Imus cancelled

[golfer]

sorry to bring back this thread, but I thought some might be interested in NY Post's Phil Mushnick's latest column:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162007...ick.htm?page=0

[Grits]

Thank you for posting the column and update Golfer. It was a good read.

[ddthetide]

that article was a joke and piling on. Imus used to beat on mushnick all the time.
the biggest thing that bothers me, all Imus "so called freinds" have ALL run for cover. even tim russert! jeff greenfield was 1 of few that stood up for him.

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

that article was a joke and piling on. Imus used to beat on mushnick all the time.
the biggest thing that bothers me, all Imus "so called freinds" have ALL run for cover. even tim russert! jeff greenfield was 1 of few that stood up for him.

Poor poor Donnie I. Always the victim. He played it. It didn't work.
Too bad.
At least John McCain is sticking by him.
Go figure.

[golfer]

If telling the truth about Imus is piling on, then so be it. Howard Stern played a very telling tape of one of Imus' bits this morning, which was far worse than what he said about the Rutgers Basketball team. Don Imus is NOT a victim.

[Danzig]

no, he's not a victim. those who live by the sword, etc, etc....i wonder tho, after so many years of going over the top, if he thought he was somehow immune?


ooops.

[golfer]

Exactly, Dahoss, that's the point that Mushnick was trying to make. I agree, Imus is a jerk, and he should not have been fired. For some reason, I remember hearing similar "Jayson Williams" phone call bits, but never that specific one. This one was both vulgar and viscious, far worse than what he was fired for.

[Danzig]

Originally Posted by golfer

Exactly, Dahoss, that's the point that Mushnick was trying to make. I agree, Imus is a jerk, and he should not have been fired. For some reason, I remember hearing similar "Jayson Williams" phone call bits, but never that specific one. This one was both vulgar and viscious, far worse than what he was fired for.

that's for his employer (now former) to decide. that business is dictated by ratings and advertising, they lost the advertising, so they let him go. it's business. had they not pulled out their ads, he'd still be there. it's the $$$$$. nothing else, certainly not a sudden rush of good taste!

[ddthetide]

Originally Posted by Danzig

that's for his employer (now former) to decide. that business is dictated by ratings and advertising, they lost the advertising, so they let him go. it's business. had they not pulled out their ads, he'd still be there. it's the $$$$$. nothing else, certainly not a sudden rush of good taste!

thats the another wrong thing in this story, lost advertising. advertisers threatened to pull out. most did not. they actually lost more advertising AFTER he was fired, because most sponsors backed the I-man and were ticked off that he was fired.

[kenny p]

Originally Posted by ddthetide

that article was a joke and piling on. Imus used to beat on mushnick all the time.
the biggest thing that bothers me, all Imus "so called freinds" have ALL run for cover. even tim russert! jeff greenfield was 1 of few that stood up for him.

Tim Russert is showing his true colors. I thought he wouldve been a little bit more of a stand up guy for his pal Imus. Im no Imus fan but he sold an awful lot of books for Russert.

[Downthestretch55]

Originally Posted by golfer

sorry to bring back this thread, but I thought some might be interested in NY Post's Phil Mushnick's latest column:

http://www.nypost.com/seven/04162007...ick.htm?page=0

Good column, thanks.
Just my take, and if you read anything I said on other threads, I never suggested punishment for Imus, just that I disagreed with him.
I also think Pgardn got it right, that the market became the judges.
That said, I started a thread about the great baseball player, Jackie Robinson,
who broke new territory 60 years ago at Ebbet's Field for the Dodgers.
He endured very nasty words, having watermelons an black cats thrown on the field, slurs...
So, when other atheletes 60 years later are again having insults thrown at them rather than recognition for their abilities, many people have said, "Enough is enough."

Peace.