted on 04/12/2007 11:22:17 PM PDT by norge
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To: raccoonradio; All

from WRKO podzinger: Chumpline from yesterday’s Howie Carr
show. howie explains how Imus libelled his wife at the
start.

http://media.wrko.podzinger.com/archive/HowieCarr/2007-04-12_Chump_Line_4_12_07.mp3


24 posted on 04/12/2007 11:23:13 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

Could you please add me to your Howie Carr ping list?
He has become one of my favorite columnists. Top three, easy.

Thanks.


25 posted on 04/12/2007 11:23:55 PM PDT by Lancey Howard
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To: Paladin2
I decided he was an idiot and changed morning drivetime channels.

So did a lot of other people. His ratings have been declining steadily. This probably played a role in his termination.

26 posted on 04/12/2007 11:35:06 PM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: raccoonradio
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.

That was the first thing I noticed when I watched Hardball.

27 posted on 04/12/2007 11:37:11 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: CharacterCounts
His ratings have been declining steadily.

So did the number of radio stations that carried him. I remember back when MSNBC first came to air in 1996, they put Imus In The Morning on their lineup a month or so later, and in a short amount of time, Imus had close to 200 radio stations.

28 posted on 04/12/2007 11:39:35 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: Lancey Howard

OK you’re added! Be aware the ping list is for columns and also his daily radio show.


29 posted on 04/12/2007 11:42:20 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: BigSkyFreeper

he had about 60 at the end and a few dropped him in the past couple days


30 posted on 04/12/2007 11:43:19 PM PDT by raccoonradio
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To: raccoonradio

The lesson learned here is that you can NEVER, EVER, count on a Washington Liberal when times get tough.

In the end, the only thing they are interested in is thier own skin, and “friends” are just another tool for the path to power, or to a “Journalist”, an inside source to be used until burned...

All the Party Circuit “friends” he had just two short weeks ago, will do anything not to be associated with him now.

Such is the way of The New McCarthyism, and the PC Thought Police...


31 posted on 04/12/2007 11:44:28 PM PDT by tcrlaf (VOTE DEM! You'll Look GREAT In A Burqa!)
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To: tcrlaf

The old bastard needed firing....for a long list of reasons, but I hate that his scalp went to the worthless race baiting and nappy headed whore pimping Sharpton and Jackson..

Semper Fi


32 posted on 04/12/2007 11:50:02 PM PDT by river rat (You may turn the other cheek, but I prefer to look into my enemy's vacant dead eyes.)
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To: raccoonradio

That is why he was expendable. If his ratings were better, he would still be on the air. This way, CBS and MSNBC get look good and introduce new talent at the same time.


33 posted on 04/12/2007 11:50:48 PM PDT by CharacterCounts
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To: raccoonradio

Bravo to Howie! He nailed it like few others can.


34 posted on 04/12/2007 11:50:54 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: tcrlaf

Ain’t it great. The same people who were laughin’ and gigglin’ with him two weeks ago are nowhere to be seen.

Tom? (Friedman)
Frank? (Rich)
Jonathan? (Alter)
Doris? (K Goodwin)
Chris? (Matthews)
Tim? (Russert)
David? (Gregory) Forget it, David already bailed, with his hands on his a** trying to stuff it back in. What an ever-lovin’ weenie!


35 posted on 04/12/2007 11:53:47 PM PDT by norge
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To: raccoonradio
I heard Cavuto say he had 61 as of the end of his show Thursday, which includes the handful of the CBS O&O stations that carried him.

Incidently, I listened to the first half hour of his Thursday morning show, and the first thing I heard was Imus lighting into MSNBC and CBS about "abject hypocrisy", which ironically was a soundbyte FOX News used after the hammer fell on Imus.

36 posted on 04/12/2007 11:56:12 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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To: Bush gal in LA

A Buchanan article...

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1816610/posts


37 posted on 04/12/2007 11:56:23 PM PDT by tina07 (In Memory of my Father - WWII Army Air Force Veteran)
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To: raccoonradio

Liberals are just cowards on every front. They can’t even bring themselves to admit Imus is a flaming liberal. They only have the courage to stand with you when you are winning, but cut and run at the first sign of trouble. It doesn’t matter if it’s Imus or the US Military. They are all obviously just narcissist!


38 posted on 04/12/2007 11:56:35 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: raccoonradio

Liberals are just cowards on every front. They can’t even bring themselves to admit Imus is a flaming liberal. They only have the courage to stand with you when you are winning, but cut and run at the first sign of trouble. It doesn’t matter if it’s Imus or the US Military. They are all obviously just narcissist!


39 posted on 04/12/2007 11:56:36 PM PDT by PajamaTruthMafia
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To: river rat
I hate that his scalp went to the worthless race baiting and nappy headed whore pimping Sharpton and Jackson..

That's what really sucks. He got rolled by two of the best examples of racism in America.

40 posted on 04/12/2007 11:58:13 PM PDT by BigSkyFreeper (There is no alternative to the GOP except varying degrees of insanity)
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