Don Imus & Jake Tapper: Gift-Giving Dynamos
Why talk about the economy, immigration, or the midterm elections with Jake Tapper when it’s so much more fun to fantasize about what to give Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston for their upcoming nuptials?
I keep reading all the beautiful condolences that people are writing about how much a part of their lives were effected by listening to him over the years.
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Children’s Health Defense joins parents of vaccine-injured children and advocates for health freedom in remembering the life of Don Imus, a media maverick in taking on uncomfortable topics that most in the mainstream press avoid or shut down altogether. His commitment to airing all sides of controversial issues became apparent to the autism community in 2005 and 2006 as the Combating Autism Act (CAA) was being discussed in Congress. The Act, which was ultimately signed into law by George W. Bush in December of 2006, created unprecedented friction among parents of vaccine-injured children and members of Congress; parents insisted that part of the bill’s billion-dollar funding be directed towards environmental causes of autism including vaccines, while most U.S. Senators and Representatives tried to sweep any such connections under the rug.
Don Imus, Divisive Radio Shock Jock Pioneer, Dead at 79 - Imus in the Morning host earned legions of fans with boundary-pushing humor, though multiple accusations of racism and sexism followed him throughout his career By Kory Grow RollingStone
Don Imus Leaves a Trail of Way More Than Dust
By Michael Riedel - The one and only time I had a twinge of nerves before appearing on television was when I made my debut in 2011 on “Imus in the Morning” on the Fox Business Channel. I’d been listening to Don Imus, who died Friday at 79, since the 1990s as an antidote the serious (bordering on the pompous) hosts on National Public Radio. I always thought it would be fun to join Imus and his gang — news anchor Charles McCord, producer Bernard McGuirk, comedian Rob Bartlett — in the studio, flinging insults back and forth at one another. And now I had my chance. I was invited on to discuss to discuss “Spider-Man, Turn Off the Dark,” the catastrophic Broadway musical that injured cast members daily.
Why talk about the economy, immigration, or the midterm elections with Jake Tapper when it’s so much more fun to fantasize about what to give Bristol Palin and Levi Johnston for their upcoming nuptials?
Our old buddy Chris Wallace returned this morning, and shared Imus’s dismay at Warner Wolf inserting himself into every George Steinbrenner story he told yesterday morning. “When someone dies and people are doing their reflections, they are generally about themselves,” said Wallace. “And parenthetically, the deceased appears in the story.”
It makes sense that when faced with an astute political guest like former Congressman John LeBoutillier, Imus would ask a question about the erection coming up in November. It makes even more sense that the scholarly LeBoutillier would be so focused on providing an intelligent answer that he didn’t notice Imus’s intentional gaffe.
Laura Ingraham is one of the most popular radio talk show hosts in the country, a Fox News contributor, and an accomplished author whose latest book is a fiction-nonfiction hybrid called "The Obama Diaries." But before discussing it today, she was forced to describe to Imus exactly what Charles was doing to the news copy in front of him.
The amazing thing about the late George Steinbrenner, in Mike Lupica’s opinion, is that there were two separate and distinct acts in his public life.