Don Imus: Rachel Maddow 'Gutless, Coward, Worm'

[lakhota]

Don Imus: Rachel Maddow 'Worst Kind Of Coward,' 'Gutless, Sniveling Worm' (VIDEO)



Don Imus slammed Rachel Maddow on his Fox Business Network show Wednesday.

Imus took Maddow to task for not defending Keith Olbermann immediately after the news broke that he would be leaving MSNBC.

Appearing on Bill Maher's HBO show Friday, just after the Olbermann news broke, Maddow said she didn't know anything about it.

"i know very little about it," she said. "All I know is that it was between Keith and the company, it didn't involve any of the rest of us, and he was really gracious and nice when he left."

While she would go on to praise Olbermann on her MSNBC show Monday, her appearance with Maher left Imus unimpressed.

"She is a gutless coward and I'll tell you why," Imus said of Maddow (via Daily Caller). "Because everybody knew what the situation was with Olbermann at MSNBC....Everybody knew what was going on with Keith. Everybody knew what was going to happen to him. For this woman, who owed her job to him...not to offer a defense of Olbermann, in spite of what you think about Olbermann, is unconscionable."

Imus's wife Dierdre called Maddow a "backstabber," while Imus himself compared it to when he was fired from MSNBC for racist comments against the Rutgers women's basketball team.

"It's like when I got fired, Sean Hannity, who works for Fox, was defending me, and I didn't think I should be defended, that's irrelevant," he said. "He works for Fox and he was defending me getting fired by MSNBC. Mike Francesa and Chris Russo nearly lost their jobs because they...defended me on CBS. They told them to stop doing it. They refused. She's awful. She's the worst kind of coward and gutless, sniveling worm."

Of course, on Maddow's show Monday she praised Olbermann, crediting him with her job at MSNBC and calling him "really freaking successful" at "clearing space" for liberals to openly tout their political views on television.

Videos: www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/27/don-imus-rachel-maddow-wo_n_814726.html

[lakhota]

"She is a gutless coward and I'll tell you why," Imus said of Maddow (via Daily Caller). "Because everybody knew what the situation was with Olbermann at MSNBC....Everybody knew what was going on with Keith. Everybody knew what was going to happen to him. For this woman, who owed her job to him...not to offer a defense of Olbermann, in spite of what you think about Olbermann, is unconscionable."

While I may think Imus is a retarded piece of shit, I do agree with him on this. Neither Maddow, O'Donnell, or Shultz seem to have the guts to really stand up to NBC/MSNBC and defend Keith Olbermann. They should remember that what goes around comes around.

I have no doubt that Keith was a handful to management, but he "made" MSNBC's political news!

[lakhota]

Maddow may be trying to help camouflage her lack of defending Olbermann by repeatedly attacking CNN for airing Michele Bachmann's SOTU rebuttal. It won't work, Rachel, we still see you.

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

I never really "got" Imus. Back in the mid 70s when I was in college in RI, the mornings we were driving from my GFs house up to Providence, they would have his show on. We were able to get the broadcast up there.

Imus is way past his prime and should have been put out of his misery a few years ago after his degrading and condescending comments directed at the Rutgers women's B-Ball team.

[Savoir Faire-Demogague in NJ]

In the AM, during the week if I am not at work, I would rather tune into Boomer and Carten on 660-WFAN.

[floridayankee]

Don Imus .....

Good lord...he's still alive? And people still listen to him?

[billisonboard]

Jan 28, 2011 11:02:20 GMT -5 floridayankee said:

Don Imus .....

Good lord...he's still alive? And people still listen to him?

And not just listen and laugh, but think what he says is worth posting here?

[workpublic]

Imus

"are ya naked?" rev. billy sol hargas. moby worm.

caught peeing in a phone booth back in the day.(too much coke and vodka)

[privateinvestor]

Don Imus: Rachel Maddow 'Gutless, Coward, Worm'


Why just single out Don Imus for his negative comments about Rachel Maddow?? Hasn't Sean Hannity, Bill O'Reilly and Rush Limbaugh made the same or similar comments along with some choice comments about her appearance by some members of this message board..??

New Flash.......Don Imus likes to make these comments to play to his loyal audience and get his name in the news ..

[Mad Dawg Wiccan]

Is that a dead cat on his head?

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

MSNBC and what happens there is irrelevant. They have 9 total viewers. Not at any one time- 9 total. Who the hell cares what they do?