I saw Imus for the first time on the evening news tonight

My God! How did that ugly, aging redneck ever become a celebrity???

Some people have a face for radio.

He used to wear a pistol on his belt while on MSNBC in the morning. I wonder why he doesn't "pack heat" anymore........or why he doesn't flaunt it?

when I was a mid 40s coed but active with just about everything that happened on campus. I never heard the name Imus until just recently when he made those racist remarks.

of him.

I was an avid radio-listener all my life and didn't even know he existed until I saw Howard Stern's "Private Parts."

Didn't have a clue.

Imus isn't a big name around North Carolina. I've heard of him, maybe through this board or something, but never listened to him. The RW people around here listen to R*sh or S*vage.

What he said is totally unacceptable, even 30 years ago in the real backwoods. Imus ought to be fired.

A few clips here and there on other people's shows, but that is it.

I see him as being about as relevant as Michael Jackson.

I just cannot believe all these people stand in line to appear on his show.

both of the CLINTONS. It is a travesty that Shrub has been spared ANY kind of this treatment. I'll see if it turns up on Google. Jesse JACKSON made a good point today, when one of the limp interviewers asked why sL-IMUS needed such monitoring since he was ONLY a comedian. Jesse said, "Because he's POLITICAL. He pumps up (Joementum) and McCAIN, but he says he won't let Hillary get any exposure. That's political."

Here we go:

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http://imonthe.net/imus/ispeech.htm

The following is the text of radio personality Don Imus' speech at the Radio/TV Correspondents Association Annual Dinner, Thursday, March 21, 1996.

Thank you very much ...um... this is kind of interesting, these don't appear to be my notes....(you still have the folder I gave you? where did this come from? Well, nobody just leaves stuff like this just layin' around....<laughter>

Heh, heh, heh .. let me see if I can see what it says: "S. McDougall called again ...says bank needs check and statement; told her both were in mail, ha ha ha. Jesus, she looks stupid in those tank tops. " I think I'll just hang on to these. <laughter> ....


You know I think it would be fair to say, back when the Clintons first took office, if we had placed them all in a lineup -- well, not a lineup -- if we were to have speculated about which member of the First Family would be the first to be indicted... I don't mean indicted -- I meant to receive a subpoena -- everybody would have picked Roger. I mean, been there done that. Well, in the past 3 years, Socks the cat has been in more jams than Roger. Roger has been a saint. The cat has peed on national treasures. Roger hasn't. Socks has thrown up hairballs. Roger hasn't. Socks got his girlfriend pregnant and hasn't... oh no, that was Roger. And as you know, nearly every incident in the lives of the first family has been made worse by each and every person in this room of radio and television correspondents -- even innocuous incidents. For example, when Cal Ripkin broke Lou Gherig's consecutive game record, the President was at Camden Yards doin' play by play in the radio with John Miller. Bobby Bonilla hit a double, we all heard the President in his obvious excitement holler "Go Baby!" I remember commenting at the time, I bet that's not the first time he's said that. <Turns to President> Remember the Astroturf in the pickup? And my point is, there is an innocent event, made sinister by some creep in the media.

In some cases, the Clintons have not exactly helped themselves. Imagine if back in 1978 Mrs. Clinton had NOT said to Mr. Clinton, "Honey, Jim and Susan are here and they've got some river front land for these great vacation homes, maybe we can make some serious money. And he said "God I love this Reaganomics!" Or later, she'd said, "Bill, I talked to Web and he said 'put down 600 hours' and he'd said, "well, that's a lot," and she'd said, "yes, I think 60 makes more sense." And recently somebody said, "I don't know, I left them on the table in the book room."

Which reminds me, in light of the controversy that surrounded the publication of Mrs. Clinton's book, perhaps Anonymous should have written It Takes a Village. And then there's Senator D'Amato -- It Takes a Village Idiot.

The Senator suggests the Clintons hung around with unsavory characters. What the hell was he talkin' about? All of his friends have bodies in the trunks of their cars. By the way, my candidate for Primary Colors is Susan Thomases. I think she wrote it and simply can't remember. When I was asked to speak her tonight and was told who would be in attendance, my initial thought was 'well, I' ve already said almost every awful thing you could say about almost everyone in the room. And then I thought, well, almost everyone. ....

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The few time I caught a clip of him, I thought he was a joke.

Kinda like Andy Rooney, but an ass.

I actually have grown to appreciate Andy Rooney as a true curmudgeon.

But I do not get this Don Imus.

If you find that clip, I would appreciate a PM of it.

Tom

Clintons when the right wing networks went after it and before Starr using the FBI, elf-lawyer/journalists, and Tripp, Drudge, and Goldberg to smear for him and the foundations that guided Starr. And before paper-people like Judith Miller found the complexity (not) of Whitewater to complex to explain to readers.

paper-people - Miller does not deserve to be called a journalist.

I watched it live. And you are correct. He does not treat chimp with anywhere near that level of personal disdain. Far from it, although the chimp deserves nothing but disdain.

You are no better than him with the nasty name-calling

until this latest contraversy. I believe on the West Coast his show is on around 4am and luckily I sleep through it. He looks like he's got as much charisma as Larry King :silly:

Frightening!

That's eerily accurate.

I don't have a answer.

Beside being a radio star, he has had a lot of powerful and famous people on radio show for years. I have never understood that either.

:eyes:

I'm not a celebrity.

"Piece of racist, misogynistic white trash that was dragged out of the gutter after 30 years of hard-core alcoholism" works for me. :evilgrin:

"What is that drunken redneck who lives down the street doing on national TV?" I thought he was from the neighborhood.

I pride myself on being a pretty sharp old broad so how could I miss seeing or hearing about his man for years and I have lived in Phoenix, Tucson, Sacramento D.C., Denver and now Yuma.

Oh the irony.

ladies team from Rutgers. That is not nice. Oh, he is one bad dude!