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okay, even lamer than the "i have black friends" defense HAS to be the "i have lived near black people and jews in my life" as a defense.

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

"I am aware that other races exist."

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 16:20 (nineteen years ago)

To not satirize someone just because of their race, I think that would be patronizing and racist in itself.

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:19 (nineteen years ago)

Bernard McGuirk, is the Executive Producer of the “Imus in the Morning” radio program. McGuirk had been the producer of the program since 1987. As executive producer, McGuirk is responsible for overseeing the program’s on-air operations and guest bookings.

McGuirk is also the program’s quick-witted on-air contributor, and is the voice and creator of such recurring characters as the famous Cardinal O’Connor, The Champ, and Maya Angelou.

Joining 66 WNBC-AM Radio in 1984, McGuirk was a desk assistant in the promotions department before joining “Imus in the Morning” in 1987. In addition to his position with WNBC-AM, McGuirk was also a desk assistant with NBC Nightly News from 1986-87.

A graduate of Mount St. Vincent College in Riverdale, N.Y., McGuirk resides in Long Beach, N.Y., with his wife Carol and their two children.

― rps, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:25 (nineteen years ago)

Mr. McGuirk also said that the co-op in Long Beach, N.Y., where he later lived had a directory in the lobby that “read like Schindler’s list, for crying out loud.”

― and what, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:36 (nineteen years ago)

http://animatedtv.about.com/library/graphics/hmguirk.jpg

― kenan, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:38 (nineteen years ago)

hah i'll be honest thats exactly what i kept thinking

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:47 (nineteen years ago)

not only is Imus a racist and misogynist but his comments have had the unexpected effect of unintentionally poisoning "home movies"

― deej, Thursday, 12 April 2007 17:48 (nineteen years ago)

The longer this story goes on, the more of a mindfuck it is to me that this guy has any sort of cultural pull, with anybody.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:09 (nineteen years ago)

have you heard of howard stern?

― Ms Misery, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:13 (nineteen years ago)

does this make three?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:40 (nineteen years ago)

x-post

Um, yeah. Couldn't tell you a thing about him.

― call all destroyer, Thursday, 12 April 2007 19:48 (nineteen years ago)

If Imus is confused about all this, I can't say I would blame him. Here he potters along for years making grotesquely offensive remarks about anyone who seems remotely worth blathering about - including racist slurs and crotch-grabbing rudeness - and all that happens is he gets rewarded with fatter and fatter paychecks, larger audiences and a certain sycophantic public admiration, until now. Now suddenly the roof falls on him. What could he possibly make of that?

On the other hand, good riddance to bad rubbish.

― Aimless, Thursday, 12 April 2007 20:06 (nineteen years ago)

CBS has fired him now as well.

― Nicole, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:08 (nineteen years ago)

good.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:09 (nineteen years ago)

He also expressed bitterness that MSNBC had “pulled the plug” on televising his program less than 12 hours before the fundraiser was to begin. “They got their pound of flesh and made their decision,” he said.

Do you think Imus realizes where this phrase comes from?

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:34 (nineteen years ago)

OMG

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:35 (nineteen years ago)

He said that today.

― Mr. Que, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:36 (nineteen years ago)

hahahaha KEEP DIGGING, DUDE

― river wolf, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:39 (nineteen years ago)

Aimless OTM

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:40 (nineteen years ago)

zomg

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:41 (nineteen years ago)

I haven't seen Imus since a few episodes I watched around the time Brokeback Mountain came out, and it was hard to take much of the sidekick-you-go-I-Man combined with the bile.

― Eazy, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:42 (nineteen years ago)

Ann Coulter weighs in on Hannity and Colmes

Apparently, its all a part of the effort to squash conservative voices on the radio.

Even though Imus is a Liberal.

Er.

Um.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

i don't even want to watch that

― river wolf, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

someone do it for me

― river wolf, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:44 (nineteen years ago)

no way

― sleep, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:47 (nineteen years ago)

Imus should totally go on an expletive-n-epithet laced rant now that he's "free" of any professional constraints. that would be entertaining.

― Shakey Mo Collier, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

just watch it with the sound off, only paying attention to goatee guy on the far right, and count how often he gets to intrude on Hannity and Coulter's circle jerk.

xxpost

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:48 (nineteen years ago)

haha, anne coulter sometimes otm there!

― Catsupppppppppppppp dude ‫茄蕃‪, Thursday, 12 April 2007 21:57 (nineteen years ago)

yeah, I wonder why they're going after Imus, which you have guys like Michael Savage still broadcasting.

― kingfish, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:09 (nineteen years ago)

i'm not gonna read the ann coulter thing but does she admit she should be fired from whatever it is she does?

― gabbneb, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:23 (nineteen years ago)

no reading required. you only have to watch it.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:45 (nineteen years ago)

ok that one edited horribly and makes really awkward jumps from one point to the next. when it aired, there was a lot more talk about how this is the Left getting back at the Right for taking away the media.

― g®▲Ðұ, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:52 (nineteen years ago)

reader's letter in today's AJC:

Al Sharpton needs to find his sense of humor

The Poles, the Irish, the Swedes, the Jews have all been subjects of humor —- sometimes insensitive —- but they have taken it in good humor and dished it out as well. This is called freedom of speech!!!

Where is good ol' Al Sharpton's outrage when a black rapper has a "song" about killing "Whitey" or some similar outrage? I think ol' Al needs to shut his mouth for the first time in his life and get over it!

GORDON HELD, Young Harris

― Curt1s Stephens, Thursday, 12 April 2007 22:59 (nineteen years ago)

i am loving colbert's anti-hungarian rants on the colbert report this week. he calls them goulies! and his fake radio show clips are fun too.

― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:03 (nineteen years ago)

a black rapper has a "song" about killing "Whitey" or some similar outrage

YSI?

― max, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:06 (nineteen years ago)

i love the clueless middle-aged goomba costume: the american flag ballcap, the baseball jacket*, etc.

http://static.crooksandliars.com/2007/04/colbert-lauer.jpg

*jacket for the Saginaw Eagles hockey team, no less, the one with Steagle Colbeagle.

― kingfish, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:09 (nineteen years ago)

oh Townhall.com, surely YOU can provide us with wisdom to make sense of this whole mess:

Cal Thomas gets in jabs about "Hymietown" and "Corporate executives who trade in the worst of the hip-hop filth", and wonders "Where are the First Amendment defenders in all this?"

Why aren't these keepers of the First Amendment flame coming to the defense of Don Imus? It's because they have a double standard. Evangelical Christians, practicing Roman Catholics, politically conservative Republicans, home-schoolers and others who are not in favor among the liberal elite are frequent targets for the left. Anything may be said about them, and it frequently is. But let someone insult the left's "protected classes," be they African Americans, homosexuals or to a lesser extent, adherents to the religion of "global warming," and they must be silenced and punished.

and [Removed Illegal Link], who asks the same questions as the Jon Swift link did upthread, oddly enough, before going on another strawman rampage:

The requirement to always "be nice" would be the end of Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle, two of the funniest comedians in America. Let me rephrase that: It would be the end of all humor. Even Bob Hope cruelly implied that Democrats didn't support the troops when he joked to the troops in Vietnam: "The country is behind you 50 percent."

At least we'll still be able to watch the "Charlie Rose" show! Actually, for all anyone knows, Rose is calling women "nappy-headed hos" on TV every night since no one has ever seen his show.

and Ann complains that Sarah Silverman can be racist, but she can't, then goes on to start quoting Churchill. Really.

― kingfish, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

dammit, that second link:

http://www.townhall.com/columnists/AnnCoulter/2007/04/11/ho_ho_ho,_merry_imus!

― kingfish, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:39 (nineteen years ago)

be sure to add the exclaimation point.

― kingfish, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:40 (nineteen years ago)

Why aren't these keepers of the First Amendment flame coming to the defense of Don Imus?

Any mention of the First Amendment in all this is total red herring. The First Amendment states that "Congress shall make no law abridging freedom of speech." Last I heard, Congress and federal law had nothing to do with Mr. Imus's mess.

His woes are purely free-market-driven. IOW, his sponsors are deserting him. Isn't that their cherished, hard-won and god-given right, according to the WSJ and other bastions of Capitalism Untrammeled? Sheesh! Get consistent, you righty pundits. Read the program for christsakes.

― Aimless, Thursday, 12 April 2007 23:58 (nineteen years ago)

McGuirk is also the program’s quick-witted on-air contributor, and is the voice and creator of such recurring characters as... Maya Angelou.

Huh? Can someone explain this to me, please?

― emil.y, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:38 (nineteen years ago)

HE DOES BAD MORNING ZOO IMPERSONATIONS.

― chaki, Friday, 13 April 2007 00:41 (nineteen years ago)

ILX: Don Imus is pretty

― gershy, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:16 (nineteen years ago)

He also expressed bitterness that MSNBC had “pulled the plug” on televising his program less than 12 hours before the fundraiser was to begin. “They got their pound of flesh and made their decision,” he said.

ADL PRESIDENT LAUGHING TOO HARD TO PURSUE ACTION

― Hurting 2, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:20 (nineteen years ago)

Maya Angelou'd be the best comedy character ever!

― President Evil, Friday, 13 April 2007 03:29 (nineteen years ago)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/alec-baldwin/what-imus-really-did-wron_b_45676.html

― gabbneb, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:06 (nineteen years ago)

also remember that maybe none of this happens - the real consequences that have rolled out over the last few days - without sharpton.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:22 (nineteen years ago)

millions of black women would never have heard the phrase 'nappy-headed hos' repeated ad infinitum on radio and television?

― gabbneb, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:24 (nineteen years ago)

it gets repeated ad infinitum in large part because of sharpton and his efforts. stop trying to deny the man credit!

all these other big media names going "hem haw, it wuz bad but i know he's not a racist" - alec baldwin, mike lupica being two that i've read today - remind me a lot of the nick sylvester thing, where it was instantly clear who considered themselves personal friends and who didn't have that stake in it.

― Tracer Hand, Friday, 13 April 2007 10:30 (nineteen years ago)

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