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We all assume that Hannity, O'Reilly Cavutto and others choose their guest selectively to faciliate the flow of wingnut welfare which keeps them afloat, but it's rare that they announce it publicly. The Fairness Doctrine may be long gone, but most networks trouble themselves to at least give lip service to its underlying principles. Perhaps it surprised nobody else, but I have to say Don Imus' announcement that he would have no Democrats on his show who did not support Republican Joe Lieberman gave me a bit of pause, as did his threat to Chris Dodd.
C&L has the video:
IMUS: …and so did Dodd. But what I-I had decided to do, I think, Charles, is to ban everybody…every Democrat, of which unfortunately too many of our guests are any way. To ban them…ahhh, from the program, for turning their back on Lieberman.
McCORD: Yeah, understood. It’s a shame.
IMUS: Uh, but now we…
BERNARD McGUIRK: We’ll have to start taking phone calls from listeners, if we ban Democratic politicians. [laughter]…
IMUS: Well….
McGUIRK: …that, that bailed on Lieberman. Like Harold Ford. Who hasn’t bailed on him is the question.
IMUS: Well, they ALL bailed on him. But what we’ll also…I mean, we have a lot of information about—uh, and maybe we can even dig up some old footage on Chris Dodd, who’s trying to run for President, and a bunch of other people and uh, you know, this could get ugly.
McCORD: Oh, absolutely.
IMUS: Couldn’t it?
McCORD: It could get brutal.
McGUIRK: Oh, Dodd’ll be back on board in no time flat.
IMUS: I mean, I think—trust me, I mean—you know, adhering to the will of the people…I mean, that STUPID August 8th primary in Connecticut in which a couple hundred thousand people voted…
McCORD: Yeah…
IMUS: …doesn’t…I mean, to just bail on Lieberman like that is …
McCORD: Based on that….
IMUS: ….you’d expect somebody like that Bill’s fat, evil wife, Satan…
McCORD: Mmm hmmm…
IMUS: …to bail or some of those other people. Um, I’d be very disappointed if Harold Ford, Jr. bailed on him.
McGUIRK: Dodd will make Christie Brinkley’s husband seem like an altar boy if we start…revealing all the stuff from his past.
IMUS: Uh, I mean the stuff we have on him…he’d better come to his senses quickly…
Is that bit threatening Dodd supposed to be funny? Why am I not laughing?
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fitz
AS I was saying, the intuition that gets me frequent zero posts also has me feeling great things are going to happen for fdl.
We live in exciting times.
Is there a law that prohibits making threats about Senators–and while we’re at it, Supreme Court justices?
i can’t understand what people see in imus. is he anything but a bitter and doddering coot who takes potshots at people all over the spectrum? i mean, it’s the latter that makes him seem kind of okay sometimes, but frankly i find the guy unlistenable most of the time and incoherent by and large.
Jane,
Check out this link.
Maybe we can get George Allen to appear on Imus for a reprieve of his racist attack on a 20 year old student.
http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1751
-GSD
The wingnut army really *are* going full bore ATM, aren’t they? Attack attack, attack, it’s all they know how to do, even when it’s no longer working.
Imus’ years of substance abuse seem to have really taken their toll. Any person, talk show host or otherwise, who need to surrpund him/herself with butt-cheek spreading sycophants isn’t worth listening to.
Heck, even Rush does it alone, talent on loan from idiocy.
Radioguy: WE are so powerful. If we say somebody is going down, they are so going down.
Newly awakened American electorate: NOT
dang, I got moderated.
Imus’ threats are creepy! But what I don’t understand is how is a guy, who barely can pronounce a word, on the radio in the first place?
So, what’s up with the cowboy costume and set?
Why, oh why are all republicans phoney balonies.
Everything is a flippin’ “show” with them.
NED!
;-)
I don’t get it… I mean has Imus joined the dark side too, or has he always been a wingnut? Connecticut voters have a right to choose whatever Democrat they want to represent themselves. What, they’re gonna change their mind because Imus tells them to? Sigh, I guess there’s no reason to spend much time watching TV these days. *returns to surfing the web*
The list of Dems supporting Lamont is growing.
http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/.....g-ned.html
-GSD
Imus is a corporate/establishment weather vane.
-GSD
IMUS: Uh, I mean the stuff we have on him…he’d better come to his senses quickly…
Actually, I’ve felt for a long time that the beltway insiders “have stuff” on each other. How else to explain the nearly criminal legislative paralysis? (Rhetorical question.)
EPU’d
TeddySanFran
West Nile Virus kills only a handful of people a year. We have much bigger fish to fry.
I speak as a public health professional who is deeply manic about preventable loss of life.
Break up or cover pools of standing water, and then rejoin the fight to save our nation.
Uh — so suppose I wanted to alert selected journalists and/or reporters/editors for certain networks about Imus’ threats and abuse of the public’s airwaves. Just who might those folks be, cause I have this neat new tool I’d like to try out and . . . ??
Suggestions?
The more I watch and listen to State News and Talk the more I ignore it. Which means I don’t take anything they say at face value.
I mean when they say things like ONLY 80% of Americans want out of Iraq you gotta realize they are not reporting any kind of news.
News has become propaganda and speculation.
Speaking of ugly, has Imus looked in a mirror lately?
Why is this guy on radio/TV? He cannot string a sentence together.
Sacramento’s two great gifts to the world: Don Imus and Rush Limbaugh. We wither in shame . . .
Oh please! Who the hell listens to this self absorbed, turkey necked jerk in a cowboy hat.
Dan abrams probably told him he better pick up his ratings or he’s gone~
OK I have to admit I’ve never seen/heard of him until last night. What demographic does this guy appeal to?
He seems a dry shell, a specter. As if there’s no life essence in there. I don’t watch horror flicks but he would get my vote to play a part in one.
Was the world always this weird or has it been turned up a large notch of late?
I want to fax a print copy of GE’s stock performance to Imus and ask him: Dude, how will your boycott of 50 % of the potential audience help this f’d up chart? And by the way, my household owns an unfortunate piece of your *ss — you better think about the answer before we make it a shareholder issue.
Somebody needs to give his meal ticket a little tug.
Who in the F even listens to this ancient freak? I don’t get it.
LindaR:
IMUS is from Sacramento? I have lived here for ages and I don’t remember him here! Are you sure? Yes, RUSH was here and that is bad enough …..
Mahaleela,
My college history teacher talked about how the art world went a little bonkers before the outset of WWII.
Perhaps, due to the lack of creativity in decadent America things like this are lagging indicators of just how screwed up the nation is right now.
-GSD
P.S. Fox News propagandists suggest it may be time for a “Muslims only” line at the airport. Perhaps they would recommend “Muslims only” boxcars on Amtrak too.
Yes, the nation is indeed whipping around a frenzy that many appear to be oblivious too.
Gotta go, American Idol is on.
Rayne @
24
I don’t know much about who this creep is. I never ever tune these people in. But please, I’m begging you, do it.
That Republican world is getting smaller and smaller. But why would any self-respecting Democrat appear with this numbskull anyway? I really don’t get it.
Rayne @
24
This is a delightfully good idea, and I approve wholefartedly!
Shell @ 26
Sure ‘nuf! He was a music deejay here when I was a girl. KXOA, I think.
If you don’t have any skeletons, then you have no worries.
By the way if you reveal the truth about Dodd, why is that threatening him?
Lessee, Lamont WON a primary — you know, actual voters went into the booth and more VOTERS (not interest groups, not furriners, actual citizens with voter registration cards) voted for Lamont than Lieberman and this is the way they want to win viewers?? I couldn’t watch Imus before, I certainly can’t now. What an idiot.
IMUS is actually on MSNBC — his show is broadcast live. I only know this because the channel was on because of Olbermann — and I fell asleep — I woke up, bleary-eyed, and saw THAT weirdo in his 4 sizes-too-big cowboy hat and thought I was having a nightmare.
OldCoastie @ 10
Simple. He started off saying dirty words and telling jokes. Now some people, evidently, think he actually knows something.
Meta —
You would be SHOCKED at how many pundits and politicians go on his show. BIDEN for one. Timmi Russert is a regular too. Everyone who wants to BE anyone in DC is there. SICK
I tried to listen to him once, but he is one of those people who make me ashamed of being a carbon-based life form.
Something is missing here: http://nedlamont.com/blog/1096/missing
oh, this is just great!
U.S. Bound Migrant Cubans Held at Guantanamo
I don’t think George wants to get himself in trouble with the Cuban community!
Imus is a pig. I just ran across this yesterday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contessa_Brewer
Linda –
Oh! MUSIC? Hahahahahaha
Thanks!
don’t blame it on drugs — imus used to insult blacks who worked at nbc — he’s another frightened white man who’s ripping off the taxpayer by getting a free ride through fraudulent charity
Imus will not have Democrats who oppose the Iraq war on his show because he cannot stand the truth. He tries to defend the indefensible, an illegitimate war. He can’t stand it when he is reminded of being nothing but a shill for the neocons.
Shell @
35
Oh, vile repulsion freak-out. I had no idea this was going on. Total bottomfeeders. Must be a secret handshake good ol’ boy fraternity thing.
FYI to anyone who is interested, I attended my first meeting of Americans United for Separation of Church and State, central Ohio chapter, yesterday. The guest speaker was Romin Iqbal, a civil rights coordinator for the Council on American-Islamic Relations. He’s also an attorney practicing in Ohio, and works primarily in the area of religious discrimination in the workplace, and other issues which affect civil rights of Muslims and other minorities.
Click here for more.
Let’s see, a bitter old man that dresses up in a cowboy costume sits in his office and has trouble articulating thoughts. No not George W. Bush, Don Imus.
Imus and McGuirk are incredibly racist.
Imus is just pissed because he’s not a “kingmaker” anymore. He still lives for when he helped Clinton in the NY primary in 1992. And he did on fact help, or rather, Clinton’s appearance on his show helped him a lot.
But now he’s just an old coot, a negative, humorless crank.
Thanks GSD,
I hope they have lines labeled “Shell Shocked” when I want to purchase a ticket.
- holding head, groping and stumbling way towards quiet, fuzzy, warm place
LindaR @ 21
OMG. Limpbrain is from Sacramento? I feel sick.
scarecrow @
18
Someone mentioned above that Dan Abrams is the one to contact at MSNBC wrt Imus. Is this accurate and does anyone have an email for him?
Spotlight does not yet have any contacts for MSNBC, which is very understandable.
OT, props to to Mark for his timely and excellent answers, prior thread.
Progress not perfection.
I think the new meme for these jerks should be, “frightened little white men”…works particularly well for me when they go out of their way to act like they are tough guys…
Coming up after this break, Don Imus interviews a couple a’ good ol’ fashioned Democrats … the kind he remembers fondly from his youth
—————
Gawd, Linda, are you absolutely sure he was a dj here? [gag, gag, retch, ptuuiii, awwwgggg!]
OldCoastie @ 38
God only knows who all we’re holding at Gitmo. It’s scary. Has there ever been a complete accounting.
But if Floridians think it’s Cuban exiles, oops, there goes Florida!
Nefarious –
I live in Sacramento, and don’t like it that much but it isn’t bad enough to have spawned Limbaugh. He is from Missouri — his first jobs (and marriages) were from the midwest. But sigh — yes, he became famous in this town.
Shell @ 26
Shell, do you know that Sacto FDLers are hanging out at Drinking Liberally? Feel free to join us next month …
George Felix Allen is digging himself deeper.
Snip:
“I also made up a nickname for the cameraman, which was in no way intended to be racially derogatory. Any insinuations to the contrary are completely false.”
So now HE made-up the nickname and it just happened to be the French word for “monkey” or a commonly used racist phrase.
But I thought that his staffers called Sidarth “Mohawk” because of his haircut?
Allen is going to need the Shriner’s after this inferno flames out.
-GSD
GSD @ 4:12pm 14
That’s an interesting list. Many of the “finger in the wind” types like Obama, Clinton, Cantwell, and Biden are endorsing Lamont. Speaking of Cantwell, it’s interesting that she has made a committment and Sen. Patty Murray hasn’t. Usually, Murray’s the one doing the right thing.
when did the Cubans become terrorists?
oh, that’s right… I forgot… they are brown people! silly me! :-{
Thanks, Nef — I just might! The date?
Fern @ 36
Not to worry, Imus is a CARTOON-based life form…
Shell @ 58
First Thursday of every month, at the Streets of London Pub downtown.
John Casper — thanks, as always. checking for how to contract the guy.
I assume this test tool actually, works? Or were we just sending test messages into an EPU? Jane? Mark?
watch Nixon or JFK to learn about Cuban terrorists (or freedom-fighters, take your pick)
Oh yeah, Dan Abrams was named GM at MSNBC.
Looks like I should send my little graph of GE stock performance to him instead, and only CC: that dolt Imus.
Wish I could check for political donations by either of them, but OpenSecret’s database is down. Rats.
Actually, I’m pretty sure that Imus is (at least now) against the war.
And while he is quite often quite dreadful, he does some very good things with regard to raising money for very good causes.
Not a fan here, but fair is fair.
john in sacramento @ 51
Yeah, grotty. [/scouse]
John, did you make it to the training on Sunday? I tried to go, but the online directions did me in; I wandered up and down Auburn Blvd. to no avail and finally gave up and went back home. I’d left my cell phone at home so I couldn’t even call the campaign for directions.
can we please stop opening comments with fitz? it’s obvious he played us for fools. he doesn’t deserve any respect or facilitate hope.
Rayne @ 64
Try this one ; )
http://www.fundrace.org/neighbors.php
John Casper — what about reporters for Newsweek’s rivals?
EPU’d re font fun. Show some fdllove for your moderator today:
A suggestion for using bold, italics, underline, or blockquote–
Use it in the middle not the end, or at least have a few words after the highlighted part, and preview before posting. See this good example?
That is all.
————the Font Fairy aka egr
FITZ!!!!
egregious at 2 -
My intuition agrees with your intuition. If this were a dream, FDL would be the “Lad[ies] of the Lake” and the people rising from it, Excalibur. Dramatic license taken to be sure but what is life without a good dream?
bushbehindbars @ 66
BZZZTTT What if the investigation was much, much bigger than Plame? Think…about…it…
immanentize @ 70
You okay immanentize? You’re #70!
immanentize @ 70
q - Who’s your favorite violinist?
a - Jascha Hei-FITZ!!!
What imm said.
Fitz me!
GSD, did you catch another excuse of Allen he released that his statement about Welcome to America wasn’t for Sidarth, it was -ahem- TO the whole Webb campaign to welcome them to the northern part of the state?
Bwahahahaaa Suuuuuuuure… what a minuscule minded racist freak, he’s on the heavy duty extractor spin cycle.
mahaleela @ 23
Oh please dear lord no, anything but another Specter.
onmykneesinprayer
Oh but you can’t expect to wield supreme executive power just because some watery tart threw a sword at you!
Heh heh heh, It never fails.
if the shoe FITZ …
uniquely_tim @ 71
A good dream took me from my comfortable middle class life to a newborn operating room in the former Soviet Union.
I’m a very big believer in dreams.
What else: dreams can come true if you believe, and take one step at a time over a very long time–35 years for me to make your dream come true.
Somewhere over the rainbow, dreams come true.
I hear that at George Allen campaign events they only serve crackers.
-GSD
OT Your daily gas prices
Average price for regular gasoline 8/15/06 in 50 states and DC
$3.00 plus 26 states
$2.90 plus 15 states
$2.80 plus 10 state
Average national price: $2.997, down $.007
Highest recorded national average price: $3.057 9/5/2005
Highest average price: Hawaii $3.368
Lowest average price: South Carolina $2.822
Nymex Crude Future $72.85, down $.53
Dated Brent Spot $73.50, down $.78
WTI Cushing Spot $73.05, down $.48
Gasoline prices continue to decline. In fact, they just broke the $3 mark, if barely. I don’t know why. I just chronicle them. Gasoline is not like oil where speculation determines most of the price changes in it. If you keep up with current events, you can figure out where most of the speculative pressure is coming from in oil and even have an idea how big and how long an effect it will have. With gasoline, this usually isn’t the case. Sometimes there are seasonal changes in blend or crossovers to heating oil that cause problems with available stocks but this happens about as often as it doesn’t. And where you would expect these effects to be regional, they often can be national. Occasionally there is a specific incident like a Katrina or a big refinery fire that you can point to but gasoline prices other than being high and likely to remain so is something of a blackbox to me and I suspect most people.
Oil prices declined again. Lebanon, blah, blah, BP resuming Prudhoe Bay production, blah, blah. I can’t help thinking that the UK terrorist plot continues to weigh on the markets and has people not only looking at potential effects on the airline industry but revisiting projections for slower economic growth in general. Again that may be just me. To keep things in perspective, while oil has declined, it is still over $70.
Can someone point me to this SPOTLIGHT? I’m on firefox and I just don’t see it.
ReneND ,
At the very bottom of Janes post. Little dinky word.
they dont monkey around at Sen. Allen’s campaign events either !
okay i give up. what the heck is an EPU?
Imus is still on?
I guess MSNBC really needs some fluff time in the morning.
GSD @
55
Link por favor.
Cujo –
I saw on Bob’s site that Feinstein was a “not commented.” So — I called the number listed. They told me they could not discuss politics at this number (on a POLITICIAN’S number — interesting) and gave me a different numer. Odd. I had never heard that before. I called the new number and they needed my name, and said someone would call me back — so they needed my phone number. When they called back, they argued that Dianne HAD stated she was FOR Lamont. I just said that she had better say it again. He said, “You must have listened to BLOGS.” I said, “Good guess. Do I sound SMART? I NEVER watch teevee or read newspapers for news.” That sort of stopped him for a sec — but then he started again, arguing that the blogs are not reliable.
I finally said, “I don’t want to argue with you — but Feinstein should come out for Lamomnt again.”
the investigation has proceeded with FITZ! and starts
I think you are over reacting here. Imus is like a time capsule. It’s 1962. It’s towel snapping fun. Racist, you bet. No talent, maybe.
But for some of the power elite it is as close to combat as they’ll ever come. Hell, Kerry got his fourth purple heart there.
Brain dead? Maybe, but at least at Firedoglake that should not be a disqualification.
After listening to Imus for a month I kicked a long time Today Show habit, because he pointed out how phony all of them are.
So what you get from Imus is honestly brain dead comment from a by gone day, but I bet he did a little coke with a liberal or two in his day who now comments on FDL.
Imus’s ravings on Lieberman’s behalf are in no way helping Lieberman, and all this prissy hand wringing from a source, FDL, that can throw a pretty good punch is counter productive. Flick him some shit right back. Getting banned and ranted on by Imus may be the best thing to happen to some Democrats, and FDL, engage him with some spunk. He’s really just a teddy bear who love’s sick kids, and the millionaires who get massive tax deductions for his boutique charity. But don’t get too harsh or Bo will whack you, or Bernie will slime you.
Linky for George Felix Allen(R-Tunisia).
http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.....a_nickname
-GSD
EPU is short for Europäisches Patentübereinkommen
ReneND,
Under the post in the data field, last link, before the comments start:
randiego @ 88
EPU means Evil Parallel Universe, which is also the handle for one of FDL’s most well-known and terrific commenters, who once had the habit of posting at or near the end of a thread, when a new thread had already started.
To be “EPUed” means to post at the end, while everyone else has already left for the new thread, so almost no one sees your comment.
Your job is to explain this to the next person.
ckerst @ 45
Correction,both!
And do not trust anything that *ilson says when he’s not using English.
Shell @ 90
Gee, I wonder where he got that impression?
randiego @ 89
EPU= Evil Parallel Universe.
A long time commenter who has a habit of posting very late in a thread. About the time he posts, a new thread comes up and every one bails out and misses his post.
Shame on you *ilson. *g*
for some reason, I do recall DiFi saying she would support Lamont… it surprised me…
mahaleela @ 23
Such people *cough*AC were considered entertainment, the fool who amused the lord.
Now people are beginning to see them as a flimsy cover, a distraction from more egregious goings on, embezzlement, fearmongering, warmongering, corruption. Deaths of our young people–collateral damage.
Makes me nauseated to type that.
Y no confíe en cualquier cosa que *ilson dice cuándo él no está utilizando inglés.
Thanks Scarecrow and Bustednuckles… on to the next thread?
PS - Imus looks absolutely ridiculous in that hat.
For Imman & inspiration for his writing project.
Moore’s sequel to Bush’s Brain Is in the Works - Karl’s Not Happy
BTW - Anyone thought of Ralston lately? This made me think:
Just as he did with “Bush’s Brain,” Rove managed to acquire an early galley version of the new book. He is disturbed about several matters but appears most deeply troubled about how the narrative proves he has had a complex relationship with convicted felon Jack Abramoff. Information provided to us for the book by an eyewitness and participant in Rove and Abramoff meetings gives lie to Rove and the White House’s claims that Abramoff was barely known by the administration. Karl has always known who has money to spend on politics and how to use those people. Our witness, who also told the same story to federal investigators, details meetings between Rove and Abramoff that show the two were using each other for their own political ends.
After reading the galley, Rove called Slater and denied the meetings ever occurred. He wants us to believe that our source simply made up the events and also lied to federal investigators.
List of DEMs and their support for Lamont: http://bobgeiger.blogspot.com/.....g-ned.html
err, *ilson? your accento is not quite workin’ right…
The Nefarious Leslie @ 48
Not originally, but KFBK is where he got his start in talk radio.
*ilson46201 @ 105
I’ll have the Chili Verde, por favor.
Fitz!
Spotlight!
randiego 88 - means getting a post left behind on a dead thread when a new one starts. So named for Evil Parallel Universe a beloved commenter who it happened to a lot back in the day.
(Jane or somebody, shouldn’t there be a faq here?)
And Imus - gods, don’t get me started. Ok, never mind, I’m started. To be continued.
GSD @ 94
Thanks for the link. That’s just messed up.
And Olbermann is talking about Allen right now…
To reach the producers, anchors and correspondents of Imus in the Morning, send your email to: Imus@msnbc.com
If you want to comment about something on MSNBC TV that you saw during the day or that doesn’t pertain to a particular show, send an email to: viewerservices@msnbc.com
John Casper @
49
I got tired of Wolfie and switched to Tweety in time to see the Official Republican Candidate for Connecticut-Senate advocate bombing Iran. Does that get Schlesinger above or below his current 6%? And what does the DeFacto Republican candidate think about that? And then Tweety ran George Felix Allen’s video insanity up close, full volume, uncut. He and his commenters batted it around for awhile, but Tweety kept calling it an ethnic slur. I may have to start watching Hardball again. (I stopped watching Imus long ago. Howard Stern without the intelligence.) Ah - and now KO is doing Allen. Hee hee.
arkieology - If Imus is being broadcast on public airwaves (radio) while he is doing cable, he has a standard of care that he must observe, even if he isn’t obligated by the now-defunct Fairness Doctrine.
His company uses publicly owned airwaves to carry his nonsense.
Perhaps MSNBC doesn’t see Imus as being anything more than another O’Reilly-like blowhard, but shareholders demand a helluva lot better than the sagging numbers that O’Reilly produces. Maybe the corporation needs to be reminded they don’t have access to the airwaves solely for their benefit, and that the risk-reward cost-benefit analysis on having Imus alienate roughly 50 percent of a market is a stupid, stupid move.
Furthermore, I don’t appreciate your insinuation about liberals and drug use. Why don’t you push that one with Limbaugh, since you don’t have a problem with illegal drug use and politico-media blowhards?
*ilson, nah, I trust you in English.
*ilson46201,
so is there anything in particular you have to do to get your umlauts and special characters to show up, and no I am not making oblique references to trolls?
I really think Allen did use “macaca” as a nick name…. behind closed doors. This time he slipped in public. Just like during the Alito hearings when Cornyn called Alito “Scalito” in public. The difference is that Cornyn caught his slip right away and it wasn’t racist.