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*Imus has also repeatedly referred to [[Arab]]s as "ragheads."<ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.annoy.com/editorials/doc.html?DocumentID=100700 | author = Clinton Fein | title = Imus and the Flies | publisher = ''annoy.com'' | date = 2005-03-24 }}</ref>

*He has berated many female newsreaders, most recently [[Contessa Brewer]], which caused her to leave the show. After she left the show, Imus went on a tirade, saying, "With that fat ass she's got, she wouldn't be one of 'em," [a news 'babe'.]. Imus said on the air, "That skank has to spend three hours with makeup in the morning." The tirade was allegedly tied to comments overheard from Contessa's calling Imus "a cantankerous old fool" at a 2005 dinner in a restaurant when she was still a newsreader.<ref>{{ cite web | url = http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/2005/05/don_imus_berates_contessa_brewer | author = James Joyner | title = Don Imus Berates Contessa Brewer | publisher = outside the beltway'' | date = 2005-05-01 }}</ref> During a show a producer also made fun of poet [[Maya Angelou]].<ref>{{ cite news | title = Imus Wants to Apologize to Women's Basketball Team in Person | publisher = [[ABC News]] | date = 2007-04-09 | url = http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=3022039&page=1 }} Retrieved on April 9, 2007.</ref>

*On a December 15, 2004, show, Imus referred to publishers [[Simon & Schuster]] (under same ownership as CBS Radio) as "thieving [[Jew]]s," and later in the show issued a mock apology, saying the phrase was "redundant." In October 1998, he described media critic [[Howard Kurtz]] as "that boner-nosed . . . [[yarmulke|beanie-wearing]] little Jew boy".<ref>{{ cite web | url =http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=2535 | title = The Mainstreaming of Anti-Semitism | author = Steve Rendall | date =AMy/June 2005 | accessdate = 2007-04-12 | publisher = FAIR Fairness and Accuracy In Reporting }}</ref>

*The show's routines sometimes contained derogatory epithets for homosexuals, including "[[faggot (epithet)|faggot]]" or "[[lesbo]]" and various terms describing homosexuality.<!--Leave these in footnote - they are necessary as citation for the text, not here as quotes--><ref>Some have been compiled at Philip Nobile's "Imus Watch". See: {{cite web | url = http://tompaine.com/Archive/scontent/3067.html | title=Imus Watch I | publisher = TomPaine.com | date = 2000-05-16 | accessdate = 2007-04-12 }} Samples include: