when he attacked him. people see politics as stuffy or uptight. he was the kind of guy that through the grenades in the room and saw where they landed and people loved him for that because people who don't normally pay attention to politics paid attention to him. politicians of both parties knew he would go after them. leland: in crude and personal ways. could don imus in all his crudeness and lack of political correctness be on the air today? >> he cannot start today. he was on the until a few years ago. he would never be able to start today. he came from a different era when people turned a blind eye to some of that by the power of his personality. if you try to start now he would never make it. i don't think the culture would support it now. leland: put him in the same category as howard stern? >> if you look at it, don imus,