Posted on 04/15/2007 10:56:47 AM PDT by raccoonradio
Want more examples from talk radio’s not-so-distant scandalous past? Click through our rogue’s gallery of talk show hosts that have gotten into trouble for letting their mouths outrun their better judgment.
...Sharpton was unimpressed: 'You ought to be fired.' On April 12 CBS did just that, firing Imus a day after MSNBC announced it would no longer broadcast his radio show.
...'(Michael J. Fox is) moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act,' said Limbaugh.
...Savage was fired from his MSNBC talk show in 2003 for calling an openly gay caller a 'sodomite,' adding that 'you should only get AIDS and die, you pig. How's that?
(Also: the St. Louis host who called Condi a coon; the Greaseman; Bubba the Love Sponge, Bob Grant...)
...John DePetro (fired for referring to a MA gov. candidate's weight and sexual orientation): "'She's not offended,' he told the paper, 'but the people I work for were. I don't get how that is possible."
...WMAL-AM in Washington, D.C., fired talk show host Michael Graham in August 2005 after he refused to soften his description of Islam as 'a terrorist organization.'
(Excerpt) Read more at msnbc.msn.com ...
_NOT MENTIONED_: Randi Rhodes, Air America, joking about killing the President
oh my God..why wasn’t this mentioned in the article..(do I even need a sarcasm tag??)
Or how about Al Sharpton? He has a radio show. He has slandered innocent people solely because of their race.
Or how about tax-funded academia?
Newsweek and MSNBC are dying and should.
Are libs unable to write a column without taking comments out of context?
Guess not.
What about a crucifix in urine photo paid for by the NEA? The virgin Mary painting with elephant dung?
This could be fun!
Too many right-wing Christians, not enough lions
sounds l;ike a happy headed ho..JK
Too many right-wing Christians, not enough lions
A few weeks after presidential hopeful Senator Bobby Kennedy (D-NY) was assassinated, I recall a conversation between a couple of his fans. They were lamenting how man could be so inhuman to his fellow man, whereupon one of them remarked, "they should shoot Wallace," the Alabama governor who was making a run for president as the American Independent Party's standard bearer. For me, this was a early introduction to liberal hypocrisy.
....Or even Al Franklin who is truly mean spirited.
(Michael J Fox is) just moving all around and shaking and it's purely an act', said Limbaugh.
Which does give me an opening to further explain. On Rush's web site, he makes this statement about MSNBC. He said his little demonstration took 2-3 seconds. The network showed it for 12-13 seconds and speeded up the action .
To further show the perfidy of the drive bys. Paula Zahn, whom Rush says he was the soul of courtesy to her previously, when she visited the EIB. Paula juxtaposed Imus and his out of whack comment, with a segment of Rush/Michael J Fox immitation.
Some Freepers laughed at the suggestion they were coming for Rush. I did not. When the dust settles he will be there still firing away. Still, watch the drive bys- they have smelt blood- tasted it.
Fox admitted he adjusted his drug dosage.
Fox writes on page 247, "I made a deliberate choice to appear before the subcommittee without medication. It seemed to me that this occasion demanded that my testimony about the effects of the disease, and the urgency we as a community were feeling, be seen as well as heard. For people who had never observed me in this kind of shape, the transformation must have been startling..
We all know that the showdown is coming let's get it over with.
Let the "Fairness Doctrine" start its journey through Congress, let the President sign it, let's see what happens then. . . .
Oh there’s been a bunch of response in the Boston Globe letters page (today in fact) to that very bumper sticker.
“It is the right-wing Christian’s quest to legislate what we can and cannot do that gives rise to bumper stickers such as the one Mr. Crump objects to.”
“WHERE CAN I get one of those “Too many right-wing Christians, not enough lions” bumper stickers?”
“LIGHTEN UP, Mr. Crump. I’m sure the driver of the car with the bumper sticker doesn’t want to exterminate Christians. And to compare the actions of right-wing Christians to the millions of victims of the Holocaust and their families, as you do in your letter, is unconscionable.”
And for good measure here’s a letter by a kid, demonstrating why the voting age is not 10 or 11:
“I AM an 11-year-old Democrat. In the past year, I have seen our president mocked by all forms of the media. I’d just like to say thank goodness America has come to its senses.
I would like to give a heartfelt thanks to the creator of Doonesbury for providing us with insightful comedy every day about the president and, more recently, our wiff-waffling rodent-hunting ex-governor (Romney).”
Go back to watching “My Gym Partner Is A Monkey” and
“The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy”, kid.
Is that bumper sticker a liberal Bostonian thing or is it popular nationwide?
Also: the St. Louis host who called Condi a coon . . .
They should not mention the Leniham incident without also saying it was a slip of the tongue. He was praising Secretary Rice, saying she would be an excellent NFL Commissioner, and meant to use the word coup.
Here is the actual quote:
“She’s been chancellor of Stanford. She’s got the patent resume of somebody that has serious skill. She loves football. She’s African-American, which would kind of be a big coon. A big coon. Oh my God. I am totally, totally, totally, totally, totally sorry for that. I didn’t mean that. It was just a slip of the tongue. She’s definitely got all the attributes to be commissioner. I’m really sorry about that.”
In National Lampoon's Missing White House Tapes album, there was a Watergate Investigation skit in which G. Gordon Liddy was questioned about allegations that he had suggested assassinating George Wallace. He replied, "No, I just mentioned that I thought somebody ought to shoot that rednecked son-of-a b****!" It was a very funny album.
18 replies and no mention of Dan Rather?
Prob. nationwide.
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