Why Don Imus is an asshole

[ls317]

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/30/imus-carroll/

Imus Executive Producer: Carroll is “The Kind of Woman Who Would Wear One of Those Suicide Vests, Sneak Into the Green Zone”

[mdmc]

1. he was an asshole long before

[Radio_Lady]

12. My thoughts, exactly, and I'm probably the oldest one of this group.

I'm a female talk show pioneer who did production work for Barry Gray on WMCA (New York) and Larry King on WIOD (Miami), and who eventually worked on-air for several years in both Miami and then Boston as the first female with a daily radio talk show in the 1970s and early 1980s.

To me, Don Imus and Howard Stern are living father-and-son reminders of how vile and disgusting radio talk can get these days. They are the pits, and I just hope their time is up sooner rather than later.

It's really amazing to hear Don's crappy crew trying to outdo their own insults. They will insult a guest before he/she comes on, then do an interview complete with insults, then dismiss the guest, and along come more insults! This is the worst radio I have ever heard in my life. (Well, if I thought hard enough, I might mention Michael Savage who is just purely unbelievably disgusting -- since I am a former New Yorker and a Jewish woman to boot, I find him doubly odious.)

Incredibly, Don Imus even insulted HIS OWN WIFE on Larry King's show a few weeks ago! Go figure! Deidre Imus, who is a beautiful woman with a commitment to environmentally friendly products, was interviewed with her husband. While she was explaining the features and benefits of the products to Larry, Don was sitting at her right verbally prodding her to finish up and looking visibly vile and churlish, while attempting to put the focus back on himself. He must have been jealous, that's all I can figure out!

It was loathsome. Who the hell does he think he is?

In peace,

Radio_Lady

PS. Check my journal (right hand column) for links to my Internet show.

[mdmc]

27. thanks for the heads up

:yourock: peace and low stress

[flyarm]

28. wow i saw that interview on LK and i thought the same thing..

he did not like his wife getting more attention than he was getting and he tried to shut her down..but she gave it back big time i thought..she was pissed!but elegantly pissed!

it reminded me of the old man syndrome with young wives..they are the teachers, the decision makers..the end all and be all..but when the wife comes into her own..they can't take it!
i have seen that scenario many times before with the older guy/younger woman thing..


don imus is a old dry druggie and drunk..and now the worlds biggest hypocrite!

and he thinks he has the moral compass to evaluate anyone else's behavior or values..what a freaking joke!

fly

[megatherium]

2. you only noticed just now? nt

[ls317]

3. I can across this at the MSNBC website

unreal

[kentuck]

4. And this quote from the article:

*from CBS’s 60 Minutes, rebroadcast on NPR:

MIKE WALLACE: You told Tom ANDERSON, the producer, in your car coming home that Bernard McGuirk is there to do “nigger” jokes.

DON IMUS: Well I’ve n– I never use that word.

MIKE WALLACE: Tom?

TOM ANDERSON: I’m right here.

DON IMUS: Did I use that word?

TOM ANDERSON: I recall you using that word.

DON IMUS: Oh, okay, well then I used that word, but I mean– of course that was an off the record conversation–

MIKE WALLACE: The hell it was!

http://jameswolcott.com/ archives/ 2006/ 02/ appeasing_the_g.php

[itzamirakul]

38. But the dried up old muthafcuka loves black music...

just listen to the music that he plays when going into commericial break. He plays a lot of music that has its roots in the 1950s...I know because that is the music that I grew up on. His is a case of being jealous because he is not black, not cool, and will never be accepted or welcomed by the black community in the way certain whites are accepted.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. Imus was a lot easier to take...

When he was on the thin edge of death or insanity from cocaine and vodka.

Funnier, too.

[Catherine Vincent]

6. Never did like him.

Never will. It amazes me this ass still has his daily show on MSNBC.

[ladjf]

7. He is one of the least talented rich broadcasters. I have no

idea why anyone would pay any attention to him.

[Marie26]

17. Incoherant & ugly, too!

Hey, if they can insult people, I can too.

[mntleo2]

8. Imus Looks Stoooopid In That Hat Too

If he thinks it is cool when he is wearing it, he is dead wrong. He looks ridiculous, it looks absolutely insipid. I just want to slap him when I see him wearing it because you can tell he thinks he is hot. EEEEEEEEEEEWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!

Just goes to show you, stoopid hat, racist, tasteless, overactive ego, and not very bright = looking like a fool

My 2 cents

Cat in Seattle

[skooooo]

9. Fine, I still like him.

[babylonsister]

11. I do, too, skoooooo. Hah!

He's abrasive because his attitude keeps people listening. I do not like Bernie, he's a hateful repug, but ya gotta take the good with the bad.
Imus and his wife are people who have given a lot back, as much as I dislike listening to his continual whoring for his causes.
:)

[skooooo]

13. Yup...

His wry grouchiness cracks me up. He baits people just to get them stirred up a little bit.

Bernie is generally obnoxious, but I am not sure you can peg any one of them down all the time. To me it's more interesting to listen to someone with whom I DON'T always agree. That reflects life more than listening exclusively to someone who thinks exactly like you. Guess I'm not a purist. Not a liberal Puritan!!

[killerbush]

10. Imus isn't the problem

It's Bernard Mc.Guirk that the real fucking shitbag. I sent three e-mails to Imus telling him to get rid of idiot boy, so far, no response. I will keep trying.

:argh: :mad:

[Marie26]

15. Um, why do you think Imus keeps him around?

So McGuirk can be the one to say all the blatantly racist, sexist jokes - that way people won't blame Imus. But people should blame Imus; he employs & supports the guy. Instead of asking him to remove McGuirk, how about threatening to boycott the show? If there's one thing they care about, it's ratings.

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[peacetalksforall]

14. The man is crazy. He is a male Coulter. Absolutely all the way crazy.

That program is only good for psychiatry students in their first year. Watch and notice that there must be over 100 people backing up this program from the cameraman to the payroll director to Charles and Bernard to Newsweek to the wife of the former Fed Reserve. They support his out of his mind narcissism and dis-functional social and functional craziness. I cringe when a Democrat appears on the program. If you don't like to get into psychiatry games - just observe his abuse.

[AlCzervik]

16. why don't they understand that her wearing that shows respect for

their culture and that it's safer for her--i know she was kidnapped but still it's better for her to have kept her head covered. My sister has been to Iran several times with her husband to visit his fmaily and when she goes she covers up because thats the way it is.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

18. "You are what you eat?"

:shrug:

:hide:

[Marie26]

19. I don't get it. nt

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

20. W-h-y D-o-n I-m-u-s i-s a-n a-s-s-h-o-l-e.

I can't go any slower. :evilgrin:

[Marie26]

22. Sigh

Thanks for the illuminating, non-snarky reply! :)

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

24. You're welcome.

:hug:

[Gabi Hayes]

25. har! your answer mightn't have something to do with a particular

way of serving salad, now, might it?

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

26. As far as Imus goes, it's a "toss"-up.

[Gabi Hayes]

32. love to see his 'staff' go to a place where they could serve up

a bit of the toss

[IsItJustMe]

21. He's been a cantankerous old man. With him on your side, you sure the

hell don't need enemies. LOL

[Lethe]

31. yep, "Kerry was his man" bleh

on the run up to the election, Imus dissed Kerry every chance he got every day, and at the end of whatever tirade he would say...."But Kerry's my man"

all this because Kerry didnt stop to say hello at his ranch in New Mexico or whatever

[IsItJustMe]

39. My thoughts exactly. You would be a lot better off if this old codger

was on the other side. No one needs a cynical criticizing destructive old man like this to be for you. I would rather eat nails to have a person like this on my side of any argument. I watched Imus for about two weeks and said frick that.

[LiviaOlivia]

23. Imus rose after his anti-Clinton speech

I remember watching it and hating it but I can't remember the year and venue. Help?

Also didn't the man who runs MSNBC write that speech? And isn't fatty Timmy Russert responsible for underwriting Imus and all his shit?

[alfredo]

29. Even Imus was disgusted with their talk. I heard it this morning.

he sounded really pissed at these guys.

"IMUS: Shut up! I’m begging you to shut up. Both of you. I’m going to murder both of you.

MCCORD: Just because she slept with them doesn’t mean she slept in the manner he’s talking about.

MCGUIRK: Something stinks.

IMUS: You are an SOB Steve McCord. Stop it! I am begging you both. Stop it! Stop it now! Stop it! This is outrageous.."

Imus is still a jerk.

[oasis]

33. Imus was chuckling the whole time. He was actually encouraging them.

[alfredo]

35. I didn't see it that way. I was between sleep and conciousness

I did hear him call Rumsfeld a war criminal. Now that is one thing I can agree upon.

[LiviaOlivia]

30. kick

[Norquist Nemesis]

34. He is an asshole?

I don't watch him. :evilgrin:

[PlanetBev]

36. I think I saw him in the British Museum...

Mummy room.

[dancingme]

37. He constantly pats himself on the back for that ranch

OK, we know he is giving kids with cancer a chance to spend a few weeks at a dude ranch but why does he have to constantly brag about his charity work? If it really came out of selfless giving he wouldn't talk about it. Paul Neuman has had his ranch for years and rarely talks about it. When he gives interviews on his acting or race car driving he is asked about the charity and his Newman foods, etc but he never sounds like he is patting himself on the back when he discusses it. Imus just sounds like "Aren't I better than any of you because I give my money to charity"