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Celtics Great Kevin Mchale is a WEEI FAN

Given the "quack quack" angle, would that vicariously make him a fan of Imus, as well?
 
DToTheJ said:
Given the "quack quack" angle, would that vicariously make him a fan of Imus, as well?
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I listened to Imus for years. Why did he do that quack-quack thing anyway? If he explained it, I must have missed it.
 
Don Imus grew up a huge fan of Groucho Marx from the "You Bet Your Life" days. The duck is simply a tribute to Groucho and his "Say the secret word, and the duck will come down and pay you $100". He credits Groucho for teaching him to "think fast and think dirty".
 
Good thing Imus didn't blame Groucho for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed" -- well, you know...
 
Groucho was quick-witted and outrageously funny but never hateful. Imus' humor for years was fueled by the anger and nastiness that comes
from life as a mean-spirited drunk and drug addict. Even in his sobriety, his humor often drifted back into his old persona. Since the Rutgers incident, Imus has become a self-neutered apologist to the point where he is not longer listenable.
 
DToTheJ said:
Good thing Imus didn't blame Groucho for calling the Rutgers women's basketball team "nappy headed" -- well, you know...
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I think Imus really got screwed. It suddenly became the "in" thing to do to condemn Imus. Just as it became the in thing to condemn Arizona a few weeks ago. It becomes a contest to see who can feign the most outrage.

Take a look at Imus' regular guests over the years. Bill Bradley, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Carville and Begalla, Tim Russert, Dan Rather, et al. These are far from right wing racists. They all turned on him when it seemed to be the "in" thing to do. He was just trying to be funny and the joke didn't work.
 
ArtSpooner said:
Take a look at Imus' regular guests over the years. Bill Bradley, Chris Dodd, John Kerry, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Carville and Begalla, Tim Russert, Dan Rather, et al. These are far from right wing racists...
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Gee, you think the fact that the show at that time was simulcast on MSNBC might have had something to do with it?

Fast forward to today: his current radio show, simulcast on Fox Business, mostly consist of either right wing folk, or Fox Business shills.
 
The biggest BFer at MSNBC was Keith Olbermann. He benefited from a ton of promotion by Imus and then turned around and implored NBC to
can him. What a colleague.
 
Keith Olbermann is a reprehensible piece of talking pond scum. I loved it when his fellow liberal, Jon Stewart, took a steaming dump on him for his Scott Brown rant.
 
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