Posted on 03/06/2008 6:59:00 AM PST by Born Conservative
PLAINS TWP. – An Old Forge man said he did nothing wrong by leaving profanity-laced voice mails for WILK radio talk show host Kevin Lynn and two employees at the radio station.
District Judge Diana Malast didn’t agree. After a nearly two-hour hearing on Tuesday, she found Foglietta guilty of three summary counts of harassing Lynn, radio host Sue Henry and former WILK general manager John Burkavage.
An attorney for Entercom Entertainment Corp., owner of WILK, said Foglietta “crossed the line” by leaving disturbing voice mails filled with profanity.
Attorney Michael Dash played five recorded voice mails left by Foglietta in early November.
On the voice mails – some nearly five minutes long – Foglietta demanded an apology from Mark Michaels, who goes by the name Bosco on the radio, and berated Lynn and his co-host, Nancy Kman, about the general election.
Foglietta claimed when he called the radio station to express his opinions, Michaels cursed at him.
“Now you’re going to get it,” Foglietta said on a voice mail to Michaels. “If you don’t apologize to me, I want you to meet me in Old Forge and apologize to my face.”
Foglietta told Michaels to meet him at a specific restaurant in Old Forge. He also told Michaels if he didn’t show, that he knew where Michaels resides and where he goes after work.
“I’m going to come after you, I don’t care if you call the cops,” Foglietta said on the voice mail to Michaels. “I am so (expletive) mad, something regrettable will happen at the radio station. You’re pretty tough behind that microphone, but I will come find you. I swear something regrettable is going to happen over there.”
Pittston Township Police Chief Stephen Rinaldi said Foglietta was charged with harassment when he continued to call the radio station after being told to stop calling.
Rinaldi said he considered charging Foglietta with terroristic threats, which is a first-degree misdemeanor. He chose not to, based on the radio station’s suggestion.
Foglietta and Lynn stared at each other during the hearing and occasionally ridiculed each other.
“You people are disgusting. I hate his guts so bad; I loathed the man,” Foglietta said to Lynn before being told by Malast to keep quiet.
Foglietta said he enjoys listening to talk radio, but criticized Lynn, Kman and Henry for their views on a variety of issues, including the Catholic Church and political party affiliation. He said Lynn and Kman beg listeners to call their show and if a caller disagrees with them, the radio station hangs up.
“If you disagree with anything they say, they immediately hang up on you, and they talk about you and call you names,” Foglietta said.
Foglietta was fined a total of $1,050. He plans to appeal the verdict in Luzerne County Court of Common Pleas.
Some might remember Lynn for his short stint on ESPN, or when he called Rush, who referred to him as a "wise a$$". Kevin said on the air yesterday that Dan Rather was set up by Karl Rove (the Bush National Guard story)-tin foil hat, anyone?
His bio: http://www.solidcactus.com/kevinlynn.html
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Forget the bad language. The above is a threat, no doubt about it.
I agree. It sounds like the station didn’t want to push it, but maybe they should have. I can see how people would get aggravated by Lynn’s surly attitude, but that doesn’t give them the right/excuse to make terroristic threats....
Do what Howie Carr does: Get a Chump Line!
and someone to screen the calls before air, of course!
WILK is owned by WRKO’s owner, Entercom, I notice.
Welcome to North East Pennsylvania’s 7 hours of daily Socialist Liberal radio.
Listen here:
6am to 9am...Kevin Lynn
Mornings from 6 to 9 features the lib duo of Kevin Lynn
and Nancy Kaman. Together Nancy and Kevin are responsible
for 3 hours of disinformation that they call “News”.Cherry picking headlines from Democrats.org and other disingenuous liberal news outlets (rags). Kevin has made a sport of bashing George W. Bush since the day he “Stole” the election. “Independent” Nancy Kaman has become the conservative talk terminator, enforcing her own
brand of “The Fairness Doctrine”.
Nancy Kaman “Socialist Station Director” falsely claimed to be an “Independent” in the early days of the Nancy and Kevin show. She has managed to show her true colors again and again by, booting Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly and then bringing Bill back at 10pm when everybody is in bed. zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Sean was replaced by the low budget, poorly produced ultra
liberal Steve Corbett show. Steve has been handed a
4 hours show. Who gets a 4 hour show! To Steve’s credit he manages to get the lovers and the haters to call in. Not to Steve’s credit he puts himself in the middle of every local news story as if to create the news and not just talk about the news. He thinks everybody owes him an interview and if they don’t give it to him he brow beats them into submission.
7 hours of runaway rogue liberal commentary at it’s best.
This channel is a cancer to North East PA.
Here is my blog:
http://www.nepalibwatch.com
Here is the Unofficial WILK Forum:
http://nepalibwatch.com/phpbb/
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