Imus is Zen

My Lord, the Don Imus show on MSNBC is perfect.Three or four of television's ugliest men trade awkward silences and even awkwarder sexual barbs:

"That weathergirl.....Maria......from MSNBC................her baby.....................looks a lot like Richard..............Huh Rick?"

The whole show is like one long Andy Milonakis sketch (but much better than that example sounds).

For his own part, Imus sounds kind of like Johnny Cash might have had hedeveloped such a bad case of Parkinsons Disease that the only thing he could do is drink, or maybe Larry the Cable Guy's wise old grandfather. Better yet it all takes place in a home-y countrified corner of MSNBC, as if Roy Rogers had taken on the task of redecorating the White House's secret underground War Room (you know, the one from the movies with all the computers), but was fired before he could finish.

It easily rivals the set Gary Panter created for "Pee-Wee's Playhouse", a show that would pair up well alongside Imus.

Perhaps the best part is when they finally figure out what they're talkiung about, and all of a sudden, Imus, his cohosts and their guests are going off on these racist, Xenophobic rants. It's really funny when they spend a whole minute trying to figure out the correct pronunciation of Hezbollah, before they agree to just pronounce it as Jew Killing Thugs,which is pretty funny until you realize that they are referring to all of the Lebanese people as Hezbollah (or Jew Killing Thugs ). It's also a little less funny when I realize that all of this is real to a lot of people. It's not real because they hear it on the radio or see it on TV, it's just real. To a lot of people. And there will never be peace in the Middle East, because the only people that want it are too poor to do anything about it.

Now I'm sad. Let's watch more Pee-Wee.