Who the hell is Don Imus?

me too

I watched him for about 30 seconds once and fell asleep. What was his appeal?

FYI, I am 35 years old, if that is relevant to the discussion

Radio personality. Ex-marine (bugler), ex-cocaine addict and alcoholic. WFAN radio in NYC, plus formerly carried on MSNBC. Married 2x, 3 girls from first marriage, one son from current wife. Age 66. Topical, abrasive, colorful, at times borderline offensive. Has good crew on show including Charles McCord who essentially plays the straight news man.

Well, you have to know current events and have a sense of humor.

Imus is corpse that hasn't figured out he was dead about 25 years ago. He was on WNBC in NY with Howard Stern in the 80's when Stern got fired. It is amazing he has lasted this long. He sucked then, he sucks now, and will continue to suck until he is finally off the air.

Don't bother figuring out who this guy is. In a week his name will never be mentioned ever again in the media.

Imus is to racial bigotry on the airways as Howard Stern is to degradation of women on the airways. If you don't like the damn guy then TURN OFF THE DAMN RADIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan

Whether I like him or not is irrelevant. I have never listened to him on the radio nor watched his show nor have I even read an article about him. But somehow I can't escape learning every detail about his history and recent foibles through media overexposure. I like to come to letsrun to escape from the constant media bombardment, I end up gettin gsucked in to threads like this.

I actually watched him for a time when he was on MSNBC in the morning. For lack of anything else worth watching in the morning before work.

Funny thing is, for the longest time I couldn't figure out why he wasn't thrown off the air. For MSNBC at that time slot he said something nearly every day that seemed politically incorrect and way out of line. And then finally of course he was thrown of MSNBC. with his "Nappy headed hoes" comment. But to me it was as if someone started paying attention to what he was saying.

As someone who had a morning drive commute in the NYC area in the 90s, he was the go to guy. I was never a Howard stern guy. I used was basically locker room content.

Mike and the Mad Dog for the PM commute. Francesa is history now too (although still breathing)

Didn't care about this guy in 2007 when this thread was drafted and don't care now that he's dead either. I thought this was a running message board anyways.

A redneck idiot

Everyday man's (TRUMPER) Howard Stern.

Runningart2004 wrote:

Imus is to racial bigotry on the airways as Howard Stern is to degradation of women on the airways. If you don't like the damn guy then TURN OFF THE DAMN RADIO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Alan

Is there any evidence that Imus displayed racial bigotry? The only thing I ever heard regarding this was that he called some female basketball players from Rutgers "nappy" haired or the like and for which he was taken off the air briefly.

Melter of snowflakes.

Imus was great radio. Stern is great radio as well. however they are from a dying format(radio) they were before podcasts. Stern will retire in a few years, Imus retired a year ago. they were Bill Burr , Joe Rogan before those guys existed.

Don Imus was the Wally George of radio.

In the 1970s, Imus was the funniest guy on radio and didn't have to rely on being ludicrously offensive. I'd say he stayed on the air about 15 years too long. He was ruined by a combo of substance abuse and, well... substance abuse. Unfortunately, most people on here know him only as a burnt out case. In the first decade of this century, he was so dependent on Charles McCord that McCord actually should have gotten top billing.