Apparently, making tasteless jokes about Rutgers women’s basketball teams has a price tag: A six-month or so vacation, and a move to a bigger, broader radio network in the form of ABC Radio, as well as a five-year deal that will pay him between $25 and $40 million.

Now, I’m not in the Democratic camp that says people – especially talk radio people – should lose their jobs for making idiot statements. But I’m not sure it should merit a raise, either.

While some folks have a mind full of sharp, Dell memory quality recall, apparently there are plenty of folks who are lumping Imus in with “right wing talk radio.”

Except Imus is not right wing. I mean, sure, he’s anti-Hillary. But so’s half the country, including Barack Obama (who’s unlikely to make nice with Imus after the Rutgers incident), John Edwards, Algore, etc… Imus was, is and always will be a liberal.

But beyond politics, the more important note is that Imus was, is and always will be an ass.