Just last week Imus was congratulating WABC and RFD Engineering for the fantastic job they are doing broadcasting from the Ranch. Well of course gremlins came rushing to the scene, fouling the broadcast! Imus rescheduled guests – but the show must go on. Imus continued in improvisation mode along with Charles and Bernie, riding Lou hard to the end. Oh yeah, Rob Karith and Tony jumped in as well.
The problem was isolated to a telephone connection. Here’s pretty much how the call went as the phone company relegated IITM to 7th position in the maintenance queue..
Ernestine: A gracious hello. Here at the Phone Company, we handle eighty-four billion calls a year. Serving everyone from presidents and kings to the scum of the earth. So, we realize that, every so often, you can’t get an operator, or for no apparent reason your phone goes out of order, or perhaps you get charged for a call you didn’t make. We don’t care!
Watch this… [ she hits buttons maniacally ] We just lost Ribera.
You see, this phone system consists of a multibillion-dollar matrix of space age technology that is so sophisticated — [ she hits buttons with her elbows ] even we can’t handle it. But that’s your problem, isn’t it? So, the next time you complain about your phone service why don’t you try using two Dixie cups with a string? We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company.

I do my best to put together the best for the best site about Imus.
Those that find what I p0st an insomnia, well I can’t help you.
Thanks Channel. That was a great idea.
Imus is the only Radio Host that can take garbage and make it into Gold.
Remember June 9, 2008 everyone. Believe me it will not happen again during the summer period. Imus will make sure of it.
OK only ChanX and maybe Keith (because they know my back story) can understand the love i felt for the show today.
Four hours of Imus tearing AT&T a new one gave me what can only be described as a “presidential erection”.
When he screamed “cause AT&T hates little kids with cancer” I had to smoke a cigarette afterwards. I would buy a cell phone, just so i could have thats my ringtone.
The only thing that could have made it sweeter is if they had dragged former AT&T CEO Robert Allen (or as I called him Beezle Bob) into he AT&T horse barn, hung him y his ankles and let the little kids use him as a pinata.
Thank you Don, I needed that.
Gang,
Our little (College) girl is all grown up now.
Stop over at her blog/graduation party and offer your congratuations.
Not Another Imus Blog
Andrea Mitchell Phoning it in.
http://insidecablenews.wordpress.com/2008/06/09/andrea-mitchell-apologizes-for-comment/
The Apology tours.
http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=ZTgxZmIwNTg0OWVhMWJkODNmZjI4ZjY4Mjg2OWRmNzI=
There have been so many people (most of them employees of NBC/MSNBC) that have “stepped in it” since Imus got fired …but they get to make a tepid, and probably insincere apology, get to keep their over-payed high-profile jobs, and life goes on. Why is that, I wonder? Double standard? Can’t fire everyone …whose gonna turn the lights on in the morning and do the shows? They figure they can get away with this stuff because nobody’s watching anyway …at least they get some notice when they insult someone?
I wonder if Andrea Mitchell actually looks in the mirror. She’s starting to look like Joan Rivers from all the face lifts she’s had trying to look like one of the babes on Fox News.
She really does look ridiculous.
The funny thing is I am sure Andrea would love for Obama to be the next President of the U.S.A. so maybe she doesn’t want to alienate the people they need to vote for him, to get him through the white house door.
There is this big mystery on why Obama won’t release his birth certificate on Malkin blog and Hot Air. Michelle speculates his real first name might really be Berry and he doesn’t want to lose his street creds by admitting his real first name isn’t Barack
They made McCain release his health records Obama the smoker released 1 page? McCain got flack for being born in Panama. Obama won’t release his birth certificate.
If this is a non issue the Obama people should put this to bed release the birth certificate why let this turn into something when it is probably nothing? A person made a point in the comments when they enrolled their child in nursery school they had to show them their child’s birth certificate. Barry Obama needs to stop trailing this stuff and get in front of it. Why not release his Birth Certificate? This just leads to wide spread speculation.
http://michellemalkin.com/2008/06/10/the-buzz-about-baracks-birth-certificate/
This is just going to spread all over the blogsphere I bet newsbuster et al have already picked up on this.
http://hotair.com/archives/2008/06/10/obamas-panama/
BHO’s campaign has been very reluctant to release records of any kind. Remember the medical records? Turns out the campaign releases a one page summary regarding BHO’s health (he smokes but is trying to quit).
Campaign is using a similar tactic regarding the Birth Certificate. The BC maybe fine, is there a document somewhere in BHO’s past that is not fine?
Perhaps this is part of what got Laura Ingram suspended from her radio program as referenced this morning on Imus.
http://tvdecoder.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/06/10/exclusive-fox-will-try-out-conservative-host-laura-ingraham/?hp
Ingraham
Funny thing is, I was right there in Abingdon, Virginia (10 miles north of Bristol) last week as all the Obama hoorah was going on. I wasn’t paying attention – and neither were any of the kin folk out in the holler. The parade just passed us by. We were settin’, and talkin’ about our own woes and ailments, complainin’ about the cost of gas, and drinkin’ coffee and sweet tea.
As I drove around town, I noticed two things – how many familiar businesses had closed up (including the famous Dixie Pottery), and how impatient and short-tempered folks were, especially behind the wheel (didn’t like my sight-seeing mode). They rattled me, and I had to go find a meeting to get centered again which, thank God, there was one.
Andrea is right in a certain sense; it just wasn’t very PC to be saying it out loud. Ironically, Abingdon itself is a cultural oasis, home of the Barter Theatre (State Theatre of Virginia), the Virginia Creeper Trail (part of the Appalachian Trail), and the historic Martha Wasington Inn, now a posh spa that even I was reluctant to afford.
Good find SkiWolf,
It’s very possible that she wasn’t suspended but is re-negotiating either a different time slot or she is holding out for more dollars.
I do like Laura Ingraham. She is a no holds bar radio host. But is polite with callers. Right now Tammy Bruce is filling in on WABC. She is irritating in my opinion.
Frec: Good to see you back. Guess your trip was fun and relaxing. As far as Mr. Obama goes. Well that’s a horse of a different color. No pun intended.
We are kind of in a pickle this year for voting in the Presidential race. Do we want change completely? Or do we want a little change?
Can’t answer that currently since we do not know what will happen in the next 60 some days. Who knows, the World might end. LOL
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