IMUS CANNED!!

Your time here should be growing short. Without question.

 

Yep, just ask Bill Maher

 

Is that the Greaseman's name?

 

Gotcha. Thanks.

 

The victim mentality is a terrible thing.

UPDATE -- And here's my favorite Imus take, from the great Lars-Erik Nelson, in 1995. Sorry there's no link:


Washington Sen. Joseph Lieberman (D-Conn.) came to the Senate floor with
a look of sad concern on his face. He was deeply troubled, he said, at the vulgar, morally repugnant content of the new TV season. "We are lowering the standards of what is acceptable in our society and we are sending a message to our children," he said. He denounced an "acceptance of rude language, foul imagery and gross behavior in the entertainment mainstream."

Then, warning parents who might be watching on C-SPAN to move their little children away from the TV sets, Lieberman cited a few of the outrages: On ABC's "Wilde Again," a character asks to be called "Daddy's little whore." Another ABC program showed an upraised middle finger. CBS' "Bless This House" used the phrase "little hooters" in reference to a girl's breasts. "Profoundly disturbing," Lieberman intoned. "Sophomoric."

Funny thing: The previous morning, Lieberman had been a guest, as is his regular custom, on the Don Imus radio show on WFAN, a program that seems to get the bulk of its yuks from penis references.

If you have never heard the Imus show, listen in. It is a cross between an endless infomercial and a bunch of 8-year-olds telling doo-doo jokes into a tape recorder. It is rescued only by increasingly rare moments of inspired, hilarious brilliance.

Tune in any morning and you'll hear Imus or one of his sidekicks joking about having "lipstick on the dipstick" and much worse. This is nationwide morning radio.

Lieberman worries, on the Senate floor, that the increasing vulgarity of network TV "is lowering the standards of what we accept on television, particularly in what used to be family programing hours."

But he's talking out of both sides of his mouth. This week's moments of supposed humor on Imus, broadcast at an hour when children are rising for school, included a reference to Attorney General Janet Reno in crotchless pantyhose, an interview with Screw Magazine's Al Goldstein and a drunken woman saying "s---" over the air. Teehee.

Lieberman is alarmed that some child watching an 8 p.m. TV show might hear the word "hooters." Yet he legitimizes, by his regular presence, a radio show that will fill the child's ears with far more vulgarity, sly racist jokes, gay-baiting and all-around bad taste than the child is ever likely to hear on TV.

Why jump into this sewer? Votes. Imus is free media. His audience consists mainly of those 18-to-34-year-old males who are so hard for a politician to reach.

The temptation is overwhelming. Sen. Bill Bradley (D-N.J.) will in one breath deplore the coarsening of our national discourse and the state of race relations, then appear on Imus where the idea of a neat joke is to suggest a black football player might be a carjacker.

Sen. Bob Dole (R-Kan.) righteously denounces Hollywood for its raunchy movies and then joins the gang on Imus for a little friendly guy banter.

You can't blame Imus for being what he is. He even serves the positive purpose of making current events entertaining. His parodies only make sense if you have been paying attention to the world around you.

But for Lieberman there is no excuse. One moment he joins the sniggering on Imus, the next he's on the Senate floor as the pious defender of family virtue against encroaching vulgarity.

By all means, Lieberman, Bradley, Dole and the rest should go on Imus. But if they do, spare us the sanctimonious sermons about the vulgarity of modern broadcasting.

 

Mother Superior.... Mr. Morals.... whateverthefuck you want to be called.... if that is your "favorite Imus take" then you have even more growing up to do than I thought.

Now, go hurry and get in line to be one of this administration's next Supreme Court justices.

Rove should be offering you a job any day.

 

The fact that Triv is still on the air is incredible. I remember about 10 years ago, WTAM brought Pete Franklin back for a brief time to do a show in the evening ... until Franklin quit because he couldn't stand all of Triv's bigoted drivel. Triv's an absolute buffoon.

 

Ran Former Pube's last post through the Gibberish-To-English translator twice.
No luck.
Think it burned out a bearing, though.

 

Well, it looks like Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton got the job done. Their roles seem safe now, despite the SportsJournalists.com crowd calling for a regime change in black leadership. The second-biggest losers in this sad little episode appear to be Imus' celebrity guests. The politicians are now left squirming and the Lupicas of the world will need to find a new place to sell their mediocre books. Maybe Loopy should give Oprah a shout?

 

sharpton and jackson are pititful people who should go away. enough of them. honestly.