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April 09, 2007
On Don
I've been listening to Don Imus for a long time. I was one of the 5 or 6 listeners to WFAN in its pre-Imus infancy, enduring the likes of Pete Franklin and Susan Waldman before anyone knew and despised Susan Waldman. I was 13 years old in 1987, and an all sports, all the time radio station meant plenty of sense. In 1990 or so, I was a busboy at the Smithtown Haus on Long Island when I met Mike Francesa in the restaurant's lobby. He was cordial and all, but he was still an arrogant dweeb and it pleased me to hear him and Chris Russo nicknamed by Imus as, "fatso and fruitloops."
I give Don Imus some credit for my interest in politics. One of the beauties of his show was that one minute he might be asking the traffic lady to rub her breasts against the microphone, then go to commercial, then interview a senior US Senator. A little Howard Stern, a little politics, etc.
I am not going to write about how pathetic Imus was today. From the "You know what I'm talkin' 'bout" Hill Clinton impersonation to his "I have black friends" defense to his reference to the "racism" of the Reagan administration, it was beyond pitiful. I'd like the think the 2nd and 3rd words out of my mouth in that situation would have been "Tawana" and "Brawley." But it's leading on Drudge, and I won't try to get above the din.
Posted by bill at April 9, 2007 09:05 PM
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