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 wont be MSNBCing 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 whats 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 wouldnt want to share a foxhole with them. When the I-mans phone didnt 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 theyd 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 hes 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 wont 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. Didnt notice any truck-drivers blowing their horns in support, did you?
It couldnt 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 McGuirks barbs - used to say that, as a politician, your base isnt the people who will stand behind you when youre right, but the people who will stand behind you when youre wrong.
In the end, Imus had no one who would stand behind him, period. Thats why he wont be down for breakfast.
And what can you say except, Theres no fool like an old fool.
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.
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.
Naw, he’s got enough to keep her happy...but she’s smiling ‘cause how much longer will he live?
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
Could you please add me to your Howie Carr ping list?
He has become one of my favorite columnists. Top three, easy.
Thanks.
So did a lot of other people. His ratings have been declining steadily. This probably played a role in his termination.
That was the first thing I noticed when I watched Hardball.
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.
OK you’re added! Be aware the ping list is for columns and also his daily radio show.
he had about 60 at the end and a few dropped him in the past couple days
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...
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
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.
Bravo to Howie! He nailed it like few others can.
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!
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.
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!
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!
That's what really sucks. He got rolled by two of the best examples of racism in America.
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