Who'll Get The Last Ho Ho Ho?

[Joel S. Berson]

Same principle is being applied to Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan --
just substitute for "coming back to radio" to "avoiding (or reducing)
jail time".

Joel

At 8/8/2007 11:32 AM, Doug Harris wrote:
>Spiteful is one way to put it. The New York Magazine article described
>Imus as 'having a lot of anger' or words to that effect because, in part,
>"he's a recovering alcoholic".
>Oh.
>Well _that_ explains it. 'Makes just every ol' insult and stupid comment
>OK, does it?
>Maybe I'd be OK with him coming back to radio when he's a 'recovering
>insulter'. But that implies he won't do it any more.
>(the other) doug
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>I used to listen to Imus with much pleasure, mainly because of his guests,
>like Andrea Mitchell and other good news hawks.
>What I heard one day made my blood run cold. First, that goon who needed a
>shave referred to Shirley Chishom as 'Shirley Jizzum', everyone laughed,
>and Imus and some of the others laughed at how ugly, old, and wrinkled she
>looked.
>That was the end for me. For that alone he should have been taken off the
>air, and making fun of the old and the young (coeds) is not my idea of good
>humor--it seems much too spiteful.
>Bob Wachal
>
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