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Breaking: CBS has fired Imus

Boston Radio Watch has an update: the decision on who will fill in for Barnicle while Barnicle fills in for
(what was) Imus "hasn't been made yet" (orig. it was said Jimmy Myers would do it and he still may for
all we know...)_
 
raccoonradio said:
A poll on the WTKK site asks if CBS made the right decision in canning Imus. As of right now, 92 per
cent say they did not.
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I think because they see this as some sort of 'Ghost-of-Christmas-Future.' The Fairness Doctrine is hanging out there, just waiting for some bleeding Liberal to become President. People are angry that their favorites are being lynched (or might be in the future) in the name of 'fairness.' The good thing is that it'll rub both ways, so if the Doctrine is designed to muzzle, say, Limbaugh, it'll be perfectly suited to muzzle, say, Katie Couric or Chahhhles Gibson. No longer will these 'anchors' be able to hide behind a shield called 'News Anchor' while launching DNC talking points over the airwaves.
 
I think because they see this as some sort of 'Ghost-of-Christmas-Future.' The Fairness Doctrine is hanging out there, just waiting for some bleeding Liberal to become President

More likely, they just don't like the idea of one of their radio favorites being gone from the air. His audience may not have been large, but it was certainly loyal, which is more than can be said for most of his supposed 'friends.' Plus a lot of them may just not like the idea of some POS like Al Sharpton appearing to win one.

I'm sure that Moonves is taking some pleasure in being given political and business cover so he could settle some old scores with Imus, who used Moonves as a punching bag for years. Whether Moonves is going to discuss CBS' 24/7 subsidizing of degenerate and degrading programming, against which Imus shrinks into insignificance, is still pending. I'm not holding my breath.

The hypocrisy on on all sides of this issue is just breathtaking. Noboby is coming out of this covered in glory.

Regards,
TSB
 
The big problem, Raccoon, is that Nancy Shack doesn't know how to stick the knife in and twist it a la what Howie did to Jerry Jacoby Williams. Howie's got FIMP foot-in-mouth-potential to say something stupid again.
Where's that Nancy Sinatra/Frank Sinatra duet (play it on your WMWM show when they finally bounce HC)

From Carr's column:
Barney Frank - another target of Bernie McGuirk’s barbs - used to say that, as a politician, your base isn’t the people who will stand behind you when you’re right, but the people who will stand behind you when you’re wrong.


In the end, Imus had no one who would stand behind him, period. That’s why he won’t be down for breakfast.


And what can you say except, There’s no fool like an old fool.

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And since it takes one to know one, Howie is, indeed, the expert.
 
Groucho/Imus: Hello, Imus be going
I cannot stay I came to say Imus be going
I'm glad I came but just the same, Imus be going

Deidre/Margaret Dumont: For my sake you must stay
For if you go away
You'll spoil this party I am throwing

Mike Barnicle: I'll do a week or two
I'll stay the summer through

Imus: But I am telling you
Imus be going...

http://members.tripod.com/Cleo256/marx/hello.wav
 
I LOVE what Howie Carr wrote about the whole Imus thing. Carr's wife has a nice condo in Florida thanks to Imus' big fat mouth (lawsuit settlement), and the column discussed as much of that episode as law would allow. Then, Howie did himself one better by turkey-basting Mike Barnicle...a 'pal' of Imus' and a former disgraced Boston hack journalist from The Globe.

Three Cheers for Howie!!!
 
Howie's an old fool with a NY Times bestseller. Though heck even Al Franken can have a bestselling book eh...
though they shoulda got Howie to read the audio version. Michael Pritchard is OK but Howie's voice would have
been better (and Pritchard mispronounces some names: for example, Judge Daher is pronounced "DAYER"
not "DA-herr". He's the guy who gave Billy the nickname Corrupt Midget)

Nancy has no desire to become a host though someone the other day suggested that she would make a good
fill in. She actually has filled in on occasion (better voice than the raspy Col. Hunt, that's for sure). She has said on air she's a liberal but she's kinda moving to the right slightly(fiscally at least; conservative = liberal that got mugged)

Howie actually has pretty good control of what he says. When he has to refer to the fact that someone has said "the N word" he says "the N word", though I do remember the days of "What are we going to do with
these towel heads?" (Okla City bombing; he thought it was al Queda when it was really al McVeigh...)
 
Would someone please tell me the difference between "verbally insulting" a group of women on a basketball...or insulting women (in general) in a rap or alternative music song that plays day-in and day-out? ???

Is there a difference? Or can musicians get away with being nasty in their lyrics...while talk show hosts can't?

And a 2nd comment:

While I don't think that Imus should go unpunished for the remarks he made....why is the media glorifying the thought and opinions of the Reverends Jackson & Sharpton? Haven't they been BAD BOYS at one time or another too??

Or are these "messengers of God" just seeking their 15 minutes of fame in the public spotlight ???

argytunes
 
Didn't Eddie Murphy play a character on SNL called Velvet Jones, pushing a book called "I Wanna Be A Ho"..?

(Wikipedia: "The first skit was a faux advertisement for Jones' book I Wanna be a Ho and the character was depicted to be the president of "The Velvet Jones School of Technology." The character spoke in ebonics and wore loud pink and purple clothing and a slick pompadour.")
 
touching on the topic of hypocrisy...

if i undertand this correctly -

what Imus said was wrong to the point of losing jobs (plural)

but yet every network, local station, tv or radio, newspaper and wannabe n'er'do well can quote the statement without fear of anything.

if "it" (the poorly selected choice of words) was really that bad... then why is the majority of America's media not also just as unemployed?

the "quotes" must make it okay.

and someone, please, alert to me when the apology is issued BY the media man who refused to accept one? there's one coming down the pike, i'm sure. it's owed to - wow - a lacrosse team whose character has been assasinated in a far more open manner for a much longer time.

and one more thought, if i may - Imus has been right all along. he worked for a "bunch spineless, sniveling weasels." and if i'm not mistaken, Letterman has publicly felt pretty much the same. in the words of the legendary Norma " EYE say!"
 
>>the "quotes" must make it okay.

"Quotation fingers"
Though sometimes talk hosts are being cautious. Remember the Michael Richards incident?
They'd say, "OK, so you have this guy in a comedy club, saying the N word left and right..."

"Ho" may be considered offensive but Eddie Murphy said it on Saturday Night Live in the 80s,
portraying the character Velvet Jones (selling a book called I Wanna Be A Ho)

Will we need to re-edit songs because slang words in one part of the English speaking world
may be a bit different?
The Kinks: "And he loves his...cigarettes...the best" He's a well respected man about town...
Van Morrison: "Light up a...cigarette...think it's a drag" (Blue Money)

Richard Pryor albums will have to be re-labelled (not that I think the N word is OK...):
Bicentennial N-Word.
A slippery slope here.
 
Mickey37 said:
Very glad to hear Jimmy Meyers tonight (Thursday) on 96.9.
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Less happy Friday night. He sounded like he'd had too much caffeine. Cutting calls short, deflecting comments if they didn't suit his agenda.

Not much different from other talk hosts, actually.

Just didn't sit well with me tonight.
 
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