IMUS CANNED!!

I was hoping to see the "new direction" his show would have taken. But all you have to do is spend five minutes researching Imus to understand this wasn't a one-time thing. He committed on-air sexual harrassment of a co-worker at MSNBC that would have gotten anyone who posts here fired if they said the same thing. He says he's a good person who did a bad thing. Maybe it is the other way around.

 

I'm assuming you mean sports-talk in the NYC area, right?

 

Funny that Francesa used the phrase "lack of taste."

 

There isn't such a thing as "free speech" if you're not speaking for free. It's a bogus argument.

 

Thanks, TBL. I just meant the board hereabouts. I can't compete with the Global Stern Media Machine. I'm only one man, after all, with a pencil and a dream. And a computer, obviously. And some other stuff.

 

Yeah, really. If anybody had any doubts about the propriety of booting Imus, big Mike's opposition should quash that. Now we know it was the right move.

 

-- will another radio station/syndication network have the balls to pick up Imus' show?
-- will Imus jump to satellite radio or just retire to his New Mexico ranch that was built by listener donations?
-- Who will replace the morning slot at the 'FAN now?

 

CBS has to let them vent on the air. They need to let them vent, eventually get over it and move on. A gag order would only make it worse in terms of the bad feelings they have toward CBS.

On a side note, CBS will sell the radio division within a year. Not because of this specifically, it's been coming for a while.

 

Re: mad dog russo -- yikes!!

I wish there were a "Behind the Post" segment on BYH Classic that could examie how Fen read shockey's post, went to google images, scratched his chin, and then typed something that produced such a perfectly appropriate, yet bizarre picture.

Jesus wept. With laughter.

 

Re: mad dog russo -- yikes!!

The more I hear Mike and the Mad Dog the more I hate both of them. I just can't listen. And that's after years of Mark Madden and Thor Tolo.

 

Is Les firing someone or accepting an award? I can't really tell he has so many "thank you's " in letter.