Don Imus Back on Radio: Media Got it Wrong

Don Imus is back on radio. Tonight on CBS Nightly News with Katie Couric, the Imus clip was terrific. He said he would not do anything to make the women of the Rutgers team question the sincerity of his earlier apology.

Then… in case people who love him feared he’d lost his brand of humor… he said that Dick Cheney is still a war criminal and Hillary Clinton is still the devil… and that he’d signed a five year contract, because it was going to take that long to get back at everyone. He was in fine fettle.

Then CBS Nightly News dove straight into the offal pile by running a LOUD voice-over of Imus calling the Rutgers players “Nappy headed ho’s.” Remember it was McGuirk who’d led that charge with Imus sleepwalking into it… see earlier article here…

FOUL! CBS News. You ought to be fined for running that voice-over. FOUL! You’re supposed to have at least room temperature I.Q.s over there.

Imus JUST SAID he would honor his apology. How come YOU, CBS News, didn’t?

Maybe we’ve wondered why Yaweh Jehovah destroyed the world so many times trying to get it right?

It had to be over crassness like this. Lightning bolt, singe, poof, ashes!

Maybe Creator just kept hoping for a higher quality of human at the boards.

CBS has many ground-breakers…MANY… like Bob Schieffer who carries a dignity in reportage that definitely makes him venerable exemplar of the Central Broadcasting Network; the late Ed Bradley from 60 Minutes who was sincerely interested in stories beyond ‘formulae…’

But this night. A head-shaker.

Even so, Mr. Imus, has his first interview lined up with an 08 candidate running for nomination: Bill Richardson. I’ll be tuning in.