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.
Nonsense. Scanning the names of his 'favorite' guests and circle of influence...he's the Grand Dragon of the liberal elite.
When DNC rumpswabs explode... it makes for great entertainment. The thing here is to make sure the blast is confined to the scumbag-libs who frequented his show... and NOT let them turn this into a talk-radio witch-hunt.
Just goes to show you that the Good Samaritan was not one of the beautiful people who passed by the person who had been robbed, beaten, and left for dead by thugs. I think this Imus—who was one of the beautiful people until a week or so ago— should tell us something about the beautiful people.
Why should anyone stick up for him? He was paid well to bring in advertisers. When advertisers started to back off, then he became a losing proposition.
Getting paid $10 million should be enough to insure you don’t do anything dumb to jeopardize the “product.”
We understand the Constitution and double standards of the lamestream media.
Liberals are so cute. They only support free speech when it comes from outsude the United States and is directed against President Bush.
Imus is in for a real life changing experience....no more donations to his ranch...no more free private jet rides...no more party invites...no more radio days. The larger they are the harder they fall. Over/under on Mrs. Imus’s deparure? 5 months.
If the guy has three brain cells working then he has enough stashed away for himself and several generations of his kids, grand kids, great grand kids, etc. to live quite comfortably.
He’ll kick back, write a book and then hit the lecture circuit at six figures a pop.
Also, being that he’s 66, he’ll also collect social security.
Over/under on Mr. Imus's dirt nap? 4 months (and, check the body for arsenic).
I woke up one morning to realize we were in the death grip of the most prolific, broad based and deeply rooted propaganda mechanism in the history of earth. I am not sure we can survive it.
If we do, it won’t be through tepid, “Duke of Queensbury” whimperings about the “dinosaur media” (a myth). This reminds me of the rudimentary “campaigns of criticism” in Red China (another term we don’t hear much) by which it’s citizens were cowed into “correct thought” in the sixties.
This is much more sophisticated and slick, sexy even, possibly inescapable.
Yeah, no kidding! I even heard Chris Core and Mark Levin condemn his firing! While they can’t stand Imus, they see that this set a really bad precedent and expect that Sharpton and Jackson will soon be coming after other talk show hosts, this time on the Conservative front.
A shot of the I-man watches over the site like a ghost though.
What conservatives' reaction should be: Ho-hum, just another liberal racist; only this time the MSM can't hide it.
Nope. XM and Sirius are trying to get a merger approved by Federal regulators. They're not going anywhere near Imus.
I forgot about that. Howie rocks.
So true!! All those annoying liberals who made pilgrimages to his show to kiss his ring. Maureen Dowd, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Tim Russert, they all fawned over him. Where are they now?
The only one who stood by him is McCain.
LOL! I love that line!
Good riddance.
What free speech issues? What government agency was involved in Imus' firing? I don't think even the FCC said anything.
There are concerns that the left may try to use Imus to pass laws curtailing speech, but that has nothing to do with Imus getting canned.
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