OMG, I just did a search for John Roberts and was reminded that there's a CBS White House reporter named John Roberts. He's probably the guy who will be on Imus this morning, LOL!
By the way, I believe Imus did support Dole in '96 and Bush in 2000. However, everything he does is tongue-in-cheek for comedic effect, so it doesn't really mean anything.
Nooooooooo, Imus claimed, happily, that it was through his pushing for him, that Clinton won. Then he got angry with the Clinton presidency and SADLY claimed that because of him, Clinton won. The man is brain dead!
Remember this?
The Boston Herald, March 23, 1996
Shock-jock shocks prez, Hillary
By DAVID TALBOT
Steamed that Don Imus called President Clinton a "pot-smoking weasel" and
made off-color jokes about the first family, the White House asked C-Span
yesterday not to re-broadcast a journalists' roast attended by a grimacing
Bill and Hillary Clinton.
But C-Span said it will air its tape of the Thursday night event tonight as
planned, complete with the veteran New York City disc jockey's routine.
"This was a public event with 3,000 journalists in the room as well as many
public figures," C-Span said in a statement.
Imus, morning jokeman at WFAN-AM radio in New York, alluded to Clinton's
alleged sexual exploits, the first lady's alleged financial peccadillos and
the homosexuality of House Speaker Newt Gingrich's half-sister, who Imus
winkingly called a "thespian."
Imus, whose show is also broadcast on WEEI-AM in Boston, took this dig at
first brother Roger Clinton: "In the past three years, Socks the cat has
been in more jams than Roger. Roger has been a saint, the cat has peed on
national treasures. Socks has thrown up hairballs, Roger hasn't. Socks got
his girlfriend pregnant and - no, that was Roger."
Imus recalled the president's remarks when he helped broadcast the baseball
game in which Cal Ripkin broke Lou Gehrig's record of consecutive games played.
"We all heard the president in his obvious excitement holler 'Go baby!' I
remember commenting at the time, 'I bet that's not the first time that he
said that - remember the Astroturf in the pickup?' " Imus said, referring
to Clinton's remark that as a young man he lined his pickup with fake grass.
Some of the insults came in the context of roasting the journalists
themselves, who he joked were inclined to address the president as
"pot-smoking weasel."
The audience members laughed heartily, but Clinton grimaced during the
routine, and Hillary Clinton could be seen blushing.
Imus said Hillary's book, "It Takes a Village," should have listed the
author as anonymous - like Primary Colors. And he said N.Y. Sen Alfonse
D'Amato's book should have been titled: "It takes a village idiot."
Yesterday, Clinton's press secretary, Mike McCurry, called C-Span to ask
that the Imus performance Thursday night at the Radio and Television
Correspondents Association's 52nd annual dinner not be replayed.
"I personally believe a large part of that entertainment, if that's what we
call it, offered last night was fairly tasteless," he said.
Joel Hollander, general manager at WFAN, told the Herald the White House
was seeking "censorship."
"Humor is subjective, like vanilla and chocolate. Our position is they knew
what he was about when the entertainment committee invited them up there to
perform," Hollander said. "There really shouldn't be any surprises."