Boycott begun over radio host (FREEP-a-CREEP ALERT)

Fort Myers News Press (Toilet Paper) ^ | 03-17-2003 | DENISE L. SCOTT

[AAABEST]

Steve Pozgay is stirring things up in Southwest Florida talk radio, and that

[AAABEST]

Of course our white-wash, fish-wrap, toilet paper News-Press skewed this story miserabley. Several sponsors have pulled their ads already, and one prominant business owner not only pulled his ads from the afternoon slot but he also joined PRAC (the group that initiated the boycott).

The reporter had this information first hand and chose not to print it. The guy quoted from Wiegold & Sons is a liar, he's been called many times and was confronted on this publicly.

This "Radio Host" (who has the slot a good conservative once had) is an anti-property rights, gun grabbing, pro-death, pro-gay adoption freak who waltzed in from Chicago and decided to declare war on our conservative community. We decided to take him up on that challenge. Some have suggested that he's part of that push to get liberals on talk radio, but I can't speak to that one way or the other. I just know he's a johnny-come-lately whack-job from hell.

The first and best thing you can do is let his sponsors know how you feel.

The next best thing you can do is email or call the station owner Joe Schwartzel 239-334-8609, or call the program director at 239-337-2346.

This guy actually mocked a disabled vet on the air. The audio file of this, some of his other outrageous statements and documented quotes are available at the PRAC website.

If you'd like to email schmucko himself, his email is steveshow1200@yahoo.com. Or maybe you'd like to call or fax him during his program, he's on from 3-7 PM. Phone 239-263-6570 or Fax 239-479-5579. He does monitor his emails and faxes on air.

[AAABEST]

Yes this guy did actually mock Jesse publicly on air. We have it on tape and an audio file is available at the PRAC web site is you'd like to hear it for yourself.

When a polite caller called up to talk about Jesse, he was hung up on and told that he didn't want to hear his "political crap". Yet pro-gay rights Christian hating callers are giving all the time they want. That is documented on the site as well.

[Beck_isright]

I heard that guy one day driving up from the keys to Sarasota and he is a class one a**hole. He deserves every FReepmail he gets. A total America hater, without question.

[AAABEST]

You again! Where do you live? I want to be your friend, I'm not kidding either.

[AAABEST]

Spnsor list:

Business Name	Phone Number	Additional Contact Information
Real Estate Donations	800-237-8890
Wiegold & Sons A/C	239-597-8774	Contact:Dave Borowski email:info@coolguys.com
Dolce Vita Restaurant	239-472-5555	email: info@dolcevitaofsanibel.com
Supreme Auto	239-262-0405	Contact: Johnny email: drjohnnys@aol.com
Harley Davidson of  Naples	239-594-5504	email: info@hdnaples.com
Harley Davidson of Fort Myers	239-275-4647	email: info@hdfortmyers.com
Del's Grocery	239-774-3853
McDonald Investments	239-455-2400	Contact: Richard Brown
Stoney's Citrus Farms	239-597-5333
Courtyard Decor	239-592-6062	Contact: Dave email: courtyarddecor@earthlink.net
Mercedes of Fort Myers	239-433-8300	Online feedback form
Auto Works	239-775-9101	Contact: Tony
Vintnar Wine Cellar	239-403-9463	Contact: Alan
Naples Dinner Theater	239-514-7827	email: Info@NaplesDinnerTheatre.com
Naples Unfinished Furniture	239-596-7315
Flooring Direct	239-643-3336
Florida Radiology Consultants	239-938-3500
Gulf Shore Life Magazine	800-220-4853	email: jimmy dean          Online feedback form
Paul J. Schmidt Jewelers	239-262-4251	Contact: Paul or Jay
Eye Physicians and Surgery	239-936-8686
Riviera Restaurant	239-472-1141	email: info@rivieraofsanibel.com
Naples Philharmonic	800-597-1900	email: info@thephil.org
Balancing Act	239-597-0107	Contact: Connie
Sterling Oaks Homes	239-566-2126
Two Men and a Truck Movers	239-337-2126
Fleamasters Flea Market	239-334-7001	email: customerservice@fleamall.com
Bob Wiz Furniture Refinsihing	239-275-1901
High Point Furniture Outlet	239-596-3211
FL Paint & Decor  (Marco)	239-642-1818
FL Paint & Decor (Naples)	239-213-9955
SW FL Job Seekers	800-365-8630
California Closets	800-443-5673

[mhking]

So...finally a Lib with balls enough to try to get in your face.

He (and by default the station) wants the publicity. They see this negative pub as good. If you ignore 'im, he'll go away.

[Beck_isright]

I live in Marathon Key and have a house in Sarasota also. I rent out the one in Sarasota most of the time. I'm up in Sarasota again today and will probably stay here to visit with my old friends in Tampa and Lakeland this week before heading back. The rental season has been tough this year!!!!!

[AAABEST]

He (and by default the station) wants the publicity. They see this negative pub as good. If you ignore 'im, he'll go away.

If it was just a bunch of people upset it would be different, but this goes to their bottom line. They're not ignoring the fact that they're gettig angry phone calls from sponsors who are starting to regret advertising with them. They do not see that as good.... at all.

Trust me on that one MH.

[AAABEST]

The rental season has been tough this year!!!!!

My GI Joe says that when you pull his string. "rentals are tough".

We do have much in common. I have rental property here and a unit on the West coast as well. Haven't had any probs, but I don't do seasonals. Larger houses are harder because your cost/rent ratio is not as friendly. Hope it works out for you.

If you're ever around Naples we must have a beer.

[EODGUY]

I'm really impressed by business people who sponsor programs that are demeaning to the public. If, as some sponsors have suggested, they have no control over who a station hires, they should understand from marketing 101 that consumers CERTAINLY have control over whether or not to patronize those sponsors' products.

We have a list of products and manufacturers that we will not deal with. It takes a little longer to shop and may be slightly more expensive, but the self-satisfaction is more than worth it.

Of course, I never cease purchasing a product without writing a letter to the CEO of the company and stating the reason for my reaction.

Contrary to the solution one sponsor suggests (change the channel if a host is demeaning to his/her callers), the best way to address the situation is to listen closely to who sponsors the show and then hit the station where it hurts the most......in the financial bottom line.

Once the sponsors have been identified and contacted, then the consumer should change he channel, forever.

[AAABEST]

Enemy of property rights alert.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

“I have a microphone and you don’t

Well, I have a microphone--they are dirt cheap. What's unusual is that you are employed by someone with an FCC license and I am not. The government presumes to forbid me to do something which it expressly licenses you to do--something with explicit political ramifications. Think what would be the objective of rebel forces trying to overthrow the established order:

"First, we'll take over all the broadcasting stations and the cable studios."

Having government-regulated political discourse is antithetical to the intent of the First Amendment, which says the government has no role in peaceful public discourse of any kind. And it is scarcely to be argued that the framers of the First Amendment were worried that the government would censor books on tulip culture; certainly they were talking about government interference in the publication of Bibles--or of dissenting political opinion.

The First Amendment insists that, within the limits of our purses we are equal in our ability to express our opinions. The WWW revolutionized the ability of people of modest means to make their opinions accessible nationally, even worldwide. Broadcasting, OTOH, revolutionized the ability of the priviledged few to make their opinions accessible nationally and worldwide.

If by some miracle the WWW and broadcasting both were simultaneously made available at the framing of the First Amendment, the WWW would have been constitutionally protected--and government-regulated elitist broadcasting would have been constitutionallly proscribed.

[Centurion2000]

So...finally a Lib with balls enough to try to get in your face.

He (and by default the station) wants the publicity. They see this negative pub as good. If you ignore 'im, he'll go away.

The other item is that he may want the 'liberal Rush Limbaugh' job that's been floated as the answer to conservative talk radio and is just making a huge stink to get noticed.

[AAABEST]

This guy is a gun grabber from hell. I don't have my gun activists ping list any more, can you guys get this out there? Read on:

"I believe in second amendment rights for people, I don't believe the second amendment guarantees you the right to a high powered handgun" -  (translation: "Hillary Rights") March 4, 2003

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"We’ve got to get rid of the gun nuts" - March 4, 2003

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"I'm for gun control in this country" - March 6,2003

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"Handguns have no business in the hands of civilians" (sic) - March 6, 2003

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[Joe Brower]

The fun never ends, does it? Good job on your interview with the hyperbiased leftmedia -- you came across well. And you call me the diplomat! $;-)

I just emailed "little Stevie" and told him that if he doesn't like me owning guns, he's invited over my privately-owned property to try and take them from me personally. I'm not expecting him to take up my kind offer.

All talk, no walk. Typical hateful liberal pussy.

[harpseal]

Putting in the *

[Landru]

"The reporter had this information first hand and chose not to print it. The guy quoted from Wiegold & Sons is a liar, he's been called many times and was confronted on this publicly."

The Sin of Omission as practiced today in the Lamestream media is more than *just* a threat to ALL our freedoms, it's a well practiced *technique* they've employed in their outright direct assault on this nation & her citizens.
Sounds like y'all have hooked into a real loser down there, too.

The "good news" is that these talk radio Liberal-Socialists tend to be so blindly acerbic in their zeal to exercize the leftist's hateful agenda.
They almost *always* wind up alienating each & every person they'll come into contact with save the most extremeist elements like Mao, Stalin or Trotsky.
Fact.
This type of jerk takes care of themselves in short order & will implode as sure as God made little green apples.
So one day -- & not that far off -- you'll turn on the radio & they'll simply be *gone*.

As for [some of] the sponsor's apparent lack of interest in the program content they're paying for?
Yes, certainly a disturbing developement I noticed having started at or (shortly) after the coming of the Sink Emporer.
The Bent1's filthy -- in-your-face -- conduct while at the reigns of our nation seems to have set some kind of *precident* the marketers picked up on rather quickly.
Appears more & more American businesses have adopted the pig's mo in the specific area of shamelessness. (~there was even a name coined for this phenomenon I believe is called, "Corporatism.")

In any event here at FR there exist's an organization calling itself, CCRM.
Please.
Look into this group & see what they're all about.
If you're interested in learning more, then contact one calling himself simply, "bert."
Because we're all going to have to deal with the insideous *media* sooner or later -- as you now know all too well -- & you're going to be needing all the help you can get dealing with these Liberal-Socialist monsters.

Joanie & Sultan?
Pinged y'all over here specifically to read some of the quotes concerning handguns et al.
The bold shit-on-the-constitution Liberal-Socialists are making noises again & I figure you oughta know what they're up to.
*Just* in case this instance turns out to be a part of a larger organized effort from the leftist mediot scumbags.
Never know, right?

We've some awfully crafty, well coordinated little leftist worms here in America, today.

...& one must never take their eye off 'em for even an instant.

[Landru]

scholar??
Sounds like they've got a regular *Mike Malloy* on their hands, doesn't it? (~either Malloy or the bipolar manic depressed clown whose name escapes me...Jay somethingorother?)

If the "50,000watt flamethrower", WLS, could be taught a lesson?

...this pissant concern can be too.