Why does Tim Russert associate with Don Imus bigotry?
[via Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting] If you’re concerned about bigotry on the syndicated radio show Imus in the Morning, you should just “get over it.” That’s what the show’s star, Don Imus, told journalist Jeff Greenfield on CNN’s Larry King Live last week (2/24/00). Greenfield was questioning Imus about recent columns in two prominent newspapers that documented a pattern of slurs by Imus and his on-air sidekicks against people of color, gay men and lesbians (Boston Globe, 2/23/00; Newsday, 2/22/00–see below). Imus himself has referred to one African-American journalist as “a cleaning lady,” another as a “quota hire,” and tennis player Amelie Mauresmo as “a big old lesbo.” Imus taunted another reporter as a “beanie-wearing little Jewboy,” called a disabled colleague “the cripple,” and has said that he picked one of his producers to do “nigger jokes” (60 Minutes, 7/19/98). National politicians and beltway journalists have brought the Imus in the Morning show to nationwide prominen
