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Imus Fired

Surprise, surprise

The decision by CBS to pull the plug on the popular "Imus in the Morning" show, which blended locker-room humor with talk with A-list politicians and other leading lights, came hours after Imus himself suggested on the air that he might be making his last broadcast.

The also move came one day after Imus was jettisoned by MSNBC, which had broadcast his radio show on television, and after several major advertisers abandoned the program over comments last week in which Imus referred to the mostly black Rutgers University team as "nappy-headed hos."

Stephen Metcalf never liked him, anyway:

The Dilettante doesn't commute, but he does live in Brooklyn, and once or twice a week, thanks to an edict known as "alternate side of the street parking," he has to move his car; and then, thanks to the cunning of municipal government, the Dilettante has to sit in it. This is my drive time, and during it, I listen to Imus. I usually catch him at about 7:40, for the 20 minutes when he has a Beltway muckety on to flog a book, or just as often, to flog his own muckety self. Here is Imus In The Morning's central, identifying incongruity: a relatively frank discussion of current events with a serious author juxtaposed with the show's every other idiotic tendency. The program is staffed by a claque of sniggering ninnies and headed up by Imus himself, the dean of gutter radio; and as God is my witness, it is never even remotely funny. Imus himself is unlikable; under the guise of "telling it like it is," he's mastered the two basic toddler traits, imperiousness and caprice.

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