Blonde on Blonde: Wal-Mart, Smoking Labels, and PDA
Imus proudly declared during this morning’s Blonde on Blonde segment that he was “standing with his sisters from Wal-Mart,” 1.5 million of whom were denied their class action suit against the big box chain by the Supreme Court earlier this week. Lis Wiehl, an attorney, explained the case to the I-Man, while Deirdre Imus wondered when, exactly, her husband had ever been inside of a Wal-Mart.
The Wal-Mart women have been trying to put together a class action suit against their employer “for years,” Lis said, and while the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals gave them the go-ahead last year, the Supreme Court shut it down on Monday by a vote of 5-4.
“They said no, it’s too large a class, you can’t have 1.5 million women having a commonality of cause,” Lis said. “In other words, one woman could be suing because she didn’t get promoted from a janitorial position to a managerial position; one woman could be suing for sexual harassment; and it’s just all of these women can’t be coming together in one lawsuit.”
An accomplished attorney, Lis believes the Supreme Court got it wrong. “They could have taken this one case, had a few representatives…and they could have gone forward,” she said. “I’ll disparage lawyers all day long, but class action lawyers sometimes do really good work. They bring together people that couldn’t otherwise afford a lawyer, and get them in front of a court.”
As luck would have it, the chain-smoking Congressman from Ohio, House Speaker “John Boehner,” was in the studio this morning to hear all about the new FDA-mandated, extremely graphic labels that will be placed all cigarette packs by mid-2013. Feeling defensive, he wondered whether Deirdre was wearing a tight t-shirt or “smuggling two puppies” into the studio this morning.
“Put as graphic as you can get on these cigarettes,” Deirdre said, undeterred. “They should be illegal.”
The images, which include decaying teeth, a man with a hole in his throat, and people on oxygen machines, will be less effective, in Lis’s view, than instituting higher health care costs for smokers. Deirdre, obviously, disagreed.
“The reason why so many people smoke is because it’s legal,” she said. “And we already know all the deaths that occur from smoking, and secondhand smoke.” What’s more, she thinks parents who smoke around their kids should be arrested for child abuse.
Seeking a cure-all for smoking-related diseases and the obesity epidemic in this country, Bernard suggested food companies be required to put “a picture of Rosie O’Donnell’s ass” on a box of donuts or bag of Doritos.
Speaking of fatties, Disney World and Universal Studios theme parks each recently raised the price of their one-day, one-park ticket from $82 to $85. Deirdre will not take her son or any other child to either of those hellholes, and Lis, who already took her kids, has no plans to ever return. “It’s outrageously expensive,” she crowed. “The tickets—that’s just the start of it!”
Interesting that Lis was willing to drop a few bones to go to Florida, considereing she has been quite the spendthrift on buying healthier produce for her kids. Or, as Deirdre put it, “You can take your kids to Disney World, but you can’t buy them an organic apple?”
The two Blondes saw eye-to-eye (thank goodness) on the issue of gay marriage, which they both support. Neither Deirdre nor Lis enjoys watching couples of any sexual persuasion kiss in public, and they turned down (again) Imus’s request that they both remove their tops and “make out now.”
On second thought, Deirdre added, “Lis is coming out here soon…”
-Julie Kanfer
Reader Comments (1)
This ship is SINKING
First, the Old Cowboy gives his wife a weekly slot ON AIR
What’s Next....Twenty ways to undress a mannequin on the Wyatt Imus segment????
Or 20 ways to put "cham o NEEEE" lotion on your saddles sores!!
Doug P
Canada
And by the way...what idiot..".oh thats harsh"....decided that using the Fox Business email system
was the way to get Carly to read your letter online!!!!!!!!
THOUGHT THATS WHY I WAS PAYING FOR premium access....on www.imus.com?????????????????????????