Tuesday, June 17, 2008

Three Strikes

I watched three radio personalities receive honors at the New Media Seminar a couple of weeks ago. I understand that talk radio is a conservative stronghold,but I cannot believe that the three honorees are the best the business has to offer.
Bob Grant,Laura Schlessinger,and Lauara Ingraham were selected to be feted.

Bob Grant is a broadcaster who changed his name, (from Gigante) wears a toupee,and claims to be the truth teller of the air. His predilection for racial provocation is well known. He has referred to Black people as savages. He claims that he was referring to bad acts of behavior not race, citing Black college students at Virignia Beach as an example. Yet there is no moment when he called white students burning cars and destroying other property in a drunken rage in East Lansing,or Montrealers laying waste to shops after hockey games. of course,these folks were white.
When white boxer Tommy Morrison was diagnosed as HIV positive, not a peep came out of Grant. When Magic Johnson received the same news,Grant wished he would develop "full blown AIDS". I see a pattern.
Dr.Laura Schlessinger is a talk show host who gives advice on matters of a family or personal nature, but she is not possessed of a degree in family therapy,she is the holder of a degree in physical therapy,so if you twist an ankle,she is the one to go to. Yet, who better to go to for advice than a woman who posed nude while committing adultery. Who better than a woman who chastises others for not being solidly ensconced in the bosom of their family while she had not contact with her mother or sister for over a decade?
Laura Ingraham, Dartmouth graduate,lawyer,vile person. A person who attended gay/lesbian meetings at Dartmouth,then outed some of these kids to their parents. A person who wants liberal entertainers to "Shut Up and Sing", (her book title) but is fine with Charlie Daniels,Bruce Willis,and Toby Keith yakking because they are war proponents.
People applauded them,and I became queasy. My wife once told me I love talk radio,but talk radio doesn't love me. Smart,ain't she?

No comments: