Imus

[Laurence Horn]

>At 4/10/2007 10:16 AM, Mark A. Mandel wrote:
>>Imus was thinking exactly what it sounds like, and smugly (and evidently
>>correctly) assuming that his regular listeners would applaud and his
>>employers would defend him. Whether or not he really is a racist, sexist,
>>homophobic SOB, he talks that way.
>
>Listening to the excerpt, one can hear someone else (perhaps in his
>broadcast booth, perhaps a producer with an open mike) applauding (if
>I may assume laughter fits that category) and commenting
>(unfortunately I could not make out the words).
>
I'd guess Bernard McGuirk.

LH

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