Pollywogs!

I don’t really have much of a position on this ‘flap’, other than calling anyone a nappy headed ho is pretty damn rude.  When you are a public ‘voice’, doing so in the day to day activities of your job is pretty fucking bold.  On air personalities walk a narrow line, on one hand having personal opinions which might be rude, offensive, etc etc, and on the other hand relying on either their actual or a stage persona to win the daily bread…

The following is from a guest contributor who wishes to remain anonymous.   We’ll call them El Cid for the lack of a better alias:

I had been a fan of Imus for a few years starting in the 90’s.  I listened to him on the radio, then watched him (sometimes) in the mornings.  I loved his interviews with authors, reporters and political figures.  They were insightful, funny and thought provoking.  He had a wide range of people on the show.  However, I noticed from the first that they were crude and cruel when they weren’t interviewing.  There was a real undercurrent of sexism on the show.  They really judged women on their looks and were pretty nasty if a woman happened to have power/talent but was “unattractive” in their opinion.  They have this jerk named “Bo Diedle” (not sure of spelling) who was one of the NY cops who caught the Son of Sam who would come on regularly.  They would let him rant and rave about his hatred/bigotry of Arabs and his love of “made men” like John Gotti.  I was so disgusted. I got to the point where the interviews just weren’t worth the nastiness.  It’s a shame really, cause Imus does great interviews, but his arrogance got in the way of his talent.