No kidding. He's best in 30 second snippets. After that, he doesn't have much to say.
UH oh. Finneran in trouble? (then again, he’s a Dem
so he’ll just get a slap on the wrist). From the Herald:
Smackdown: Finneran takes hit on Brits comment
By Jessica Heslam | Thursday, September 13, 2007 | http://www.bostonherald.com | Local Coverage
Women activists say former House speaker-turned-WRKO talk radio host Tom Finneran took his Britney Spears bashing way too far yesterday when he said he would have given the fading pop star a “black eye” and “dope slap.”
Finneran and co-host Wendy Murphy, an attorney and victims’ rights advocate, were discussing Spears’ disastrous Sunday night performance at the MTV Music Video Awards.
During his morning show, Finneran said Spears was late to Las Vegas, and didn’t go right to rehearsals. “Come on, a lot of divas show up late for rehearsal,” Murphy said.
“Then she comes down an hour later,” Finneran said. “So it’s 4hours late. Diva? You know what she’d be if I was there waiting for 4hours? She’d be a diva with a black eye. I’d give her a dope slap.”
“I mean,” Finneran said, “I wouldn’t do it as a guy to a gal.”
Mary Lauby, executive director of the statewide anti-violence Jane Doe Inc., called Finneran’s comments“horrible” and said he should apologize.
“Whoever ends up in front of that microphone seems to become a neanderthal,” Lauby said. “Silly me, but I expect the former speaker to operate at a different level than that. It’s really a huge disappointment.”
WRKO spokesman George Regan said Finneran is a “gentleman” who wouldn’t mean “any disrespect toward women.”
“People are overreacting. This is talk radio,” Regan said.
Last night, Murphy said Finneran’s comments were inappropriate and that she told him so when they went off-the-air. “You don’t joke about hitting people. But the truth is, I know he doesn’t mean it,” Murphy said. Finneran didn’t return a call last night.
In 2003, Boston Globe sports columnist Bob Ryan was suspended for a month without pay for saying on TV that the wife of New Jersey Nets guard Jason Kidd needed someone to “smack her.”
WRKO fired host John DePetro after he called gubernatorial candidate Grace Ross a “fat lesbian.”