Imus redeems entire career
Mar 11, 2007 Medialites, Politics and Poker
Breathtaking. Unprecedented. Fearless. Historic. Excerpt:
Imus: Let me interrupt you for a second, but this is nonsense, Senator Schumer. I want to be respectful, but you can’t possibly be serious and suggest — I mean I’m not a fool. You can’t suggest to me that because the Democrats are now in power that something is going to be done about Walter Reed and about the mess in the Veterans Administration and all of this, and that if the Democrats hadn’t taken control of Congress that nothing would have been done. That’s preposterous; of course it would have.
Schumer: Well, something would have been done if the story would have gotten out . . .
Imus: Here’s another question. Have you ever been over to Walter Reed?
Schumer: Ahh, not in a while, no.
Imus: How long has it been since you’ve been over there?
Schumer: Oh, before Iraq.
Imus: So, before Iraq since you’ve been over to see the soldiers. So, we have elected you — first in the Congress and now in the Senate — and you’ve got a bill now to do something we’ll get to in a minute; but you haven’t even been to Walter Reed Hospital.
Schumer: No, no, no. But I have visited regularly the veterans’ hospitals throughout my state. That’s where I have focused on . . .
There’s much more. As to Imus — I guess there is something to be said for making so much money that you simply don’t care any more. On the other hand, Schumer is the Senate’s most Jewish Jew (sorry, Joe — nothing personal — it’s really a compliment, in a way — see you at the kiddush). And we do know what the “I Man” thinks about them. That’s the only reason I can think of that Imus challenged Schumer head-on while he’s usually pretty obsequious to his left-wing guests (and new friend anti-”neoconservative” Pat Buchanan).
You know what? It’s worth it.
(Via Instapundit.)
