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2007-04-13 -Short Attention Span Theater-

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Posted by Fred 2007-04-13 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views since 2007-05-07] Top

#1 "Sympathy meter reading off-scale low, sir."

"Thank you, Mr. Data."

Posted by Mike 2007-04-13 06:24|| 2007-04-13 06:24|| Front Page Top

#2 re Imus and cBS

I have a new limerick.. but I won't be posting it at this time.. or anytime too soon.

Posted by RD">RD 2007-04-13 09:06|| 2007-04-13 09:06|| Front Page Top

#3 ...Imus may have some very nice charities that do some very nice things for kids of all races, but unfortunately, he let his mouth run loose one time too many. No sympathy here I'm afraid.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2007-04-13 09:35|| 2007-04-13 09:35|| Front Page Top

#4 What's next? Criticizing paint roller manufacturers for describing their product's degree of nappiness?

CBS Corp. bowed to public pressure and fired shock jock Don Imus on Thursday, walking away from its best-known radio personality and millions of dollars in advertising

Oddly enough, I've heard it described as the 'millions of dollars' in advertising walking away from CBS Radio--and that was the real pressure that brought him down.

I don't look for Viacom to crack down on any of their--ahem--artists that use similar terminology.

Posted by eLarson 2007-04-13 10:33|| http://larsonian.blogspot.com]">[http://larsonian.blogspot.com] 2007-04-13 10:33|| Front Page Top

#5 It's hard to find sympathy for an effort that places its fortunes in the mouths of the likes of Howard Stern and Don Imus, whose careers were made on being shocking.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 11:23|| 2007-04-13 11:23|| Front Page Top

#6 All major record labels following suit and dropping their rap artists who call women "bitches" and "ho's" in 3... 2... 1...

Pfft...

Posted by Dar">Dar 2007-04-13 11:31|| 2007-04-13 11:31|| Front Page Top

#7 Come along now. Imus is not a "shock" jock. But he may end up on Sirius along with Howard Stern and the resulting stampede of listeners away from CBS Radio will be truly shocking, at least for CBS. I've spent a lot of time trapped in traffic on the freeway listening to Imus and LOL. He made a mistake but I'm sorry to see him go.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2007-04-13 12:20|| 2007-04-13 12:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Chink, chink, pieces of the MSM chipping away.
Ah, the sweet sound of Spring.

Posted by wxjames 2007-04-13 12:37|| 2007-04-13 12:37|| Front Page Top

#9 Interesting. There's an article in the LA Times claiming that Imus's real value was as the only talk radio conduit for Democratic politicians to politically independent white men. link Apparently the left owns the blogosphere, and the right talk radio.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 12:43|| 2007-04-13 12:43|| Front Page Top

#10 TW, only an organization as screwed up as the LA Times could think the LLLs own the blogosphere.

Posted by Mac 2007-04-13 12:47|| 2007-04-13 12:47|| Front Page Top

#11 True, Mac, but it's an interesting thought that the Democrats have no other way to talk to the soccer dads and granddads.

Posted by trailing wife 2007-04-13 15:32|| 2007-04-13 15:32|| Front Page Top

#12 Isnt it great how there always seems to a Silver Lining aspect to these issues. Cynically speaking theyre called Alternative motives. You remember how the FEMA deficiencies during Katrina later morphed into unrelated topics such as race and class. They told us this was an opportunity to collectively atone for our sins through a national dialog. Which ended up obfuscating the real problem and did nothing to reduce the bureaucratic red tape in large government organizations. But boy howdy, did the money flow with the obvious result of large-scale waste and fraud. Theres a new opportunity being pitched. The shrill voices have already begun to call for increased Diversity in the media. Calls for the resurrection of the Fairness Doctrine cant be far behind.

Posted by DepotGuy 2007-04-13 17:04|| 2007-04-13 17:04|| Front Page Top

#13 Is it just me, or is it more Imus and less Iran in the media the last week?
New moon's the 17th - good for f-117's.

Posted by 235 2007-04-13 22:13|| 2007-04-13 22:13|| Front Page Top

#14 If Imus was really a sports guy he would have known basketball season ended April 2nd.

Posted by badanov 2007-04-13 23:30|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2007-04-13 23:30|| Front Page Top

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