Don Imus: FU CBS

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Well...well…well. CBS fired Don Imus last month for making a disrespectful and rude comment (i.e. Nappy Headed Ho’s) towards the Rutgers Women’s basketball team. The folks at CBS were aghast, nay, OUTRAGED at such an irreverent comment oozing from the mouth of the controversial and bombastic talk show host. Once Al Sharpton and his cronies convinced advertisers to pull the plug on the show, CBS executives agreed, Imus is deplorable and must go.

Fast forward to the present. Imus is likely to sue CBS for among other things, breach of contract…Price Tag: 40 Million. Some may find this to be a case of a jilted celeb seeking unwarranted compensation for a just termination, but not so fast my friend. Let’s look at a clause in Mr. Imus’ contract.

"Company (CBS Radio) acknowledges that Artist's (Imus') services to be rendered hereunder are of a unique, extraordinary, irreverent, intellectual, topical, controversial and personal character and that programs of the same general type and nature containing these components are desired by Company and are consistent with Company rules and policies."

So the boys at CBS wanted the I-Man to be controversial and irreverent. In fact, as the clause says, this type of programming is desired. It seems to me that since Imus was irreverent (i.e. rude and disrespectful) and controversial (he certainly evoked controversy) that he held up his end of the contract exceedingly well. I say that if the nob job execs at CBS wanted to fulfill their end of the agreement, they should not have fired Imus, but instead given the shriveled up prune-faced lookin’ curmudgeon a big ass raise!!

Oh the irony, Imus does his job by dissin’ a predominately black basketball team and yet The Man is keepin’ him down. The moral of this story...Don’t Mess With the Hypocrisy of Whitey.

Until we meet again, Cheers!!