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O'Donnell's departure makes sense post-Imus


April 30, 2007 Yes, the most controversial of her bizarre musings on Donald Trump, the Iraq war and Asian speech patterns generated a ton of free publicity for the show. [...] surely in the wake of the Don Imus fiasco, Walt Disney Co. execs must have been looking at O’Donnell and wondering just how much longer this time bomb was going to tick before exploding in their faces. O’Donnell has been flirting with the outer edges of broadcast content boundaries for quite some time now.

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