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Whether it's something in New York City's tap water or the moon's current phase, the Radio Equalizer isn't sure, but some kind of foot-in-mouth disease is afflicting its radio hosts. First, it was Don Imus over the weekend, who complained of cocaine dealers who were too slow to supply more drugs, back when he was an addict. What a grave injustice. Now, Al Franken sinks to his own fresh low in a new Playboy interview, according to the New York Daily News. Will feminists be able to remain silent this time? Rachel Maddow, are you paying attention? Get a load...

Could February's Vanity Fair interview finally result in crusty curmudgeon Don Imus's undoing? Just days after the New York Post revealed he spent a chunk of it trashing his fellow MSNBC hosts, other excerpts emerging today paint an even uglier picture of radio and cable's most notorious rambling weirdo. To top it off, the AP reports today that Imus kicked his cocaine habit not due to the horrible damage it inflicts on addicts and their loved ones, but because drug dealers were too slow to show up with more junk! .........................snip...........................

Nationally syndicated radio host Don Imus is echoing comments of Bush-bashing rapper Kanye West, telling guest Tim Russert Tuesday morning that President Bush doesn't care "enough" about black people. "Kanye West said during a concert on NBC that George Bush doesn't care about black people, which I don't believe," Imus began. "What I do believe is that neither he nor anyone else cares enough about them," he told the NBC newsman. "And if you're a black person in New Orleans, what else are you supposed to think? The facts are the facts." Initially, Russert challenged the I-Man, who had spent...

If the sagging ratings, incoherent dialogue, inconsistent positions and fossil-like delivery aren't enough, Don Imus delivers more: another legal flap involving his New Mexico ranch. Former Imus Ranch Physician Dr. Howard Pearson has sued him for slander, after the radio host said he "was one of the worst doctors in the world and did not care if children suffered," according to the suit and USA Today.

How does a crusty, mean-spirited, Kerry-supporting fossil like Don Imus manage to stay on the air? Does he have the best lawyers, who write iron-clad contracts? A world-class superagent? Compromising photos of corporate execs? All of the above? Or is it simply the age-old art of coasting on one's earlier success, where a shrinking energy level meets increasing compensation?

What Keeps Don Imus On The Air? How does a crusty, mean-spirited, Kerry-supporting fossil like Don Imus manage to stay on the air? Does he have the best lawyers, who write iron-clad contracts? A world-class superagent? Compromising photos of corporate execs? All of the above? Or is it simply the age-old art of coasting on one's earlier success, where a shrinking energy level meets increasing compensation? That's the Radio Equalizer's best guess. Something has to explain how Imus manages to remain not only on major radio stations in New York, Boston and other cities, while keeping his morning MSNBC similcast,...

In the absence of intellectual arguments, liberals in the media and in politics have increasingly reverted to name calling. When I was a boy, school children would inevitably begin calling each other names when frustrated or angry. "You're stupid," one would shout. "You're dumb," came the reply. "Well, well, you're so ugly your mother doesn't even love you." "She does too—and you don't even have a mother." As tempers flared, the kids searched for even more hurtful names, eventually stumbling into the aura of World War II which had engulfed the globe. "You're Hitler," was the "baddest" insult one could...

"With that fat ass she's got, she wouldn't be one of 'em," Imus said on the air Friday. "That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning ... Who's she kidding? . . . Plus, she's dumber than dirt ... Oh, my God, what a pig. But I was willing to cut her some slack and not say anything, you know, until - in fact, I didn't say anything . . . That's why they have those big double-doors there at MSNBC, you know, so they can get her fat ass in makeup."

Jeb Bush Should Have Acted, Says Pat Buchanan Republican presidential candidate, author, pundit and political analyst Pat Buchanan thinks Florida Gov. Jeb Bush should have invoked his executive authority to save Terri Schiavo, even to the point of inviting a contempt-of-court citation. Buchanan, in an interview with top-10 radio host Don Imus, said Jeb's resolve would serve two purposes: One, it would demonstrate – agree or disagree – that he took seriously his oath of office, which calls on him to protect the lives of Florida citizens; and two, that he is prepared to use his authority to overturn an...

The first excerpt is from Meet the Press over a week ago. The second excerpt is from an interview with Don Imus, in which Imus asks Kerry to explain what he said on MTP. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6886726/ MR. RUSSERT: Do you believe that Iraq is less a terrorist threat to the United States now than it was two years ago? SEN. KERRY: No, it's more. And, in fact, I believe the world is less safe today than it was two and a half years ago. And, you know, I think this is one of the difficulties of what I tried to carry...

Late night talk show legend Johnny Carson died early Monday morning, Jan. 24, but why should Arab and Muslim Americans care? He hosted the Tonight Show on NBC Network television for 30 years, before handing it off to Jay Leno in 1992. Carson had succeeded Jack Paar, another very popular host of the show in 1962. Carson reigned in an era of television civility. Although Hollywood had opened the floodgates on programming that demonized certain minorities like Indians, Mexicans, African Americans, Chinese and, of course, Arabs and Muslims, the Iowa native (my note, he was from Norfolk, Nebraska) never engaged...

The all-news MSNBC, which recently got the go-ahead for unrestricted access to Canada's digital dial, may have run afoul of our hate laws when its Imus In The Morning advocated dropping a bomb on Palestinians to "kill 'em all." Both the RCMP and the federal broadcast watchdog are on the case, investigating complaints from some two dozen Canadians. They include Paul Jay, best known as the independent producer behind CBC Newsworld's recently cancelled counterSpin. "I watched (Imus) and immediately I was outraged," he told me yesterday. Morning jock Don Imus, whose syndicated shock-talk radio show is simulcast on MSNBC, was...

NOVEMBER 30--A New York woman who briefly worked as a nanny for Don Imus has sued the radio host for wrongful termination, claiming she was canned for bringing a harmless cap gun and pocketknife with her during a trip last Thanksgiving to the family's sprawling New Mexico ranch. Nichole Mallette, 24, also claimed in her New York State Supreme Court lawsuit, a copy of which you'll find below, that she was defamed when Imus later announced on his program that he had been forced to "disarm" his nanny, whom he labeled as dangerous and a "terrorist." In her complaint, filed...

(WASHINGTON, D.C., 11/23/04)- The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) announced today that MSNBC cable television network has apologized for anti-Arab/anti-Muslim remarks made on its "Imus in the Morning" program. CAIR filed an FCC complaint over comments on a November 12th ‘Imus’ program that referred to Palestinians as "stinking animals" and suggested that they all be killed. SEE: Palestinians Called 'Stinking Animals' on MSNBC's 'Imus' http://www.cair-net.org/asp/article.asp?id=1331&page=NR In a November 19th segment commenting on the apparent execution of a wounded Iraqi in Fallujah by a U.S. Marine, a fictitious "Senior Military Affairs Advisor" to the program justified the killing by referring to...

DON IMUS, HOST, 'IMUS IN THE MORNING': From Detroit, Michigan, Senator John Kerry. Good morning, Senator Kerry. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE JOHN KERRY: Good morning, Don Imus. How are you? IMUS: I'm fine, sir. How are you? KERRY: I'm doing terrific. Thank you. IMUS: Where's Edwards? KERRY: Edwards is in -- well, he was in Oregon last night, and he's in West Virginia today. He's campaigning hard. IMUS: I wondered if he was still on the ticket. We haven't heard from him. KERRY: No, he's doing great. He's doing great. He's got -- God, he had about 8,000 people, 10,000 people in...

DON IMUS ON KERRY: "You can't get much more liberal than John Kerry is.  I mean, he's my candidate, but, I mean, come on." (MSNBC's "Imus In The Morning," 7/26/04)LEARN MORE ABOUT THE DEMOCRATS' COSMETIC CONVENTION AT WWW.DEMSEXTREMEMAKEOVER.COM

John Kerry stays in the saddle by galloping past kiss-and-tell tattle. Kiss-and-Tell Tattle and Rides in the Saddle.· (Each line below is a limerick not subdivided, but you can discern what are the break-points for each line) By whom was John Kerry assailed by claims he's a Clintonesque male? Though Drudge has been mum on who beat the drum, it seems that such beating has failed. A pundit named Crawford¹ explained the Drudge-source by him can't be named but said, not implied, the rumor described was recently "shopped"² by Lehane. At PoliSat.Com we are betting the timing and place of...

NewsMax.com   Wednesday, May 14, 2003 12:07 p.m. EDTStephanopoulos: Candidate Not Wrong to Say Bush Stole Election In a radio interview Wednesday morning, ABC's "This Week" host George Stephanopoulos defended a claim by one of the Democratic Party presidential candidates that President Bush stole the 2000 election, saying it was "a reasonable inference" based on the evidence. Stephanopoulos was asked to respond to a comment by former Illinois Sen. Carol Moseley Braun, who told Sen. Joe Lieberman during the party's May 3 presidential debate: "We need to pursue opportunities for individuals to vote, instead of making it a high hurdle...

Is Don Imus back on MSNBC in the mornings again after a long hiatus? I thought I saw such an announcement on MSNBC. I wasn't home the past couple of mornings so I didn't catch him. Did anybody see if Imus was back on MSNBC. And if he is back, how did he explain his long absence and return?

Did anybody else just hear James Traficant on the Don Imus show? It was a MILESTONE. Not because he used the S-Word (which he did) but also because Traficant just used the F-Word. It was plain to hear and marks a first. The first time the F-Word has been broadcast on a news show. It was kind of astonishing to hear the F-Word used but then I laughed. Hey, it's James Traficant we're talking about here. Anyway, another TV taboo has just been broken. And the funny thing is that Imus and his staff kept reassuring themselves that it didn't...