Well, quite a news weekend, wasn’t it? A massive, horrible deadly shooting today at Virginia Tech, the worst shooting ever in the U.S. Before that, the entire Northeast was socked by a potent nor’easter, more common in the fall and winter than spring. I know around my house, we received over 4″ of rain, with some locales near by getting 6″+, including La Guardia Airport.
And then at the end of last week, MSNBC canceled their Imus video simulcast, and 2 days later, CBS fired Don Imus for the inappropriate comments he made about the women’s basketball team. I’m still mixed on this; I believe it was a bad thing to say, I don’t doubt he is a racist in his personal life, but I’m not sure the intent of what he said was racist. He was trying to be funny, and he failed miserably. I still don’t believe that it should have cost him his job. I still think the two week suspension was more than sufficient. None the less, Howard Stern had much to say this AM, and needless to say he is thrilled. Rightly so, because Stern and Imus have had a long standing fued back to the days of when Howard was on WNBC in the early 1980s. Imus was and is a prick to him, and I can’t disagree there.
Here’s a little tidbit from the Stern show–it’s a little Imus parody they did to the tune of Bon Jovi’s 1980s’ hit, “Wanted Dead or Alive”