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As usual Ripley you’ve shown that you’re a stupid, judgemental, negative, asshole with no redeeming qualities except the ability to make me laugh at your ridiculous and foolish statements. The original post by Lefty was meant to be a boost to Lucinda. A hope that being mentioned on a national show might boost her career. In your arrogance and obvious love of your own writing you’ve turned this into a morality play about a radio show host. I don’t listen to Imus and I don’t know anything about him. I do know that a plug on any show could help Lucinda. Fuck you and go get in your grave.
because your overwhelming stupidity just simply astounds me ripley, i really want to be clear on the intent of your post. because i’ve listened to imus on and off for 30+ years, i should be defending his vulgar comments from last week?
really, tell me you’re kidding, just tryng to stir sh1t up, something. anything. you can’t be that much of a dolt.
on second thought……
I love how I am considered stupid yet I actually have been backing my opinions of Imus up with facts (his ratings, his remarks, etc) yet all you people can do challenge me is call me names. Very mature.
The problem is that when racist personalities endorse Lucinda it makes her look bad. That is unfortunate.
Imus is a stupid, judgemental, negative, asshole with no redeeming qualities except the ability to make me laugh at hisridiculous and foolish statements.
I’ve hated that man for years because of the things he has said about women, minorities and gays. Not that it matters because his ratings are so low at this point that not a lot of people are listening.
jackstraw – If you’ve been listening to him for 30 years you should already know about the hateful and disgusting things he has said before and you should be ashamed of yourself for continuing to listen to him.
All I was stating was that it seemed all the Imus supporters in this thread went silent as soon as his most recent comments went public.
Imus stepped way over the line. No excuses; merely stupidity. He’ll make amends and try to pay penance, and those who don’t like him will continue to not like him. He’ll continue to help kids with cancer and wounded Iraqi war vets, among other causes, whether he’s on the air or not.
well ripley, considering you think imus is stupid, judgemental, negative asshole with no redeeming qualities, i’m quite suprised you’re not his #1 booster around here. from your stated opinion of the man, sounds like he’s a regular role model. (that probably wasnt’ the best stuff to copy from someone else in your attempt to be, witty? biting? sarcastic?)
i should be ashamed of myself? try this
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/judgmentali knew you could.
time to move on.
Well, now that Imus has been fired from both his radio show and the television simulcast I don’t think we have to worry about the effects of him promoting Lucinda are anymore.
Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving person. I am loving all the coverage Howard is giving this too. It’s nice to share in this losers demise with someone! 😈
From the April 23rd issue of New York magazine:
Near the end of the broadcast last Wednesday, Imus played a song by Lucinda Williams, a sweet throwback to his days as a disc jockey, when his life was a lot simpler. Before playing the song, he asked, in a plaintive voice, “Where are you, baby?” As the words to “Are You Alright?” filled the studio at MSNBC, Don put on his sunglasses and sat there, taking in the song before taking his leave.
Interesting (to me) that Lu unwittingly provided the soundtrack for Imus’s death scene. I’ve lost track of this story…has Imus signed the satellite radio deal yet with Mel Karmazin? 😉
Imus and Karmazin go back a ways. Never say never about a future deal. (Not that I’m in favor of it.)
Rosie O’Donnell & Don Imus…Together, The New Dynamic Duo On Fox?
By Gia Cortina
Jun 15, 2007With both Rosie O’Donnell and Don Imus currently unemployed, Fox News is reportedly looking to cash-in on this dynamic duo and send their ratings soaring!
Mike Walker reports that Fox is willing to pay big bucks for the controversial “Dream Team” to co-host a new political talk show.
Walker says, “Sounds insane, you say? That what take-no-prisoners loudmouth Rosie said…until Fox corporate-jetted her to the Imus Ranch in New Mexico for a secret meet and greet. Incredibly, she and the acid-tongued radio talk vet hit it off, and Rosie – who’s famed for children’s charity efforts – was impressed by Imus’ program for cancer-stricken kids at the ranch.”
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Imus settles with CBS, may make comeback
By Pat Milton, Associated Press Writer | August 14, 2007NEW YORK –Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract and is negotiating with WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there, according to CBS and a person familiar with the negotiations.
Imus and CBS Radio reached a settlement that would pre-empt the dismissed radio personality’s threatened $120 million breach-of-contract lawsuit, CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday. No terms of the settlement were disclosed.
The person familiar with the talks told The Associated Press that Imus is taking steps to make a comeback with WABC-AM. The person, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the news had not been announced, also said the deal with CBS calls for a “non-disparaging” agreement that forbids him from speaking negatively about his former employer.
The settlement and possible comeback come more than four months after Imus created an uproar over his racist and sexist comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team.
Just before his dismissal, Imus signed a five-year, $40 million contract with CBS. Famed First Amendment lawyer Martin Garbus said in May that Imus planned to sue CBS for $120 million in unpaid salary and damages.
WFAN, the New York radio station that was Imus’ flagship, has been reported to be close to naming former pro quarterback Boomer Esiason to the morning time slot.
WABC is a talk-radio station that features mostly politically driven shows that star Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Imus, 66, was dismissed April 12 after describing the Rutgers women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos” on his nationally syndicated radio program, which was also simulcast on MSNBC.
I don’t know anything about this Imus character. He doesn’t sound too pleasant.
But I’m wondering why the word ‘judgemental’ is hurled about so freely in the posts above as though it’s an insult.
How does anyone get through life without making judgements every day? You stand or fall by them, good or bad. Who isn’t judgemental?
Our Towns
Perhaps a Boor (or a Bore), but Imus Makes It WorkBy PETER APPLEBOME
Published in The New York Times: November 4, 2007ON THE SAW MILL RIVER PARKWAY — Forget, for a moment, the Rutgers women’s basketball team and all that. Here’s one drive-time driver’s opinion about Don Imus’s old morning show. It wasn’t very good.
You switched the station whenever his wife, Deirdre, came on to expound on green cleaning products or he began sputtering yet again that thimerosal causes autism. You turned off Bo Dietl’s completely unfunny mangled English, half the celebrity journalists back to hawk their books and the annoying cackling of his posse of middle-aged homeboys, celebrating one another’s bon mots.
And here’s another opinion. It was much better than almost anything else on the radio. Depending on your mood and tastes, on New York radio there are the blissfully literate and informed grown-ups like Brian Lehrer and Leonard Lopate on WNYC, the hyper-tasteful music wonks at WFUV, the standing army of the all-news nation on WINS and WCBS. Wherever you are, the NPR station is one of America’s wonders.
But as Michael Harrison, editor and publisher of Talkers magazine, put it, there isn’t really anything on the radio like Mr. Imus, with his unscripted and sometimes revelatory interviews with politicians and authors, his hit-or-miss humor, his ecumenical bad taste and cranky neither-left-nor-right politics.
“Imus had a marvelous niche offering a nonstop parade of top contemporary newsmakers who you actually hear in an unpredictable setting, as opposed to the predictable, sanitized way you see them on television,” he said. “Sure, he could be curmudgeonly, and nasty and weird. So what? No one forced you to listen. If you don’t like it, listen to someone else.”
There were two kinds of reactions last week when it was announced, inevitably, that Mr. Imus would be returning to the air, on morning drive-time radio on Citadel Broadcasting starting Dec. 3: from those who spend much of the day in their cars and those who don’t.
If you grew up around New York in the 1960s, you grew up with radio, whether it was Cousin Brucie, Big Dan Ingram and Scott Muni on WABC, Jean Shepherd’s baroque soliloquies on WOR, or Bob Fass’s Beckett-like free-form excursions on WBAI. It’s where you got your music, much of your inspiration and assorted blasts from distant planets, like the Billy Graham sermons that used to air on Sunday nights. Radio mattered.
Now, as Mr. Harrison laments, it matters a lot less. You get your music from the iPod or the computer download; you get every flavor in the cultural medicine cabinet from the Internet.
“Radio’s becoming marginalized,” he said. “Cars are like the last bastion where AM radio has a captive audience, but even there children today don’t think of cars as the place where you listen to the radio. They think it’s where you get to see cartoons and Barney videos.”
Still, for people who drive a lot, radio is still almost all there is — the last uni-media zone. Yes, you can listen to music CDs, and I’m addicted to audiobooks. But if there’s any romance or pleasure left to driving in America (a big if), part of it’s inseparable from what’s on the radio.
If you were on the road Friday morning, you heard what felt like Week 100 on A-Rod and Joe Torre. (Can people really listen to this much sports talk?) On the obscure corners of the dial (if your car still had a dial) you could find sweaty preachers howling from distant churches, confident market gurus and pitchmen selling herbal remedies and get-rich schemes. It’s the flea market of American media.
On the main destinations, where the talk tilts male and right, even the excesses were predictable. In the slot Mr. Imus will fill on WABC, a substitute host, Jeffrey Lichtman, lamented that we hadn’t gone after the right “psychotic, Muslim, fanatic animals,” meaning Iran, but added that the United States could still bomb both Iranians and Iraqis. “I’d send the biggest bomb possible that would kill the most people. All those people that show up in their stadiums with their eyes bulging and their tongues hanging out saying, ‘Death to America.’ I’d drop a bomb the same size as that stadium.” Anyway, 9:27, let’s get the traffic and weather.
I’m not a member of Imus’s club. My only brush with him came when he lambasted me for a few days a lot more vigorously than he did the Rutgers women. (Long story. It was all shtick.)
But anyone who listens to the show knows he insults everyone, though this time he did it entirely inappropriately on the cultural third rail. Even the “shock jock” label seems a little tired (given what’s out there, how shocking can radio be?), but if, as rumored, he’ll return with a black co-host, maybe he’ll get the contemporary ground rules right next time.
We could do better, but in the prefab world of commercial radio, we usually do worse. For all his flaws, Imus is closer to the spirit of what radio used to be than almost anyone out there.
December 3, 2007
A Chastened Imus Returns to Radio
By JACQUES STEINBERG (NY TIMES)Nearly eight months after he was fired for making a racially and sexually disparaging remark about the Rutgers women’s basketball team, Don Imus went back on the radio at 6 a.m. today and vowed he would not say anything like that again.
He also introduced two new cast members — a black woman, Karith Foster, and a black man, Tony Powell, both of them comedians — and said they would join him in conducting “an ongoing discussion about race relations in this country.”
“I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me,” Mr. Imus told an audience that was listening in person at Town Hall in midtown Manhattan, and at home and in their cars on WABC-AM, his new radio home. “And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anyone think I did not deserve a second chance.”
Still, in many ways, it felt as if the clock had been turned back before last April, when Mr. Imus said what he said and was fired by CBS Radio and MSNBC, which had simulcast his program on cable television. On stage at Town Hall this morning, he was flanked on his right by his longtime news reader and sidekick, Charles McCord. Seated to his left, with a microphone conspicuously in front of him, was Bernard McGuirk, the producer whose initial reference on April 4 to the Rutgers team as “some hard-core hos” had prompted Mr. Imus to pile on by calling them “nappy-headed hos.”
The roster of announced guests was familiar to any regular Imus listener. They included Senator John McCain of Arizona, who is seeking the Republican nomination for president, and Senator Christopher Dodd of Connecticut, who is seeking the Democratic nomination; the author Doris Kearns Goodwin, and the political strategists James Carville and Mary Matalin.
And some long-time advertisers, too, came back, including the Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey; NetJets, the corporate aircraft leasing company; the Mohegan Sun casino in Connecticut, and Bigelow teas. The house band was led by Levon Helm, who had played for Mr. Imus on April 12, which had wound up being his last day.
“Dick Cheney is still a war criminal,” Mr. Imus, 67, told the audience, in an effort to reassure them that he did not intend to completely alter his style, or curb his tongue. “Hillary Clinton is still Satan. And I’m going on the radio.”
Mr. Imus wore a tan cowboy hat, a gold-colored vest under a tan barn jacket and worn boots. In his initial remarks, Mr. Imus spoke to the audience from a lone microphone positioned at center stage. At some points, he was defiant, acknowledging that the Rutgers team, which met with him the night of his firing, had found it easier to forgive him than had some of his detractors.
“We signed for five years,” he said of his contracts with Citadel Radio, the parent of WABC, as well as with RFD-TV, which will simulcast his program. “That’s how long it’s going to take to get even with everybody.”
And yet, for all his bravado, Mr. Imus acknowledged that he had been chastened and, at times, humiliated these last few months, and that he ultimately deserved his punishment.
“I think things worked out the way they should have worked out,” he said. “We now have the opportunity to have a better program, to obviously diversify the cast.”
He added, though: “The program is not going to change.”
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