Posted on 08/30/2007 7:49:24 AM PDT by Millee
The sex lives of judges has been a big topic of Denver media interest this summer. But that doesn't mean that the Denver media aren't interested in publicizing the sex lives of people who aren't famous. KHOW talk-radio host Dan Caplis has promoted an invasion of privacy plan which, while not illegal, shows poor judgment.
Sugar House is a Denver nightclub set to open today. The club caters to "swingers" - that is, people interested in meeting like-minded others for casual sex. Presumably, some of the clientele also includes married couples interested in spouse-swapping.
Some people in the Sugar House neighborhood in south Denver do not like the nightclub, and have been lobbying the Denver zoning authorities against the club being allowed to open. After months of delays, Sugar House has received its zoning approval.
On Aug. 10, KHOW's Caplis devoted the final hour of The Caplis & Silverman Show to the Sugar House controversy. Co-host Craig Silverman was busy in court that day, depriving the show of a crucial check.
At first, Caplis interviewed the owner of Sugar House. Caplis took him off the air after he repeatedly refused to give a straight answer to Caplis's question about whether his nightclub promotes spouse-swapping. Afterward, Caplis spent the rest of the hour taking calls, and promoting his own idea about how neighborhood activists could get rid of Sugar House.
Caplis would have been on solid ground if he had urged activists to picket the nightclub. And Caplis has every right to use his radio show to express his views about the moral turpitude of Sugar House.
But instead of relying on free speech, Caplis offered what he called an "innovative" idea: People in the neighborhood should photograph and video everyone who enters or leaves Sugar House,
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Caplis is a big blowhard anyway.
A place like this will eventually experience a rape,suicide or murder that will get tons of publicity(just look at the Playboy Mansion's checkered history).Once that happens the sky's the limit...the place gets a nasty reputation and then starts to attract *really* nasty people and property values in the area go down the toilet.
Caplis is definitely an egomaniac. He gets on my nerves
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