Posted on 04/11/2007 8:40:45 PM PDT by LdSentinal
April 11, 2007 - Media mogul Sumner Redstone says he's looking to his chief lieutenant, CBS Corp. chief executive Leslie Moonves, to “do the right thing” when it comes to deciding whether to fire Don Imus, the CBS Radio star shock jock now being whipsawed in a storm of racial controversy.
“He'll make the ultimate decision. But I'm confident he will deal with it in an appropriate manner,” Redstone, the chairman of CBS parent company Viacom Inc., said in a phone interview with NEWSWEEK from his Beverly Hills home . His comments come as MSNBC announced it is dropping its daily simulcast of the “Imus in the Morning” radio show, amid furor over Imus' racial slur against the Rutgers women basketball team and the news that major advertisers are withdrawing support for the show.
Redstone's remarks could pressure Moonves into firing Imus (”do the right thing” is an oblique comment—and the title of a Spike Lee film).
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The left shot themselves in the foot today.Oh, I so don't think so. They still have Bill Murray, and "I'm me and you're not" and other nappy-ho'd bad hairs like that.
Besides, Air America is still there to hoist into the buttocks of those they dislike their petards. I wonder if they ever clean those petards off before using them on their next victim. I guess that really don't matter when one is receiving the King Edward II treatement.
There is pressure EVERYWHERE all of a sudden.
You cannot tell me this is not a concerted effort.
And they will come for us next.
I am listening to Keith Olbermann, apparently believing he’s been vindicated by MSNBC’s dumping Imus — and here is his last report.
He’s talking about Dick Morris; he quotes Morris as saying “Here we have a black man running for president and nobody’s worried about it because everybody’s more afraid of Hillary for president.” Or something close to that.
Then KO looks right into the camera and says, “Does the name Don Imus mean anything to you, Mr. MOrris?”
Well, these selfrightous people just killed THE goose that is paying to keep MSNBC on the air.
The hypocrisy is truly breathtaking. I happened to catch the Lauer interview before I went to work that morning, and even my wife is like, “WTF is with the sickening condescension of Matt Lauer, of all people?”
Ultimately it starts and ends with the media. Ironically, Imus has gotten rich being a media hack, himself, but the power displayed this week by the media “establishment” is something akin to tyranny.
As for us, I think we’re already a bit seasoned in the Olympic sport of “getting shafted by the MSM”. A guy like Imus, however, probably didn’t know what hit him. Where evil men like Bill Maher can display equal and worse bigotry toward Christians, Imus probably figured this would just fade out. When it didn’t, he made the mistake of groveling in front of his colleagues. Once they realized he didn’t have the chutzpah of a Howard Stern to tell everyone to go screw themselves they went for the jugular.
Like you, I am concerned that our right not only to free speech, but religious conviction, is going to result in not only social, but economical persecution.
When Black leaders like Al Sharpton and Jessie Jackson push for the firing of an old fool that was mimicking a sub culture that uses the same words as an every day acceptance than is there any justice in the great words of Martin Luther King?
Whoa...
You’re right- it’s everywhere.
He will be replaced ... and the bigotry will continue. Sadly, black people will fail to realize the exploitation and continue to buy the rap crap and denigrating manipulators’ empowerment. Bigotry serves the alphabet networks quite well, to the tune of billions, and in election seasons, even more.
Conservatives need to STOP arguing with each other and get behind whoever the nominee is going to be.
THIS is big trouble; it’s a real danger to this country.
I am so stunned by what has happened in the last 24 hours, I’m not even sure what I have witnessed.
Can this happen in this country?
Isn't CBS run by Clinton supporters? I haven't listened to Imus for several years but it's my understanding they were pretty tough on Hillary.
He won’t be replaced by anybody who will have the draw he does, because there isn’t anybody.
Jesse Jackson is meeting with MSNBC in the morning; you can bet whoever gets that slot will be black and $$$ is going to change hands.
Hillary wins here, but it may just be luck. Obama stayed out of it too. They were on the sidelines waiting for a definite trend.
He hates her.
Obama called for him to be fired this very day.
Vent away. KO is a two-bit, slack-jawed media thug. He has zero game. Roker is an irrelevant jackass who plays with maps for a living. Lauer looks like an even bigger second-fiddle to Meredith Vieira, of all people. Does the phrase, “strike three” mean anything to NBC? How does he find his way home after work?
People must think Imus is a Republican
Maybe KO thinks with Imus gone, he’s MSNBC’s number one star..........LOL.
Yesterday he called for Imus to be fired. That is late in the game.
It’s like some kind of trance-like hateful fog has veiled reason and reality.. the convergence of the the war, Rats winning, blatant disrespect of Congress to W, Pelosi’s despicable brazenness, Walter Reed, Gonzalez, the frenzied seizure of this offensive but miniscule Imussup ... there’s blood in the water.
This has become critical mass .. and I sadly think it’s going to take some shocking event to slap these jerks out of their mania.
Don’t be surprised if the ugly reparation word rears its
ugly head.
I pray Fred gains the momentum he’s looking for to feed the
confidence he wants to run. I don’t know if it’s too late, but if someone with sense doesn’t step in hard soon .. I really fear for our nation.
The foundation for this kind of thing has been in the making for decades now. All of this has been waiting beneath the surface, latent, and just waiting for the right excuse to explode into public. Reminds me of the L.A. riot mentality. They needed an excuse, and they found one. Same here.
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