As Long As He Is Not Simulcast on Mainstream Cable Television Early In My Morning ...

If you thought Imus wouldn't be back, you're nuts. I never thought he'd be gone for long and was glad he got his money from the people who fired him. He was doing what he was hired to do. One day his comments hit some people's collective last good nerve and all hell broke loose. Did he say the worst thing ever? No. But he was so busy running off at the mouth he never stopped to think of what he was saying or whom he was saying it about. He was rattling off words, had no clue what they meant and applied them to random black chicks who didn't really fit the phrase (i.e. non of them had natural (nappy) hair styles). I hope he does a better job of getting the slurs right this time and using them in the right context.

Has it really only been six months? It seems like just yesterday that we had Don Imus to kick around. And his racist and sexist remarks about the Rutgers University women's basketball team seem as freshly offensive today as they did when he made them last Easter. Now, to no one's surprise, the self-styled "I-Man" is back, courtesy of the Citadel Broadcasting Corporation, which has announced that Imus will return to radio December 3 during morning drive time on WABC-AM in New York -- the same city where he was unceremoniously banished from the airwaves last spring.

To recap, briefly: Imus was up to his usual repugnant tricks of beating down the defenseless for cheap laughs when a sudden, perfect media storm erupted. The toxic combination of relentless, single-focus 24/7 news-cycle attention, sponsor desertion, and open employee revolt against executives at the corporations that distributed, enabled, promoted and protected Imus for so long suddenly toppled a man who had previously appeared immune to such pressures.

The surprising result -- after all, the loutish remarks and behavior of Imus and his on-air crew had been well documented for years -- was that, after first merely "deploring" their shock jock's characterization of the women as "nappy headed ho's," the corporate overlords at CBS and NBC were forced to suspend, and later fire, Imus for doing precisely what they had hired him to do in the first place: insult, "entertain," shock and enrage, thus creating controversy, boosting ratings, and making more money for himself, themselves, and the companies behind the whole pathetic crew.

Now the man even the normally staid Associated Press has taken to calling "the Rasputin of radio" is back from the brink, and, as the AP notes, "poised to do it again." I can't wait!

Well, I can't wait either! Rabid vermin need a voice too. I think his first guest should be the king of the nigger rants himself: Dwayne "Dog" Chapman. He most certainly knows how to call a spade, a spade without trying to use words he thinks he heard in a rap song! Imus should have just stuck to the standard slurs instead of trying to get all fancy with words for which he had no frame of reference. So, welcome back to the airwaves, you dried up old coot. Your low-class, ye of little intellect, fan base heralds your arrival!

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