Good riddance to the sarcasm, the obscenity, the race-baiting and the malicious personal attacks masquerading as snide humor that have characterized this program for too many years.

(For the latest, go to: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18072804/?GT1=9246 .)

We congratulate the marketers and advertisers who refused to associate their brands with such outrageously egregious trash -- as well to the MSNBC, CBS, WFAN and Westwood One people who had the decency (what a strange new marketing word!) to not let him get away with it anymore.