Staples Inc., Bigelow Tea and Procter & Gamble are pulling their ads from the Imus Show.
It does not look good for Imus.
You have to wonder who on Imus' media and political elite guest list will have the nerve to reappear on the show. WaPo:
The list of Imus's guests over the years is a who's who of the media and political elite, including former senator Bill Bradley, Tom Brokaw, James Carville, New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, Rudy Giuliani, conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Sens. John Kerry, Joe Lieberman and John McCain, Dan Rather, NBC News anchor Brian Williams, New Yorker writer Ken Auletta and Washington Post reporters Howard Kurtz and Dana Priest. He also has become a must-stop for many authors promoting their books.
Yesterday, a number of those guests distanced themselves from Imus.
"The comments of Don Imus were divisive, hurtful and offensive to Americans of all backgrounds," said presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, who recently promoted his book on Imus's show. "With a public platform comes a trust. As far as I'm concerned, he violated that trust."
Rudy Giuliani seems to feel otherwise. The Republican presidential candidate told reporters: "I would appear on his program again, sure. . ."
Joe Gandelman at The Moderate Voice has a round-up of reaction to the Imus mouth.
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