Don Imus, one of talk radio's most popular and polarizing voices who also courted controversy off the air, died Friday at age 79.
Don Imus, one of radio’s most popular and polarizing figures, who sparked a national firestorm with a racially charged joke about the Rutgers University’s women’s basketball team, has died. He was 79.
The stunt earned him scores of listeners and eventually led to a Federal Communications Commission rule requiring disc jockeys to identify themselves when telephoning listeners. As his show matured, Imus began infusing it with politics, a tack that began attracting politicians who were eager to court his millions of daily listeners. During the 1992 presidential campaign, Bill Clinton appeared on the show to helped revive his then-battered campaign, which had just suffered a sound defeat in Connecticut by former California Gov. Jerry Brown. Clinton and Imus clicked.
Rich added that one of Imus’ defining traits was that he was “incredibly candid. He didn’t require you to speak in sound bites, and he was not afraid to ask the rude question, the question that would not be asked on the Sunday morning shows or NPR.”
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