New York Post
IMUS BASHERS FACE VENGEANCE
November 29, 2007 -- ALL those politically correct types who piled on last April when Don Imus went down for making his bad "nappy-headed ho's" joke had better duck and cover on Monday, when the I-Man goes back to work on WABC Radio.
"I think he will have some scores to settle," the station's general manager, Phil Boyce, told Page Six yesterday.
It is doubtful Imus will ever forgive CBS chief Les Moonves, who fired him, or regular guest Tim Russert, the host of NBC's "Meet the Press," who was "an invisible man" while Imus was under attack.
Private eye Bo Dietl, who will join Imus in the 8 a.m. hour on Monday, also named Harold Ford Jr. and Al Roker as two Imus regulars who abandoned him in his hour of need. "They turned their backs on him so fast," Dietl said yesterday. "Al Roker had his stomach stapled - he should have had his mouth stapled."
One longtime listener wondered, "Will Imus ever give Newsweek editors another chance to plug their books on his show since they cut and ran when Al Sharpton started his crusade to get him off the air?"
Dietl said Imus' controversial remark "brought attention to that Rutgers basketball team. They really benefited. It turned out to be a positive thing." Dietl expects "a kinder, gentler Imus" next week, "but I don't know how long that will last."
The advertising world will also be tuning in Monday to learn which sponsors are coming back to Imus.
The first spot, at about 6:15 a.m., will be for Hackensack University Medical Center, whose CEO, John Ferguson, was in Manhattan Tuesday recording the spot with ad agency Della Femina Rothschild Jeary.
The hospital - which canceled its multimillion dollar budget on WFAN when Imus was fired - is one of the biggest advertisers on his new show on WABC.
Jerry Della Femina, whose agency started calling WABC last summer when Imus' return was just a rumor, told Page Six: "I, for one, am glad Imus is back. While he was gone, I had to resort to talking to my own wife in the morning."
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