A Taste Of Don Imus: Dan Rather “Crazy,” David Letterman “A Creep”

by Steve Krakauer | 1:27 pm, October 2nd, 2009

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Don Imus kicks off his Fox Business Network morning show on Monday (we’ll have more on that coming soon), but today he’s interviewed by FNC/FBN anchor Neil Cavuto. The interview airs at 4pmET on Fox News and 6pmET on FBN – and there are quite a few soundbites sure to garner some attention.

We got a look at some excerpts – including shots at Dan Rather, David Letterman and even his new colleague Glenn Beck.

Apparently Imus is not a fan of Rather, and didn’t have anything nice to say about the guy who Cavuto interviewed yesterday:

He’s crazy. He’s a nice guy but he’s insane. Just go to Florida and put on a sweater and play bocce ball. He acted like a lunatic there [at CBS]. At some point when you work for these big corporations, whether it’s News Corp or GE or CBS, when you start to get so nuts that the stock holders start complaining and they start to have board meetings and they say do we need this, the answer is no we don’t need this.

Moving on! Staying in the CBS family, here’s Imus taking some shots at David Letterman in the wake of the extortion and sex with staffers revelations.

I’ve always thought he was a creep anyway..He’s an angry mean spirited jerk…He’s a punk. Fundamentally if you are married or you have a commitment you should honor that. I’m not stupid and I know some people don’t but that what I do and what people should do.

Imus also said that when he worked at CBS, he watched a human resources film that relayed to employees that you’re “not supposed to have sex with the staff whether you’re married or not.”

And finally, when asked by Cavuto what he thinks of his new Fox family, he had this to say about Glenn Beck:

Don’t’ start with me, you’ve got nuts in this building and I’m not one of them…I love Glenn, but I’ll tell you this, it doesn’t end well.

Also discussed, the Rutgers comments, whether he thinks he should have been fired (he does) and how he ended up coming to FBN. Needless to say it should be a very lively interview.

Imus brings a big fan base with him, and if he keeps making comments like this, getting attention, something Imus has consistently been very good at, should be no problem at all. Will it end up paying off for FBN? We’ll see (and we’ll revisit Monday).

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11 comments

rmbltmbl says:

October 2, 2009 at 1:34 pm

‘Glenn Beck.. doesn’t end well.’ Almost as if Imus learned a lesson he thinks Beck will not.. may be out of context though.

Clifford E.Elisary says:

October 2, 2009 at 2:35 pm

Don Imus is a know RACIST, and a Punk as well….This old fool married a woman half his age an has a trophy wife, not a very attractive one at that, yea Don Imus is a ignorant RACIST!!!!

libra blue says:

October 2, 2009 at 2:42 pm

Imus used to have a pair, but it seems he is still missing his cahones when it comes to the black community. He crtiicizes Beck but at least he still has his. If Imus ever wants to regain his credibility he needs to get over that crap.

CaptainAmerica says:

October 2, 2009 at 2:45 pm

Keith “Chicken and Waffles” is a known racist. Then he dates a women less than HALF HIS age and forces NBC to give her (Katy Turr) a job on the WEATHER CHANNEL.

Chris Jones says:

October 2, 2009 at 2:53 pm

FBN will eventually become the king of business news just like Fox News is the king of all other news.

bobofthemtns says:

October 2, 2009 at 5:48 pm

I like his grouchyness. I like the way he’s not afraid to call out a guest – even a sitting US Senator – on the air if he thinks he full of it. Imus still calls a spade a spade. He still has a pair.

m says:

October 2, 2009 at 6:04 pm

>Imus used to have a pair, but it seems he is still missing his cahones when it comes to the black community.

Hey, I’m not racist – but I just want to say that the basketball team is just a bunch of black curly-headed whores. Keep in mind that I’m not racist I am by stating the fact that I’m not racist, despite what I just said. Can’t touch this!

I love the fact that, as soon as someone makes a blatantly racist statement – the staunch defenders of the oppressed white male majority objects to having their spade being called a spade.

Tom Benson says:

October 3, 2009 at 10:04 am

Self-serving promotional appearance by FOX…no one really cares what I-Man thinks.

ingenieux says:

October 3, 2009 at 1:47 pm

CaptainAmerica – When you say “Keith “Chicken and Waffles” is a known racist.” I’m just wondering if you can back that up?

ImNotBlue says:

October 3, 2009 at 10:38 pm

Here you go ingenieux…

The the racism charge comes from something KO said on Monday Night Football:

“With the Denver drive having stalled, Roscoe Parrish on the punt return. Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles at its finest. He could go the entire distance and does and it’s seven-zip Bills.”

Roscoe Parrish is a Black wide-receiver, and one could ask would he have referenced “Chicken and Waffles” if not for his race? A poor choice of words at best.

Also, there was his comment about Bill Clinton and Bill Richardson:

New York Senator Clinton, an adopted Giants fan watched the game in Minnesota and told the Associated Press, quote, “Super Bowl, Super Tuesday, we’ve got one down, let’s get the other.” This as her husband watched the game in New Mexico with the former governor, or with the governor and former presidential Bill Richardson, possibly asking Richardson for an endorsement and then, “would you please pass the guacamole?”

Why “guacamole?”

The point is… if you want to play this, “I’m offended at everything, even obvious jokes…” well, then KO quite clearly comes a racist, right along with Imus.

zflynn says:

October 5, 2009 at 11:15 am

One word for Imus? “Coward” “boot-licker” (is that one word?) “spineless”, “phony-tough”. He makes a relatively innocuous comment and cowers when the pc crowd who impose their guilt-ridden ridiculous nonsense on everyone else they can and the absurdly thin-skinned blacks who’ve made careers out of screaming racist at every shadow they can put pressure on good ol’ boy Imus. He can’t even stand up for himself, who’s he to open his mouth about others? He’s more of a suck up and as+ kisser than Michael Richards who didn’t have the guts to admit he got angry and said something unseemly but pretended he was possessed by some evil force or something. Wasn’t Imus the same clown who always complained about the pc crowd yet doesn’t have ball one to stand up to them?

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