Don Imus insulted an MSNBC anchor on his show last Friday. He said this about anchor, Contessa Brewer:
"That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning ... Who's she kidding? . . . Plus, she's dumber than dirt ... Oh, my God, what a pig. But I was willing to cut her some slack and not say anything, you know, until - in fact, I didn't say anything . . . That's why they have those big double-doors there at MSNBC, you know, so they can get her fat ass in makeup."
MSNBC had this to say about the issue:
Contessa Brewer is a valued and respected employee. While Don Imus' humor is often brilliant and provocative, we believe that this morning's comments about Contessa went over the line. We have expressed our displeasure to Don.
Clearly. MSNBC is lead by cowards, because Imus should have been fired on the spot. If you attacked fellow employees like this at any other job, you'd be canned. I'd like to give MSNBC a little tip- THIS IS WHY YOU SCORE LAST PLACE CABLE NEWS RATINGS EVERY SINGLE DAY IN EVERY SINGLE TIMESLOT!!
Imus isn't funny...he never has been. You watch him for 5 minutes, and becomes quite clear that he's a bitter old man who has nothing positive to say about anything. He insults people all the time like this, he's just now turning the attacks onto his fellow MSNBC employees. MSNBC shows that they have no respect for any of their hard working employees, BESIDES Don Imus. That's sad for everyone who ISN'T Don Imus.
MSNBC will soon change it's name to The NBC News Channel, taking off the MS that went along with it when it was all hip and internet related. Actually, it never was net-related, they simply claimed to be an new type of cable news network, but they did nothing different than Fox or CNN. They get killed in the ratings with every single one of their shows by both CNN and Fox- Fox dominates even CNN, often times doubling that network's prime time ratings.
MSNBC would be smart to get their act together before they lose the NBC part of their name as well...a crappy network that no one watches and that bleeds money can only survive so long...especially with idiots like Imus on the payroll.