The guest list on Don Imus’ new talk show today on WABC-AM spoke to how many friends the shock jock still has, including presidential candidates Chris Dodd and John McCain, historian Doris Kearns Goodwin and political odd couple James Carville and Mary Matalin. Imus’ addition of African-American comedians Karith Foster and Tony Powell to the cast serves his contention that being fired for his comments about the Rutgers University women’s basketball team was a “life-changing experience.†But for listeners who felt his absence since April — and especially his ability to get newsmakers to speak candidly — the question is: Can Imus be both funny and politically correct?
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Why should have lost ANY friends?
Friend:
a person attached to another by feelings of affection or personal regard.
2. a person who gives assistance; patron; supporter: friends of the Boston Symphony.
3. a person who is on good terms with another; a person who is not hostile
Sure he still has a lot friends, the Imus family has done a lot of good for kids with his ranch and foundation. He’s not all bad.
If I was his friend, I would tell him to put a lid on some of the “shock talk” he does.
well said kansas – he needs to have some of his friends tell him to cool it.
Kansas, don’tcha suppose they have and he decided to speak otherwise?
Who are you appointing to pre-view all the talk show hosts wordsto ensure they are politically correct?
I like Al Gore. His spelling is better than Bush’s.
A comment about Imus. Years ago his show was on during my morning commute – i always enjoyed it. His political humor was sharp and on-target. That is why I have to wonder about the ‘ho’ thing – it seemed to me that was beneath him.
“Kansas, don’tcha suppose they have and he decided to speak otherwise?”Posted by: American Way | December 03, 2007 at 01:28 PM
Perhaps American Way…
I still tell him to put a lid on it. Whether he paid heed to my advice is another matter.
I can hear it now: Awww shucks, Kansas told me to cool it. I better get right on it or my name ain’t Imus. That’s rich.
I can hear it now: Awww shucks, Kansas told me to cool it. I better get right on it or my name ain’t Imus. That’s rich.
Posted by: J M Walker | December 03, 2007 at 01:57 PM
It was an answer to a hypothetical question.
I know you Libs confuse reality and hypotheticals often. :)
Go Imus,He’s not Sudanese.
As dumb as what Imus said was, the reaction to it and demands for his removal are what were even more dumb.
This entire knee jerk reaction to someone saying something dumb or messing up is absurd.
Someone can go their entire life without ever being the least bit racist and then say one stupid thing and then the liberals and NAACP will jump on them like they are the Grand Dragon of the KKK and just lynched someone.
I’ve been an Imus fan since the 1970s. While it didn’t particularly shock me, the “nappy-headed hos” comment was cringe-worthy.
As bad as anything was a 70-ish white man trying to talk Street. For better or for worse, Richard Pryor could say “niggah” and Steve Martin couldn’t. And wouldn’t.
Imus could’ve just as likely said that basketball team was a bunch of stree-wise tough girls and nothing would’ve happened. His attempt at talking jive was, quite frankly, beneath him.
So he got his come-uppance and a six month vacation. I doubt if anyone ever thought Imus would never return to the air.
He’s too good, too smart, too funny. But he went over the line and people were right to object to his hubris.
They weren’t “nappy-headed hos,” they were a fine college women’s baskeball team. Don Imus slandered them in a failed attempt to be funny and hip.
I’m glad he’s back on the air. And I’m glad he was fired. He’s too good a talent to go as low as he did.
This might shock you nathan but I agree. As I noted above I think the idiotic comment was far below what Imus usually does. I just think someone should have smacked him one upside the head and called it good.
Don Imus got reamed, but, he is still the king. There is no way in hell our white race should ever let the black race run us out of town.
Who cares?
Didn’t listen to him before and won’t now. The guy he replaced, Curtis Sliwa must feel like a sack of crap. Despite having decent ratings and revenue, Sliwa STILL got fired!
Nobody can get away with saying “nappy headed hos” unless they are rappers on BET!
Merry Christmas…ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho ho
Thanks, Stu.
Now I know what “Stu” is short for.
Stupid.
He said nothing has changed: “Dick Cheney is still a war criminal and Hillary Clinton is still the anti-Christ.” His side kick, whats-his-name, is gone, I noticed. I want him back on teevee. “Morning Joe” sucks.
Is Imus sidekick, Bernard McGuirk back? The short article on page 2 in this morning’s EAGLE was ambiguous. Also is Imus broadcast on a local radio station?
This is a total headhunt. Family Guy, any number of rappers and comedians, and frankly people we work with every day say far, far worse. Is this really where we are as a society? 8 months ago, Imus’ show was the only true Salon for discussion where people spoke candidly and answered questions to a questioner without agenda…certainly not what you’d see on the whitewashed, faux-outraged even more faux-intellectual Today Show or its like. And now, so few are willing to forgive, especially those who clearly never saw the show in the first place. We are no worse for his comments, nor have those outraged celebrity-chasers done anything significant to raise us up…we are the same people we were then. So too should Imus be without harassment, ill will, or animosity directed toward him or his cast.
Hey JD in OK City! Dont’ worry.
This is all about control. The liberal party democrats cannot control the airwaves. They want to. They have standards they WANT to enfore. They want a “fairness doctrine”. So anytime they can catch a white man using the “N” word figuratively, it works for their cause. Makes zero difference whether or not it is used by black reverends themselves like Al sharpton. Makes zero difference if they call white men living in caves animals or Greeks homo’s. (again Al sharpton)
It only matters if a white man speaks this way on the public radio.
The rules on racism only apply to white people. Not black.Get with the program!