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olejoedad
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FEB 06, 12:04 PM
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Don Imus.....one of those sports talking heads?
Never paid attention much to sports or the commentators.
It's not of any interest to me. Grown men making big money playing the games of children.
Ernest Hemingway had the best thoughts about what true sports were for grown azz men.
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rinselberg
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FEB 06, 12:09 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by olejoedad:
Don Imus.....one of those sports talking heads?
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No. You don't have a clue about Don Imus (1940-2019.)
My assessment of the "I-Man" is not all positive, but I did like the TV broadcasts of "Imus in the Morning" on MSNBC.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-06-2024).]
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williegoat
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FEB 06, 12:17 PM
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Imus was hilarious! Olejoedad, if you have never seen or heard him, you should look him up. He was an early victim of "cancel culture". [This message has been edited by williegoat (edited 02-06-2024).]
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rinselberg
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FEB 06, 08:14 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by williegoat:
[Don] Imus was hilarious! Olejoedad, if you have never seen or heard him, you should look him up. He was an early victim of "cancel culture." |
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At least we agree on something.
Charles McCord, Bernard McGuirk, Rob Bartlett, Sid Rosenberg—who gave way to Warner Wolf—and frequent guests Bo Dietl and Dagen McDowell... the people I named as Imus acolytes at the end of the previous page... these are the other people, beside Don Imus himself, whose likenesses would be carved into the "Mount Rushmore" of the Imus in the Morning show... if there were such a thing.
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williegoat
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FEB 06, 10:32 PM
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| quote | Originally posted by rinselberg:
At least we agree on something.
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I just changed my mind. 
The first time I saw Imus was in the late ‘70s. He had a TV show called “Imus Plus” that was on late at night on one of the UHF channels. No one seems to remember it, but it was great. He had an audience that participated and he took phone calls. There was very little structure and no theme. It was a little bit like Phil Donahue, if Phil Donahue was Groucho Marx. I was an instant fan.
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rinselberg
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FEB 07, 11:34 AM
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I just stumbled upon the circumstance that Bernard J. McGuirk passed in October of 2022. I hadn't known.
I remember him as the executive producer of the "Imus in the Morning" show and a regular part of the show.
My best memories of "Imus in the Morning" were when Bernard McGuirk donned a FedEx shipping envelope to represent an ecclesiastical skullcap and offered, in a comically thick Irish accent and dialect, his satirical and distinctly ribald impressions of Cardinal Egan of the Archdiocese of New York.
I think some of these performances are available on YouTube.
I remember Tim Russert (1950-2008), who was a nationally prominent NBC political journalist and longtime moderator of "Meet the Press," expressing the same thought about the "Cardinal Egan" sketches.
"Lord hear our prayers." Bernard McGuirk in one of his "Cardinal Egan" sketches, alongside Don Imus in this split screen from a 2006 TV broadcast.[This message has been edited by rinselberg (edited 02-07-2024).]
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olejoedad
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FEB 07, 01:24 PM
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Tim Russert was the best host MTP ever had.
It's a shame the show lost its journalistic perspective.
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olejoedad
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FEB 29, 07:57 PM
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ray b
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MAR 01, 09:58 AM
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williegoat
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MAR 01, 10:16 AM
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Rayb has no idea what he just posted.
The "risky list" is at the heart of a lawsuit against the U.S. Government, specifically the state department. The U.S. Government is funding propaganda the same way they are spying on U.S. citizens. They get by with a little help from our friends. I will let you do your own research.
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