Don Imus, angry at Jay Severin at a WTKK Boston "Kiss Me I'm Imus" event
Some comments I've seen:
"He arguably helped save Bill Clinton's 1992 presidential run"
From liberal Dan Kennedy, WGBH-TV Boston: "I used to like him.. but as times changed, he became bitter and more offensive rather than adjusting."
(Sounds like how I felt about George Carlin)
After conservative Howie Carr pointed out how old Imus was--he'd be dead by the time his new son got to college--Imus made a crack about Howie's wife, on air. She's not a public person and threatened to sue. Alan Dershowitz helped the Carrs get a financial out-of-court settlement. Howie has said that paid for his Florida condo. At one point Carr tried to jump to WTKK-FM Boston, which got rid of the Imus show after the Rutgers comment, and Howie was in line to get that morning time slot. A court ruling kept Howie on WRKO AM until 2014...by which time WTKK had changed format anyway.