Don Imus Returns to Radio

Just eight months after he was spectacularly fired from both CBS Radio and MSNBC for making racially and sexually disparaging remarks about the Rutgers women's basketball team, radio railer Don Imus was back on the airwaves Monday, assuring listeners and advertisers that he was a changed man.

But not that changed.

"Dick Cheney is still a war criminal," the 67-year-old said on his first broadcast for WABC-AM. "Hillary Clinton is still Satan. And I'm going on the radio."

Still, while his rhetoric remains much the same as it did pre-implosion, Imus, with a revamped lineup of sidekicks that includes the notable addition of black comedians Karith Foster and Tony Powell, said he would bolster his usual talking points with "an ongoing discussion about race relations in this country."

"I will never say anything in my lifetime that will make any of these young women at Rutgers regret or feel foolish that they accepted my apology and forgave me," he said. "And no one else will say anything else on my program that will make anyone think that I didn't deserve a second chance."

The inaugural broadcast was held at Manhattan's Town Hall, where a group of assembled fans congregated, to the tune of $100 tickets, to witness his comeback broadcast. Proceeds from the sales benefited his pet charity, the Imus Ranch, a New Mexico cattle ranch for children suffering from cancer.