WASHINGTON, 13 APRIL— Wire services are reporting that Don Imus, former shock-jock and longtime opponent of political correctness, plans to relaunch his canceled radio show not as a satellite broadcast, as expected, but as an email transcript show. The new “Imus Email in the Morning” show will be delivered daily to subscribers and paid for by most of the same corporations that sponsored the fired talk-show host’s CBS radio show and its cable MSNBC simulcast.

“The email will be an HTML-type page,” he told reporters. “The ads will scroll down the side. That’s what they tell me.”

The idea for an Imus email list, he said, was the brainchild of presidential adviser Karl Rove.

“Karl is a pal and a big fan of the show,” Imus told reporters. “[Rove] was laughing at me, mocking me. He wrote me kind of an ‘I told you so’ email this morning, a sort of consolation I guess. He said people like us should stick to email.”

Asked to say more about the email message from Rove, Imus shocked reporters by drawing a folded piece of paper from his pocket. “I printed it out,” he said. He then began reading from the paper aloud.

“To communicate through speech the way you do, D, that is truly a gift. But to email and then to delete, to posses the ability to simply wipe clean hard-drives and servers across continents, that is divine!”

Imus refused to provide copies of the correspondence to the press. He said there was in fact no record that any correspondence between himself and Rove took place.

“The email was gone the moment after I printed it,” he said. “I couldn’t get it back up on my computer and neither could any of my home-boy tech guys.”