Don Imus Political Correctness Run-Amuck

I'm on record say that I think Don Imus should retire to his ranch in New Mexico and kiss all this controversy goodbye surrounding his racist remarks about the Rutgers Women's Basketball Team that got him fired at CBS Radio. Don Imus is a throw back to a different time and place where big named radio jocks could say pretty much anything they wanted to and get away with it. However, times have changed over the past 30 years and some people in radio, like Don Imus, have not been able to change with the times so eventually he will be toast anyway.

In recent years "The Don Imus Show" has had terrible ratings both on a national scale and at his flagship New York City radio station. When Don Imus was simulcast on MSNBC cable his audience was somewhere around 300,000 and 350,000 each morning which put him dead last when compared to Fox News and CNN. Don Imus had his day in radio and that day is over. Why ABC wants to take a chance on this guy is something I do not understand.

My guess is that ABC is being pressured by big name celebrities and national politicians that use to go on Don Imus' show and have fun talking with him and also they were able to move up the pecking order with their (click) piers in the process. Don Imus has a very young wife and child and more than likely he might prefer to retire, but future obligations to his family might be causing him to think twice about leaving the public spotlight and also his wife has been able to get free attention to her favorite causes because her husband has/had a national radio program.

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Rutgers Kia Vaughn Sues Don Imus

From my point of view the worst thing that ever happened to the women on the Rutgers womens basketball team was not being called racist and vulgar names by radio shock jock Don Imus, but through the process being introduced to Al Sharpton. This once proud basketball team that made the world proud when they made their first public appearance after Don Imus insulted them on national radio and television could now be turning from a group of hard working and successful women into an Al Sharpton group of victims.

One of the members of the Rutgers basketball team in question, Kia Vaughn, has filed a lawsuit against Don Imus in an effort to win money because she now claims that he has hurt her reputation by his comments. Nothing will turn what was a wonderful winning moment for these fine young women into a disgrace faster than filing a lawsuit which will make them look like nothing more than a bunch of Al Sharpton's victims trying to get ahead by taking money away from someone else who made a mistake.

The natural human tendency is to hurt someone back when they hurt you. Of course, we all know this feeling by it's real name, revenge. I doubt if Kia Vaughn really expects to win any money from her lawsuit and I also believe that what is driving her decision to sue Don Imus is more about revenge than actually believing that her reputation has been harmed by his stupid comments. If Kia Vaughn's lawsuit proceeds against Don Imus this smart and talented young woman will be used at every turn by Al Shapton to further his own goals and not hers. The sad truth is that at the end of the day, Kia Vaughn could turn out looking worse than Don Imus and that would be a truly terrible thing to happen.

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John McCain Wants Don Imus Back

In less than a healthy vote of confidence, presidential candidate and Arizona Senator John McCain said yesterday that he wanted Don Imus back on the air. As a regular guest, John McCain use to have fun joking back and forth with Don Imus when his show was on MSNBC and CBS radio. As I have said before, the Don Imus Show was a huge inside the beltway click that most members of the national news media and politicians wanted to be invited to appear on the show.

When Don Imus got into trouble for making some racist remarks a few months ago, CBS radio and MSNBC fired him and most people thought that Don Imus would just drift into the background and never be heard from again. However, like most things in life Don Imus decided to not quit his decades long radio career and after settling a lawsuit against his former employer CBS radio, he is set to accept a new deal from rival ABC that could put him back on the air within a matter of weeks.

In recent months it seems like John McCain cannot pick the right horse in any race. First Senator McCain decided that it would be a good idea to stand with Senator Edward Kennedy to support comprehensive immigration reform and now Senator McCain is backing Don Imus. John McCain's decision to go against 80% plus of the voting GOP folks in the primary cost him any chance of becoming the parties nominee in 2007. Now, John McCain is doing everything he can to run off moderates and liberals to his potential White House bit, as well, by backing Don Imus. All I can say is that campaigns for president are important because the voters need to see how each candidate responds during a long fought campaign and in that area Senator John McCain has come up short on all fronts.

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