In April of last year, Imus fell afoul of Media Matters for America, a George Soros-backed media "watchdog" group that monitors right-leaning talk radio. While watching tape of the NCAA Women's Basketball National Championship, Imus referred to the Rutger's women's basketball team as "nappy headed hos."
Although Imus met with and personally apologized to the team, the media firestorm ignited by that comment eventually led to the cancellation of his nationally syndicated radio show which was simulcast on CBS radio and MSNBC television.
Imus returned to the radio in December of 2007, debuting on December 3rd, on WABC-AM in New York. With that return, he promised:
“I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me,” Mr. Imus told an audience that was listening in person at Town Hall in midtown Manhattan, and at home and in their cars on WABC-AM, his new radio home. “And no one else will say anything on my program that will make anyone think I did not deserve a second chance.”
That was then, now is now!
Wolf: "Defensive back Adam 'Pacman' Jones, recently signed by the Cowboys. Here's a guy suspended all of 2007 following a shooting in a Vegas night club."
Imus: "Well, stuff happens. You're in a night club, for God's sake. What do you think's gonna happen in a night club? People are drinking and doing drugs, there are women there, and people have guns. So, there, go ahead."
Wolf: "He's also been arrested six times since being drafted by Tennessee in 2005."
Imus: "What color is he?"
Wolf: "He's African-American."
Imus: "Well, there you go. Now we know."
His last gaffe cost him eight months. This gaffe will end his career.
He is truly an foolish man for throwing his second chance away.
Fighting for conservatism one day at a time.