Don Imus Finds A Safe Haven With Sean Hannity, But Remains Bitter

I watched this excerpt from Sean Hannity’s Fox News show, as posted by Media Matters for America, and I have to admit … Don Imus almost would have fooled me had I not known what was coming at some point in the clip. For a few minutes, I saw a man who genuinely felt sorry and had gotten over personal bitterness for being called out relative to his nasty comments about the women of the Rutgers basketball team. But, this was an interview on Fox News and it was an interview conducted by Sean Hannity. So, you just knew at some point Hannity and Imus would have their anger boil up to the surface (otherwise, what would be the point of even doing the interview) and they would somehow tie everything to President Barack Obama. Imus danced on the head of a pin as he tried repeatedly to demonstrate his desire to take responsibility for his nasty comments about the women basketball players, but his anger showed through when he went into attack mode and brought in President Obama’s name to relieve his considerable frustration.

From Media Matters:

IMUS: Obama a “hypocritical phony” for demanding “context” for Rev. Wright comments but not being “willing to do that with me.”

You know the bigoted Sean Hannity (the one who questioned what good deeds Rev. Wright has done while forgetting his service in the military) was loving that little rage expressed by Imus, who (sadly) is struggling to leave the past in the past.

Imus made his comments about the Rutgers women’s basketball team on April 4, 2007.

Barack Obama announced his run for the presidency about three months earlier and I question, at the time, whether Imus or anyone else outside of Illinois even knew much (or cared much) about him.

But, now that he’s president, it almost seems like Imus is looking for some kind pardon or something (who knows why the guy would bring up Obama’s name outside of the fact he was on a show with right-wing extremist Sean Hannity).

The interview (or, at the very least that clip) showed that Imus remains a bitter and selfish man who proved to be the real “hypocritical phony.”