Imus, Barnicle Fantasize About Republicans on Gallows Cheney Would 'Wet His Pants

[Fluffdaddy]

God this is funny :)

http://newsbusters.org/node/9930

Did it get better/funnier than this? During the 8 AM ET hour of Don Imus's show this morning he and Mike Barnicle fantasized about how various Republicans would react to being hung on the gallows.:P

During the 8 AM ET hour of Don Imus's show this morning he and Mike Barnicle fantasized about how various Republicans would react to being hung on the gallows.

Note: this item was prepared from the closed-caption transcript. It will be reviewed and corrected as appropriate in the course of the morning.

UPDATE 11:35am: Transcript has now been checked against the tape and corrected in a few spots.

Imus: "I was – I tried to imagine how various members of the current administration would behave were they subjected to the gallows as Saddam Hussein was. Um, and I can see Rumsfeld –"

Barnicle: “He wouldn't take it. No blindfold for Rumsfeld.”

Imus: "That's what I was thinking, you know. ‘F-you.' You know, you go to the gallows with the noose you want, not the noose you– or the noose you have, not the noose you want–"

Barnicle: "That's exactly right."

Imus: "Or Whatever. But Cheney–"

Barnicle: "Just as that trap door opens, he'd drop an f-bomb to all of them."

Imus: "How about Cheney?"

Barnicle: “I don't think Cheney would make it up the steps.”

Imus: "Now this is a guy who would, this is a guy – he'd wet his pants and he'd whine and start
crying."

Barnicle: "Well He would order as a last meal 400 pounds of bacon."

Imus: "Yeah, ‘cause this is a guy got six deferments just to get out of Vietnam because he had, what was that phrase he used – he had some other more important issues to deal with. One of ’em, the last one, was getting his wife pregnant just to keep from having to deal with this."

Barnicle: "Oh God."

Imus: "Uh, who else? Wolfowitz, he'd cry."

Barnicle: "Oh yeah, he'd be shot in the back running away."

Imus: "Yeah, exactly. Yeah, or some of the other key players."

Barnicle: "Richard Perle."

Imus: "Oh, he'd, oh God, he'd, he would soil himself. So–"

Barnicle: "Can't you see him being dragged up by his cap?"

Imus: "Oh yeah."

Barnicle: "Clinging, splinters in his fingernails."

Imus: “A combover of his hanging all down the side of his head.”

In one of the oddest transitions Imus then asks: "Everybody well in your family, your kids, wife, all that?

Barnicle replies: “You know, thank God, everybody is, and I hope everybody is in your household and everyone else's household, because the health of your family, everything else pales in comparison to that. So you get up in the morning and draw a breath, Don, you're ahead on the day.”

[babylonsister]

1. "...400 pounds of bacon."

:spray:

[NNN0LHI]

2. Notice they didn't question what "run to a rabbit hole on 9/11" Bush would do?

Noticeably absent.

Don

[alfredo]

7. He will be given a Tanto or wakizashi then left with

a Second to make short the work.

As fragile as his mind appears to be, it would not be outside the realm of possibilities for him to do such a thing. He has gotten himself in a real fix and in a moment of mental clarity he might see it. At that time he would become a peril to himself.

[Robbien]

3. Imus is a hypocrite. He strongly supports Lieberman

Right now Imus is talking about lynching the people who started the Iraq invasion while at the same time supporting Lieberman who wants to SURGE SURGE SURGE more American troops into Iraq.

Just a big Hypocrite.

[skooooo]

4. oh get a grip

I'm so sick of knee jerk Imus haters. Everyone's a hypocrite except people so pure as you perhaps.

[Robbien]

8. If you are going to snear

at least get your facts correct. I am not a Imus hater. I am a Lieberman hater. Since Imus is Lieberman's number one supporter, Imus gets the same respect that Lieberman deserves. Nil and none.

I do wonder about Imus though. If he dislikes Cheney and Wolfowitz and the rest of the PNAC gang enough to joke about hanging them, why the heck did he give so much free air time support to PNACer Lieberman throughout the campaign. Like I said, a hypocrite.

[cali]

5. I don't see the humor in this sort of crude teenage boy

type humor, but hey, whatever floats your boat.

[alfredo]

9. they were commenting on what cowards they are, and that they

would not be as composed as Saddam was at his execution.

Barnacle or someone else, I can't remember right now said the rest of the world sees it as America turned Saddam over to a lynch mob. I was half asleep when I had the TV on this morning. Imus's droning voice helps me fall back asleep.

I do seem to remember someone asking Imus if his casket will be made to accommodate his cowboy hat.

It was rather surreal and childish, but that is the media nowadays.

[cali]

13. Yes, I get that.

I guess I wasn't clear enough. I find this kind of "humor" not only not funny, but disgusting. I don't give a shit who it's directed at.

[alfredo]

16. with Imus you know you are getting low brow humor or

at best lame attempts at humor.

For me it is background noise to help me get back to sleep. If I don't have a distraction my mind will go over my to do list for the day and I cannot fall back asleep. Other stations tend to have interesting content and are not suitable for being a sleeping aid.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. Cheney to invite Imus on a pheasant hunt.

[High Plains]

10. Delete: dupe

[High Plains]

Delete: dupe

[High Plains]

11. This is just ugly shit from Imus. Why does anyone listen to him?

I don't understand his appeal; just find him mean and obnoxious.

[parasim]

12. No kidding...

I absolutely loathe the mornings where i fall asleep with the television on watching Keith Olbermann the night before...
:mad:

[Ganja Ninja]

14. Once we're done with the neo-cons we can move on to their ...

enablers in the media. I wonder if Imus could keep his cowboy hat on while he swings.

[WI_DEM]

15. they left out Bush! He'd be the biggest crybaby of them all.

He'd be begging for his life.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

17. cheney and rumsfeld would have said

"damn, i wish we hadn't sold them that rope."