Is Imus Fireproof?

The election will see many highpoints and low points, but the low points are beginning to reflect even more our public distasteful behavior. No episode better epitomizes that than Imus in the Morning and its racist attack on the Rutgers women’s basketball team.

There is the view that people can say whatever offensive things they want, whether they are sober or not, and all they have to do is indicate later, after millions have heard it, that they apologize. If Howard Stern made the remarks that Imus made… the FCC would have fined him and he would have been kicked off numerous stations across the country.

But yet this silly, tired “I-man” and his pathetic producer will be allowed to get away with it, because unlike Stern he interviews politicians instead of prostitutes.