Imus in trouble in the morning?

The current controversy about Don Imus isn't new. What's new, though, is that his critics aren't apparently going to let this one pass.
We have mixed feelings. While Imus looks at himself as a comedian and somewhat justifies his conduct from that (see his interview on the "Today" show with Matt Lauer on the MSNBC page), Michael Richards learned the hard way comedy does not give anyone license to say anything they want. Imus needs to learn that, too. At this point in time, though, I don't think there's that much pressure on him personally to do so. It depends on what happens down the road from this. His critics are apparently not gonna let him forget this. That's probably a good thing.

Imus is not a liberal, though the right would conveniently like to pin him as one. Remember his speech at the Radio-TV Correspondents dinner (a regular place for controversy, it seems) in 1996 when he criticized both Hillary and Bill Clinton, who were both in attendance? Check out the text of the speech here: http://imonthe.net/imus/ispeech.htm . He's had both Republicans and Democrats on his show, including Bill Clinton, Al Gore, Ed Koch, Bill Bradley, Rick Lazio, Mary Matalin, John Lieberman and John McCain.

Imus is a free spirit who needs to check his emotions. Will he? His employment future will depend on it.