Wherever will we get our fix of Doris Kearns Goodwin now?
But the most interesting thing about Imus rsquo; sudden demise is how few of the assorted coatholders, front-runners, bumkissers and drive-by pundits who called in every morning could be bothered to stand up for the I-man in his moment of need.
These liberals may be good company at a cocktail party in Vail, but you wouldn rsquo;t want to share a foxhole with them.
When the I-man rsquo;s phone didn rsquo;t ring, he knew it was Joe Lieberman. Or maybe Frank Rich.
Until his idiotic flameout, Don Imus was the nearest thing the liberals ever had to a success story in talk radio.
He worshipped . He fawned over Maureen Dowd. He cursed the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth.
After Saddam was executed, Imus joked with a local plagiarist about how Dick Cheney would handle himself on the gallows.
The I-man thought he was one of the Beautiful People, but in the end it turned out like one of those Bob Dylan songs he used to play going into the breaks. Everybody said they rsquo;d stand behind him when the game got rough.
But the joke was on him, there was nobody even there to bluff.
All his new so-called friends ran away and hid on him. Think about that unctuous NBC rumpswab David Gregory.
Wednesday night, he went on MSNBC looking like his dog just got run over. But by yesterday morning, Gregory was back on top of his game. He apologized to Jesse Jackson for ever having gone on the Imus show.
The Beautiful People spent all week stampeding to the microphone to announce, as one female from Time magazine said yesterday, that they won rsquo;t be appearing on the Imus Show anymore.
How many regular-people talk-show listeners did Imus have at the end? Not many, would be my guess.
Didn rsquo;t notice any truck-drivers blowing their horns in support, did you? CBS has fired Don Imus from his radio show. What do you think he rsquo;ll do now?
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