First of all, this guy has used his show to promote racial insensitivity of the highest order, and he uses elected officials like Harold Ford, Joe Biden and Lieberman to tote his foul water.
Now he's whining with the rest of the wingbots trying to tell African-Americans how we should celebrate the homegoing of Coretta Scott King, when the reality is, Imus would have been just as good for the assassination of Dr. King in Memphis back in 1968, if he'd had a rifle and wasn't too stoned on coke to fire straight.
A snake cannot funtion without its head, and Don Imus has been flying under the radar for years as the head of wingnut central. It doesn't matter that he's taken a different stance on the Iraq war...I'm more concerned about the following crap he has pulled on the airwaves and hasn't been fired for it:
* compared the appearance of black NBA players to apes
* called award-winning black New York Times journalist Gwen Ifill "the cleaning lady"
* referred to award-winning black New York Times journalist Bob Herbert as a "quota hire"
* referred to residents of Harlem as "molignans" (the Italian equivalent of "coons")
* referred to the black wife of former Secretary of Defense William Cohen as a "big-haired ho"
* called tennis players Venus and Serena Williams "animals"
And in a July 19, 1998 interview on "60 Minutes," Imus admitted to hiring a producer specifically "to do nigger jokes" for the show.
Yes, I know that MSNBC has hired Michael Savage to do a show, but didn't he also get canned when he told a caller that he hoped the guy would contract AIDS in a bathhouse?
Additionally, you need to know who enables this peon. Most notably, a young man from Tennessee with aspirations of becoming the successor to Bill Frist in the Senate. I have one question for you in Tennessee: IS HAROLD FORD THE BEST YOU CAN DO FOR THE MID-YEAR ELECTIONS?
Because he's already pissing off his African-American base, and if 10% of them stay home come Primary time, he will lose the Democratic Nomination because if the African-Americans do not turn out in 100% force, Caucasians will wonder why they should vote for him, especially when he's doing major ass-kissing with Imus, while trashing Civil Rights leaders like Joseph Lowery and pissing on the graves of those who made it possible for him to be able to have a seat in Congress, like Martin and Coretta King.
Hint: He will be on Imus in the Morning to do just that: TRASH HOW WE MOURNED AND SAID FAREWELL TO CORETTA.
African-Americans are already pissed at how he tries to distance himself from his heritage; he even "outed" his grandmother as being white and not African-American. The fact that his father or his father's siblings never mentioned it is a sure sign that his grandmother found passing as African-American a lot more palatable than identifying herself as Caucasian.
Adigal has it right; no more playing Nice with anyone who sells out our principles for personal gain, or tries to make us cower with their bullying.
I join in with her. BOYCOTT IMUS!