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Looking forward to Imus' return

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ArtSpooner

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I, for one, am looking forward to the return of the I-Man on Monday. So much so, that I'm planning to get up about 45 minutes early just to hear the beginning of the show. I've had enough of Dennis and Callahan. They were good once, but their show has turned into four hours of cheap shots and snide remarks. They don't seem to have any sort of plan for the show, just one sarcastic, smart ass remark after another.

I first heard Imus back in 1990 when I worked in CT, before he was syndicated. In those days his show was hillarious. I must admit that later on, all the "Ranch" talk turned me off. It's funny, but I've always considered him to be pretty liberal, based on his usual guests..........Dodd, Kerry, Lieberman, Russert, Rather, Begala, Carville, et al. I thought it was odd that he was driven off the air by the liberal left. I hope they concentrate more on comedy rather than politics.

My hat is off to WTKK for telling Sadiki, the extortionist, to take a hike.
 
ArtSpooner said:
I thought it was odd that he was driven off the air by the liberal left.
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What even odder is that this so-called conventional wisdom has been demolished thoroughly, both here and elsewhere, but some people just can't let it go. The "liberal left" had nothing to do with it. It was the so-called spokespeople for blacks, in the guise of professional victims Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson (whom I refuse to dignify with their chosen "Reverend" titles), whose constant bleating (only heard when "whitey" screws up) sent sponsors and corporations scurrying for cover, giving CBS no choice but to fire Imus to quiet things down. If they had grown a backbone and stood up to Sharpton and his ilk, Imus would not have been off the air at all.
 
Imus was funny in the mid to late 90s with all the song parodies by Rob Bartlett about Rush Limbaugh ("I Like Friends With White Faces," "The First Lady Is A Tramp," "This Land Is My Land... This Land's Not Your Land"... and the Wilfred Brimley bits about using Quaker oats to pleasure himself... the Richard Nixon skits, too. Funny stuff. I have a tape of them and should rip it to MP3. I stopped listening when D&C started on WEEI and then got tired of them and stopped listening about two years ago. Since then, it's been switching between 1510 and ESPN.

by the way, it's Bernard McGuirk, not McCabe and, while he may be a hired actor, he's not funny--except for the Cardinal O'Connor stuff they did, making him sound like a foul-mouthed parish priest. Imus even admits he was hired to be offensive... he did an interview with "60 Minutes," where he said Bernie was hired to do "n***er jokes."

should be interesting. I won't be listening, though.
 
Does anyone really think that Imus is a bigot. If he is, he is a universal one who hates everyone.
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In other words, a misanthrope... albeit it a wealthy one who's mildly amusing. Or as Stern said of him, "Just a miserable old man." Imus is occasionally entertaining and easier to listen to than watch, looking rather corpse-like of late.
 
Interesting -- they are broadcasting MG's Friday show now in the 5:00 hour. I thought Imus was supposed to start early on the first day?
 
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