Look at the function Imus provides: He allows the lame streem media, Liberals, and those assocaited to them a way to put out their talking points each morning. He is basically a rotating informercial for the Left.
Judged on ratings or money brought in via advertising, Imus is a miserable failure. So it can not be either of those two things.
Why is stil on the air? Because he allows the Left to vent on the closest thing they have to Limbaugh.
Look at the function Imus provides: He allows the lame streem media, Liberals, and those associated to them a way to put out their talking points each morning. He is basically a rotating informercial for the Left. Judged on ratings or money brought in via advertising, Imus is a miserable failure. So it can not be either of those two things. Why is stil on the air? Because he allows the Left to vent A supposedly respectable network like NBC puts on a guy like Imus who has low ratings and regularly curses out his co-workers. With Imus's rotating system of regular liberal guests, NBC and MSNBC are a failure, IMO.