Perhaps like some of you, I have watched Don Imus (Imus in the morning) on MSNBC because he has seemed to be on our side on some issues before. But he is definitly not on our side.
Here is what I heard him say this morning when discussing the Valerie Plame case with someone. The other person was saying why he thought the case was important, and Imus says this: The only reason I think its important is that it distracts the President and Karl Rove from the Business they ought to be doing.
What a load of BS. That view puts Imus squarely in the Republican camp. Also, notice how chummy Imus is with Tom Russert, another of the Republican-leaning media.
Boycott this program and boycott MSNBC!
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I like Imus, and I have yet to find anyone that I agree with 100% of the time, that would make them perfect......as only perfect people agree with me 100% of the time 
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I like Imus, and I have yet to find anyone that I agree with 100% of the time, that would make them perfect......as only perfect people agree with me 100% of the time
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I don't quite agree.
Perfect people don't have to be like me.
If the argument is based on facts I can recognise as truth,
truth that is, not emotion, then I will hear it, and think about it.
The perfect person is them that don't agree with me,
and allow me to not agree, to find out for my self.
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I don't quite agree.
Perfect people don't have to be like me.
If the argument is based on facts I can recognise as truth,
truth that is, not emotion, then I will hear it, and think about it.
The perfect person is them that don't agree with me,
and allow me to not agree, to find out for my self.
Perfect people don't have to be like me.
If the argument is based on facts I can recognise as truth,
truth that is, not emotion, then I will hear it, and think about it.
The perfect person is them that don't agree with me,
and allow me to not agree, to find out for my self.
sorry, I was not being serious.
But I do find IMUS entertaining with alot of interesting guests....many mornings I cant sleep due to my back, the show keeps me company until I can fall back asleep....
QUOTE(RobJohnson @ Friday, 21 October 2005, 3:53 pm)
sorry, I was not being serious.
But I do find IMUS entertaining with alot of interesting guests....many mornings I cant sleep due to my back, the show keeps me company until I can fall back asleep....
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But I do find IMUS entertaining with alot of interesting guests....many mornings I cant sleep due to my back, the show keeps me company until I can fall back asleep....
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aww. that's cute hun!
but you are a youngin'!! what 36? 37? you shouldn't have back pain. I am sorry 
psh... what is your job? do you do lots of stenuous work?I know what you mean about shows keeping company. When I was a lil younger I would watch lifetime when i was sick... but that was not good for my mental abilities, because I am pretty sure people lose 5 brain cells for every 30 minutes of crappy lifetime made for TV movies. So now I just stick with Comedy Central and the Sundance channel.
I'm not sure if I caught the same Imus show as you've mentioned, AFW, but I did hear Imus remark recently that Joseph Wilson was "disgusting" during the short time my television was on that channel. Only once have I ever heard Imus seem to be making fun of George Bush. That was when NBC's David Gregory called in and he and Imus had a good laugh over Bush's poor performance in that news conference that will live in infamy...the one where David Gregory asked Bush if he could name one mistake that he'd made as prez, and the silly , blinking, stuttering, bastard couldn't recall even one! 
What would Imus have Joe Wilson do...sit back and let Bushco do as they please, up to and including outing Wilson's wife for being a CIA agent? Imus has a wife that is young enough to be his granddaughter....If she was in the same boat as Valerie Plame, I'd bet my pension check old Imus would be doing his darndest to find out who had done the dirty on her, too, up to and including selling the "ranch."
Catherine
What would Imus have Joe Wilson do...sit back and let Bushco do as they please, up to and including outing Wilson's wife for being a CIA agent? Imus has a wife that is young enough to be his granddaughter....If she was in the same boat as Valerie Plame, I'd bet my pension check old Imus would be doing his darndest to find out who had done the dirty on her, too, up to and including selling the "ranch."
Catherine
Imus is a conservative.
Maybe I was mistaken, but I always thought that.
Maybe I was mistaken, but I always thought that.
Imus likes maintaining an image of shockiness and controversy. Also one of being a manly man. In fact, when he first broke on the NYC scene, he always appeared in cowboy boots and often a cowboy hat as well. Everything about him is derivative. He doesn't have the creativity to be the iconoclast he imagines himself. He's really just another pissed-off huckster, selling used opinions and stale rhetoric.
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Imus likes maintaining an image of shockiness and controversy. Also one of being a manly man. In fact, when he first broke on the NYC scene, he always appeared in cowboy boots and often a cowboy hat as well. Everything about him is derivative. He doesn't have the creativity to be the iconoclast he imagines himself. He's really just another pissed-off huckster, selling used opinions and stale rhetoric.
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I get the most enjoyment out of the news and sportcasters on that show.
It does entertain me, and IMUS was always bashing Bush before the last election and publicly supported Kerry on the show....
Like I said before, I have yet to see any show that I have agreeded 100% with....that inlcudes POAC.
today on Imus, Craig Crawford was interviewed about his new book "Attack the Messenger"
http://www.attackthemessenger.com/pages/1/
Plus some good stuff about Woodward:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036713
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Without a free press, there is no democracy. ... that, says Craig Crawford, is where we find ourselves today.
http://www.attackthemessenger.com/pages/1/
Plus some good stuff about Woodward:
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Friday November 18, 2005
Imus: "Why did Bob Woodward, who apparently is now in the middle of this whole Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson mess come forward now with this information?"
Howard Kurtz: "That is a very good question. What I piece together based on interviewing him, interviewing the editor of the Washington Post and others is that things had reached a point where this was going to come out. Woodward's source, I am calling him 'shallow throat' the guy we don't know who it is, went to Patrick Fitzgerald the special prosecutor in the case and said I think you should know that I did have a brief discussion about Valerie Plame with Bob Woodward. It was around that time that Woodward decided after silence of more than two years to go to his boss Len Downie the editor of the paper and say, 'oh by the way I was involved in this thing too."
Imus: "Well that can't make the people at the Post happy can it?"
Howard Kurtz: "You could hear the sound of many jaws hitting the ground when we found out that Woodward was involved. After all this is a story that had mushroomed, particularly over the last year, it's a huge national scandal that led to the indictment of Scooter Libby, we've written endless stories about it including about other journalists Tim Russert, Matt Cooper, Judith Miller and nobody had any idea that the most famous person on our staff, Bob Woodward, had any involvement whatsoever. Now what Woodward told me after I asked him the obvious questions for the story that I wrote in yesterdays paper is 'I was afraid of getting subpoenaed by Patrick Fitzgerald. I was keeping my head down, I didn't want this out.' He didn't want to be in a Judith Miller situation where he potentially could have been asked to testify and face that dilemma of do you protect the source or do you risk going to jail but even with all that, and I can understand that, I mean no reporter wants to be in that position. We saw what happened with Miller spending 85 days in jail, he as he now acknowledges had a responsibility to tell Len Downie, had the responsibility to tell the editor of the paper and he has apologized to the paper for not doing that."
Imus: "Why did Bob Woodward, who apparently is now in the middle of this whole Valerie Plame, Joe Wilson mess come forward now with this information?"
Howard Kurtz: "That is a very good question. What I piece together based on interviewing him, interviewing the editor of the Washington Post and others is that things had reached a point where this was going to come out. Woodward's source, I am calling him 'shallow throat' the guy we don't know who it is, went to Patrick Fitzgerald the special prosecutor in the case and said I think you should know that I did have a brief discussion about Valerie Plame with Bob Woodward. It was around that time that Woodward decided after silence of more than two years to go to his boss Len Downie the editor of the paper and say, 'oh by the way I was involved in this thing too."
Imus: "Well that can't make the people at the Post happy can it?"
Howard Kurtz: "You could hear the sound of many jaws hitting the ground when we found out that Woodward was involved. After all this is a story that had mushroomed, particularly over the last year, it's a huge national scandal that led to the indictment of Scooter Libby, we've written endless stories about it including about other journalists Tim Russert, Matt Cooper, Judith Miller and nobody had any idea that the most famous person on our staff, Bob Woodward, had any involvement whatsoever. Now what Woodward told me after I asked him the obvious questions for the story that I wrote in yesterdays paper is 'I was afraid of getting subpoenaed by Patrick Fitzgerald. I was keeping my head down, I didn't want this out.' He didn't want to be in a Judith Miller situation where he potentially could have been asked to testify and face that dilemma of do you protect the source or do you risk going to jail but even with all that, and I can understand that, I mean no reporter wants to be in that position. We saw what happened with Miller spending 85 days in jail, he as he now acknowledges had a responsibility to tell Len Downie, had the responsibility to tell the editor of the paper and he has apologized to the paper for not doing that."
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036713
I never saw the big deal about Don Imus. The guy looks like he got into one to many car wrecks, and talks like it too. Is he supposed to be funny, or insightful, or something? Is he supposed to be clever? I've seen doing his show on TV a few times, try to sit through it, and end up changing the channel because it is so damn boring. What's the attraction?
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