Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Ho : no!
Apologies, but I am borrowing the NY Post's front page headline today about Don Imus and his maybe, rumored, dreaded (by some of us) come-back now that the suit has been settled. But I also have to say that if ABC really does hire him, I will never watch or listen to another thing on ABC again. Partly because it will thereby seem as if the whole thing was such a ridiculously loud exercise in self-promotion. But even more because if he displaces the awesome Curtis & Kuby, it would be unfair, despicable, mean, nasty, disgusting, and any other negative word you want to use. One report says "talks are underway" but another says that ABC has "no interest at all" so who knows. Better not happen, that's all I can say. C&K are the best - they're challenging without being crude, witty without being snotty intellectuals, funny without being nutty. To replace them with the idiotic, smug, nasty and (worst of all) unfunny Imus would really be a crime.

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Blogger Laura — at 1:40 PM, August 15, 2007:
I've only heard Imus a couple of times, when his show was carried on L.A. radio, and I literally found him unintelligible. His words were quite slurred -- I think I heard he has a hearing problem? Maybe that was why. We found him an inarticulate mumbler.

Without even addressing issues like his more outrageous statements, I just don't "get" his success.

Best wishes,
Laura
 

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Blogger jau — at 3:04 PM, August 15, 2007:
That makes two of us (or more)! And if you could hear C&K, I think you'd like them as much as I do (since we share several tastes). The latest is that ABC is insisting they've not talked with Imus at all but it makes me nervous. Not to mention baffled.

Thanks for your thoughts!
Best to you -
Anne
 

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