So I was pretty shocked when Imus reemerged as a political cognoscente. Senators and journalists happily suffered the fool. Imus asked people such as John McCain dumber questions than Stern asked strippers, and they laughed it off. But without the sexy little giggle. They sucker you into long conversations at dinner parties about how Bush is stupid and how Bush is also really stupid. They feed on political blogs and newspaper columnists that reflect their side and parrot the best one-liners they can find.
These are the people who furiously scream about policy decisions mostly because they need to furiously scream about something. And Imus was their king. He got to pretend to be smart with actual smart people.
The arena of politics is too confined to encapsulate all the topics worthy of intellectual debate. Newspaper columns, talk radio and cable news channels rarely have serious debates about art, literature, technology, sex, fashion or religion. Look at the lengths Britney Spears had to go to just to inform us of long-standing fashion changes in personal grooming.
A few years ago, Imus spent months calling me a pinhead every time my byline appeared, because of the fact that I had written that his friend, George Carlin, was no longer the most cutting-edge comic. It was weird and angry and fed my insatiable ego, but mostly it was just simplistic and juvenile. Other than, of course, college basketball. Imus frequently sparred with fellow shock jock Howard Stern, who usurped Imus' position as the No. His vitriol descended into bigotry. During a interview, Imus used an anti-Semitic slur in a reference to Stern.
Imus joked about Clinton's extramarital activities, among other things. He added, "We all know you're a pot-smoking weasel. In February , she and her NewsHour co-anchor, Judy Woodruff, becoming the first female duo to moderate a Democratic presidential debate. She died later that year. Facebook Twitter Email. Legendary shock jock Don Imus: 5 incendiary moments heard 'round the world. Show Caption.
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