Imus is mean (for what, who knows, given his place of white male privilege), angry and dishonest and Howard is just angry but totally honest about why and has never looked down on people, however much he has goofed with them. You will know him by his enemies more than by his friends. And he is many times more popular than Imus.

This is a great man. Having read his stories on the Vietnam War in the Library of America volume on Vietnam reporting, I began reading him in early 2002(usually had ignored him in favor of an Eric Alterman or a Hitchens, who are midgets beside him), and was astounded by his reasoned, sage analysis of how things didn't add up. And he was right about Iraq, Iran N. Korea. He knew by experience what the underpinnings of disaster were.