The Great American Don Imus Fraud
A so-called ‘shock jock’ in the traditions of Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce, although Don Imus has been at it for so long as to virtually define the genre.
A so-called ‘shock jock’ in the traditions of Redd Foxx and Lenny Bruce, although Don Imus has been at it for so long as to virtually define the genre.
Offense and borderline indecency (if there is any longer such a thing) is the name of the game. Steve Dahl, Howard Stern and Larry Lujack come to mind, although it’s not exclusively a male gig at the mic. Liz Wilde had a briefly syndicated show that featured "Blow It Out Yer Ass" Fridays.
Imus is gone from MSNBC and CBS, after one dip too many of his irreverent paddle intothe waters of racist commentary. Calling the Rutgers Women’s basketball team ‘nappy-headed hos’ was the defining moment in America’s willingness to put up with outrageous behavior.
Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson, both of them ministers with their own political agendas, quickly co-opted Imus’s throwaway moment and made it th…