Imus on President Clinton: "This is a fat, low-rent hillbilly"

On the January 30 edition of ABC Radio Networks' Imus in the Morning, while discussing the results of the January 29 Florida presidential primary, host Don Imus described former President Bill Clinton as "a fat, low-rent hillbilly who was getting BJs from an intern in the Oval Office in the White House who was about the age of his daughter." After Bernard McGuirk, the show's executive producer, said, "He's been accused of rape," Imus continued, calling Clinton "a dirtbag."

From the January 30 edition of ABC Radio Networks' Imus in the Morning:

IMUS: And here's what you have to remember about Bill Clinton; you can't forget this.

CHARLES McCORD (news anchor): Yeah?

IMUS: This is a fat, low-rent hillbilly --

McCORD: [laughing] Yes.

IMUS: -- who was getting BJs from an intern in the Oval Office in the White House who was about the age of his daughter. This is a fat boy who, you know, when he sits down with Chris Wallace, Chris can't punch him because the Secret Service is there. But the -- so he's just a, I mean, I don't get that.

McCORD: Well.

McGUIRK: He's been accused of rape.

McCORD: Yeah.

IMUS: He's just a low-rent, no [unintelligible] -- wouldn't even let him live in most trailer parks.

McGUIRK: Sleazebag.

ROB BARTLETT (guest): So what's your point?

IMUS: He's a dirtbag.

—A.J.W.