Imus show cancelled by CBS Radio
Ron Coleman
Read it in Variety.
Predicted -- with minimal prescience -- at Likelihood of Success!
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But he's probably got recordings of all his air time. And nobody can stop him from marketing these on CDs.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
By the way, by "things that matter," I assume you mean American Idol, right?
This is a good outcome. There should be consequences for hateful speech. Not government consequences... because free speech is protected from government intervention. But it's not protected from private intervention, and that's what happened here.
Just as Rush Limbaugh saw his time at ESPN end for his stupid comments about Donovan McNabb and the Dixie Chicks saw their business plummet after Natalie Maines stupid comments about President Bush... Don Imus learns that free speech has consequences.
But, Howard is going to have a field day with this tomorrow. He has been assuring us all that Imus will not survive this because of the poor way he handled it.
I'd have to agree, the way he grovelled to Al Sharpton on Sharpton's radio show was shocking. He could have quite easily said that he'll apologize as soon as Al Sharpton apologizes for all of his past racist comments. He went in totally unprepared, and instead fell back on retorts like "I've raised X of dollars for sickle cell anemia" and then told a story of holding a young black kids hand on his cancer ranch.
Imus really just sounded like Sharpton's bitch and he and Jesse Jackson are parading him around as just that. I just heard that Al Sharpton is having a press conference in a few minutes.
Second reaction: "So at CBS, if you call someone a bad name, you're gone in a week; but if you fabricate evidence in an attempt to sway an election, you get nearly a year to retire on your own terms. If we're living in tyranny here, the tyrants CBS is afraid of aren't the tyrants they keep warning us about..."
In this environment he should not have apologized. With the people he was dealing with, it's very clear that apologizing only makes things worse for you. I've learned that in dealings with certain bloggers myself. With dishonorable people--people like Sharpton and the other race hustlers, as well as the radical feminists--an apology is merely an admission of guilt, and makes you their whipping boy for every other cause they're part of.
Imus should have fought back by being even more roaringly obnoxious if he'd wanted to have a fighting chance.
That said, I shed no tears for his loss of job. He's a multi-multi-millionaire. And he'll undoubtedly get a job on satellite radio and the internet anyway.
Stern--who I also don't like by the way--has it right.
It's interesting, isn't it, when you dislike all sides in a battle, and can just analyze from a purely strategic sense who made the bigger mistakes and who was the most ruthless and/or stupid?
HBarnes
2) They sure seemed to take longer in the case of Dan Rather. But then, all Dan tried to do was influence a presidential election with forged documents.
But obviously, they wouldn't put a nasty old man like me on television, radio, or any medium except good old Dean's World.
Anyway, all my remaining respect for the news media is as dead as Babylon.
Yes, and you are right. The days of blacklisting are back. In spades. The ires of the clownish Senator Joseph McCarthy had nothing on the viciousness of the stuff going on today in the name of political correctness.
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Arnold Harris
Mount Horeb WI
Imus is a nasty old man like you.
Nastier, actually.
Sell his old bits on CD ??? Who the hell is buying THAT ?
You won't find out Stern's reaction until next week. He takes Friday's off. Ironically enough, today's replay is Stern's last show before he was fired from the same station that Imus is being fired from. Now WFAN, used to be WNBC.
Of course we all lose our tempers now and then. Dean freely admits to being imperfect in this regard, which is why regulars to this establishment will generally be cut more slack than people who we don't know very well.
Still: behave like an adult, or go find somewhere else to play. Thanks.