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NEW YORK, APRIL 13
SOME years ago, Cokie Roberts, faithful to her profession and to the proposition that those engaged in public discourse should be left free to do as they liked, stopped short. What did it was a speech at the annual Radio and Television Correspondents' Association dinner, at which, in 1996, 3,000 guests ate and drank in the company of President and Mrs. Clinton and listened to Don Imus.
After that night's performance, Ms. Roberts changed her mind. "I really don't think it would be appropriate for any of us to ever go back on [Imus's show]," she said. Imus's monologue "was profoundly rude not only to the president of the United States ...