April 12, 2007

I am seriously thinking about adopting the on air cowboy hat look as featured on the Don Imus radio show. I think I will also go with the neck scarf and the cowboy jacket while on-air to complete my look, I am SO disappointed. I always thought that Larry Lujack was an original. Apparently he was copying the “I-Man,” as they all seem to call him. I think that Al Sharpton should have been wearing one of those big foam rubber cowboy hats when he interviewed Imus on The Al Sharpton Show this week. I also think that Imus should have worn more sunscreen during the course of his life. He is VERY leathery and has had some bad plastic surgery too.

I am from the “if you don’t like it, don’t listen” school of broadcast thought. That usually takes care of the problem. You don’t have to hear it, so it’s like it’s not happening, and if enough people don’t want to hear it, then the show is off the air. If more people want to hear it than don’t, then it stays on the air. You still don’t have to hear it, though. All you have to do is turn it off. Radio is highly targeted and only the people that are being targeted should listen to it. If you or your kids are listening to the wrong thing, then you’ll hear stuff you don’t want to hear. Otherwise ALL radio would sound like WGN. Is that really good for anybody?

If Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson were regular listeners to Imus, they would have know that he has been talking like that on the air for almost 40 years. Imus got in trouble back in Stockton, California in the early 70s for having an Eldridge Cleaver look-alike contest. He was fired from KJOY for that too. Eldridge Cleaver was a Black Panther Party leader, and in 1975 he invented “Cleaver Pants,” designed to highlight the African American gentleman’s package. Imus has always been a misogynist and a racist. That’s his “act,” It seems like that horse is already out of Imus’s New Mexico barn. Now it’s just a chance for the entire known media world to do their sanctimonious and politically correct “act” on someone else’s dime