Joe Ligotti chews the fat in Don Imus war
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa
Thursday, November 5, 2009
Joe Ligotti, aka The Guy From Boston, thinks radio yakker Don Imus is a big, fat idiot!
While on air, the notoriously insensitive Imus called the 400-plus-pound Ligotti “fat and stupid” and “a moose” after he saw The Guy From Boston on Neil Cavuto’s show.
Ligotti and Howard Berg, aka the Guiness Book of World Records’ fastest reader, were on the Fox Business channel chatfest reading the Dems’ whopping 1,990-page health-care bill in an effort to demonstrate the ridiculousness of the magnum opus.
“The irony is lost on all of them,” Imus railed. “They’re discussing a health care bill and this moose weighs 600 pounds!”
Ligotti fired back that Imus - who was famously fired by CBS radio after he called the Rutgers women’s basketball team “nappy-headed hos” - “crossed the line.”
“He didn’t just insult a group of basketball players this time,” he said. “He went after 70 percent of the American public who are struggling with their weight.”
Imus claimed not to know who Ligotti was, although the two met when radio station WTKK - which airs Imus’ show in the mornings and Ligotti’s show on the weekends - hosted the annual “Kiss Me, I’m Imus” broadcast in March.
But when the I-blowhard was told that The Guy From Boston had a show on ’TKK, he really teed off.
“He’s fat and he’s stupid! He’s not funny,” Imus ranted. “There was nothing funny on Cavuto last night with this guy. He’s fat and stupid is what he is.”
Geez, do you think it had anything to do with the fact that WTKK recently cut Imus’ show back from four hours to two in favor of local hosts Margery Eagan and Jim Braude????
As for Ligotti, he said he’s aware of his weight issue, but he’d rather be fat than cranky.
“I know I’m a heavy guy and I know every time a camera goes on me, I look larger,” he said. “But Don Imus is just a nasty old man who died five years ago and no one told him. I can’t help it that you’re old, Don, I just hope that when I get old, I’ll be happy with what I did with my life and not just be old and crotchety.”
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