most amusing comment on this thread. The "Best Of Imus" would be like compounding the offense. There'd be twenty other minorities (broadly speaking) taking notice that they'd been "disrespected".
Imus has merely been participating in the prevailing culture. It's some rough "kidding" is all and he's been doing it on MSNBC for ten years. What I'm enjoying about all this is watching the left eat one of their own, but I hesitate labeling Imus politically. He's naieve, courting all these MSM / Newsweek, NYTimes celebrities and taking them seriously. On the other hand he's a shameless conman, with that stupid "ranch" of his open two months a year (to put kids with cancer to work??) and hawking his wife's book recently.
But what will MSNBC do, go off the air; he is their ONLY show that gets ratings.
Imus is no fool. It's these LMSM/Newsweak/NYSlimes, celebrities, etc. who buy his Imus Ranch products, Green products, and donate to his ranch and other causes he promotes...just IMHO as to why he courts them so.