Audio: Laura Ingraham talks Imus with Hannity
posted at 7:51 pm on April 10, 2007 by Ian
Talk show host Sean Hannity joined Laura Ingraham on her nationally syndicated radio show to talk about Imus and the effects of his 2-week suspension. The two hosts discussed the possibility of the Fairness Doctrine returning and the effect it would have (by lefty intent) on conservative talk radio. Earlier this year Democratic congressman Dennis Kucinich defended the Fairness Doctrine on “Hannity & Colmes.”
Programming alert: Laura will be on Hannity & Colmes tonight.
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Screw off!!! I would like to use another word that is stronger but it would not get published. It was a joke!!! Get over it and get over yourselves!!!
NEMETI IN SYRACUSE on April 10, 2007 at 8:07 PM
Nothing is gained by stringing Imus up.
spmat on April 10, 2007 at 8:12 PM
These kind of gaffes or jokes or slips of the tongue happen on both sides. We have become a nation of the perpetually offended. I am pretty tired of it.
Glynn on April 10, 2007 at 8:15 PM
Well, we do get to stop hearing about the ranch every five seconds or so…
Slublog on April 10, 2007 at 8:16 PM
Isn’t this like the 4th Imus post today? Criminies. Rosie and Imus; this is the ugliest frontpage on hotair -ever-.
lorien1973 on April 10, 2007 at 8:31 PM
Yes! Ok back on track now heh. Imus – idiot and probably racist, granted, but shouldnt be fired for speach. Especially this, which I thought was extremely tame.
I feel better now, sort of agreeing with Rosie definitely threw me.
Dash on April 10, 2007 at 8:43 PM
Hmmm . . . so interesting that Laura Ingraham omitted any mention of how she was a regular commentator and political analyst on Imus’ show for years. On this tape, she’s castigating the people who regularly go on that show. Yet, she was one of them, and at the time, was well aware of Imus’ history of saying those sorts of things (and trying to get guests to also say them). Yet, she repeatedly and frequently went on, anyway.
In fact, Imus and her frequent appearances on Imus’ show were instrumental in her getting her own national radio show, which Imus promoted on his show when few radio stations would buy her show (and it had to be force-sold as a package with O’Reilly Radio Factor)–she and Imus were both syndicated Westwood One radio. Strange that she mentions she knows the whole crew from Imus’ show, but yet doesn’t tell us how she knows them–which is from her days on the Imus’ show.
One would think full disclosure would be in order here, since she’s discussing this and she certainly has a long history with Imus beyond his allegedly “saying horrible things about” her and her suddenly now not liking him, which she does mention. Very convenient not mentioning her past with Imus. Smacks of hypocrisy.
Debbie Schlussel on April 10, 2007 at 8:44 PM
Lorien, yeah but this one features Laura! :-)
Tony737 on April 10, 2007 at 8:46 PM
I was offended today by the remarks made by various black pundits about white people.
I want to know where I go to express my outrage. My family wants to form a line and explain the harm that it has done to our family in a press conference. All of us are willing to go on live TV and describe the damage done. My brother was so offended he could not go to work today.
Where do I get my reparations and I want the networks to apologize to my family.
Who do I contact to get these black pundits suspended or fired from their jobs.
Who do I call?
ScottyDog on April 10, 2007 at 8:53 PM
Imus used to be pretty funny before 1) he got remarried and 2) he went on MSNBC. Now it’s all ranch, Deidre and his kid all the time. Cringe worthy.
True that, and she used to yuck it up with the best of them. That was before he was on MSNBC and the nappy headed thing was everday shtick. Of course, the perpetually offended forget that he offends everyone all the time.
Our controversies are getting dumber by the day. The only good part of this is watching MSNBC squirm and seeing Al Sharpton and Jesse Jackson preach to liberal commentators about what is and isn’t proper language.
Good times.
JackStraw on April 10, 2007 at 9:10 PM
Nope, all day Thursday and Friday will be fundraising for the ranch and self-aggrandizing of his fundraising prowess.
After this, the suspension starts.
Valiant on April 10, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Looking through the bil of rights….umm..nope, thats not it….nope not there….hmm…maybe….NO…not there either.
Sorry folks, there is no right not to get offended.
We need to change this country or we will end up like Europe. YAY!
lsutiger on April 10, 2007 at 9:36 PM
This Imus stuff is red on red, which is why it is so much fun.
Stormy70 on April 10, 2007 at 9:37 PM
I find it ironic how just off the Rutgers campus there’s a road called Hoes Lane.
JammieWearingFool on April 10, 2007 at 9:41 PM
That isn’t hypocrisy. Disingenuous and ungrateful, maybe, but not hypocrisy. Hypocrisy would be if she behaved in the same manner for which she denounced him, which to my knowledge she doesn’t.
Ingraham also regularly lambastes MSNBC which was at least as instrumental in her getting her start as Imus was. Is that disingenuous as well? I don’t think so. Imus is a big ol’ ass. He’s been cultivating this kind of backlash for decades, but Hannity and Ingraham are right to defend him in the abstract even if they skewer his personal faults.
spmat on April 10, 2007 at 10:19 PM
Am I the only person sick of hearing about Imus? Am I? Make him a Duke LaCrosse player who fathered Anna Nicole’s baby daughter while buying carbon offsets and I still couldn’t be more tired of hearing about Imuschmuck.
That feels better.
thedecider on April 10, 2007 at 10:44 PM
She went on a show for years to boost herself, despite the well-known “commentary” of the host. Then, she castigates the many others who keep going on the show. If that ain’t hypocrisy . . . .
Debbie Schlussel on April 10, 2007 at 10:50 PM
Imus? Anus? Imus? Anus? Imus? Anus?
OK, that does it for me…………. Freedom of Speech, right?
PinkyBigglesworth on April 10, 2007 at 11:38 PM
She walked off the H&C tonight, where is the update video?
ScottyDog on April 11, 2007 at 12:02 AM
The Imus case merely reminds me of the overt, rampant racism of Sharpton, Jackson, and others, and how these two, Sharpton and Jackson, are among those to sit in judgment and to throw stones when they themselves are the biggest offenders.
Imus was hired by a corporation who knew that he was a loud mouthed, “shock jock” who offends people and gets away with it. They are behaving dishonestly by showing outrage that their pit bull offended someone and got a reaction.
Like Larry Elder said, Imus is like the dime store toy department guy, while Sharpton and Jackson are the elite when it comes to racism and bigotry.
What a world!
William
William2006 on April 11, 2007 at 12:48 AM
The only positive thing about Imus is that Kinky Friedman is his friend. Shows to go ya.
Doug on April 11, 2007 at 1:15 AM
Who IS this Imus piece of crap, and why do we have so many threads about him? The guy looks like a derelict whose time came and went twenty years ago. Just because Sharpton is doing his usual soft-shoe we gotta get involved with this character? I have no use for shock jocks–they can fire them all for all I care.
smellthecoffee on April 11, 2007 at 1:45 AM
Ah, ok. I can see how you’d say that, but I didn’t that away from what she was saying on this tape. She’s calling out the absurdity of politicians perennially booking slots on Imus even when they know he’s prone to similarly crass behavior. She tried to work within that system early on and got burned, so it’s a stretch to say she’s guilty of Imus’s behavior or of the politicians she’s calling out. Again, not hypocrisy, IMO.
Most of the clip is a discussion of the Fairness Doctrine and the dangers of piling on Imus.
spmat on April 11, 2007 at 2:42 AM
I can’t stand Imus but I dislike jesse jackson and al sharpton even more. I’m sick of political correctness. Imus apologized…now jj and al need to act like christians and forgive like they expect america to forgive them of their stupid transgressions. Grrrrr.
Highrise on April 11, 2007 at 2:43 AM
Remind me to never get on your bad side :)
- The Cat
MirCat on April 11, 2007 at 3:04 AM
This is a great lesson for the kids on the Rutgers BBall team.. Whine and cry about some words that someone used and maybe you’ll get you face on TV..
Whatever happened to teaching young people to rising above the fray? what ever happened to teaching people that “words will never hurt me”?
The grieveance theater that has followed this Imus remark is pathetic.
Get over it already..
madmonaco on April 11, 2007 at 7:20 AM
It’s worse than hypocrisy, it’s being ungrateful and ungracious.
Thought Paul Bugala (sp?) made a good point about this whole mess. It’s one thing for Imus and comedians in general to lambast the powerful (Imus calls Hillary “Satan” and Cheney “our war criminal VP”, calls Bugala “a communist” and you haven’t lived til you hear their Ray Nagin bit); it’s quite another to go after these girls.
That said, this parade of Imus guests who are offering their solemn insights into this is pretty nauseating. Not to mention mind numbingly repetitive.
But as Slublog points out, anything beats the constant ranch and green products litany.
honora on April 11, 2007 at 8:29 AM
Imus is a nasty, crotchety old has-been fart. Having said that, the hypocrisy is overwhelming.
Hilts on April 11, 2007 at 9:47 AM
I think you misinterpreted what she said.
She’s not castigating people for going on the show, she calling them out for their mock outrage over what Imus said when they’ve known all along how harsh he can be.
As for full disclosure, she probably should have thrown it in, but on H&C she said she essentially owes her career to Imus (as well as a couple others).
SouthernDem on April 11, 2007 at 9:51 AM
My husband (who is crotchety old thing in his own right) observes that Imus does the impossible: he actually makes you dislike children with cancer.
honora on April 11, 2007 at 11:45 AM