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Imus to CBS -- You Wanted "Irreverent," Now Pay Up!

Posted May 3rd 2007 10:55AM by TMZ Staff

Don Imus may get the last laugh -- because the contract he signed with CBS seems to court the very behavior that got him fired.

In Imus' multi-year contract with CBS Radio, seen by CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, the shock jock was told by his employer to be "irreverent" and "controversial. " CBS fired Imus for his "nappy-headed hos" comment. The question for a jury: Did Imus give CBS exactly what it wanted?

Imus is still owed $40 mil on the five-year deal. CBS is clearly in a bind, because not only does the contract require Imus to be "irreverent" and "controversial" but the document says those qualities are "desired by Company" and "consistent with Company rules and policies."

The fired shock jock has lawyered up with one of the country's top trial attorneys, Martin Garbus, who says that Imus plans to file a wrongful breach of contract suit against CBS.

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46.
Hello????

Are we "contractually" giving this guy a break, or are we saying it is WRONG and DOWNRIGHT IGGNORANT to use your "air-time" to slame innocent people?

Go take a walk down your street. Come back here and tell us all, in your opinion, how many people you see as "black" "white" "hispanic" etc. etc.

If you REALLY observe this for once, and you think that people are put in a box, just because of YOUR nice, neat neighborhood...

well folks, you need to take another walk...please expand!!!

Posted at 2:27PM on May 3rd 2007 by Observer

47. I'm as blue -bred as they come..........I have relatives from the Mayflower ...I am truly a loyal and law -abiding -legal-patriotic American citizen.......I am disgusted by discrimination of any kind. I do however have a strong allergic reaction to low class characters who are absent of principles and integrity........Criminal behavior is also repulsive to me.......Any one who disagrees with me should take the next flight out of this country! Let's clean the house!

Posted at 2:15PM on May 3rd 2007 by lana

48. Well, why stop at Imus? What about Howard Stern, Amos and Andy? Let's get rid of them all. Let's let the moral police tell us what to say and what to think. Everyone calls Imus a white racist coward. Yet, who was on his program FLAMING LIBS....let's chill on the hypocricy....

Posted at 2:31PM on May 3rd 2007 by Paul

49. Thanks WIlly - and just where should we go?

Posted at 2:33PM on May 3rd 2007 by Paul

50. Good for you, Don. It's time to fight back. I hope you get all your contract plus "pain and suffering". Please use some of the money to sue and harass Sharpton enough to make him squeal. Give'em hell.

Posted at 4:07PM on May 3rd 2007 by roneida

51.
I can harly believe I'm responding to a guy like "Imus."

Could amyone else make out one word he ever said any ol how?

And what the frick about the cowboy hat? He was a cowboy????

Guess you have to be from the "upper-east" to see how in he related! What a Mafia Wannabe!!!

Posted at 4:56PM on May 3rd 2007 by Observer

52. IMUS be dreaming because this is the BEST NEWS I've heard all week!

GO DON, GO!!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:33PM on May 3rd 2007 by Matt

53. Good Luck Imus, because you really got a bad rap.We miss hearing you ever morning on the radio and it is not the same listening to the others that have replaced you because you are not replaceable. Go get'em and you get the last laugh.

Posted at 3:15PM on May 3rd 2007 by Debbie

54. Maybe some of the nbc and cbs employees will take a cut pay since they are the ones who wanted him fired in the first place. Why dont nbc ask them to help pay . I hope he gets the money. What goes around comes around!!!!! Maybe sharpton and jackson will help

Posted at 3:21PM on May 3rd 2007 by ali

55. You Go I-Man!

Behind ya all the way! Get back to work!!!!!!!

Posted at 3:29PM on May 3rd 2007 by June

56. RIDE 'EM IMUS....AND SCREW TIM RUSSERT, THE FAIR WEATHER FRIEND

Posted at 3:24PM on May 3rd 2007 by NORTHSTARR

57. IMUS - GIT ER DONE!!!!! YOU DESERVE IT!!!!!!
GOLDIE

Posted at 8:38PM on May 3rd 2007 by Goldie

58.
There is NO excuse for ignorant, blantant, thoughtless, spew-out-of-mouth
libel!

Either you News People get it...or you don't!!! Who pays your morgage?

Agree that the "Apology" was pathetic...let it be...and report the facts...we can think all on our own!!!

Posted at 4:52PM on May 3rd 2007 by Observer

59.
I dont get it!!!

Why???

Besides rah-rahs, for no apparent reason, can someone PLEASE tell me why this guy should be given 40 million of UNEARNED dollars???

If nothing else, the spot light is taken off Anna Nicole Smith and all that crazy circus! Beware Imus Supporters...the light is gonna shed on this too!!!

Put on your superficial cowboy hats...(not to be confused w/ thinking caps) cause the legal minds are gonna meet you here. Get Ready!!! Yee-Haw!!!

Posted at 4:54PM on May 3rd 2007 by Observer

60. His lawyers should dig up all the other off-color remarks he has made in the past 20 years which were all accepted and/or implicitly approved of by CBS.

Posted at 4:12PM on May 3rd 2007 by M. Sally

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