Imus: "Linguini sucking liar"

[deminks]

This is their spin on the Italian journalist event this morning. Imus suggested that "a linguini sucking liar" might be a "little harsh". There were so many gems like this dropped in just a few seconds that I can't remember them all - "communist", "mad (as in insane), psychological problems from being kidnapped", "emotional", "should have taken a helicopter". Laughing the entire time. I usually don't watch, but was just clicking through when I heard this. What a pile of excrement. :mad:

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

1. God forbid

had it been Italian troops shooting at some poor god-fearing 18 yr old kid from a trailer park in W. Va... then we'd hear about it for days.

[youngdem]

2. As usual, the good 'ol USA is always "right"

It was an "accident" they did not "know" who was in the vehicle. Bunch of "terrorists" in a convoy.

Yeah right...

[mohinoaklawnillinois]

3. I see that Don Imus is a graduate of the Dick Cheney

School of Charm and Grace. What an a**hole.

:mad:

[cthrumatrix]

4. and when the other facts come out ---they will ignore it

[cthrumatrix]

5. for the record the GE reporter was "worse" in his "slanted view"

of American innnocence...who told him what to think?

Answer -- General Electric and NBC

[annabanana]

6. Imus is going to disintegrate before our very eyes...

has dissolution ever BEEN so visual?

[sendero]

8. He looks dead already..

... and frankly, I think his soul left his body long ago.

[vi5]

7. Why do you watch or listen to that garbage?

Honestly why do people on here still listen to Imus. He's not funny. He's not accurate. What possible reason could there be to watch or listen to him?

[izzie]

9. Please Imus is just a fun man. His thinking is about an inch deep.

I do like to turn him on if they do not talk about male body parts. They are really into that stuff. I think they all have a male image problem.

[RoBear]

14. FUN?????

He's a crashing bore!

[AngryOldDem]

25. He's gotten very mean and bitter...

I, too, once thought he was entertaining. But his hate practically floods through the tube anymore. Don't need it. Especially not at 7 a.m.

[SpiralHawk]

10. You can bet the Italian press will make hay with this idiotic remark

And widen the growing gulf between the USA and the rest of the world.

Thanks a pantload, Imus -- following Bush's lead in making people round the world hate America.

[cthrumatrix]

11. expect many calls to GE..... time for IMUS to be "relieved" of his job

he clearly is insensitive and damaging to our national security.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Enlighten the furrinah, please.

What is the relationship between this Imus character and GE, specifically? I thought he was just another generic RW hack.

[SpaceCatMeetsMars]

16. His incredibly unfunny radio show

is broadcast on the MSNBC cable "news" channel on weekday mornings. GE owns MSNBC and also NBC.

[cthrumatrix]

22. MSNBC = General Electric = bombs made for wars

GE manages content for all media outlets they own

[The Zanti Regent]

12. "I-mus be a Republican PRESSTITUTE"

I refuse to listen to this pathetic and lame right wing whore.

[T Town Jake]

15. Imus was a Kerry supporter & voter...

...and he's always been an outspoken curmudgeon - he's skewered the * administration's nonsense over and over and over again for years.
I don't recall reading any threads of complaint from you on those occasions...
Get :grr: all you wish: but Imus has been nothing if not consistent; he takes the headlines of the day, and pokes fun at the principals, left, right, & center, indiscriminately. That's sorta, you know, like his job as an entertainer.

[WilmywoodNCparalegal]

18. So, making fun of Italians using bad

stereotypes is ok???? What if he had used "fried chicken and melon eating" or "matzo ball eating" or "tortilla and taco eating"?

:nuke:

[T Town Jake]

23. What if the Blue Moon was made of green cheese...

...and the Queen of May sprinkled pixie-dust on Golden Oaks while the Prince of Poppy-fields watched?...hmmmm? hmmmm?

Grow up.

[leesa]

20. Don't defend people who spew hate speech like this.

If Imus said these things then he deserves no support from anyone. You defending it only allows this abusive behavior to continue.

[T Town Jake]

24. That's a mighty thin reed for poor old Imus to lean on...

...if all that's keeping his show on the air "to continue" his so-called "abusive behavior" is one stray post of mine posted on a web forum, don't ya think?
/sarcasm

I'll "defend" whom I wish despite your input, thank-you very much. Don Imus is one of the good guys, despite the fractured hysteria of a tiny sliver of posters here.

[lumpy]

17. Imus is a mush-brain

sniff sniff

[megatherium]

19. Imus also had a fake Harvey Weinstein reading sports news

with various not very subtle double-entendres. They also went back and forth about the Out Magazine column supposedly outing a CNN anchor.

But most of the 8 am hour was devoted to Sen. Rick Santorum and the vaccine/autism controversy -- Imus seems to be convinced that this is a genuine issue. After Santorum was on, Imus and his colleagues indulged in mercury poisoning jokes (Imus' legendary irritability is a symptom of mercury poisoning).

My take on Imus: he's kind of like South Park, deliberately provocative, for the sake of entertainment. But he will switch into his serious mode, and interview NBC reporters and various politicians on serious subjects with little banter. He's not always good at warning his listeners when he's being serious or mock-provocative, however; he understandably infuriates many people.

I usually don't pay much attention to Imus. But I'm home with the flu.

[hatrack]

21. Don Anus once again exhibiting his amazing class & wit

Why anyone would bother listening to that pruny old road apple is beyond my understanding.

[bobthedrummer]

26. Who does Don Imus appeal to, who values his superficial bullshit?

:shrug:

[theboss]

27. I really don't understand why anyone listens to Imus

He interviews the same ten people over and over and then makes some nasty unfunny comment about whatever politician (Democrat or Republican) who happens to be in the news. He's not a Republican, and he's not a Democratic. He's just a bitter old burn-out who still can't get over the fact that he was once the number one dee-jay in New York and is now some third-tier MSNBC personality.