Our favorite post Civil War relic Don Imus is back after reaching a settlement on Tuesday that frees him to get back on air at a new station, four months after calling the Rutger women’s basketball team nappy headed hos.
“He’s more valuable now than before the controversy,” says founder Michael Harrison of Talkers magazine. “He was such a focus of media attention for so long that his career has been reinvigorated, and he’s in a position to sort of reinvent himself — to make himself more pertinent and even more interesting.”
Racist slurs spouted by major media figures are indeed demonstrably interesting. Consider our other buddy Mel.
Well hell, if nothing else, maybe Nike will get another campaign out of it.
