Quinn to join WJJJ

Pittsburgh Live ^ | 11/26/03

[William McKinley]

Jim Quinn, WRRK (96.9 FM) talk show host, and co-host Rose Somma-Tennent will be leaving the Steel City Media classic rock station to join Clear Channel Radio station WJJJ (104.7 FM), according to a senior radio industry executive.

Quinn and Somma-Tennent, who are heard 5:30 to 9 a.m. weekdays on WRRK, will be the new morning show on WJJJ when the station switches from its rhythm and blues oldies format to a hot talk format featuring controversial topics. The change, possibly including new call letters for WJJJ, could happen by January, according to the source.

[Badray]

"But most people with an IQ over 105 tend to tune Quinn and his ilk out after a few listens."

Now you're moving into smears about his listeners. Not a good way to win arguments when you haven't started presenting any facts yet.

[Badray]

"Wasn't Jerry Bowyer the person who spearheaded the opposition against the tax increase for the stadiums?"

Jerry played a part -- I can't really say how big -- in fighting against the stadium tax. As did Quinn and many other people who realized what a bad deal this was.

However, the main person (as I recall) that put together a grassroots organization, called Good Sports, to educate the people in the 11 county region was Dan Sullivan. Using his own money to get it rolling, he raised and spent about $7,000.00 and the original proposal was voted down by a margin of 72% to 28%, or something close to that. The Pro-Stadium forces spent 100 times that amount and lost. Of course, we all remember Plan "B".

BTW, who was Dan Sullivan? Just one pissed off citizen who didn't have the benefit of a radio station to broadcast his message, but didn't let it stop him. Kudos, Dan.

[Badray]

"Jim and Rose had a dinner for David out in Greensberg a while back on a cold winter night."

Were you there? So was I. That was a great night.

[thesummerwind]

Were you there?

Yes. Except for the bizarrely long line to get in to the event (winding through room after room) it was a night to remember. It's hard to get my wife and me out of the house on a cold winter night (which that certainly was), but that was a very special occasion.

But, isn't it just a bit sickening to see how the government has been able to shut down the whole OKC thing and David S. and Jayna Davis in particular? I tell my wife, who likes those silly cheap mystery novels, that these kind (OKC, V. Foster, etc.) of real life mysteries are so much more fascinating than the fictional ones. BTW, I often have asked of others, I wonder where Carol (ATF) Howe is these days?

BTW, I also wonder how "the accidental witness", Patrick Knowlton, is doing these days. He was quite a good guy with alot of guts. Funny how Vince got to Fort Marcy before his car. BTW, check out pages 167 through 170 in Ambrose Evans Pritchard's "The Secret Life of Bill Clinton". Car keys appear in Vince's pocket when they were previously not there when he arrived at the morgue! And Livingstone and Kennedy, who went in to "visit" him, drove TWO cars to the building and left in only ONE. Can you speculate as to why they had to leave in only one car? Do you suppose the bufoons put one of their sets of keys in Vince's pocket by mistake, thusly they only had one set of car keys left? I wonder.

The whole episode of Vince's death would make even a better movie than Oliver Stone's "JFK", IMO.

[thesummerwind]

Did anyone listen the morning Quinn went ballistic because they were giving away "Bowling for Columbine" on the rock side of the house?

Yes I heard it. He jokes alot and is serious very often, but those moments where he gets emotional should leave little doubt of his overwhelming endearment for this country and its Founders' plan.

BTW, it looks like the gutless, commie Academy Awards people are going to allow Moore to keep his "documentary" award. What a crock. But, not quite as bad as the Pulitzer weenies allowing the New York Slimes and Walter Duranty to keep his Pulitzer. Old red Walter covered up for Stalin for years, and they'll keep covering for Hillary, et al in the future. Anyone who thinks all the lefty communists just all left the country all of a sudden (poof) are most likely incorrect. The Lamestream media must be diffused, and very quickly. I still think Hillary will run.

What in the world has that woman ever done in her life that was positive?

[Ditto]

Wasn't Jerry Bowyer the person who spearheaded the opposition against the tax increase for the stadiums?

Yep. That's when I first became aware of him.

When he was still running the Allegheny institute, about 5 years ago I think, he also produced a detailed report on the City's finances perdicting the city would go bankrupt due to Murphy's policies and even predicted when it would happen. He hit it nearly right on.

[thesummerwind]

He's only been married once and supports his children.

Yes, I believe that is true. And the kids live with him, and Jim's anecdotal references to them on the show are always quite sweet, warm and very real.

And you're right, Bowyer is not at all unfamiliar with hypocrisy.

I'll tell you a quick story about Jerry. I challenged him on his show one day (it's easy to get through, the lines are never busy). I said directly to him that it was my opinion that he was unwilling to be honest about all of Clinton's scandals and evil-doing because he was continually afraid to lose a number of his (hundreds ;) ) of listeners if he came down too hard on Clinton and his sycophants. I rolled off numerous scandals and details of some of Clinton's worst deeds on that show, and believe it or not, the tunnel-visioned host was unaware of many of them.

For instance, he had never even heard of "The Arkansas Blood Scandal". When given details of that chapter of evil and greed, he almost lost his lunch, when considering his abounding girth, that might not be all bad! He knew very few details of the Vince Foster 'affair', and got really hostile when informed. (Jerry hates to look ignorant of facts in front of his listeners.) When someone brings up a Clinton scandal, he without exception tries to act like the even-minded and fair guy by bringing up what he considers to be a comparable Republican problem. He thinks, or proposes that he thinks, that things are comparable only because he is totally uninformed about the eight years of Clinton abuses.

Jerry IS an expert on history, religion, economics, that is a fact. His book is most likely one that would be a benefit to read. But he's an outright fraud and nearly completely uninformed about the sins of the Democrats and liberals at large. And he's a fish out of water doing a talk show. His short fuse does not serve him well.

Finally, Jerry lives in an endlessly Democrat-controlled town (for over 60 years, and bankrupcy in the near future). He is the coward when it comes to confronting the truth about the Democrats, after all, he can't afford to lose 69 of his 113 listeners.

[thesummerwind]

BTW, who was Dan Sullivan? Just one pissed off citizen who didn't have the benefit of a radio station to broadcast his message, but didn't let it stop him. Kudos, Dan.

Agee 100%. I saw him on FoxNews about an hour ago. I think he's with FedEx. He was talking about internet Christmas sales.

BTW, I hope you all get to see the Jim Angle's interview on Fox this morning or later today. He was on Air Force One, and his story was GREAT!

But that reporter named Kiel had a great quote on the momentous clandestine trip. "The President is AWOL. And we're with him. The ultimate road trip!"

[thesummerwind]

He hit it nearly right on.

Yes he did. He knows his economics, and a few other things! But personally, I'd rather get my economics from Thomas Sowell or Walter Williams (black by popular command, and a VERY handsome man). But Jerry is wonderful with supply and demand.

He should just grab and read a book or two about Clinton (and "wife") if he's going to try to defend him all the time. Some suggestions for ole'Jerry; The Secret Life of Bill Clinton-Pritchard, Hell to Pay- Barbara Olson, The Seduction of Hillary Rodham-Brock, Boy Clinton-Tyrell, Jr., Hillary's Choice-Sheehy, Slick Willie-Brown, First in His Class-Maraniss, Year of The Rat-Timperlake,Triplett. Then maybe his lame defenses of BillyJeff and his "wife" would end.

And BTW ole' Jerry, if you're reading this thread, this is for you. You from time to time tell your listeners that if they want you to read a book, send it to you, and you'll be glad to take a look at it, and send it back. I sent you a copy of "Votescam" ( about the very real possibility of election fraud by computer vote counting-the worst way to count votes) by the Collier brothers, and I have never seen it again. But, that's o.k. ole' Jerry, you can keep it. I bought a dozen of them and still have a couple left. I sent them off to a number of our local libraries so that some folks could read about this very important subject.

Keep it, Jerry. Just dust it off every now and then, and, while you're at it, dust off that thin pile of Clinton knowledge over in the corner now and then too. ;)

[thesummerwind]

(it's easy to get through, the lines are never busy).

Pardon, I would have been more correct to write, "the lines are seldom busy". From time to time the phone lines get somewhat occupied when ole' Jerry starts the scintillating and always popular subject of favorite movies. Wow, the lines get busy then.

[Robert Drobot]

BTTT

[jslade]

Quinn & Rose bump. I live in Orlando and listen to the archives every day.

[Badray]

The most telling things for me were: 1] the investigation being handled by the Park Police primarily. This was one of the highest ranking government officials to die under mysterious circumstances since the 40's (if I'm not mistaken). And 2] Bill Clinton's remark soon after the 'discovery' of the body -- "Well, I guess we'll never know why this happened" (or similar words to that effect). If you speak 'parse' like I do, that was his way of telling up that WE would never know because he would make sure that we wouldn't know. He said almost the same thing about Ron Brown's plane going down.

Any time that a crime scene is bulldozed as quickly as Waco and OKC were causes me great concern. The only time you do that is when you don't want someone to find the truth. All of the other excuses were BS. The police don't want you to walk through a crime scene and do their best to preserve it. The feds bulldoze it. If they ain't up to no good, at the very least, they are incompetent and should be fired.

[Badray]

I agree with you for the most part about Bowyer. I've known him for about 6 or 7 years. He is intelligent, but uninformed about a lot of the events surrounding the clintons. He was not the brains behind the Allegheny Institute - Jake Haulk was, and is. Jerry was 'asked' to step down for a variety of reasons (again - this is from people who know him better than I).

One correction. Different Dan Sullivan. The one that ran the opposition here is a regular working guy from here, but now lives across the state. No body rich, famous, or connected. But he is the one who really mobilized the opposition to 'Plan A'. Too bad the 'Plan B' got shoved down our throats.

[pittsburgh gop guy]

I may be wrong, but thought Quinn was on marriage #3 - or divorce #3. In the mid 90's I thought he would talk about his "last ex-wife" getting all his money. And didn't he just get divorced again. Oh well, maybe he is tied w/ Rush at 3, marriage is not that important anyway and has nothing to do with conservative family values (end sarcasm). Stuff like this is hard to find on the web, but if anyone knows for sure, please post a link.

Someone asked for examples of Quinn being wrong (other than the aforementioned Y2k stuff that he hyped for 2 years and probably made a couple bucks off of pushing). Uh, I am still waiting for Hillary to be indicted. Does anyone else remember that line that he pushed for at least 6 months that Hillary was going to be indicted "next week". Well, next week never came, despite Quinn having it from the highest of sources that it was going to happen.

And I am sorry, but yinz guys belong to the tinfoil hat brigade when you go off the deep-end on Vince Foster, OKC, and Ron Brown. Makes me think about the nuts that PERSIST in demanding that it was a CIA conspiracy that killed JFK. Watch that ABC special from last week, and if you are a sane, rational person, you will come away convinced that the "Single Bullet Theory" is the only thing Specter ever got right. http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/WorldNewsTonight/jfk_beyond_conspiracy-1.html - yeah it is from ABC, but guess what, it is conclusive and overwhelming.

And listening to Quinn "argue", well, he doesn't. He just bashes people that disagree with him, and sometimes tries to make it entertaining. Its his show, and he can do whatever the station lets him get away with.

And I like that he has grown into a conservative or libertarian, whatever he labels himself. Hey - listen to him if you want, but be forewarned that he exaggerates and gets things wrong. I guess everyone does, but not everyone has a radio show.

I am not going to get pulled into the Jerry Bowyer conversation, other than to say that Jerry is sometimes his own worst enemy, and he should remember his roots.

I wish both of them well, as I do for all you people that are still stuck in Pittsburgh.

[freeforall]

ping

[pittsburgh gop guy]

" The ugly truth is a beautiful thing." J.Q.

even when it is not the truth:
FBI debunks ugly rumor at UPMC McKeesport about Middle Eastern doctors said to have celebrated attacks

http://www.postgazette.com/headlines/20010918rumorslocalp3.asp

Hospital spokeswoman Claire Daday said the rumor apparently began with an e-mail to Jim Quinn, a radio disc jockey at WRRK-FM. He repeated it on his show in the wake of the attacks. The hospital investigated and issued a press release last week saying the rumor was unfounded. Quinn apologized on his show Friday.

I will give it to him that he did apologize, but man, just because it you get an email does not mean you go on the air with a rumor like that.

[Badray]

He hasn't mentioned being married again or divorced again since I started listening to him in '96. Here's a news flash for you though. Sometimes, no matter how hard you try, marriages fall apart. Sometimes, (and I hate myself for saying this) it's the best thing 'for the children' regardless of who is at fault.

Do you honestly believe everything that the government - that is the clinton administration has told you about Vince Foster? That he walked into Fort Marcy Park and shot himself?

Do you honestly believe everything that the government - that is, the clinton administration, has told you about OKC?

Do you honestly believe everything that the government - that is, the clinton administration, told you about the Ron Brown plane crash?

While we're at it, do you believe everything that the government - that is, the clinton administration has told you about Waco?

I don't.

Maybe I'm wearing - or should be wearing - tin foil hats and suits, but I have more of a grasp on reality than you do, if you believe what the clinton administration wants you to believe about their investigations of their scandals.

Jim gets things wrong sometimes. He looks at evidence and talks to people who are intimately involved in a situation and makes predictions that end up being wrong. Maybe he reads more into it. Maybe there are forces at work to see that the end that he sees (and is the logical conclusion) just doesn't happen.

What is most telling for me about how good Jim and the show really are is when you hear the mainstream media reporting on stories that he told us about 6 to 12 months earlier. When he broke the stories, he was called nuts. When they gathered enough steam that the mainstream could no longer ignore then no one wants to remember that to Quinn listeners, it's old news.

[MadelineZapeezda]

..........as I do for all you people that are still stuck in Pittsburgh.

Never knew you felt that way about the 'Burgh. Enjoy your life in eastern PA!!!!!!!!!!LOL! Name change forthcoming????

[pittsburgh gop guy]

"Name change forthcoming????"

No, I have had the same tagline for almost 3 years (in two days!!!), and would not like to be mistaken for a newbie.

Discovered FR while out on Grant St. protesting SORE/LOSERMAN with Badray and a bunch of other FR types. Lurked for about a month, and then my first post was a post-freep report after one particularly COLD saturday session.

I escaped from Yinzerland, late last year. I added the tag:
(now serving eastern Pennsylvania and the Lehigh Valley.......) to my name.

I hate to say it, but I see little hope for Pittsburgh and Allegheny County. Onorato in control, Mayor Murphy going no where. Rendell as gov. It is sad, because most of the people are good, but too many vote dem. PA in general is just going down the tubes.