IMUS HAS A COW (charity failed to file timely income-tax exemption forms)

NY POST ^ | March 25, 2005 | JOHN MAINELLI and LEONARD GREENE

[Blessed]

>Howard Stern is a lot of things, but he is good at exposing pompous show biz types and Imus is exactly that.<

He is good at getting a few women to "expose" their breast and a few porn stars to tell dirty stories.Now that makes him a real investigative journalist.

[hgro]

Imus is a brain dead hulk who needs his feeding tube pulled.

[finnman69]

Imus Ranch in Architectural Digest

[Pharmboy]

Because the people who want their names chiseled in above the doors suffer from the same problem that Imus does. The ones who give quietly and anonymously, by definition, you don't hear about.

[Pharmboy]

You're just not listening to me or not getting it. This is not about the charity--IT IS ABOUT IMUS. End of story.

[finnman69]

Imus himself today admitted as much that the donators who gave big money to get their names up on his ranch did so because they thought it was effective cheap advertising.

[wildbill]

No finding of wrongdoing? Perhaps not in the literal judicial sense, but it's hard not to come to the conclusion that Imus has merged his own interests with that of his charitable work.

I don't know many charities that have their luxurious headquarters building featured in Architectural Digest.

Imaging a rehabilitation home for teenage prostitutes with a director whose luxurious master bedroom included ceiling mirrors, whips chains and other sex toys, and the opportunity for the girls to get a little action with the director.

[nuconvert]

It would be nice if every charitable donation was done so with a free heart, unconditionally, no strings or egos attached, but most of the money donated doesn't come that way.
As I said in the beginning, I'm not a fan of his, but I do take exception to some of the comments made about his childrens' ranch, just because his ego is stroked by it.
Who cares? Well, apparently, you do.
The psychological reasons behind why people may set up a charitable venture, don't really matter much to me.
But ego-stroking motives don't make the charity any less a charity.

I don't know why you continue to listen to his show if you dislike him so much?

[nuconvert]

"Imaging a rehabilitation home for teenage prostitutes with a director whose luxurious master bedroom included ceiling mirrors, whips chains and other sex toys, and the opportunity for the girls to get a little action with the director."

Where the heck did THAT come from?

[bray]

The Starfish Foundation could give 5,000 Abused and Abandoned kids a week at Camp for $2.6 million. And they don't have to choke down that Veggie Garbage.

Pray for W and Terri's Family

[Samizdat]

Imus said this morning that he has enough money to support the ranch for the next 30 years and said he just might do it so we'll see. But in any event, I think that the problem some people have with it is the co-mingling of his private property (the ranch) and a public charity (the sick kids). I don't begrudge this arrangement because of the good it does but I can see where other, more venal, people would.

I don't think I would have the wherewithall to face what the Imuses face dealing with those sick and sometimes terminal kids. Its got to be a heartbreak and for them to have signed up for that mitigates any oversight that might have occurred in the propriety of the combined arrangement.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

I have listened to Imus for years and continue to do so. I cannot stand him, but I listen because he's got the best morning show on the air in terms of guests (often) and what he (for the most part) discusses.

LOL...I also listened to Imus for years, but I finally weaned myself away during the presidential election. I got sick of hearing him say he was voting for Kerry, and that Cheney is a pork-chop sucking war criminal.

I don't think he has the best guests since most of them are NBC, Newsweek, and other media & political liberals. There are a few conservatives on, but I'd rather listen to my local radio station. Imus is so cruel to people that I got angry listening.

[Pharmboy]

Yeah, doc, no argument. But Imus will throw a change-up occasionally to one of his liberal guests; I have heard him do just that to Russert, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews and many others.

Hey look: I cannot STAND Susan Sarandon, but that doesn't mean that her tatas didn't look great in Atlantic City.

[Dr. Scarpetta]

Imus will throw a change-up occasionally to one of his liberal guests; I have heard him do just that to Russert, Andrea Mitchell, Chris Matthews and many others.

I've heard Imus challenge liberals too, but in the end he sucks up to them. I reached my limit with Imus, and I don't miss the liberal, panty-wearing weenie who voted for JOHN KERRY and tore down the Swiftboat guys!

[Pharmboy]

Yep--he did vote for the French candidate, but he gave him puh-lenty of crap too. Imus only cares about himself, but he is not dumb nor untalented. I can sure understand you giving up on him, and I have in the past too. There's just nothing near as entertaining in the morning (for my money, anyhow).

[dennisw]

I bet that it is paying for the maintenance. 

The kid's cancer charity must be paying for a lot lot lot more than that

I am sure his trophy wife is changing curtains and rugs on a consistant basis.

Undoubtedly trophy wife was the bonehead who wanted the house to be Architectural Digest. Your house appearing in that magazine makes for major female bragging rights and one one-upmanship.

[dennisw]

LOL!!! Thanks for taking the time to post those photos! How much of that humble house did the kid's cancer charity pay for?

[ClintonBeGone]

You're just not listening to me or not getting it. This is not about the charity--IT IS ABOUT IMUS. End of story.

Not, I'm not listening, but I am reading what you wrote. You said: "He could raise the same money by doing things more quietly with his rich friends and corporations." Raising money for what? Himself? Of course not. You were taking about his charity. So it IS about the charity and how he raises its money.