Why I will not listen to WBCN again

[debgeisler]

I detest "shock radio." Go be crude somewhere else. Not in my car. Not in my home. Howard Stern? Icky. Don Imus? To call him a peasant is to insult my ancestors.

You have a right to say what you wish. I have a right never to listen to you again. And the stunt by two WBCN employees last night, reported in the blogosphere and now by the Boston Globe online, tells me WBCN is despicable.

When the news spread that a pair of young, vaguely-unkempt hecklers shouted "Iron my shirt!" at a Hillary Clinton event last night, the conspiracy theories spread quickly across the Internet. Apparently, some Clinton foes didn't believe she could have come up with her spontaneous quip: "Oh, the remnants of sexism are alive and well!"

But a few intrepid bloggers, cross-referencing video footage and MySpace pages, came up with a new explanation: Boston-based shock radio. Apparently, Nick Gemelli and Adolfo Gonzalez Jr., who were escorted from the Clinton event in Salem, have jobs on WBCN-FM’s "Toucher and Rich Show," which airs from 3 to 7 p.m. (Gemelli, a call-screener, is known on the air as "Intern Nick.")

No official confirmation from WBCN: in an e-mail, the station’s marketing director, Cha Chi Loprete, said he has no comment. But the evidence trail seems solid – and based on the footage, the hecklers seemed pretty pleased with themselves.

I hope they have done a lovely job of screwing their market share.

Comments

[sethb.livejournal.com]

"spontaneous quip"? What are the odds she'd go through the campaign without somebody yelling something sexist at her?

Any candidate with an IQ higher than a chimp would have prepared rejoinders for commonly-expected remarks. (Yes, I know that leaves out Shrub.)

[debgeisler.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm kind of appalled that some pundits assumed Clinton was "in on things" because she already knew how she'd deal with anyone being a boor about her gender.

Um, guys?

She knows she's a woman. She figured some sexists might notice, too.

*eye roll*

[(Anonymous)]

This is nothing compaired to what the yippies did (abbie hoffman, jeff rubin etc) in the late 60's and 70's.

Then again she hasn't ironed shirts...she lived in a house for eight years and did nothing.

Hillary can't say on one hand she represents change and then right behind her on stage is albright and clark. Just like when Kerry in 2004 tried to say he was both a war hero and a antiwar hero...you can't have it both ways...

[liscarey.livejournal.com]

Dear Anonymous Coward:

John Kerry was a genuine war hero, and a genuine leader of the anti-war movement after he got home.

War is often a radicalizing experience, and not always in the direction of forgetting how democracy is supposed to work.