Don Imus and Contessa Brewer: Can he just say that?

We all know that Don Imus is cantankerous; it’s how he made his career. Probably few-to-none know this better than Contessa Brewer, who Imus denigrated on-air and ditched from his show. She added “old fool” to “cantankerous” in Page Six; he responded on-air by calling her a “pig” and a “skank” with a “fat ass,” for which MSNBC gave him the smackdown, saying the comments went “over the line.”

Okay, but that’s not the hugest smackdown, and there were rumblings

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