CBS has fired Don Imus.

[originalpckelly]

Breaking on CNBC and elsewhere.

[Neecy]

1. wow. good.

[originalpckelly]

3. Yep, he's gone.

He's gone!

[Nicole]

2. Good news!

:applause:

[originalpckelly]

6. It shows the innate power of consumers.

Imagine tomorrow if we all got outraged at the hormones in milk? Or anything else that isn't good for us?

Without consumers, the producers (rich guys) are not going to do well.

[atreides1]

22. It's Great

Now the next name on the list is Glen Beck, he'll be the easiest one to nail!!!!

Limpballs and Wiener Savage, will be the hardest to take down, but if enough sponsors pull their advertising money they can be toast as well.

[shadowknows69]

63. too bad voters don't seem to have as much power

n/t

[Casper Alabaster]

69. It doesn't matter if voters have more power, or less,

corporate/political America responds only to the almighty dollar. When has it been ever thus?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

4. I hope...

They have the guy on suicide watch and relapse watch. Really. I am not being clever.

[hlthe2b]

40. Exactly... This is a pathetic situation that I don't celebrate...

Did he bring it on himself? Absolutely. Was it deserved? Undoubtedly. But, I do not celebrate his self-destruction. It makes me sad.

[Casper Alabaster]

72. Why would it make you sad to see an evil hate-filled racist

let down his 'guard'? He finally 'got real' w/ his audience. Good riddance to less than worthless nazi-wannabe garbage. Maybe he could dedicate his soon-to-be-dwindling millions performing medical experiments on less-than white people in his old age.
Fuck Imus!:bounce:

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

74. Because he was OUR evil hate-filled racist ...

... more liberal than most radio talk-show thugs.

But letting down his guard was a total lapse of professionalism. He absolutely should have know better.

Anyway, I agree - fukkim, good riddance.

[Breeze54]

78. Anus is not a liberal and he's not one of "ours."

He's been 'letting down his guard' for to many years on the national airwaves.

He's like the typical wife beater.

Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry.
Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry. Bang! I'm sorry.



Good bye and good luck to Anus In The Morning!

[Casper Alabaster]

79. Just because he supported Kerry over Bush in '04

doesn't tie the racist filth that is Imus to the Democratic party.
He's a hate filled piece of kicked-2-the-curb wanna-be SS garbage.
Fuck Imus!:bounce:

[hlthe2b]

82. Maybe because I don't seem him as a uni-dimensional figure

I'm not trying to shower platitudes, but in Imus' case, I don't see him as ALL BAD, 100% evil or even 100% racist. I think his words in the name of "humor" over the years have earned him his fate and I do not discount in any way the hurt caused from his words. I was not ever a "fan" and probably heard/saw portions of his program only a half dozen times over the years, given I do not have cable and do not live in NYC where he is broadcast.

While his wounds are self-inflicted, I am sad when I see the downfall of someone that held such potential. Unlike the RW hatemongers who do NOTHING for others, Imus did apparently have some redeemable aspects to his character, most notably his charity work for severely ill and underprivileged at-risk youth. Maybe it is as simple as knowing that I have made mistakes (nothing like this, thank God, and I hope that I would never be misconstrued as racist or homophobic or otherwise bigoted), but in other areas of my life, I've clearly made some mistakes, as have my friends and others in my circle. I would just like to think that there would be ways to make amends BEFORE it came to something like this. Yes, Imus is a millionaire and doesn't deservet he kind of sympathy we should afford to so many others. But, for me, it is still sad to see him self destruct at this phase in his life when time is short for him to resolve this and to have it become less than the defining aspect of his life.

So, while his comeuppance may be very much earned, it is impossible for me to leave it at that. It is certainly NOT the way I would feel if similar "karma" had come to Rush Limbaugh, for instance or Ann Coulter, or Bill O'Rielly or so many others who are clearly out ONLY for themselves.

Just how I feel...

[Casper Alabaster]

84. Imus despises black people. And women in general.

Who cares about his tax write-offs?
This gettin' real w/ his audience is the defining moment of his long and sorry career in corporate radio. Fuck him, he's a rich old fuck picking on young college girls who never harmed him. No pity, no mercy.
Fuck Imus!:bounce: :D

[hlthe2b]

86. And you know this because of his speech alone?

I really don't wish to defend him. However, how do any of us know what he REALLY feels in his soul?

If he does hate black people and women in general (as one might assume IF one takes his words as 100% representative of his feelings), then why would black children play so prominently in his ranch charity efforts? I am absolutlely just asking.

I do wonder myself what is truly in his soul and I don't know that I will ever really know...:shrug:

I DO know that I don't wish to turn into what we are fighting--If, by some chance Imus were to find the shame too much to bear and were to take his life, would some celebrate? If not overtly celebrating, would they give it a second thought? Would the enormity of the "waste" of human life influence those thoughts? I know I don't ever wish to move in a direction such that I discount another human life so totally, no matter the mistakes that person may have made in their life. That was the original subthread possibility posed, that stimulated my responses....

[Casper Alabaster]

87. Yes, I do. I heard the bit at least 10 times today,

and there can be no mistake; Imus denigrated and insulted the team because they're mostly black, and all women, and he's a washed-up old rich white fuck who thought his gig would never end.
He used FCC airwaves previously supported by multi-billion dollar corporate advertisers and the Federal Government to suggest that he speaks for America when he says that black college girls are just nappy-headed whores.
Most of America probably believes that. Oh well. At least that hateful cocksucker is now unemployed.
Fuck Imus!O8)

[hlthe2b]

88. re: "Most of America probably believes"

(sic agrees with Imus' depiction of black college girls).... I can not believe that...

Yes, there are far too many who may... But, I just CAN NOT believe in this day, that most Americans would share those beliefs...

[hlthe2b]

54. I can't imagine being anything but happy if this happened to Rush

or Hannity or O'Lielly or Beck or of course, Coulter...

But, you and I may be the only two feeling even a twinge of sadness over what Imus has brought upon himself in this case. I don't wish to defend him, but I don't feel celebratory at all... From the posts on the rest of this thread and others, it seems I'm at risk of being construed as a "freeper" for feeling this way...:shrug:

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

55. Don't worry about it.

Stuff like this sets off the alarms that got installed when I was doing psychiatric crisis management, at one time in my life. It's a valid concern.

[Hamlette]

58. you have to wonder why Imus? At least Imus occasionally said something good about a dem

while Hannity, O'Reilly, Beck, Rush and Coulter say stuff equally as bad as Imus but still have their jobs and they trash talk dems always.

Why is that?

[sandnsea]

5. Good

If everybody hadn't twisted themselves into a pretzle defending this pig, and if he hadn't done it himself, I might feel different. People clearly need to start suffering for their hate speech if it's ever going to stop.

[closeupready]

18. Well, I think conscientious citizens have a responsibility to speak out

against hate speech. I don't think people have been doing that for many years, but maybe they have begun to do so, which is good.

[Pathwalker]

7. Good! He earned it!

n/t

[LSK]

8. Randi just announced it

[tridim]

9. Rush and the other professional haters are so fucked now.

Imus' comments are now the bar for firing.

[ronnykmarshall]

21. No they're not.

Nothing is gonna change for the Rushs, the Savages, the Coulters and other trash like that. They will still be on the air.

[Madspirit]

25. I don't know

I'm pretty cynical and normally I would agree with you. ...but maybe it does have them running in fear. After all, Coultergeist defended the young women. How weird is that? I know it's not her nasty little heart. It seems much more like fear, to me.
Lee

[GOTV]

32. You're right. Imus didn't have the profile of the other professional hate talkers you mentioned...

... and that protects them. They have too many hate filled supporters.

[Casper Alabaster]

70. Imus' victims didn't have any public profile whatsoever,

yet he splooged dripping hate all over them for no reason.
Non-racist America loves that team, and the white hate-filled shitbag is unemployed at the curb!
Imus is a mere symptom of the virulent hate that everyday Americans feel towards black people. Sad.

[GOTV]

89. That makes it worse for Imus and another reason Rush, O'Reilly, etc. are safe n/t

[Casper Alabaster]

81. Did you listen to them today?

They're shitting their pants. Hate Radio is apoplectic that Sharpton and Jackson are going to get up early and knock at their advertiser's doors.
These mofos can't withstand a straight-up call-out, from American citizen to neo-con Rethug propagandizer.
Hate Radio is in full spazz mode, for good reason.
I think this is what they're afraid of:

[BlueManDude]

10. Cheers - not enuf bad things can happen to this a-hole.

[Robbien]

11. I hope the chattering white male pundit class just found

they need a new change of shorts.

Thank you CBS.

:yourock:

[Bluebear]

26. You said it!

[xchrom]

12. he brought this on himself.

[Bjornsdotter]

13. Hello Imus be going...

...http://members.tripod.com/Cleo256/marx/hello.wav

Cheers

[xchrom]

oh no you didn't!

[Bjornsdotter]

34. I couldn't help myself

...:evilgrin:

[Forkboy]

30. BAHAHAHAHHA

:rofl:

[femmedem]

51. Imus spank you.

:spank:

[xchrom]

57. lol -- you too! -- it's spreading like wildfire!

[Casper Alabaster]

71. Bwaahaha! n/t.

:9

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

75. Imus be nutz

for answering, let alone reading, one more Imus thread.

AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGHHH!

[YDogg]

14. Will Limbaugh and Beck be next?

Hope so.

[Jacobin]

17. No. They are consistently RW whereas Imus

bitched and bothered various people on all sides of the fence based on what mood he woke up in that morning

[bluedog]

28. the RW'ers will not be targeted.......mark my word

they will still go on and on about everything they talk about now.....MSNBC will get another RW'ers to replace Imus.....

[YDogg]

Sadly, I agree.

[GOTV]

37. Yes, with the firing of Imus, talk radio moved a scooch to the right...

... not that I'm saying he didn't deserve it or that Imus was particularly "left". He's not as right as the rest of them though.

[originalpckelly]

43. It's not about getting RWers off the air, just bigoted ones.

There are non-bigoted republicans out there, and thought to be able to host those shows. If we are going to do something about these bigots, we have to make sure to do the right thing, and not go after someone for their legitimate political beliefs, despite how much we may disagree with them.

I don't want to live in a bigoted country, but I also don't want to live in a one party state, and targeting RWers just for being RWers is a step in that horrible direction.

[Jacobin]

48. I don't believe I've ever met one of those

[originalpckelly]

60. I think that's rather inappropriate. I have debated a number of conservatives...

who did not hate anyone, even gay people.

I think it's obvious that you're the type of person who believes in compromise and dissent so long as the dissenters agree with everything you say.

[Breeze54]

64. I live in a one party state and it's great!

But improvements are always welcome! We like the color blue. ;)

[Casper Alabaster]

73. As someone else pointed out,

Hate Radio is the propaganda machine of conservative ideology. Repugs are the spokesmen catapulting this crap into the legislative, then judiciary.
There is no such thing as a non-bigot non-racist Repuke. Thankfully, all of America can see them nakedly exposed, by their own words.

[originalpckelly]

19. We have to organize a boycott of CNN Headline News...

and their shows until they fire Beck. He's said very racist things and nothing happened to him, we're going to take this and get the bad guys off the air.

It's not about liberals v. conservatives, it's about people who are civil and aren't racists v. racists.

[Pathwalker]

23. I already do!

[Breeze54]

65. Conservatives

always seem to racist, bigoted a-holes!

Never met one that I actually like, have you? :shrug:

They really aren't 'people' persons, ya know?

[Casper Alabaster]

77. I'm not sure if they're people,

but they are amazingly life-like, in an inhuman kind of way.

[sandnsea]

24. If we band together and make it happen

If we can't even get all of DU to do that, then not much hope in making the country understand that's what needs to happen.

[fishwax]

67. limbaugh is a different case entirely

his employers are avowed right wingers, where as CBS and MSNBC claim respectability, so the standards are bound to be different. I don't know how Beck still has his Headline News gig, though :grr:

[Jacobin]

15. It would be entertaining to watch Imus' wife

whining, as only she can, the 'entitled one' that she is, right about now.

They could sell tickets to her whine festival and support the ranch for the next hundred years.

[ronnykmarshall]

16. WOW!

Now THAT'S the final nail!

[Stephanie]

20. You heard it hear first, friends >

DU is always ahead of the news >

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=389&topic_id=631922&mesg_id=631922

[Catherine Vincent]

29. Sure did!

:)

[WiseButAngrySara]

49. Yes we did Stephanie! And DU is always ahead of the news,

sometimes by years, with M$M media 'hos' (tee-hee) covering up for the BFEE.

Can you now reveal the identity of your famous mystery speaker? Pretty please? Curious minds want to know...

[NormanYorkstein]

27. Boycotts work, especially oncompanies that rely on ads

[IronScorpio5]

31. I may be alone but its totally wrong...

on so many levels.

[Catherine Vincent]

33. Ah well, I'm sure he received a big bonus.

There may be other stations that will offer him a job.

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[hlthe2b]

50. No, I take no pleasue either...

His wounds were self inflicted to be sure and undoubtedly deserved... But, it feels a bit like relishing someone's self-destruction. I don't defend Imus at all. But, it just seems so tragic that it had to come to this... :shrug:

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[Azathoth]

52. Is that the best you have?

Attacking people over their post count and their profile?

Truly pathetic.

[Bluebear]

61. You're pathetic as well. Ciao.

[Balbus]

38. How?

Whether I agree or disagree with this thing has nothing to do with it, I just want to know how it's wrong?

Do you mean legally? I don't see how.

Do you mean constitutionally? eh, nope.

Do you mean morally? Businesses don't make decisions based on morals so I don't see how that would be relevant.

Maybe you mean bad business decision by CBS and MSNBC? only time will tell on that one. But businesses hire and fire people all the time based on their actions, though, and some turn out to be the wrong decision and some turn out to be right.

[EFerrari]

66. It's wrong to use racial epithets to describe

young women on the public airwaves. Period.

[Casper Alabaster]

83. Yeah, it's totally wrong when there's a groundswell

against racist/right-wing Hate Radio by ordinary Americans. Imus hates black people and women, and especially black women. He's made it abundantly clear, and his corporate masters can't take the heat, and tossed him to the curb on his ass.
Fuck Imus!:bounce:

[terrya]

36. Wow

[NYCGirl]

45. Maybe satellite radio. NT

[Marnieworld]

59. I seriously doubt it

Who would want to associate with him? He was abysmal in the ratings so he would bring no listeners. With XM and Sirius merging Mr. Stern probably wouldn't allow it. He's a pariah now.

[Casper Alabaster]

85. Hopefully he'll have to use his own money to buy a signal

to spew his racist hate.
Any company/corporation that sponsors his nazi-ass will get nothing but relentless vitriol from our family!

[Sequoia]

39. CBS? What did he do there if MSNBC had him?

[AlCzervik]

41. apparently his actual radio show is on or was on CBS and M$NBC paid to

simulcast it on the tv.

[Sequoia]

42. Wow! Thank you.

[Breeze54]

80. You can read all about that 'ho'

on wikipedia.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Imus

http://www.imusranchfoods.com/

http://thinkprogress.org/2006/03/30/imus-carroll/

Imus Executive Producer:
Carroll is “The Kind of Woman Who Would Wear One of Those Suicide Vests, Sneak Into the Green Zone”

There was a shocking segment earlier today on the popular radio/television show “Imus In The Morning.”

Watch this exchange between Executive Producer
(and “quick-witted on-air contributor”) Bernard McGuirk and Don Imus’ sidekick Charles McCord.



-------------------------------------------------

Those two need to go too, if they haven't already.

[spooky3]

47. MSNBC televised the radio show that was owned by CBS

as I understand it.

[erpowers]

44. Right Decision

I think it was the right decision. What Don Imus did was very wrong. In addition, this was not the first time he has done this. This is at least the third time he has done someting like this. Furthermore, he has not really taken responsibility for what he has said. He has said he is sorry, but he has blamed just about anyone and everyone else and said it was just a comedy routine. I think he really should have just stood up and been a man, said he said something wrong and not point fingers at other people and what they said. I lost any support I had for Imus once he started blaming everyone else. At that point I felt either he did not get it or did not want to get it.

[Karenina]

53. NEXT! Glenn Beck!!!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x636071

[donco6]

56. No tears here.

Good riddance.

[Casper Alabaster]

68. I'm sure I'm not the 1st,

but

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

76. He didn't learn from Earl Butz' experience

Rule 487: Don't tell racist jokes on or near public media. Bad for career.

Duh.