Saturday, April 20, 2024
Miles from the Mainstream
D. R. ZUKERMAN, proprietor
Don Imus Regrets

APRIL 11, 2007 --

Last Wednesday, Don Imus directed an Imusism at the Rutgers women's basketball team, finalists in the NCAA
women's Division I basketball tournament -- losing to Tennessee. Responding, before the weekend, to immediate criticism, Imus seemed to take a "get over it" attitude.

Demands that Imus be taken off the air
cascaded over the weekend, and, Monday morning, the I-man caved, in fact groveled (like a true Republican) -- protesting that he is a good person who said a bad thing.

What happened to the Imus we once
knew? Was he led to believe that this time he might be taken off the air?

For LPR, Imus is about as "politically incorrect" as Bill Maher. LPR heard
media mainstreamer Tom Oliphant, speaking with Imus on air, April 9, express "solidarity forever."

LPR rests its case -- although it expects Imus will lose his bite, except, of course, concerning the vice president and Attorney General Gonzalez, Rush Limbaugh and all the other usual "right-wing extremists."

BTW -- anyone demanding WFAN's Mike and the Mad Dog be censured for expressing their apparent annoyance, last
Thursday, that Tiger Woods would likely win a fifth Masters? (Were they gleeful this brilliant golfer didn't?)