Unsurprisingly, Don Imus gets a fat check for millions and is heading back to radio

August 15, 2007 | Filed Under Commentary

Are you new to downity.com? If so, you can click here to subscribe to our RSS feed.

Now you can get downity.com Celebrity News and Gossip right on your Facebook profile.
Click here to add the Celebrity Gossip and News application now!

don imus is a piece of crap

Clearly it’s no giant issue for a radio host to be calling anyone (or everyone) pretty much whatever they want. In a completely bullshit move, CBS settled with Don Imus today for millions, and he’s returning to radio. From Variety:

Radio host Don Imus has reached a multimillion-dollar settlement with CBS and is in talks to return to radio, possibly at New York’s WABC-AM, which airs conservative talkers Sean Hannity and Rush Limbaugh.
Settlement averts a threatened $120 million lawsuit and sets the stage for the resumption of Imus’ broadcasting career, derailed in April when he referred to the Rutgers U. women’s basketball team as “nappy-headed hos.”

CBS dismissed Imus in the wake of the comments and amid a broad advertiser revolt against the show, which aired on CBS’ WFAN-FM and was simulcast on MSNBC as “Imus in the Morning.”

Terms were not disclosed, but sources characterized the settlement as a fraction of Imus’ $40 million annual salary. Imus had reupped with CBS in a five-year contract just before the incident.

Great! More nappy-headed-ho talk on the radio from some old white dude. It’s a wonder that he’s not riding to work in a rickshaw from his house on the plantation.

HEY CBS: Why don’t you give me a job? If you’d like, I can trash talk anyone you want and even throw in some racism if the settlement check is going to be large enough.

This is totally fucked. Imus is a racist asshole and shouldn’t be getting multi-million dollar checks cut to him. But I guess that’s how CBS rolls.

Popularity: 5% [?]

Click to Comment