Don Imus: He’s Baaack
Just like a certain Cleary-visiting Glamour editor, Don Imus isn’t a fan of the “nappy hair” look for women. And his right to say so, on the radio airwaves, is contractually protected. From the Associated Press:
Don Imus has reached a settlement with CBS over his multimillion-dollar contract after his being fired from his morning talk show and is in negotiations with WABC radio to resume his broadcasting career there, CBS and a person familiar with the negotiations said today.Mr. Imus and CBS Radio “have mutually agreed to settle claims that each had against the other regarding the Imus radio program on CBS,” that network and Martin Garbus, a lawyer for Mr. Imus, said in a joint statement today.
The settlement terms are undisclosed, but the rumor on Drudge is that Imus is getting $20 million. That buys a lot of Hohos.
Imus and CBS Reach Settlement of Threatened Suit [Associated Press]
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Glad to hear that Don Imus is returning! Hopefully he gets nationally syndicated. He is one of the best radio/TV personalities in the business. It is shameful the hatchet job done on a first class individual. And nice how so many of his prominent friends in politics and the media abandoned him in his hour of need. The man made a mistake and apologized. Lets move on.
Ho hos are my treat of choice when I get down about my poor tier 2 job prospects. They're delicious and cheap.
OH DEDAEH YPPAN
To lend some accuracy to your opening paragraph, all of the women on the Rutgers team had straightened hair--including the white player who was a victim of the same slur. So I don't think it's the hairstyles that were at issue for Imus so much as the fact that he's a racist.
I hear Imus is going to start doing fashion presentations on ethnic hairstyling at Biglaw firms.
The I-Man is not a racist. He's a badazz radio personality with an edge. All you NY liberals need a reality check in a bad way.
Ha, CBS gets what it deserves. I <8 it.
<8? wtf?
Really? He's not a racist?
How about the time he called Gwen Ifill a cleaning lady? Or when he admitted he hired Bernard McGuirk just to make racist jokes? Or all the anti-semitic slurs he made about Howard Kurtz?
If it's one time, sure, maybe it's a mistake. But the guy's got a long, documented history.
Who cares?
Are the women he defamed going to sue him? Let him spend some of that $20 million defending himself or settling cases.
Line up boys. He'll need some hungry lawyers to make those nasty, greedy little hos go away.
Dem nappy headed bitches can suck it!
Very interesting. While I strongly disagree with Don Imus's politics (he is a liberal Democrat, after all), this is a victory for free speech, which means a victory for all of us.
"How about the time he called Gwen Ifill a cleaning lady? Or when he admitted he hired Bernard McGuirk just to make racist jokes? Or all the anti-semitic slurs he made about Howard Kurtz?"
Typical. Base your opinion on what you read in (biased) news reports, because I'm sure you've never actually listened to Mr. Imus. Uses race, religion, sexuality, gender, and nationality, and accompanying stereotypes, in his humor all the time. It's done in good fun, and there is no malice or evil intent behind anything he says. Is Chris Rock a racist when he makes fun of everyone in his comedy? What about Lenny Bruce? Judge the I-man by his actions, not his attempts at humor.
Stop being so damn oversensitive and laugh once in awhile.
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Stop being undersensitive and try to think about what it might be like in this country for someone who is not a white Christian male under 40.