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Don Imus, Back On ABC With A Vengeance, If You Can Believe It

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December 18, 2007

Posted by neillevine

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Imus In The Morning is back, perhaps not with a vengeance, but with the same motley crew he was working with on The Far, WFAN 66 radio, way back before he was ignominiously banished from the public airwaves for doing what he does so naturally, make fun of everything and anything he wants to mock unless specifically banned by contract (his former station manager) or minorities, due to forceful protests that reached all the way to his contractual obligations.

Though apparently chastened and even quieter than normal, if you can believe it, especially for a radio personality, Mr. Imus has not given up what his long suffering but supportive wive Deidre describes as his grumpy ways.

While not yet attacking various and sundry in his normally nefarious approach to life and politics, Don Imus has made it clear he has little intention of reforming.  “Vice President Don Cheney is still a war criminal and (Senator and Presidential aspirant) Hillary Clinton is still the devil,” he says without explanation or need for one.

Don’t even bother to ask because he won’t give one anyway, having abruptly hung up on callers in the past without so much as a lah de dah or if you please.

To emphasize this approach, his long time side kick, Charles McCord, has succinctly summarized the I Man’s politics as somewhere between Communism on the left and Fascism on the right.

How true.

While he has reached out for audience development purposes to old line critics by hiring minority commentators Karith Foster and Tony Powell, he continues in his old habit of mocking famous people like Bill Clinton and Dr. Phil with cheap imitations that only go to overemphasize their love hate relationship with the media and, in Bill Clinton’s case, his many bad habits.

But in an effort to detract critics from his manifold shortcomings, Mr. Imus does try to pretend to be a nice guy by fronting for an alleged charity called the Imus Ranch, which when polite questions about what was really going on were raised by the former genteel ownership of The Sedate Wall Street Journal, he threatened with malice and afore thought, if nothing else.

By the way, don’t let the ABC signage fool you.  Imus has little or nothing to do with the old House of Mouse or, worse yet, his former employers at CBS Radio.  No sirree, Bob.  His new bosses are employed by Citadel Broadcasting, the third largest accumulation of radio outlets in the country, and, if their current financials are to be believed, an outfit in dire need of a big infusion of cold, hard cash.

Considering the warm, friendly treatment in the press of his return to the infamy of radio broadcasting, Citadel and Don Imus might just return to the big buck income brackets of major league broadcasting, if history and the public is any indication of what the future holds.

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