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I will bet that Imus will be back in another venue and be right back up there in ratings. I never liked the Guy, but the backlash will come very soon because Americans do not like the piling on that has been very obvious. They also do not like hypocrites like Jackson/Sharpton poverty Pimps with Alligator Shoes and Armani suits. He should have apologized for what he said,to the Women Basketball Players period (not the entire Black Population) and plead guilty to being a sick old doofus that tried to sound like a rapper and let it go. Talk around the cooler is that he should have been suspended, not fired. Even The Ft Lauderdale Sun Sentinel Poll that has very Liberal readership was running 68-70 percent against The firing.

I watched Timmy. I will predict Imus will be back, the left can’t afford to loose him.

Gwen was utterly and righteously pissed. And then the talk turned to rappers, of which she claimed utter ignorance. One of guests, sitting next to Gwen made the remark “It’s ok to kick the underdogs...” He was speaking of rapper smackdowns of the real hos, I guess?

It was awesome trying to see them NOT knaw on each other while tripping over each other.
One even said it wasn’t fair to accuse Jesse and Al of being self appointed spokesman, when the MEDIA CALLS THEM ALL DAY LONG FOR THEIR OPINIONS.

Only one really had a clear pic of the situation, he was sitting on Timmy’s right. Otherwise, it was clear

1. they either don’t have a clue what’s going on in the hood or in mainstream America
2. they’re hypocritical capitalist hos who looked the other way because rappers were making lots of money
3. they’re hypocritical closet misoginysts wrapped in the white sheets they just stole from Imus’ bed
4. they’re really just pissed because Imus elevated the status of black women and beat them to it because Jesse and Al are always too busy screaming racism to bother elevating the status of black women
5. all of the above

I will bet that Imus will be back in another venue and be right back up there in ratings.

Respectfully Samantha, that's not a safe bet to make.

Unlike a Howard Stern, Imus has no audience to follow him that's large enough to earn him the big bucks.

We found out this week that the media-elites had built up an image of a radio iconoclast that couldn't stand up outside of the studio lights. Notice how in the beginning of the week, Imus was man with an audience of 3 million listners, pulling in $50 million worth of advertising dollars. By week's end, the news stories were now appearing (accurately this time) that Imus' audience was barely a million listners and his revenue stream was only $15 million a year. Imus couldn't even draw ratings in the Beltway itself.

The sad reality which struck the drive-by'ers was that despite the build-ups and the media attention, relatively speaking, Imus was irrelevant as far as national radio audiences went and therefore he was readily available for a sacrafice.

The media-elites from CBS, ABC, NBC, MSNBC, The NY Times, The Washington Post, Newsweek, Time, who went on Imus' show weren't talking to the masses, they were talking and listening to each other.

Having politicians bail on you is no surprise, but as far as the media-elite went, these were the folks Imus relied on to pull his ass out of the fire. And they showed their true character. Frank Rich and Jonathan Alter and Tim Russert can write or speak thousands of words about Imus (noticeably all in retrospect), but they weren't there at the time Imus needed them. But then would you really want a Rich, a Dowd, an Alter or Russert in a foxhole with you?

And so, Imus goes out beaten and humiliated like Dan Rather. Samantha, Imus will be back as soon as Daunting Dan will. Count on that.